Given the instabilities, day to day, in and around the White House in the stated and unstated goals of the assault upon Iran, it is not surprising that there’s a combination of facts and rumors over whose head is to roll next. Over the past 24 hours, the self-styled ‘Secretary of War'—and a legend in his own mind—Pete Hegseth unceremoniously dumped three generals, including Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George. Now leaks are circulating everywhere as to who next will be dumped. Most, though not all, of the names involve those who have chosen not to hyperventilate over President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age. Those include such as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel. Others such as Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and/or Secretary Howard Lutnick may be tossed overboard, as a sacrifice to an economy going south.
However, Hegseth’s running brawl with Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll has a deeper history, and an immediate relevance to the April 2 canning of the Army Chief of Staff. Driscoll is not only close to Vice-President J.D. Vance, but also a close collaborator of George. Last Fall, when Driscoll came the closest to successfully reading the riot act to Ukraine’s acting president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to get serious on negotiations, and overcoming Kiev’s and Europe’s resistance, it was reportedly Hegseth who undercut Driscoll—extending the killings.
And JD Vance, who has largely been quiet about boasting the U.S. can bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, was reportedly about to negotiate with Iran’s Kamal Kharazi, a moderate former foreign minister and the present head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations—before Israel bombed his residence yesterday, killing his wife and severely injuring Kharazi.
