Scott Mann

When Afghanistan collapsed in 2021, right, or even go back to 9-11, when 9-11 happened, the worst terror attack in our nation's history, as a nation collectively, we said never again.

It hit us so deeply that it was clear there was no really on the ground intelligence capability that could have gotten in front of this, because we had indications.

And there was no ground strike capability.

We weren't partnered with the Northern Alliance.

There was no partner force in the country.

So we didn't really have any ability to strike.

All we had was over the horizon.

Sound familiar?

So for 20 years, as a nation, we invested, and as NATO, we invested in building an intelligence apparatus that would prevent another safe haven and deep strike on the states and a partner force that

that could be the antibody to violent extremism in that safe haven.

And we did both.

We built those.

We bled for them.

We lost friends for them.

We gave up our youth for that.

And then on August 15th, 2021, an administration literally turned the page on that like it never even happened, like it was a Servpro commercial.

And we walked away from 30,000 commandos

You know, we abandoned 98% of our human intelligence and just left it behind.

And then we decided that we would deal with the Taliban as a legitimate state actor.

And we would pay them humanitarian resources and counter-terror dollars to go after ISIS, because somehow we feel like they can actually target them and they're at odds.