Chest-Beating Hegseth Raises MAGA Fears of Forever War

[Zorro]

As Americans die, the defense secretary has warned that Donald Trump is just getting started.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has stoked MAGA fears of a forever war, declaring that the Iran conflict is just getting started and that the U.S. will take “all the time it needs to succeed.”

In a chest-beating performance filled with football analogies and soaring rhetoric, the former Fox & Friends TV host also warned that “more and larger waves were coming” with looming “death and destruction from the skies all day long.”

“We’re playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly,” he said, without giving a time frame for when America’s involvement might end.

“Four days in we have only just begun to fight.”

The comments came as Hegseth gave his second press conference this week to try to explain the administration’s often contradictory rationale for entering another open-ended foreign war—something Donald Trump promised he would not do.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chest-beating-hegseth-raises-fears-of-forever-war/

[hlthe2b]

1. Chest-beating, indeed. The image I got, just listening (not watching) him this AM...

And the reason I posted that he reminded me of this (otherwise very sweet pup), but whose surging muscles and blustering attitude captured Hegseth's faux toughness quite well.




I cannot wait to see KARMA come to this creep, Hegseth.

[Arazi]

2. More evidence for his war crimes trial

[3_Limes]

3. Its helpful ti remember that Iran has 4 times the land area and twice rhe population

Of Iraq. So the task is much larger, and the leadership is much dumber.

Not a great pairing.

I really don't think Hegseth grasps the magnitude of how bad this vould be for us.

[multigraincracker]

7. Time to send in the ICE guys to Iran.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. Hegseth gets off on war

[Traildogbob]

5. I can not

Wait until dem leaders in the near future hand deliver Haqueseth, Miller and Rubio to The Hague in cuffs and ankle chains for WAR Crimes. Jack Smith presiding. And after that we demand the harshest penalty for Treason applied. We keep hearing treason can not be charged unless we are at War.
Well ole Pete says it loud and often. WE ARE at WAR!!!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. Iran is NO walk in the park.

Close to 3,000 years of history as the once mighty Persian Empire.

Perhaps it is time to watch '300 again.