malcolm, as someone who wore the uniform for years, how did it affect you to see the video of the kurds pelting our armored vehicles based on nothing the soldiers had done? you know, that must break the hearts of those soldiers who are in that special operations task group. these are men and women who fought side by side, elbow to elbow with the kurds, trained them to become the most capable combat force the united states has had in place since the vietnam war. and asymmetrically, they have been the biggest force multiplier that we ve had quite honestly since world war ii. this force that the united states had one soldier for approximately every 1,000 kurds, went out there and destroyed the islamic state. so to be told, you re going to get your weapons. you re going to get your personal effects. you re going to go over to your
international stage again. malcolm, as someone who wore the uniform for years, how did it affect you to see the video of the kurdis pelting our armord vehicles based on nothing the soldiers had done? you know, that must break the hearts of those soldiers who are in that special operations task group. these are men and women who fought side by side, elbow to elbow with the kurds, trained them to become the most capable combat force the united states has had in place since the vietnam war. and asymmetrically, they have been the biggest force multiplier that we ve had quite honestly since world war ii. this force that the united states had one soldier for approximately every 1,000 kurds, went out there and destroyed the islamic state. so to be told, you re going to get your weapons. you re going to get your
as someone who wore the uniform for years, how did it affect you to see the video of the kurds pelting our armored vehicles based on nothing the soldiers had done? you know, that must break the hearts of those soldiers who were in that special operations task group. these are men and women who fought side by side, elbow to elbow with the kurds, trained them to become the most capable combat force the united states has had in place since the vietnam war. and asymmetrically, they have been been the biggest force multiplier we ve had quite honestly since world war ii. this force that the united states had one soldier for approximately every 1,000 kurds, went out there and destroyed the islamic state. so to be told you re going to get your weapons, you re going to get your personal effects, you re going to go over to your
carry the message on and continue to fight for as a part of this campaign and as a congressional member, if i have the privilege of representing this district in the future. yeah. and, you know, when you talked about the things that you re going to do, that you want to do and want to say in your message to run for congress, they sounded like pretty standard, like standard political lines. this is not a standard period of history. yeah. it feels like what democrats want to do maybe you don t agree with what i m about to say. democrats want to run a standard, you know, the way you run for city, state and federal government with a standard set of issues, but republicans are running asymmetrically. they re running on things like very racialized nationalism. you might want to say white nationalism. they re running on brown people don t belong here. they need to leave. is it possible for a democrat to win running a standard campaign when republicans are using that kind of asymmetry?
continue making sure that i carry the message on and continue to fight for as a part of this campaign and as a congressional member, if i have the privilege of representing this district in the future. yeah. and, you know, when you talked about the things that you re going to do, that you want to do and want to say in your message to run for congress, they sounded like pretty standard, like standard political lines. this is not a standard period of history. yeah. it feels like what democrats want to do maybe you don t agree with what i m about to say. democrats want to run a standard, you know, the way you run for city, state and federal government with a standard set of issues, but republicans are running asymmetrically. they re running on things like very racialized nationalism. you might want to say white nationalism. they re running on brown people don t belong here. they need to leave. is it possible for a democrat to win running a standard campaign when republicans are us