Do Insurgents Let Civilians Die for Public Relations Purposes?

I mean, who has the ultimate influence in whether or not there is military action and how long that military action goes on for, right? Like, because Bernie Sanders and a lot of these people and Tulsi Gabbard, a lot of these people that are running for president say that if they got it, one of the things they would do is stop these interventionalist foreign wars and this world police wars that we just go on and invade in other people's lives, that we would stop doing that. I think that's great. Right, but who really gets to say? Like, who gets to say whether or not, like, who talks to Trump and says, let's just keep rolling into this place. What's rolling? There's a fucking problem over there. ISIS, ISIS, build it up. What the bomb fuck are these people? Like, who has the real ear? I mean, is it generals? Is there any industry influence at all from weapons industries or from people who have deals with them? That's what Eisenhower warned about when he left office. You've heard that, right? Yeah. That is one of the craziest speeches a president has ever said. Trump says, you do have a military industrial complex. They do like war. Yeah. Wow. He said he tried to pull some troops out and they wouldn't let them. Oh, that's right. Trump said that. Don't kid yourself. He says you do have a military industrial complex. They do like war. You know, in Syria with the caliphate. So I wipe out 100 percent of the caliphate. That doesn't mean you're not going to have these crazy people going around blowing up stores and blowing up things. These are seriously ill people. But I wiped out 100 percent of the caliphate. I said, I want to bring our troops back home. The place went crazy. They want to keep. You have a problem here in Washington. They want to leave. I said, you know what I'll do? I'll leave a couple hundred soldiers behind. But if it was up to them, they'd bring thousands of soldiers in. Someday people will explain it. But you do have a group and they call it the military industrial complex. They never want to leave. They always want to fight. No, I didn't want to fight. But you do have situations like Iran. You can't let them have nuclear weapons. You just can't let that happen. That goes on. And that's the thing with Trump, nobody ever talks about, I feel like. It's like we've been pretty much anti- we haven't been swayed into as many wars as I feel like we would have been. Who knows? I mean, who knows? Maybe yes, maybe no. Maybe we're closer to war because of him. Who the fuck knows? Trump administration considers 14,000 more troops for the Middle East. That was last week. But he also... Disgusting deployment. Who knows, man? Maybe they know things too. The thing about talking to people like Jocko Willink and my friend Andy Stump and other folks that have been over there, they'll tell you. There's some times where things build up and radicals control cities and things get really ugly. And they have to have some sort of military intervention or these people keep growing. And they don't- that's the other thing that people aren't talking about. In Afghanistan in particular, the Afghanis are working with the soldiers against these terrorist organizations. There's Afghanis that are helping US soldiers. It's not like all of the US against all of Afghanistan. No, it's that they're combined against ISIS. The whole thing is so crazy that there's these groups, these organizations that are like characters in a James Bond movie or in a comic book. Think about ISIS, something like ISIS. That's like if you had a crazy movie about people that had a great leader who's like the spiritual guy who lived in the mountains. That's what's all been loved. He is like a character in a movie. He used to work for the good guys, then he switched over to the bad guys. It's like someone in a Batman movie. You know? Yeah. Lips in caves. Yeah. It's just all of it is weird, man. I mean, the whole thing about you draw Muhammad, they'll kill you. Like how extreme the religion is and how devoted people are. And you can't question any of it. It's the most extreme in that regard where it doesn't allow any questioning of it. And then, you know, people can't understand that some people practice it the same way some people practice Christianity or some people practice other things. They only believe or take part in the positive good parts of the religion. So there's a lot of people that are Muslims that are great people. They're really kind, really well-educated, wonderful, thoughtful people. They don't have nothing to do with terrorists. And when there is some sort of terrorist activity, it makes them feel bad that they're getting lumped in with someone who's doing horrific things. These people that, you know, end up committing to these extreme religions, I feel like we should be dropping like soccer balls and Nintendo switches from airplanes to give them things to do so that they're... Well, they're stuck. ...believe in something. If you're stuck in a place that's got a very rigid religious ideology and radical, and, you know, you've been radicalized since you were young, and then you got places like Yemen, right? Places that are getting bombed by the U.S. from fucking robots. Planes are flying overhead. They're gunning down wedding parties accidentally and killing people. I mean, that happens. It's pretty common, right? So you're making more radicals, because then there's people who lost their family members to some robot flying in the sky. Some kid is... you know, he's got an Xbox controller in his hand. And he's shooting missiles. You know, they say those guys who are those pilots, they suffer PTSD as well. Those pilots are weirded out by that shit. You know, imagine being a drone pilot, and you're watching something that you kind of know is happening. You definitely know it's happening, right? You're controlling it. You see it. But when you hit that button, you watch those missiles. Choo, choo, choo, choo, choo! Shoot down hellfire missiles. They call them hellfire, too, which is crazy. Shoot down into these camps and shoot down into these motorcades. Like, you know what you just did. And most likely, you're killing eight out of ten of those people who are innocent. And because of the fact that a drone does it, we're like, eh, what are we going to do? Like, we had a soldier, and like, hey, Tony, you've got to stop killing innocent people. Hey, I'm a fucking killer, okay? You sent me after those bad guys. There was a lot of babies around. I had to fucking let them know. You ain't going to stop me from getting that bad guy. There's no way we would put you in jail. Yeah. But if you have an Xbox controller, and you're shooting hellfire missiles into a fucking school, because you think that there's a terrorist in there, like, what? And you know, they set them up sometimes, too. They give bad advice or bad intel. Yeah. So they try to get someone to blow up a school or get someone to blow up a wedding party. Like, there's a lot of fuckery involved in anything you're doing like that, where they know that if you do kill people, it's actually bad press. It's bad for you. Public perception goes the other way.