That's a valid argument. And it's something that Hegseth needs to point out. After all, he's a soldier who respects our history. He'll make his decisions. Then he'll have to explain on why he made them.
I think Hegseth is sharp enough, and astute enough to do that.
I just cannot stomach the whitewashing of history because some group or some person thinks history should have been different. History is what it was.
Not what someone wants it to have been.
It reminds me too much of the job Winston Smith, and thousands or millions like him did in Orwell’s “1984”. That continual scrubbing and manipulation of history, directed by the inner party members higher up, that it gets to the point there is no such thing as history, but the continuous painting of a canvas to suit the current need, which I find abhorrent.
The whole concept is completely Leftist in concept and execution, and is justified wholly with the ends justifying the ideologic means.
And in real life, we see that with the Taliban dynamiting the giant sculptures in Afghanistan, with an added element of venomous hate mixed in.
History and reality can be very uncomfortable, emotional, and extremely inconvenient things.
But what is worse is being so cowardly that you cannot squarely look those things in the face.
And what is even worse than that, is being so evil that you wish to shape and manipulate it to facilitate the acquisition and wielding of power.
Because in the end, the two most valuable things about history are appreciating it and celebrating when things worked out well, and using it to best understand and avoid the terrible things so you don’t repeat them.