Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr At a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Matt Gaetz (Republican-FL) clashed with Sec. Lloyd Austin. Here you can read the complete conversation between Rep. Gaetz & Sec. Austin: Matt Gaetz asked a question: Secretary Austin why should American taxpayers fund lectures at the National Defense University that promote socialism as a strategy to combat china? Sec. Austin: It's the national defense university as an academic institution and I don't know of any such lecture! Matt Gatez: But that's surprising because it was widely reported the National Defense University had Thomas Piketty come. And this was the title of his lecture responding to china, The case for global justice and democratic socialism. So now that you know that they did this, Would you agree that embracing socialism is not an effective strategy to combat China? If we don't embrace it then I guess why did the National Defense Un
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