There’s no mystery to Pete Hegseth, writes Sarah Jones. “He projects bellicosity before he opens his mouth. When he does open his mouth, whether to defend our war on Iran or a different violation of international law, he becomes even more obvious … In his own mind, he is a modern-day Templar knight, and he is here to carry out God’s mission on Earth.” Hegseth now occupies a position of consequence, just in time for a new Crusade. The war on Iran is wish fulfillment for an entire class of warmongers, including Hegseth. Within this world, Iran has become a bête noire, an all-consuming obsession that, for some, has a religious dimension. To other Christians, Hegseth is a heretic. The Lord “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war,” the Pope said in his Palm Sunday address. Perhaps, but there is precedent for men like Hegseth in Christendom and in American politics. In a column for the New York ‘Times,’ Lydia Polgreen wrote that Trump is both “a freak of history” and “its fulfillment.” “I would apply the same logic to Hegseth,” writes Jones, “who has, like his earthly master, ‘revealed a much older malady,’ our ‘unshakable faith’ in our ‘ability to shape the world to its liking, indifferent to what others might want and supremely confident that its plan is the right one.’” Read more: nymag.visitlink.me/Vs2sG1

BREAKING: Trump has told aides he is willing to 'end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed', according to Wall Street Journal report.

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