I find it kind of frustrating that people want Austin held responsible when if he was undergoing surgery and then in ICU he might not have been awake or coherent to get someone else setup. Now, there should be a policy in place that says the minute he went in to ICU second in command should have taken over. I’m also not going to be mad the pentagon didn’t tell the public. That’s a national security issue that our adversaries could try to take advantage of.
I find it kind of frustrating that people want Austin held responsible when if he was undergoing surgery and then in ICU he might not have been awake or coherent to get someone else setup. Now, there should be a policy in place that says the minute he went in to ICU second in command should have taken over. I’m also not going to be mad the pentagon didn’t tell the public. That’s a national security issue that our adversaries could try to take advantage of.
That policy DOES exist, the reason people are upset is because it wasn’t followed so for at least 48 hours the Chain of Command was broken.
The job of SecDef is way way to fucking important for an amateur hour move like this.
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