Chest-Beating Hegseth Raises MAGA Fears of Forever War

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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/