Jamie Metzl

And I want

the American warfighters to be as empowered as they can possibly be.

But we need to have societal and maybe international and even global standards because all of this is happening so fast.

You were seeing, as I mentioned before, what's happening in Ukraine.

And we're seeing that application of all of those lessons learned now with the war in Iran, where I think the United States was caught flat-footed because we were using these million-dollar weapons

Patriot missiles to shoot down $30,000, $25,000 drones.

And so it doesn't matter how much bigger your economy is, you can lose.

And that's why the Ukrainians are winning, in my view now.

So a lot of this is happening.

It's the easy answers are easy.

But this is really complicated stuff.

And everybody needs to be part of wrestling with all of this.

It connects to what I was saying before about education.

I just think that we need to educate people to have a whole lot of skepticism about what they are getting back.

If we don't educate people to trust your own voice, coming back to me becoming an atheist in fourth grade and saying, well, I know you're telling me this is true.

I don't think it's true.

But there were a whole lot of other kids who just, you get, oh, that must be true.

And so I just think that we have to teach critical thinking.

Like I said before, I do a lot speaking to people about education.

I think all these things about young people, I think we should have handwritten essays in the little blue books like we had when we were younger.