Mike Durant

Well, you know, I never gave up.

Again, I thought when they overrun the site, I thought it was dead.

I mean, they had overrun other people and killed them all.

I mean, they didn't have a track record of taking prisoners.

There was one Nigerian prisoner, but I didn't know about him.

I didn't know about him until I got released and they brought him into my room.

So from my perspective, everybody that they overrun gets killed.

And they had beheaded...

some of the Pakistanis back in June, which by the way is the catalyst that gets Task Force Ranger involved, and played soccer in the street with the heads of these Pakistanis, okay?

And it's terrorist-like mentality.

What you're trying to do is you're trying to strike so much fear in your adversary that your adversary says, I'm not messing with these guys.

And it doesn't work for us.

I mean, we understand, yeah, OK, there's bad guys out there.

They're going to do bad shit.

But for other members of the coalition that come from country X or Y or Z,

They're not in it for that.

You know what I mean?

They want to be part of this flag-waving thing where we're supporting the effort, and here we are.

But when it gets really bad, they don't want to be part of that.

So it's effective against those kind of countries or entities.