Jack Carr

So it was very painful to watch, not just for veterans, but for just citizens to see our country.

It was our best effort after 20 years.

Come on.

But what that also did and how it ties into Iran now

is that it taught our enemies a lesson.

And it taught them that Americans, one, are tired of war.

And two, the Americans do not know how to effectively get their military to get a desired political end.

So that's the lesson they walked away from, our withdrawal from Afghanistan with direct line between Russia invading Ukraine.

And of course, now,

China is watching what we're doing in Iran.

So really, now that we're engaged there, we have no choice but to win that thing because it's not regional.

It's not just energy prices.

This is global in nature, meaning after World War Two, we had we could deter we could deter our enemies because of our strength following World War Two.

We ushered in an unparalleled era of economic stabilization.

It was stabilization, but prosperity across the globe.

We took that burden on taxpayers.

Our military took that, especially the Navy, took that on in terms of providing security across the globe.

Then we lost that deterrence, especially with what happened in August of 2021.

We lost that deterrence, that hard-earned deterrence that really provided stability across the entire globe.

So the stakes are much more than...