Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Getty Images 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. Read more at The Daily Beast.