Pete Hegseth’s Gospel of Carnage

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years.

I guess a zealot, by nature, can’t hide — too extreme are his convictions, too grand his designs, too consuming his arrogance. And so, over recent weeks, Pete Hegseth has fully revealed himself.

He has made clear that every missile the United States fires, every bomb it drops, every Iranian it kills, is for Jesus. Praise be the Lord, who has given America the power to wipe out........

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