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Meanwhile, while we're on taco watch, we have to continue, of course, to pay attention to the thousands of US ground troops that continue to move to the Middle East.
And we have Lindsey Graham trying to set expectations for everybody here, taking to Fox News Sunday, saying, "Not only should the United States take Car Island, but comparing it to the Battle of Ewima."
Let's take a listen.
>> Here's what I tell President Trump.
Keep it up for a few more weeks.
Take Car Island where all of the resources they have to produce oil.
Control that island.
let this regime down a vine.
>> Is this going to though take Car Island?
Is it going to involve US troops on the ground?
Let me let me just read you something from the Atlantic does an assessment on that.
They say US troops may well take Car Island.
We believe their ability to do so, but only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support.
The result could be a grinding war of attrition.
They talk about how far away they would be from resupply.
sort of tired of all this uh armchair quarterbacking.
This has been amazing military operation.
God bless the fallen,
>> but it's a difference when we talk about troops on the ground.
>> I trust the Marines, not that guy.
I trust DoD.
We got two Marine Expeditionary units sailing to this island.
We did Euoima.
We can do this.
We did Eoima.
We can do this.
Anybody want to tell me the casualties on Eoima?
We got about 7,000 killed and 19,000 wounded.
Uh was that a is that the similar stakes that are involved here in the middle of this expeditionary uh you know adventure chosen excursion?
Yeah.
It's not even a war.
It's an excursion.
That's what Eoima I mean it's being fluid.
I think this is the perfect clip to show you how these individual Marines are just pawns on a chessboard to people in Washington that they use the mythology of the heroism of the past to whitewash all of the ways in the postw World War II era that their lives have just been carelessly thrown into these wars of choice and adventurism which accomplished nothing uh to the benefit of the United States has bled us dry blood and treasure.
And meanwhile, the individual families who either lost somebody or have somebody wounded or whose a family member was affected by PTSD, they have to deal with the wreckage.
That's why this bothers me so much.
Like this bravo, you know, bravado, chest thumping.
Each one of those individual lives who was lost on Eoima is not fodder for you to then claim some of their glory to in order to advance your regime change war of choice, which has now been a total and a complete disaster.
And I think it demonstrates how all of these service members have been treated now.
The 13 killed, the 200, 300, who knows how many who have been wounded now so far.
The thousands that are already just being moved into the region for some sort of potential operation.
But that is what that's what they're now trying to prepare the American public for.
And also, by the way, I should say this.
You know, Eoima uh had a huge backlash here in the United States.
A lot of people don't remember uh that time period after uh there was after clearly the war in Europe was either winding down or you know there had been the armistice or whatever had been uh signed.
Well, the American public started asking some serious questions.
They're like wait why are we taking tens of thousands of casualties out here?
Like we need to wrap this up very quickly and the the Pentagon or I guess the war department or whatever at that time was having a lot of conversations.
How do we prepare the public for an ground invasion of Japan?
So like even in the conflict with the most bought in US public whenever we were taking these level of casualties they're like whoa we're like we need to hold on they're like what's going on here?
Are we sure this is necessary?
you know, the atomic bomb ends up happening and so everybody conveniently forgets the ojima's casualties and and Okinawa, but it was not like that uh domestically.
Yeah.
And so and that again was a war where probably 90% of the public were on board, bought in on that war
>> and he wants he wants to try and recreate this disastrous type of circumstance.
We talked with Professor Pap about the parallels Car Island or the Straits of Hormuz and we're talking about Gipoly.
These are like global changing events.
The Aussies still remember Gallipoli.
Uh, I mean, you know, like one of my tour guys when I did a World War I battlefield tour, like they hundred years later, the descendants still come to Gallipoli to see what their great greatgrandfathers had to go through.
I don't think we should be going about that.
I think we should do everything in our power to avoid some sort of a nightmarish situation.
And this is this is the problem is that they're so they're so caught into this mythos.
Everything is always World War II.
That's why what do they say about the Iranians?
What does Mark live in?
Oh, they're Nazis, right?
They're all everybody's always a Nazi.
It's always 1938.
It's always either Munich and our enemies are always Nazis.
There's no, you know, there's no in between.
That's the only conflict that you're ever allowed to talk about.
>> Reminds me of which Iranian official was it that posted online like Americans remember well when General West Morland came and said things were going right.
We're like >> it was Archi the foreign minister said Americans remember well General West Morland.
I'm like sir I wish we did
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