Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict<\/p>\n
Brash and bellicose, he sounded more like a cartoon bully than a sombre statesman. \u201cDeath and destruction from the sky all day long,\u201d Pete Hegseth, wearing a red, white and and blue tie and pocket square, bragged to reporters at the Pentagon<\/a> near Washington. \u201cThis was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they\u2019re down, which is exactly how it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n Hegseth, 45, a former Fox News TV host who now commands the world\u2019s most powerful military, has this week become the face of Donald Trump\u2019s war in Iran. That has set off for alarm bells for critics who warn that the Secretary of Defense \u2013 pointedly rebranded \u201cSecretary of War<\/a>\u201d \u2013 has rapidly transformed the Pentagon into the staging ground for an ideological and religious crusade.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict Brash and bellicose, he sounded more like a cartoon bully than a sombre statesman. \u201cDeath and destruction from the sky all day long,\u201d Pete Hegseth, wearing a red, white and and blue tie and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}