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”........

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