Elad Aliahu

It would help with a lot of...

You go on the ground in Iran.

To be part of the most powerful military that's ever existed, and to know that if anything happened to me, the KD would be 1 to 100.

No, there's a price.

There's a big price on my head for every American service member who is hurt in Iran.

There is 100 plus Iranians paying the price for that.

And these are patriots among us.

These are the bravest among us.

We should honor them and thank them, you know, for allowing us to live this free lifestyle.

I'm just imagining.

We live on the backs of patriots, of dead patriots.

Our freedom exists on the back of brave men who are willing to fight.

That's right.

Oh, man.

I don't want to romanticize war, but isn't there something so romantic about, you know, you and the boys fighting against the ops and, like, Tate, if you got hurt, shot in the arm, and I'm holding you in my arms and saying no, and then, like, avenging your injury.

No?

I don't mean to fetishize that, but it's like, there's something so alpha about, I don't mean to even use that sort of rhetoric, but like, hunkering your opponents.

That's right.

To come full circle for a second, back to this story.

I think this was on the list of three different things to increase military recruitment, and that was way overdue.