Chest-Beating Hegseth Raises MAGA Fears of Forever War

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has stoked MAGA fears of a forever war, declaring that the Iran conflict is just getting started and that the U.S. will take “all the time it needs to succeed.”

In a chest-beating performance filled with football analogies and soaring rhetoric, the former Fox & Friends TV host also warned that “more and larger waves were coming” with looming “death and destruction from the skies all day long.”

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on March 2, 2026. / Alex Wong / Getty Images

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