if not you re going to have an entire generation of troops come back ask what the hell did i bleed the ground red in afghanistan for if we were going to cede it back to the taliban. i m a big believer in it doesn t matter how we got here, we re here. right. so iraq is a war, we should have gone in, fine. so they put the rules out in the battlefield instead of talking about. you want to lose a war quickly, get lawyers and politicians involved. and reelected come in, saying i want to end this. you can t drag us out of here in one day. that s not how it works. on the other side of the break and later on in this program we re going to talk about the military today. we re going to talk about rules of engagement, what it s like to be a warrior when the politicians get involved. if you love this conversation, if you want more of it, you can go to fox sf nation.com. we re going to have some outtakes. if you think this is good, wait for the outtakance the
job. the best way i can describe it, imagine a football game played on the side of a mountain. we weren t supposed to get rolled up. soft compromises, that never happened. once the enemy showed up and horseshoed an ihorseshoed aroune football game is on. people don t understand how good the enemy we faced in afghanistan. they re not farmers with pitch fork ares.s. they re really good at what they do. if they re good at something i don t say that. they re great gunfighters and great mountai mountaineers. you can see what they wear. when you re wearing 90 pounds of gear, these dudes are rolling around with an ak they re carrying water.
me and marcus had a thing, he put it best. i go to marcus house on the weekend, two or three times a month and it s like the regroup. that s our base. we talk about it, get back. that s kind of like the base. and then whenever i leave there or he leaves, we both look and say we re about to go out on a mission, right? the military trains you to shoot move together and then in combat you die together and then you come back and everybody goes their own direction. >.it can be challenging. i m so tired of this dude. the kids i m ready to go back to combat. more kus is talkin marcus ise difference of being afraid and having fear. fear is going to make you think more clearly. being afraid you might panic. but being in places where i felt fear, i remember looking at my guys being impressed, my god,
the more we trained on it, the more we realize thd is going trealized this isgoing to be a . anything you do can get you killed, including nothing. these are modern warriors. thanks for joining us and welcome to modern warriors, a veterans day special. i m your host pete hetio seg se. i m honored to host this event. i m joined by four special guys four war fighters, four fathers, four patriots and four veterans. and i m grateful to call all four of these guy as friend. and you re going to get to know them even more over the course of the hour. but they re four of the most accomplished and high profile veterans and war fighters of the 9/11 generation. they gave a lot on the battlefield and they continue to
what if we couldn t open the door, which is true. they got us out. the mechanics that made the things work and the analysts. a lot of them don t want the recognition but there s so many people out there doing their part. it s a team. open when something goes bad with one of our boys, we re all coming. we re coming. you don t have to worry about us. you have to know what comes with me, who cares about me and who loves me. when you find out somebody is willing to die for you and bleed for you, that s the gift i got, and loyalty. can i throw something out. i had not anticipated saying. there are no living medal of honor recipients from the iraq war. not one. i did not. when you consider how long we were there and how tough the fighting was. just something to throw out there. hopefully, you know, we make that right. for a while it felt political. it was the war people didn t want to talk about. i think or politicians need to know they have a moral obligation to win anywhere