Charlie Hurt

I didn't vote in a presidential election until McCain-Obama, and it's because I learned that McCain was a POW, and I thought that was kind of bad.

We you know, I don't think this generation has that luxury.

We didn't have smartphones, so we weren't checked into politics as a part of our personality.

I can tell you what the politics were of any of my buddies, except we all agreed on killing bad guys.

And that was a hell of a lot of fun, as General Mattis said.

So I think that in a lot of ways, maybe we're more ignorant.

Maybe we were less propagandized.

I don't know.

I think that a lot of folks right now in the military are excited.

I think that Pete Hegseth has done a hell of a job returning the warrior.

He said it in one of the latest comments.

I think maybe it was at the press briefing.

He said, we're not defenders, we're warriors.

We are waging war on our terms to win the goals that we set and come home and celebrate.

And that's the posture of this war.

Listen, I understand the angst of looking back on the last 20 years of what wars in the Middle East were.

But if I look back on the last 10 years and see everything that President Trump has done from –

Maduro to Midnight Hammer to Qasem Soleimani, he strikes, he achieves an objective, and he brings our guys and gals home.

I have to believe that's the plan here.

I believe that having these Arab nations pissed off at Iran is a helpful tool in that when it comes to whatever rebuilding or whatever reconstituting the country of Iran turns into, because honestly, they've got a bigger risk here than we do if the regime reconstitutes itself.