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Opinion: How Hegseth’s School Attack Proves He Is Deeply Un-American
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Opinion: How Hegseth’s School Attack Proves He Is Deeply Un-American

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Google Earth/U.S. Army/@neginbagheri91via X When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks with such un-American glee about delivering “death and destruction from above” in Iran, he boasted about the combat debut of the new Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), designed to explode over the target with an air burst of “pre-formed” tungsten fragments. To use Hegseth’s favorite word, the thousands of metal bits proved to be extremely lethal when a PrSM detonated above a school and an adjacent sports facility in the southern city of Lamerd during the early hours of our newest war. “It’s shrapnel pierced the roof and headed toward the Lamerd Province, Fars, youth volleyball team,” an Iran-based journalist named Negin Bagheri posted on X after interviewing some of the survivors. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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