The saga surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization after complications from prostate cancer surgery in December has perhaps come to a close. In mid-January, my colleague Streiff reported:
Two weeks after an ambulance ride and admission to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s intensive care unit, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has been released. He will be “working from home” as he recovers. There is no prognosis on when he will return to the office.
Austin’s malfeasance caused a massive mess and was a frightening failure across the board by the very people in charge of our national security apparatus. This pretense of leadership went on for two more weeks and resulted in a major policy change enacted for White House executive staff. On Monday, SecDef Austin returned to the Pentagon to resume his duties. The Defense Department bothered to inform the…
