Pete Hegseth’s and Seth Moulton’s parallel lives collide over Iran

Moulton pressed Hegseth to consider that the unpopular war, now entering its third month, could drag on for years and cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Hegseth dismissed the notion as absurd. “On the battlefield, it has been an astounding military success,” he said at the hearing on Wednesday. “But are we winning the war?” Moulton asked skeptically. “Absolutely,” Hegseth replied. Both men were debating the Iran conflict through the prism of Iraq, a war they supported on the battlefield and in newspaper editorials before they concluded that it had all been a tragic waste. Moulton commanded a Marine…