Have you ever done one of those mental experiments or read a book or maybe watching a documentary of a war from the other person's side, from the other person's perspective?

It's fascinating. I love this stuff.

Not that I try to have sympathy for the enemies of my country,

but I've read these accounts before.

I've read Vietnamese accounts of what it was like with American bombers overhead.

There are several still surviving, as you can imagine, Japanese accounts of what it was

like there. So obviously we're about to talk about the United States military. But I want to

talk about this really quickly because it explains why I'm so passionate about having a strong

military and why I am so terrified at the rot that has taken place inside of ours.

If you read a Japanese account of being bombed, you know, everyone knows about Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

but those are honestly a tiny fraction of how much bombing we did in Japan.

Virtually every major city, not every major city, but pretty much every major city in Japan,

we reduced it to rubble. And to hear the accounting of what it's like when you could hear

the planes coming, am I going to make it to the bomb shelter in time?

My kids, they're at school.

I hope they got out okay.

I won't know till, well, who knows when.

Maybe that bomb got them.

Maybe it'll get me.

The terror.

It sounds horrifying to have a foreign army come into your country and bomb you to powder.

And then the training, the fear they felt when they thought we were going to invade,

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