Pete Hegseth

South Com, South Com.

I mean, they do other stuff, but those are the big leadership focuses.

What's China doing?

They're providing security protection.

They're building ports.

They're debt-enslaving nations, so they have to work for them in the future.

And they're playing for keeps.

So is Russia in there.

And we're running around talking about not— So this is an institution, in my mind, that hasn't learned.

Hasn't learned one bit.

Still thinks we did a great job on counterinsurgency.

So if you're not on it, I mean, and I look back at how the reasons I was an advocate for it so directly at the time is because I believed in it and I believe in our country and I believe in finishing wars we fight.

If you fight it, let's finish it and then get the hell out.

But don't leave in shame.

Don't leave the way we left in Afghanistan.

But because we fought a 20-year war and one-year iterations and never learned in the process and then try to

change hearts and minds.

It didn't work and it collapsed under its own weight.

Now it's worse.

So if you find me someone who thinks that those wars were better and that we think they should do them in 2024, they need a lobotomy because they haven't looked at the evidence afterwards to recognize where we are.