Wes Moore

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You know, I've had a lot of conversations with...

some of the folks that I serve with, in fact, recently, as early as this morning, there was always something that we knew as paratroopers, as members of the 82nd, or just frankly, anybody in the military, is that you never authorize military force unless, A, military force was the last option, B, we had an understanding of what the mission and the endgame was, and C, you were spending your time and your energy building the right kind of coalition.

that could help to be successful in advance.

The problem with this mission is none of those things have, A, not been accomplished, but I'm not sure if any of the three of them have even been thought about because there is no one who could argue that military action was the last resort on this mission.

Nobody.

There's nobody that can argue that we understand

what the mission is or mission accomplishment is or the end game.

And it's not because we're being naive.

It's because we've all heard maybe a dozen things from the president himself.

And the third thing, when we talk about an international coalition, I mean, that's almost laughable.

when you look at the fact that there is not an international coalescing around this that's going to help us to accomplish the mission.

So I remember when I was speaking, in fact, I was speaking with a person I serve with this morning, and I told him, I said, I'm just, I'm praying for our paratroopers.

I'm praying for their family members.

And honestly, I'm praying for the leadership of this country.

I'm praying for the president.