National security served up by a dry drunk -- Sabrina Haake

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https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/national-security-served-up-by-a

I grew up with a raving alcoholic. To call his behavior erratic is to engage in understatement for dramatic effect.

My dad was in the Navy, assigned to one of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet in Oahu Hawaii, which meant long periods of welcomed absence. But whenever the submarine was docked, he was home, where he vacillated between two states of drunk: wet drunk and dry.

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Pete Hegseth’s seething anger feels familiar

“Angry lack of personal growth” should be tattooed on dry drunk Pete Hegseth’s forehead. Following the Signal fiasco, when Hegseth got off the plane at the Pearl Harbor-Hickam base in Honolulu, (coincidentally where my dad was stationed), a reporter asked him about the Signal breach, specifically, how an editor from The Atlantic was on an unsecure chat about attacking Houthis in Yemen.

Hegseth spewed outsize rage in response, as if concern for servicemembers whose lives he’d just put at risk infringed his right to breathe.

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Here’s hoping, for US service members, democracy itself, and all the singing bluebirds of the world, that Hegseth gets some professional help.

Thanks to bumbles for passing this on.