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Standing in the Pentagon for a monthly worship service on March 25, the man who likes to call himself the “secretary of war” prayed for God to pour out righteous wrath in the Iran conflict by helping “break the teeth” and kill the “wicked” enemies “who deserve no mercy.” As I watched Pete Hegseth during the service, it quickly stood out as the second most violent prayer I’ve ever encountered, only after Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer.” But Twain was being satirical.