Jack Jacobs
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 10 Mar
Jack Jacobs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Rachel Maddow Show · Maddow: Trump admits what the attack on Iran is really for · 10 Mar 2026
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Well, it didn't used to happen when we had lots and lots of casualties during the war in Vietnam.
We lost, in some weeks, a thousand troops.
It didn't happen.
And at that time, we had a draft.
This was not long after the end of the Second World War, when we had 19 million people in uniform.
And everybody knew somebody who had served.
Every household had made a contribution to the defense of the country.
And then we decided that we were gonna have a volunteer force.
We weren't gonna have a draft.
And the result of that is that most Americans do not know anybody in uniform.
And when the military instrument of power is used and people are killed,
this ceremony, and I think the Defense Department would say it's not a ceremony, but it's a ceremony, is vitally important for the American public to see it.
Because in the past, we knew what the cost was, and now we don't because we don't know anybody in uniform, but this is the cost of the use of the military instrument.
Well, it's very solemn, and maybe not having audio is a worthwhile thing to do.
You know, you mentioned the war in Iraq.
And we had been in the Middle East for a long, long time fighting.
And it's interesting to note that at the beginning of the war, Secretary Rumsfeld argued strenuously that we should not have any press coverage at all of what was happening in the Middle East.
And I think it was Tory Clark, his press advisor, his communications advisor,
I think that's who it was at the time, who argued that we needed to have that.
And the result was that we wound up with press embedded with units.
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