David French

Trump's immigration policies and his brutality in immigration, does that now label them as pro-immigration extremists?

Even though, as Pope Leo said, nations get to have borders, but you never get to treat people brutally and cruelly.

But as you've seen, Tim, I know you've seen this, if you ever raise an objection to masked men grabbing people off the street based on racial profiling, including American citizens, et cetera, then people say, oh, you're for open borders.

Or then if you say, you know, I really don't think that we should be blowing up people without due process and launching illegal wars without congressional approval and blowing up shipwrecked survivors in violation of our own law of war manual, they say, oh, you're for the unimpeded flow of drugs into America.

No.

Or into Suriname in this case.

Or into Suriname.

Yeah.

So if you want to look at the U.S.

military as distinct from other forces, and I'm not going to single us, the British military, the French military, I mean, you're talking about the Western, sort of the Western way of war.

that one of the things that we have prided ourselves on and and have imperfectly achieved is that we wage war in a way that is very distinctly different from say the way russia wages war or the way imperial japan waged war or nazi germany that yes our military is lethal yes our military can inflict great destruction but it's bounded by rules and laws and codes of honor

And one of the things that really upsets me about the Hegseth as head of Department of Defense is that

The things that make the American military distinct, he seems to despise and view as weakness.

And the things that make the Russian military so brutal, he seems to admire.

Do we want a military like the Russian military?

Would we look at the Russian military and say, yep, that's who we want to be?

It's a less effective military than ours.

It's a less competent military than ours.

And it's a far more brutal military than ours.

And when you look at – I think one thing that if we have listeners here who are sort of skeptical about laws of war or rules of engagement and how they might tie the hands of soldiers –