Amateur Hour: The Unserious Appointment of Bill Pulte

In a column last year arguing that Pete Hegseth was unfit to be defense secretary, George F. Will proposed a simple thought experiment. Suppose, he wrote, you gathered 100 intelligent, public-spirited people with experience running large organizations, dealing with allies, and understanding modern threats, and asked each of them to list 100 plausible candidates to lead the Pentagon. You might end up with as many as 10,000 names.

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