Opinion: How Trump’s War Is in the Hands of a Man Who Dare Not Face His Demons

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters There are no new stories of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth becoming so drunk that he has to be carried out of social events, as when he led the nonprofit activist group Concerned Veterans of America. And nobody is reporting that he cried out, “Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!” as he allegedly did during a bender during that same period following his 2005 return from the war in Iraq, which his lawyer denied . But, by all appearances at his Iran war briefings, Hegseth remains a prime example of the old Irish adage that what comes out when you’re drunk is in you when you’re sober. He speaks lustily of killing with “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.” He remains arrogant and heedless and quick to anger. Read more at The Daily Beast.