i think this must be the first administration in which two former secretaries of defense serve simultaneously.

i leave both unnamed out of respect for privacy.

suffice it to say that the first replaced a secdef who oversaw an operation in which 38 US marines and naval personnel gave their lives—perhaps unnecessarily—to effect the release of 39 detained merchant sailors, while the other supervised a successful campaign to force an invader to withdraw but was reportedly unhappy at not being allowed to march on the offender's capital to remove him from power.

it's as if both were brought back to compensate for not being given full opportunities to show their stuff the first time round.

so they got their chance at last.

and they really fucked it.