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- 00:00:24,792 --> 00:00:27,000
- <i>Ah, America.</i>
- 2
- 00:00:27,708 --> 00:00:32,875
- <i>You beacon of composure
- and proportionate response.</i>
- 3
- 00:00:33,667 --> 00:00:36,750
- <i>You bringer of calm
- and goodness to the world.</i>
- 4
- 00:00:37,625 --> 00:00:39,542
- <i>What do you do
- when the war you're fighting</i>
- 5
- 00:00:39,625 --> 00:00:42,583
- <i>just can't possibly be won
- in any meaningful sense?</i>
- 6
- 00:00:43,292 --> 00:00:46,500
- <i>Well, obviously,
- you sack the guy not winning it,</i>
- 7
- 00:00:46,583 --> 00:00:48,083
- <i>and you bring in some other guy.</i>
- 8
- 00:00:49,083 --> 00:00:51,750
- <i>In 2009, that war was Afghanistan.</i>
- 9
- 00:00:53,792 --> 00:00:55,458
- <i>And that other guy...</i>
- 10
- 00:00:56,375 --> 00:00:57,625
- <i>was Glen.</i>
- 11
- 00:01:24,417 --> 00:01:25,667
- You boys ready?
- 12
- 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,792
- Let's go win this thing.
- 13
- 00:01:30,458 --> 00:01:31,458
- <i>Okay.</i>
- 14
- 00:01:31,542 --> 00:01:35,667
- <i>So this is what I learned
- about four-star General Glen McMahon.</i>
- 15
- 00:01:35,750 --> 00:01:39,000
- <i>He was born to a military family
- at Fort Leavenworth.</i>
- 16
- 00:01:39,083 --> 00:01:41,875
- <i>Graduated West Point in 1976.</i>
- 17
- 00:01:41,958 --> 00:01:44,042
- <i>Ranger school in '79.</i>
- 18
- 00:01:44,125 --> 00:01:48,208
- <i>He had a graduate degree in political
- affairs and military history from Yale.</i>
- 19
- 00:01:49,583 --> 00:01:53,542
- <i>He was both a straight-A student
- and a troublemaker.</i>
- 20
- 00:01:53,625 --> 00:01:56,542
- <i>He once famously attempted
- to stick a lit cherry bomb</i>
- 21
- 00:01:56,625 --> 00:01:58,417
- <i>up his sleeping drill sergeant's ass.</i>
- 22
- 00:01:59,458 --> 00:02:02,125
- <i>He was loved by the men and women
- who served under him.</i>
- 23
- 00:02:02,208 --> 00:02:03,250
- Three, two, one, let's go.
- 24
- 00:02:03,333 --> 00:02:04,851
- <i>Never afraid
- to get his hands dirty.</i>
- 25
- 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:06,542
- Yeah, it's flash time.
- 26
- 00:02:06,625 --> 00:02:09,792
- <i>Never willing to send his troops</i>
- <i>anywhere he wouldn't go himself.</i>
- 27
- 00:02:09,875 --> 00:02:16,417
- <i>He was known variously as the Lion King,
- the G-Man, Big Glen</i>
- 28
- 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:19,875
- <i>and, most commonly, the Glenimal.</i>
- 29
- 00:02:19,958 --> 00:02:22,250
- <i>He was like a throwback to another era.</i>
- 30
- 00:02:23,125 --> 00:02:25,500
- <i>His hand was bent into a permanent claw,</i>
- 31
- 00:02:25,583 --> 00:02:28,458
- <i>like it was still clutching
- a World War II cigar</i>
- 32
- 00:02:28,542 --> 00:02:32,250
- <i>his modern, fitness-fanatic self
- wouldn't allow him to smoke.</i>
- 33
- 00:02:33,417 --> 00:02:34,833
- <i>After a successful stint</i>
- 34
- 00:02:34,917 --> 00:02:37,750
- <i>running the secretive special operations
- killing machine in Iraq,</i>
- 35
- 00:02:38,792 --> 00:02:42,917
- <i>Glen was appointed leader of US
- and coalition forces in Afghanistan.</i>
- 36
- 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:45,500
- <i>A war which, as he saw it,</i>
- 37
- 00:02:45,583 --> 00:02:48,375
- <i>wasn't being won
- 'cause it wasn't being led.</i>
- 38
- 00:02:48,458 --> 00:02:49,667
- General.
