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I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Back in the saddle in Southeast Asia, back in the saddle to a place where I enjoy being.

After one month in America, is that a prison sentence or is that a joy?

It's probably a combination of both.

Before I jump into sharing where I want to go today, I will offer a big picture thought

about the current Middle East environment. When I was a teenager, I was asked to join the

Selective Service in America shortly after the Marine Corps barracks were bombed in Lebanon. That was in

Beirut, I believe. And at that point in time, as a young teenager, I expected I would be fighting

in the Middle East somewhere. Now, that did not happen, but the conflicts in the Middle East kept

happening. Conflicts that my country kept being involved in. And of course, as an American,

we are told every story under the sun about why we must be involved in some particular conflict,

whether that's Vietnam, whether that's Iraq, whether that's Syria, whether that's Ukraine,

and probably what's going on right now, America will be

involved in. And of course, most people will have their piss and vinegar worked up about the current

conflict right now. So if you don't jump into their perspective about the right now, you are

evil incarnate.

However, I just rattled off conflicts that America has been involved in over the years that

killed millions of people that had no strategic American purpose at all.

I ask that all of you that might have a perspective, to let that perspective lengthen,

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