Shawn Ryan

Wars like this wouldn't happen, in my opinion.

Yeah.

As much as I don't like the idea of conscripting people or having mandatory service, because I liked the professional warrior class that we were a part of.

I like serving with volunteers.

Problem with volunteers is, man, we'll just keep going back and you'll create a professional warrior class.

And then we'll, like I did,

we'll intermarry, and we'll live in our tight communities.

Everybody I know is a veteran.

And so, we have an insular community, and we're the only ones that experienced the war, experienced the loss, and we keep going back over and over again.

Whereas if you spread out that burden to the entire country, it makes it almost impossible to keep us at war for a prolonged period.

The only reason the Vietnam War ended is because there was popular... the people basically revolted against it because of the draft.

And that's a big reason why I think after Vietnam, they were like, we can't draft people anymore.

Let's create a professional military.

I think we should be worried about the fact that we had open borders in this country for four plus years, like we talked about, and the sheer volume of potential known suspected terrorists, known suspected terrorists that are here.

Our main focus should be getting our homeland straight, first and foremost.

There's other threats from al-Qaeda in Yemen,

Al-Qaeda in Syria.

There's a lot that we don't know that's taking place in Afghanistan that Sarah's talked about at Nauseam on your show.

So there still is CT threats out there.

I mean, there still are people that we do need to hunt down and kill because they seek to do us harm.