- 39
- 00:02:49,750 --> 00:02:52,875
- We're all very excited to have you here.
- It's an honor to meet you.
- 40
- 00:02:52,958 --> 00:02:55,042
- I'm excited to be here.
- Ain't that right, Greg?
- 41
- 00:02:55,125 --> 00:02:57,167
- Yes, indeed, sir. You're very excited.
- 42
- 00:02:57,875 --> 00:03:00,083
- <i>Somehow, while he was in Iraq,</i>
- 43
- 00:03:00,167 --> 00:03:02,208
- <i>Glen found time
- to author a book on leadership,</i>
- 44
- 00:03:02,292 --> 00:03:06,792
- <i>entitled One Leg at a Time,
- Just Like Everybody Else.</i>
- 45
- 00:03:06,875 --> 00:03:09,875
- <i>In it, he wrote,
- men are imperfect creatures.</i>
- 46
- 00:03:10,750 --> 00:03:12,875
- <i>Left to their own devices,</i>
- 47
- 00:03:12,958 --> 00:03:17,042
- <i>all they really want to do is play
- with their dicks and eat chicken.</i>
- 48
- 00:03:17,125 --> 00:03:21,625
- For all his many achievements
- leading special operations in Iraq,
- 49
- 00:03:22,208 --> 00:03:25,500
- I think most of us here
- will know General McMahon
- 50
- 00:03:25,583 --> 00:03:29,250
- as the man who took out al-Zarwaqi,
- who kicked al-Qaeda in the sack.
- 51
- 00:03:29,333 --> 00:03:31,458
- You're welcome.
- 52
- 00:03:31,542 --> 00:03:34,792
- We have a warrior at the helm,
- and it's a pleasure to have you, sir.
- 53
- 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:39,375
- <i>Glen was known as a humble man.</i>
- 54
- 00:03:39,458 --> 00:03:44,042
- <i>But humble in that way that says,
- my humility makes me better than you.</i>
- 55
- 00:03:45,167 --> 00:03:48,958
- <i>He was famous for his Spartan regime
- of routine and discipline.</i>
- 56
- 00:03:49,042 --> 00:03:53,292
- <i>He ate one meal a day.
- He slept four hours per night.</i>
- 57
- 00:03:53,375 --> 00:03:56,042
- <i>He ran seven miles every morning.</i>
- 58
- 00:03:58,125 --> 00:04:02,458
- <i>In Iraq, he transformed special operations
- with what he called</i>
- 59
- 00:04:02,542 --> 00:04:06,458
- <i>systemic negation
- of repetitive procedural practice.</i>
- 60
- 00:04:06,542 --> 00:04:11,083
- <i>Or, to the acronym-obsessed military,
- SNORPP.</i>
- 61
- 00:04:11,167 --> 00:04:12,542
- We got Italy in there.
- 62
- 00:04:12,625 --> 00:04:13,750
- That's the Dutch.
- 63
- 00:04:13,833 --> 00:04:16,792
- We got Poland, Macedonia, Ukraine.
- 64
- 00:04:16,875 --> 00:04:19,833
- We got Australia over there,
- Croatia, Belgium...
- 65
- 00:04:19,917 --> 00:04:23,625
- Okay, that'll do. Bite-size chunks, hmm?
- Let's knock this on the head.
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- 00:04:24,542 --> 00:04:25,417
- All right.
