![]() Bush in the Bush White House right after 9/11. Well, I had the great good fortune of working with George W. If the Iranians miscalculate and think they can come after us, or if you happen to get a rogue Iranian naval officer that decides to get too close to the fleet, or somebody that decides to take a shot into the Green Zone, that would be a miscalculation on the part of the Iranians, and it wouldn't end well for them. The only concern I have with Iran - and I think interim Secretary Shanahan said it well the other day - is a miscalculation. We have been dealing with the Iranians for decades. The Iranians certainly don't want us to go to war against them. One, the president doesn't want to go to war in Iran. And I think that was all good.īut I'm not particularly concerned about Iran. And, certainly, it was going to push out their ability to build a nuclear weapon for some years. Yes, well, I wasn't in favor of pulling out of the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear agreement.Īnd while it wasn't perfect, certainly, I do think that it kept a little bit of the Iranian desires in check. The only thing that matters is that you go in with this purpose in mind and this - the thought that you are just not going to quit, no matter what happens. So, while it is important to be physically fit when you go through training, you find out very quickly that your background, your social status, your color, your orientation, none of that matters. You're going to kind of fail often as a result of bad missions, bad training.Īnd we need people that can persevere through all of that. And that's really what you're trying to find in the young SEAL students, because, in the course of your career, you're going to be cold, wet, miserable. So, the one thing that defines everybody that goes through SEAL training is that they didn't ring the bell, as we say. There's only one thing you have to do in SEAL training. SEAL training really doesn't have a lot to do with how big and how strong and how fast you are.
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