Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a real beauty. This low i.q. dolt is fighting the modern day crusades. The havoc he is wreaking on our military will take years to fix. He has rid the services of upper ranking minorities and women in their ranks, fired key generals at the most inopportune of times and sewed needless religious division fighting his religious war.
He has recklessly mixed his personal religious beliefs into the workplace, likening the recent rescue of the American airman to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In his account of the rescue operation, Mr. Hegseth drew parallels between the airman’s ordeal and the account of Christ’s death and Resurrection given in the Bible.
The F-15E fighter jet, he noted, was “shot down on a Friday — Good Friday.” That is the day Jesus was crucified.
After the airman bailed out over Iran, he hid, Mr. Hegseth said, “in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday,” reminiscent of the tomb cut into a rock in which Jesus was buried.
Then, he said, the airman was rescued on the day Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus — “flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday.”
“A pilot reborn, all home and accounted for, a nation rejoicing,” the defense secretary said. “God is good.”
Mr. Hegseth also said that after the plane was shot down, the airman, the F-15E’s weapons systems officer, made contact with his American rescuers with a religious message: “God is good.” “In that moment of isolation and danger,” he said, “his faith and fighting spirit shone through.”
It was the latest example of the secretary of defense invoking Christian theology in public statements about the war with Iran. Earlier in the war, Mr. Hegseth asked Americans to pray for victory in the Middle East “in the name of Jesus Christ.”
Mr. Hegseth, who is directing a relentless bombing campaign against Iran, a majority-Shiite Muslim nation with a theocratic government, has often idolized the Crusades, the bloody medieval wars in which Christian warriors fought Muslims for control of important religious sites and territory in the Middle East.
Tattooed on Mr. Hegseth’s right biceps is the Latin phrase “Deus vult” — “God wills it” — which he describes as a battle cry of those wars. In his book “American Crusade,” published in 2020, Mr. Hegseth describes the Crusades as “bloody” and “full of unspeakable tragedy,” but argues that they were justified because they saved a Christian Europe from the onslaught of Islam.
What a perfect idiot to be running the show. But this really got me, he fired the Chief Army chaplain during holy week and made the traditional military Good Friday services at the Pentagon protestant only.
The servicemen of Irish, Italian, Polish, Mexican and Czech extraction who follow the Catholic faith deserved better than this.
Why does it suddenly feel like we are fighting the civil war all over again?
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