January 28, 2025
STANFORD – Nearly 700 million people live in Southeast Asia. Insulting all of them in less than a minute seems an impossible task. But not for Pete Hegseth, the utterly unqualified person Donald Trump wants to be his obedient secretary of defense for the coming four years of Trump’s second stretch as president of the United States.
On Jan. 14 in Washington, D.C., Senator Tammy Duckworth tested Hegseth’s aptitude for the defense secretary job. “Can you,” she asked, “name the importance of at least one of the nations in ASEAN and what type of agreement we have with at least one of those nations? And how many nations are in ASEAN by the way?”
Hegseth…