Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was introduced before the nation as the first U.S. official to brief the country on the Trump administration’s war against Iran.
The first person to tell the American people what the government is doing is not the President of the United States, but their Secretary of Defense, who has never conducted a war operation before.
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Trump probably sent Hegseth there because he wanted someone who could appear to be talking tough and being strong.
What Hegseth brought to the briefing was childishness and anger because he doesn’t want the truth to be told.
There was a lot of empty talk, what I would call toddler talk, like Hegseth saying:
No stupid rules of engagement. No nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise. No politically correct wars. We are fighting to win and we are not wasting time or lives as the President has warned. An effort of this magnitude will result in losses. War is hell, and it always will be. A grateful nation honors the four Americans we have lost so far and those who have been injured. America’s absolute best.
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In case you’re wondering what this gibberish means, Pete Hegseth announced he wasn’t going to tell you what it all meant, but he and Trump don’t think the American people need to know.
Hegseth said: “I think it’s one of those long-standing mistakes that this department, or presidents or others, should be saying this to the American people and to our and our enemies. By the way, here’s exactly what we’ll do. Here’s exactly how long we’ll go. Here’s exactly how far we’ll go. Here’s what we’re prepared to do and not do. This is madness.”
The American people are paying for this war, and Americans are dying in this war, but we don’t need to know what’s happening.
The childishness did not stop there as Hegseth attacked the left.
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