Scott Mann

And as you've alluded to, there very well could be a level of nexus and collaboration between international criminal elements, state actors, and non-state terror groups.

That could happen because they all have a vested interest in seeing us drop.

And what if they do play to each other's strengths?

You know, what if Al-Qaeda is able to move, I don't know, mortar rounds across the southern border to link up with terror groups to implement Ukrainian drone technology with drones at a football game?

Now, if we're sitting here thinking about this in Tennessee,

You know, that's not, I just, I don't think it's that far-fetched.

And what I've seen coming out of Afghanistan and following the congressional testimony with all, I just don't see politicians taking it seriously.

I really don't.

I feel like it's, or the media, you know, I just, I feel like it's generally the GWAT community thumping the tub and trying to get people to please listen, pay attention to this, but...

as a national focus, it just doesn't seem to be there.

Why do you think that is?

It's baffling to me because, you know, well, I have a theory on it, and I don't know, but I go back to what President Bush said in the very early days of the post-9-11 attack, and I think it was when he was talking to Congress, and I'm paraphrasing, but he said,

you know, this war will largely be fought in the shadows and it will be fought by special operators and intelligence professionals.

And basically what he said was, the rest of the country can go about your business.

We got it.

And that's exactly what happened.

Even with the largest footprints that we had in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the end of the day, just over, I think, 800,000 troops from the US, not counting NATO, served in Afghanistan.

There's 300 plus million people in this country.

800,000 served in Afghanistan over 20 years.

Wow.