Fit for purpose
Ashton Carter is well-qualified to lead the Pentagon, if he is allowed to
ASHTON CARTER once urged the pre-emptive bombing of North Korea’s nuclear facilities. (It was in an article he wrote in 2006, while out of office.) He also wanted American troops to stay on in Iraq after 2011. Yet Barack Obama, who is hardly known for his hawkishness, appears poised to name him as defence secretary.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Fit for purpose”
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