Josh Duhamel

We could get rid of the existing government.

But once we wanted to change the reality on the ground, who actually controlled things, how things worked, now you're not at 30,000 feet, you're at six feet.

and you're the same height as your potential opponent and i tell people about this war if you like this war enjoy this first part because this is the best part because everything after this will be harder you see the reality that all of the resentment you create through what you do now

at some point comes back to you.

I think that for everyone we kill in bombing Iran, they have a brother, sister, father, mother, and they are unlikely to go, oh yeah, it's okay, you killed my father, but yeah, it was geopolitical necessity on your part.

That's not the way we respond.

And so sometimes it's necessary.

I don't deny that some wars are just and required,

But no wars that I'm familiar with are neat, clean, or produce the kind of outcome we actually want.

They produce this messy thing that might be better than before the war, but it's not a lot better.

Well, look, I think General McChrystal is a good man.

He's probably much more establishment than I am.

It's very interesting to see how he evolved over the last 15 years.

When he was ousted from the administration or from the leadership in the military, he was criticizing Barack Obama and also Joe Biden, really Joe Biden more than anyone else.

Back then, Joe Biden, say what you will, fought internally against the surge that the Obama administration, the early Obama administration was trying to do in Afghanistan.

something that I think, you know, as the years have wound on, it was something Barack Obama himself didn't really even really believe in.

And so I think it's big to see McChrystal say this.

His contemporary at the time, David Petraeus, before the Iran War, warned against this war pretty much.

um he said that it was actually remarkable that the us had been so lucky in the maduro raid that no special forces um members had been killed um that could easily have been killed and so it's it's it is heartening to see for better or worse um you know the sort of general class the retired general class uh complain about some of the maneuvers here which is not something that we saw nearly as much in the global war on terror uh at least in the 2010s than

I think, look, I think the war is not going well.