by Chris O’Carroll

“I’m straight up just saying, we should not have women in combat roles. . .
[M]en in those positions are more capable.”
—Pete Hegseth, prospective Secretary of Defense

I am the very model of a master of the Pentagon.
The war on wokeness is the vital mission I am bent upon.
You’ll see me put the kibosh on inclusion and diversity,
Insinuating they amount to sexual perversity.
In warriors that I command, there is no place for estrogen.
Give me a fighting force composed exclusively of manly men.
I was a TV talking head who earned a mega-MAGA name.
The skills I need to run a war machine are pretty much the same.
I fawn upon the tweeter other savvy pols have fawned upon.
I am the very model of a master of the Pentagon.