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Ret. Navy SEAL Leif Babin discusses the nomination of Chuck Hagel and motion picture “Zero Dark Thirty”.
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Or near all saga and eagle -- to the classic Icelandic sagas and I was a kid and and as always a big part of my heritage in the -- life which my middle name for the time skewed what you first time Bryant management him out of so Chuck Hagel been nominated to be -- turned to -- do you think.
That's that's -- question it's there's been a lot of criticisms and I share this criticisms.
In in my view though.
This is a guided largely holds the same views that the present us and so I don't know why surprising to folks -- that this is.
This is that the nomination amid US armed forces are gonna serve whoever's you know whoever their senator chances whoever the president is.
But the scary thing to me about this is that it sends a message to Iran.
That that we are not necessarily.
Super tight.
France -- Israel and that we're willing to to allow them.
To obtain nuclear weapons -- and contain them.
And I think it's a very dangerous message to send analyst and if you'd like to present rules and where that -- about -- -- problems that we assume it doesn't literature.
He says he doesn't but I think actions prove otherwise I don't and I think that's that's the -- scary thing I -- I look at defense of that the number one threat to in the world today is Iran and they they are -- the number -- sponsor of of terrorism.
-- -- state sponsor of terrorism and yet here on the verge of nuclear weapon and we still keep saying things like.
All options are on the table well.
When that when the most here that in that Tehran and that means the US does have the stomach to take us are now one of those -- room.
Well we certainly have the ability to take him on -- I don't know we have the will do that is something different and we keep for some strange reason showing him every opportunity that.
That we don't want to do that I I think if if you put together checklist to create a major war in the Middle East I'm not sure that you could do.
You can you can put a better -- together to to you.
Insurer war happens into the path that we're currently follow on quarter -- -- -- -- collect around a former members don't highly decorated one bottom line.
You think of -- Petraeus.
Down.
Very curious very curious thing.
Just -- of a bad deal -- -- Petraeus obviously was.
A someone that don't like him are watching everyone in the military -- had respect for I don't which RS as a sharp guy someone who believed in in the counterinsurgency.
That to win Barack unlike Chuck Hagel now -- set along with.
Then Senator Obama that the surge is never gonna work a collection call -- the worst.
Military blunder since Vietnam.
And and yet in the surge worked.
Fantastically and I'll try and don't -- and -- Not -- and it didn't work of debt.
Well it's we we have to shift our strategy -- -- I certainly hasn't criticisms of the direction that we are going to mean I I've I've.
Had to -- up to delay battle would've gotten a nation building campaign in the first place -- would have been smasher enemies when declare victory come home.
But eliminate threats to American I think that's a business we need to be and back to Teddy Roosevelt's walks often -- -- -- Dot com -- general on our you know on.
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-- the -- of seasonal dark thirty which is about what.
About the and killing -- some -- London about the search for bin Laden over them.
Senator I've not seen the movie I have -- read about it and I know the big controversies in the opening scene.
Which depicts waterboarding and apparently to Michigan -- a quite unrealistic manner from from the way it's.
It actually happened.
-- -- about waterboarding I manage that.
This is -- have been done hundreds of tells you exclude the troops including me as part of our training we used to call it training.
And all the suddenly start applying it to the worst terrorist in the world it becomes torture -- as -- -- torture.
It's it's about like your.
Your Big Brother hold appeal of your face.
You know teasing -- your kid and that -- it's a it's it's unpleasant it's -- possible.
But we get its training because it today wasn't -- we did this to troops who made him uncomfortable put him in a situation to simulate torture.
And all of -- -- these are applied to al-Qaeda members like Khalid Sheikh Mohamed the mastermind of 9/11.
And and and and people -- an outrage about it.
No no one cared about it all -- had disappeared from the training regiment.
-- your schools.
I'm saying -- made him just Tribune and that's -- much of an adorable auditor.
Much of anything much of inevitable bothered -- distribute -- understand.
Whenever there avenue was born in loans from well you certainly got a lot got to overcome we have some tough turn and we take pride and the seal teams and in -- -- And a lot of what's what he might go through.
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Anyway good to see you again mention currencies well I'm glad your business grow -- -- email address -- again.
It's the website is www.
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