Despite being embattled by numerous controversies, including those pesky Geneva Convention issues in the Caribbean as well as security leaks that put national security at risk, Pete Hegseth spent Saturday afternoon at the Reagan Defense Forum giving an inflammatory speech that essentially amounted to this message: American imperialism is back in full force, baby. And this time, it’s personal.
You might think that’s hyperbole, but let me disabuse you of that notion with a direct quote from the man himself. Mustering all the bravado we’ve come to expect from the administration’s so-called Secretary of War, Hegseth declared: “Out with idealistic utopianism, in with hard-nosed realism.”