- 67
- 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:28,875
- <i>Basically, he was a master</i>
- <i>of systems organization.</i>
- 68
- 00:04:28,958 --> 00:04:31,333
- <i>Which he'd kind of need to be,</i>
- 69
- 00:04:31,417 --> 00:04:35,167
- <i>if he was to corral
- this 43-nation coalition of the willing.</i>
- 70
- 00:04:35,667 --> 00:04:38,027
- - May I help you?
- - No, finish your phone call.
- 71
- 00:04:38,083 --> 00:04:39,208
- The war can wait.
- 72
- 00:04:45,625 --> 00:04:47,875
- What can I do for you, General?
- 73
- 00:04:47,958 --> 00:04:50,375
- I want to pull everyone
- out of their offices.
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- 00:04:50,458 --> 00:04:52,625
- I want to open this place up.
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- 00:04:52,708 --> 00:04:54,500
- I came in here
- to speak with you about that.
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- 00:04:54,583 --> 00:04:58,542
- I have only ten men
- to lead here in Afghanistan, huh.
- 77
- 00:04:58,625 --> 00:05:02,375
- So it make no sense for me
- to be sit out there with everybody else.
- 78
- 00:05:02,458 --> 00:05:04,500
- I get it. All right?
- 79
- 00:05:04,583 --> 00:05:07,292
- But everybody has a reason
- not to be out there with everybody else.
- 80
- 00:05:07,375 --> 00:05:10,750
- Austria only has two guys here.
- Iceland has seven guys.
- 81
- 00:05:10,833 --> 00:05:14,000
- This country won't fight at night.
- That country won't fight in the snow.
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- 00:05:14,083 --> 00:05:16,333
- This country
- wants to do counter-narcotics.
- 83
- 00:05:16,417 --> 00:05:18,542
- That country won't do counter-narcotics.
- 84
- 00:05:18,625 --> 00:05:20,375
- But if we're in the same room...
- 85
- 00:05:20,458 --> 00:05:23,750
- <i>Cory Staggart</i>
- <i>was Glen's executive officer.</i>
- 86
- 00:05:23,833 --> 00:05:25,167
- <i>Ran the general's affairs.</i>
- 87
- 00:05:26,417 --> 00:05:28,083
- <i>He was a Ranger.</i>
- 88
- 00:05:28,167 --> 00:05:31,375
- <i>Although how he made it through
- Ranger school, I have no idea.</i>
- 89
- 00:05:32,083 --> 00:05:33,143
- That's great. Thank you, guys.
- 90
- 00:05:33,167 --> 00:05:34,967
- That's all the time we got.
- Let's go. Come on.
- 91
- 00:05:36,125 --> 00:05:37,125
- Greg Pulver.
- 92
- 00:05:37,208 --> 00:05:41,375
- <i>General Greg Pulver graduated West Point
- in the same class as Glen.</i>
- 93
- 00:05:41,458 --> 00:05:43,208
- Oh, that's interesting.
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- 00:05:44,125 --> 00:05:45,405
- Does he have security clearance?
- 95
- 00:05:45,458 --> 00:05:47,083
- <i>And hadn't left his side since.</i>
- 96
- 00:05:47,167 --> 00:05:48,208
- Then fucking let him in
- 97
- 00:05:48,292 --> 00:05:51,917
- just like you would any other fucking
- person with a fucking security clearance!
- 98
- 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,250
- <i>His official title</i>
- <i>was director of intelligence,</i>
- 99
- 00:05:55,333 --> 00:05:58,375
- <i>but all I saw was a guy
- with anger management issues</i>
- 100
- 00:05:58,458 --> 00:06:00,917
- <i>whose life had no meaning without Glen.</i>
- 101
- 00:06:02,958 --> 00:06:05,583
- <i>Andy Moon was Glen's tech whiz,</i>
- 102
- 00:06:05,667 --> 00:06:09,000
- <i>providing the general
- with all forms of IT support.</i>
- 103
- 00:06:09,083 --> 00:06:10,083
- Andy.
