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Pete Hegseth: “A bipartisan consensus of neoconservatives and liberal…”

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth keynote address at the Reagan National Defense Forum.

Published | Video Starts at 14:17

Just as the lessons of Vietnam informed Ronald Reagan and his Weinberger Doctrine, so too the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan guide President Trump and his secretary today. For years, A bipartisan consensus of neoconservatives and liberal internationalists led us from one disaster to another. They sent our nation's sons and daughters to war after rudderless war, even as they allowed our allies to grow weaker and our potential rivals stronger. From the very beginning. (14:17–14:25)

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