Hegseth: 'History will judge The Iran War quite differently than conventional wisdom right now'

Crazy Islamists in Tehran will never, ever have a nuclear weapon, a historic effort only made possible by a courageous commander-in-chief. History will judge the Iran war quite differently than conventional wisdom right now. We didn't start this war. Iran did 47 years ago. But President Trump is willing to do what no other president would. He did the tough, right thing, not for politics. But for the safety and the security of the American people, that's leadership. He did not kick the can. He kicked their teeth in. My generation fought other Middle Eastern wars that dragged on for years, for decades. We lost thousands, thousands of Americans. I wear the bracelet of one of them on my left wrist every single day. It reminds me. And may I remind you, for perspective, We lost 60,000 Americans in Vietnam over 20 years. We lost 37,000 in Korea in just three years. That many humans are lost on the front lines of Ukraine and Russia every month. This, epic fury, has never been that, and it never will be. The media can just never admit the military's success because they, you, hate the president more than you love our country or our troops. Then in our own hemisphere, we started at home from day one. President Trump made homeland security national security. We sent American troops to lock down the southwest border and choked off the cartel pipeline of human smuggling of drugs and death. And then we took the fight to them.