By Buck Sexton
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Iranian-made weapons, and had Iranian-made armor-piercing rounds, Iranian-made RPG9s that would penetrate the armor of our trucks. In fact, in January 2007, we built the very first combat outpost in Afghanistan. And we were attacked by 300 well-trained insurgents. Now we killed every single one of them, but we did what’s called a sensitive site exploitation (“SSE”) after the fact. And we’re walking among the dead on the objective and we’re seeing that they’re carrying brand-new AK47 PKMs [machine guns] with Iranian serial numbers from Iranian warehouses. So I’ve seen up close and personal what Iran can do and has done to the soldiers on the battlefield. And the fact that we targeted this guy and took him out makes the world a better place, and the president was absolutely right to do it. Do you think we’ve learned the necessary lessons from our experiences thus far as a nation in Iraq and Afghanistan? Sean: I’ve been at war my entire adult life – since the day I graduated from college. All I’ve done was train to lead soldiers in combat until I was medically retired. But I’m still in the fight and our U.S. military is still in the fight. All those leaders that were young
One of Iran’s most powerful national security ǻKYVIWERHXIVVSVMWXǻKYVIW6EWWIQ Soleimani, is dead. What do you think about this decision by President Trump? Sean Parnell: I think it was exactly the type of decision that he should have made. He’s the president of the United States. As the commander in chief... [he made] the decision to pull the trigger on this guy Soleimani. Iran has been the No. 1 state sponsor of terror for decades. They’ve killed Americans, men, women, and children for decades. And they’ve long run around and done it with politicians treading carefully around them. So when they see the president make a decision like this to go after Soleimani, I think it’s good for our country. It sends a message to our enemies that if you mess with the United States of America, there will be hell to pay. Soleimani being dead makes the world a better place. The world’s a little bit safer today because of President Trump’s decision. Some of the people who oppose this decision to take out a terrorist – who was also a general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – are saying that this will put our troops more in harm’s way because of the retaliation from the Iranian regime. What do you say about that? Sean: We’ve been at war with Iran for decades. Just because we don’t want to admit that we’re at war with Iran doesn’t mean that they’re not at war with us. I was in combat for 485 days, Buck. We fought against an enemy [the Taliban] that used
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