JL;DR SUMMARY In a contentious Senate confirmation hearing for his nomination as U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee, attributed the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and Russia's invasion of Ukraine to President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.