Scott Mann
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Right.
And so I think what you had was what this one military spouse said to me at one of our plays when we performed the play and she stood up and she was very upset and she said, you know, we fought this war for 10 years and when my husband went to war, the rest of the country went to Walmart.
And so I think there's a disassociation
from what this really is.
And almost this idea, at least in the American population, that our special operators and our combat veterans, it's like a Fortnite game.
It's like a video game.
You just reset it, put them back in the game when you need them.
and that it's not really that big of a deal.
You just got to deal with it when it pops up.
And we still kind of have this isolationist mentality, like let's just focus on what matters here at home.
Let's get back to the economy.
But that's fine.
But it's not like Vietnam where you could walk away from Vietnam and really Vietnam's got to figure it out.
We've got to figure it out.
This one follows us home.
This one follows us home.
This is just a battle in a very long, multi-century struggle with these groups.
This is just another round, a round won by them.
But they're still coming, and they're coming at us with all four feet.
And, frankly, we're in a far worse position than pre-9-11.