The Department of Holy War

Saturday, May 02, 2026

What Pete Hegseth's fascination with the Crusades can tell us about the war in Iran.

Posted by retort at 11:00 AM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink

"Pete Hegseth's holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran: The Bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?"
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-- Nancy Levine Stearns (@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social) May 1, 2026 at 9:38 AM

Comments

If you've ever been in a war you'd know there is nothing Holy about it.

"Its glory is all moonshine... it is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood"

-William Tecumseh Sherman

#1 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-02 11:07 AM

"War is a racket. It always has been."

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914".

"I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street".

"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights".

"To hell with war!"

-Major General Smedley Butler, one of America's most decorated Marines

To hell with Whiskey Pete.

Semper Fi

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-02 11:38 AM

Well the West is in the middle of one.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-02 02:37 PM

We got Bibi, Jewish Nationalist. We got Iran, Islamic Nationalists. And we got Kegsbreth, Christian Nationalist.

#4 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-05-02 03:02 PM

We got Bibi, Jewish Nationalist. We got Iran, Islamic Nationalists. And we got Kegsbreth, Christian Nationalist.

#4 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-05-02 03:02 PM

Sure sounds like a 'Holy War' to me...

OCU

#5 | Posted by OCUser at 2026-05-02 03:15 PM

More like, "Holy shht, why is any of this happening?"

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-02 03:23 PM

In late 2001, Iran helped USSOF take Herat, Afghanistan, from the Taliban. The IRGC-QF was led by General Qasem Soleimani, who Dummkopf Trumpf unwisely ordered assassinated during his first Reign of Terror.

Moreover, people of different faiths and ethnicities live in Iran and Christianity is the fastest growing religion there. The Jews of Tehran have lived there peaceably for thousands of years.

In the US and Israel: White Judeo-Christians supremacists want ethnically pure states.

And outside their attack against Afghanistan in 2001 to help the US, Iran hasn't invaded another country in centuries.

This idiotic "religious Crusade" is a one-way street and the US is on the wrong side of history (again).

Source:

persecution.org

www.reddit.com

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-02 03:38 PM

The Department of Drunk Incompetent Imbeciles.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-02 07:29 PM

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