{"id":56432,"date":"2024-01-10T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56432"},"modified":"2024-01-10T00:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:03:53","slug":"get-well-mr-secretary-but-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56432","title":{"rendered":"Get well, Mr. Secretary, but still …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Now we know the nature of the illness that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sought to keep from the American public and the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

It’s prostate cancer. I want to join Americans far and wide in wishing a speedy and complete recovery from a disease that strikes one in six Black Americans and one in eight of all Americans.<\/p>\n

However, none of this lessens the nature of the mistake Austin made in hiding himself from public view for four days and even keeping his whereabouts a secret from those in the White House who had every reason in the world to know his status.<\/p>\n

That includes Joe Biden, the commander in chief of the monstrous military operation that Lloyd Austin administers.<\/p>\n

Biden was kept in the dark for four days during a period of extreme military tension. Wars have erupted in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. Ukrainians are seeking to fend off an invading force of Russians; Israel is seeking to destroy the terrorist organization that sought to kill\u00a0 thousands of Israelis with a hideous rocket attack on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

The United States is involved as it provides financial and military assistance to Ukraine and the Israeli Defense Force.<\/p>\n

The secretary of Defense needs to be available 24\/7 … period.<\/p>\n

Secretary Austin need not lose his job over this mistake. He does need, however, to be scolded harshly by the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Austin was trying to protect his “privacy.” That’s a noble notion, except that the defense secretary<\/em> is as public an official as anyone who holds that title, which means to me that he sacrifices his “rights of privacy,”<\/em> particularly during these perilous times.<\/p>\n

Still, I wish Lloyd Austin well and will pray he recovers from what ails him. Just don’t allow a recurrence of this sort of vanishing act<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n

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