Another day, another assault on the English language as delivered by Pete Hegseth. Into the growing disaster that is the Iran war-not-war discourse walked the United States Secretary of War Not War himself at 8 am sharp, ready and willing to defend the indefensible.
It started tellingly. Over the weekend, Hegseth announced, he had had the privilege of visiting American troops “in the ground — or on the ground, excuse me” in the Middle East. He had a chance to “bear witness” to “a brotherhood of men and women” who demonstrated their “sheer competency” in dropping bombs through “the skies of Iran and Tehran.”
