Maybe, in his Princeton days, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth read the ancient historian Thucydides’ famous contention that might makes right.

But, as he demonstrated in his pumped-up Pentagon briefing on Wednesday morning, Hegseth simply seems jazzed by delivering maximum violence, death, and destruction.

“Decisively, devastatingly and without mercy,” he said of the ongoing attacks against Iran.

And he was not about to let the deaths of a few Americans dim his bloodlust.

“When a few drones get through, or tragic things happen, it’s front page news,” he said. “I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad.”

No, Pete, the press was not trying to make President Trump look bad when it was widely reported that Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was a 39-year-old mother of two just days from returning home to her family in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. That Amor liked to pick tomatoes and peppers to make salsa with her 18-year-old son. That she would have been back to rollerblading with her 9-year-old daughter.

That she had been contemplating retirement after 21 years in the military, which included........

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