MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell examines how Donald Trump’s “central casting” approach to choosing Cabinet members has produced a Treasury Secretary who says, “we don’t know when” Trump’s Iran war will end, echoing the Johnson administration’s false promises of a “light at the end of the tunnel” in Vietnam.
Rep. Jason Crow, an Army veteran who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Donald Trump’s lack of a strategy for ending his war in Iran and what Rep. Crow calls the “incompetence” of the Trump administration for putting service members, like the 5,000 aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, at risk.
Road trip, anyone? Katy Tur reacts to the release of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's "Great American Road Trip" series, where he and his family crisscross the U.S. The trip was paid for by a nonprofit organization whose sponsors include several travel companies the department is in charge of regulating. The Department of Transportation told MS NOW that ethics officials cleared the project.
Some European nations are mulling mandatory service for women. The post Gender Equality: A Trojan Horse for Universal Military Conscription? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Gender Equality: A Trojan Horse for Universal Military Conscription? Some European nations are mulling mandatory service for women. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images There are mounting indications that NATO countries are gearing up for a military showdown with Russia. The latest one goes beyond the usual confrontational, Russophobic rhetoric coming from the European Union’s foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, or NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. It even goes beyond the deepening support of NATO members for increased military spending and…Open