help the rest of the world. see, this is when you say that b the $300 million a day, which is what it cost us, for 20 years. so i can t do the math. i did go to catholic school but i am trying to do it right now. 70,000-plus days in these 20 years. i hope none of my former nuns how are calling msnbc to dispute this number. but, man, $300 million a day. this is why i am in the middle of writing something today for my substack. the headline is in the end, bin laden won . and we helped him do it. we did this to ourselves. remember bush saying, we want to go over there and fight them. fight them over here so we don t have to fight them here. he didn t understand the genius, the evil genius of bin laden was to draw us over there and lose not only thousands of our young men and women in battle
are going to lead men and women in battle not in, you know, an i.t. company or in finance. in battle, in war. you are forging warriors. and so to say all our other colleges and universities is a canard and very dangerous. and by the way, it s all under the guides in the air force of diversity, equity and inclusion. diversity equity and up collusion. inclusion.why don t we instead t another de and i. defense maybe evacuation, maybe intelligence in maybe teaching the next generation not to bungle kabul like we did saigon because when we don t learn from history we repeat it. these institutions are here to train future leaders not wokesters. but this is i didn t see it in the military but as i talk to people who are in right now going through these institutions right now, it is everywhere. the pentagon is infected by what
very decisive? one thing that george washington and george marshall, general bradley taught all of us by their example and their words, the military does not get into making political we re very fortunate in this country. we don t think of the military stepping out and reversing an electi election. these not true in a lot of places. neil: there s some people like you that let men and women in battle, former chief of stall kelly in that role, offer a perspective on that and being bellicose and exerting authority. we re all shaped by formative experiences. you re right. the first time as a young officer you point at one of your troops and point forward and they get up and go, you can t be anything other than humbled that they re putting their life on the line. neil: i know, general, are
a short time ago i saw a grandmother wearing a t-shirt and she said my hero grandson. so this is a place you can think of it as sad but i think of it as a place really an acre full of love on this memorial day for those who have served our nation. john, kate? barbara starr for us at arlington national cemetery. as barbara points out, this is a day without politics. a day without cynicism. a day only with gratitude. i want to bring in a retired brigadier general who served no many years including iraq where i covered what he was doing over there. general, as someone who has led so many young men and women in battle, today is a particularly poignant heartfelt day. it really is. while barbara is with the most recent of those that have fallen in combat over the years, we
mine resistant vehicles, and unmanned aircraft, is shorter and the determination to give our world class warriors the world class care they deserve. bob, this may be your greatest legacy of all, the lives you saved and the confidence you gave our men and women in battle who knew that there was a secretary of state who had their backs and who loved them and who fought for them and who did everything in his power to bring them home safely. let me asking thank becky, for her extraordinary support of our extraordinary military families. she s been there day in and day out. and in many ways, i know both bob and becky consider our troops to be like their own sons and daughters. and bob, your sense of