We are beginning to see in real time what happens when a vain, looksmaxxing US secretary of war encounters death and destruction, and it isn’t pretty. In Pete Hegseth, America has been saddled with a cartoonish Johnny Bravo lookalike lacking the robust good sense and moral authority to lead the most powerful military in the world.
“War is hell,” says Hegseth blankly, while brushing off bad news. With his ability to do 100 push-ups and 50 pull-ups in just over five minutes, he regards himself as the epitome of masculinity and bravery.
Instead of steeling the US public for the grit and sacrifice military action entails, the Pentagon chief has proffered a wham-bam caricature of the invincibility of untrammeled power, unleashed by the “warrior ethos” he purports to espouse rather than the “woke garbage” he despises.
This has made Hegseth singularly unsuited to dealing with the successes and setbacks of the Iran war with honesty and decency. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and spiking oil prices? We “don’t need to worry about it,” he said at a news conference on Friday.
The new Iranian leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was “wounded and likely disfigured” in the attack, Hegseth claimed. This may be true – Khamenei’s close family was killed and he has not dared to show his face in public – but the former Fox News anchor, who had a make-up studio installed at the Pentagon, will be relishing the contrast with his own chiselled, camera-ready appearance.
Some facts, though, are indisputable. Six US service members have died in Kuwait, one in Saudi Arabia and six crew members of a military refuelling plane which crashed in Iraq. Over 140 US troops have been injured. This is not a cost-free war for Americans.
Back home, mortgage interest rates have increased to 6.11 per cent after dropping for the first time since 2022 only two weeks ago. Petrol has risen by roughly 50 cents a gallon, after Trump boasted about lowering prices at the pump in his State of the Union address last month. But never fear, the Iranian chokehold on shipping is “something we’re dealing with”, said Hegseth reassuringly.
The war secretary – “defence secretary” was too meek a title for this meathead – has only dared to own up to “investigating” the worst mass casualty event of this war – the killing of at least 170 Iranians, mostly girls, at a primary school near an Islamic Revolutionary Guard base – after open source satellite and video verification by The New York Times and Bellingcat indicated US responsibility. That’s cowardly and shabby.
Hegseth left it to unnamed Pentagon officials to suggest outdated US targeting was most likely at fault after he was too afraid to contradict his boss, the President. With his customary disregard for the truth, Donald Trump initially blamed Iran for the strike and tried to bluster (falsely) that “other countries” such as Iran had Tomahawk cruise missiles.
So far the war is playing out in an eerily similar way to events in Minneapolis, where masked agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol killed two American citizens, Renée Good and Alex Pretti.
Kristi Noem, then Homeland security secretary, called the slain protesters “domestic terrorists” and Trump slammed them as “no angels”. But open source video evidence, watched by millions of Americans, showed they were behaving peacefully.
What was supposed to be a quick triumph for the Trump administration in a Democratic-run city soon soured into a public relations disaster. Sounding the retreat, Trump pulled hundreds of ICE agents out of Minneapolis and scaled back mass deportations across the US.
Noem lost her job on 5 March. A similar fate could await Hegseth if the war fails to end in the Iranian “unconditional surrender” Trump has boasted about. The President is facing the reality that it takes two sides to end an asymmetric war. This makes Hegseth a potential sacrificial lamb.
Last September, the nation’s top generals were summoned to Quantico, Virginia to receive new directives from the top. Hegseth told them in future there would be “no pearl-clutching”, no “stupid rules of engagement”, no “endless nation building”, just “brutal efficiency, total air dominance and unbreakable will”.
Yet the reason for nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was not “wokeness”, but the brutal reality that shock and awe could only go so far. New threats would arise and gains would be lost unless enemy nations became allies.
Hegseth is too foolish to realise this – and Trump, seeking someone to blame, may have found his future victim.
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting
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