Americans seem rightly offended by their military being used to police their own neighborhoods, but they have also largely stood by as it has waged counterinsurgency in neighborhoods around the world.
Now is probably not the best time for the Defense Secretary to be tweeting about how nuclear weapons development is the Trump administration's top priority.
'Man stands face to face with the irrational. ...The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.' Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1957)