Daniel P. Driscoll

And instead, we need to return to this focused mission of we exist to precipitate and effectuate war on behalf of our nation.

And what that means is that means acting violently against others who threaten our way of life.

And that is its purpose.

And all of the other shit that we have optimized for over the last decades has made us – it hasn't just made us less effective.

In some instances, it's made us ineffective, and that is no longer sufficient.

And so what the president is doing with this renaming, I think, is very important and exactly what the American people elected him for in November.

I think the entire concept of peace through strength, again, I think this is just something the average human knows is true.

They feel it in their bones.

They saw it on the schoolyard with the bully.

They know that the stronger you are,

the safer you can be.

And I think we've just gotten afraid as a nation of saying that and just being comfortable with the idea.

When another nation faces conflict, the very first country they want on their side is the United States.

They may say they don't like it, but that is because they haven't felt an existential threat in a long time.

I am nearly certain that if we someday face a lead-up to or an actual version of something like a World War III, no one will be complaining that we started to reorient ourself to be the strongest possible versions of ourself, to be oriented to this posturing of we are ready to deploy our soldiers to war at a moment's notice.

to keep our country safe.

I am nearly certain in that moment, which is, again, the fundamental purpose of a nation is to protect its people, and reorienting ourselves toward that, reorienting ourselves to this idea that we're not afraid for some people to say, I don't like that.

That's okay.

Don't like it.

Don't be a citizen in our nation.