Secretary of War Pete Hegseth courageously served his country in uniform, including in Iraq and Afghanistan . Unfortunately, even as he knows military culture from personal experience, Hegseth doesn’t appear to realize that emotional rants and barracks banter are ill-suited to his current role.

Take Hegseth’s response to the controversy surrounding his Sept. 1 order to destroy a Tren de Aragua drug cartel boat operating just off the Venezuelan coast. The Washington Post reports that Hegseth ordered the U.S. military to kill everybody on the boat. When a first strike left two of the 11 crew members alive, an admiral then ordered a second strike to eliminate the survivors. Critics say that Hegseth ordered a war crime.

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