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- 00:06:10,167 --> 00:06:11,559
- - Yes, sir?
- <i>- Which Glen needed often.</i>
- 105
- 00:06:11,583 --> 00:06:13,393
- - How are you?
- - Pretty good, sir. How are you doing?
- 106
- 00:06:13,717 --> 00:06:15,167
- Swell. Can you come with me a moment?
- 107
- 00:06:15,250 --> 00:06:18,458
- - My electric razor is...
- - Oh, yes, sir.
- 108
- 00:06:18,542 --> 00:06:20,125
- Yeah, broken.
- 109
- 00:06:20,750 --> 00:06:22,875
- <i>Pete Duckman was a Navy SEAL.</i>
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- 00:06:22,958 --> 00:06:26,667
- <i>Like Pulver, his job title
- had the word "intelligence" in it.</i>
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- 00:06:26,750 --> 00:06:30,250
- - What's going on?
- - Boss is visiting with President Karzai.
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- 00:06:30,333 --> 00:06:32,125
- Cool. Why so fancy?
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- 00:06:32,208 --> 00:06:33,917
- He's a world leader.
- 114
- 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,917
- Cool. Am I coming?
- 115
- 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,500
- Yes, you are. It's your job.
- 116
- 00:06:38,583 --> 00:06:40,208
- God damn it, Pete. Why are you fat?
- 117
- 00:06:41,750 --> 00:06:44,000
- - I'm not fat.
- <i>- I still, to this day,</i>
- 118
- 00:06:44,083 --> 00:06:47,667
- <i>don't know exactly what it was
- that Duckman did for the general.</i>
- 119
- 00:06:47,750 --> 00:06:52,500
- It's a mixture
- of cross-pollinational collation...
- 120
- 00:06:52,583 --> 00:06:56,208
- <i>Admiral Simon Ball</i>
- <i>was Glen's public affairs officer.</i>
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- 00:06:56,292 --> 00:07:00,042
- - Cooperational, cooperative...
- <i>- For three and a half years,</i>
- 122
- 00:07:00,125 --> 00:07:03,167
- <i>he'd been trying to explain
- SNORPP to the Washington press gallery.</i>
- 123
- 00:07:03,250 --> 00:07:05,542
- ...with a centralized command
- 124
- 00:07:05,625 --> 00:07:09,917
- centralization structure,
- and... things like that.
- 125
- 00:07:10,833 --> 00:07:14,292
- <i>Matt Little
- was Glen's new civilian PR consultant.</i>
- 126
- 00:07:14,375 --> 00:07:16,583
- Oh, I don't know. Is this a good hand?
- 127
- 00:07:16,667 --> 00:07:19,833
- <i>- He was a DC marketing hotshot...</i>
- - Straight flush. Hello?
- 128
- 00:07:19,917 --> 00:07:21,833
- <i>And sometime lobbyist who had thought</i>
- 129
- 00:07:21,917 --> 00:07:24,958
- <i>the war in Afghanistan
- to be entirely pointless.</i>
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- 00:07:25,042 --> 00:07:27,500
- Are you fucking kidding me?
- I'm not going there.
- 131
- 00:07:27,583 --> 00:07:30,500
- <i>Until he was offered
- a lot of money to sell it.</i>
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- 00:07:30,583 --> 00:07:31,583
- How much?
- 133
- 00:07:31,667 --> 00:07:33,250
- <i>And Willy Dunne.</i>
- 134
- 00:07:33,333 --> 00:07:36,292
- - Right this way, boss. Yeah.
- <i>- Willy was Glen's body man.</i>
- 135
- 00:07:36,375 --> 00:07:39,667
- Put your things in here.
- I'll let you spread them out how you like.
- 136
- 00:07:39,750 --> 00:07:41,375
- Why is this my room?
- 137
- 00:07:41,458 --> 00:07:46,375
- This was General Whelan's room.
