Pete Hegseth’s ‘Politically Correct Wars’ Rant Has People Asking 1 Big Question | EUROtoday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confronted backlash and mockery Thursday over a speech concerning the conflict with Iran wherein he railed towards what he referred to as the “dumb, politically correct wars of the past” and insisted the timeline of the U.S.-Israeli army operations is “ours and ours alone to control.”

“The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we’re doing here,” Hegseth boasted at a information convention in Tampa, including that earlier conflicts had “vague objectives with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement.”

He declared, “No more.”

Hegseth additionally bragged concerning the scale of U.S. army energy concerned within the battle and stated: “We set the tempo. We set the timeline,” a line that some social media customers instructed meant Americans have been being dragged into yet one more eternally conflict.

Other critics, in the meantime, requested precisely what a politically appropriate conflict was ― and accused him of sloganeering and empty rhetoric.