Scott Mann

And that's what I told his mom.

More than anything else, it just gives me hope that it's one thing to be inspired by you or Tom Satterly or even Sarah, but to be inspired by our Afghan allies, a commando like Nizam, I mean, that to me just, it really is, it just, it warms my heart, man, because those guys really stood at our shoulder for a lot of years.

And we should be inspired by them.

Really?

That is a great two-part question, right?

That's a great question.

So yes, I do think that we will have to go back.

And my logic behind it is that the...

the reemergence of international terrorism out of that safe haven is so profound that everything that we're seeing from multiple very credible sources is saying that it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.

And I'm sure you and I'll talk more about this, but they are in such advanced stages that those operatives are already here.

So when it gets to that point, it is very difficult to stop it.

What I believe is we unfortunately have a very short memory in this country.

When you look at 9-11 happened just over 20 years ago, and you remember where the country was and those smoldering ruins and how we felt during that.

There was this collective fear.

simmering anger of just retribution.

And they turned guys like you and me and our units loose in Afghanistan for retribution.

I mean, President Bush, you know, said it from the pile with the megaphone.

He said, they're going to hear from us real soon.

You know, and it was a pursuit of justice, right?

And you had the yellow ribbons come out and the Budweiser commercials and