Carter Replaces Hagel as Defense Secretary

In an early Christmas present to war mongers on both sides of the aisle in Washington Obama has replaced outgoing defense chief Chuck Hagel with the hawkish Ashton Carter who has lauded the policy of preemptive force and advocated for military strikes on North Korea and Iran.  Obama's choice of Carter re-emphasizes what no one could have rationally began to question in the first place, that the War Party is still very much in control of American foreign policy.