- It's got a great bathroom here.
- 138
- 00:07:46,458 --> 00:07:49,875
- <i>Willy laundered Glen's clothes.</i>
- <i>He did Glen's ironing.</i>
- 139
- 00:07:49,958 --> 00:07:51,500
- Yeah. Boss?
- 140
- 00:07:51,583 --> 00:07:53,792
- <i>He polished Glen's shoes.</i>
- 141
- 00:07:53,875 --> 00:07:56,042
- <i>He always seemed
- like he was about to collapse</i>
- 142
- 00:07:56,125 --> 00:07:58,958
- <i>from the weight
- of one too many of Glen's bags.</i>
- 143
- 00:07:59,042 --> 00:08:00,542
- - Willy!
- - Yes, boss?
- 144
- 00:08:00,625 --> 00:08:02,625
- - Put my stuff in this room.
- - Okay.
- 145
- 00:08:02,708 --> 00:08:05,458
- Here to fight a goddamn war,
- not watch goddamn television.
- 146
- 00:08:05,542 --> 00:08:08,625
- <i>Willy was the first person</i>
- <i>that Glen saw every morning</i>
- 147
- 00:08:08,708 --> 00:08:11,042
- <i>and the last person he saw every night.</i>
- 148
- 00:08:12,750 --> 00:08:14,208
- <i>Glen loved these men...</i>
- 149
- 00:08:15,333 --> 00:08:17,125
- <i>and they loved him right back.</i>
- 150
- 00:08:32,500 --> 00:08:34,375
- I don't know
- how it looks to you, Cory,
- 151
- 00:08:34,458 --> 00:08:37,958
- but it seems to me, everybody's forgotten
- we're fighting a war here.
- 152
- 00:08:38,042 --> 00:08:42,250
- We got the goddamn Pizza Kings
- and Burger Huts.
- 153
- 00:08:42,333 --> 00:08:44,458
- The entire base
- is rolling with Eurosexuals
- 154
- 00:08:44,542 --> 00:08:46,667
- who are so drunk they can't even stand up.
- 155
- 00:08:51,875 --> 00:08:54,375
- General McMahon here
- to see Ambassador MacKinnon.
- 156
- 00:09:09,125 --> 00:09:10,417
- - Glen.
- - Pat.
- 157
- 00:09:11,542 --> 00:09:14,833
- Great to see you.
- You know Dick Waddle, of course.
- 158
- 00:09:14,917 --> 00:09:16,292
- - Dick.
- - Glen.
- 159
- 00:09:16,792 --> 00:09:17,958
- Ray Canucci.
- 160
- 00:09:18,042 --> 00:09:19,417
- - Ray.
- - Glen.
- 161
- 00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:22,792
- Grab a seat, boys.
- 162
- 00:09:23,625 --> 00:09:26,417
- I'm calling myself Richard now,
- Pat, if you don't mind.
- 163
- 00:09:27,750 --> 00:09:29,075
- Okay, fine...
- 164
- 00:09:30,333 --> 00:09:31,694
- That's fair. My apologies.
- 165
- 00:09:33,083 --> 00:09:35,833
- - Have you settled in, Glen?
- - No, Pat, I haven't.
- 166
- 00:09:35,917 --> 00:09:38,417
- Seems to me that too much settling in
- 167
- 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:40,780
- might somehow be at the heart
- of the problem we have here.
- 168
- 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:43,167
- Small talk.
- 169
- 00:09:43,250 --> 00:09:45,292
- Should've gone with the weather.
- 170
- 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,125
- Glen, the president wants you
- to get the lay of the land here.
- 171
- 00:09:56,208 --> 00:09:58,500
- This war's been running eight years now.
- 172
- 00:09:58,583 --> 00:10:01,500
- President Obama, as you know,
- is drawing down troops in Iraq
- 173
- 00:10:01,583 --> 00:10:04,417
- to refocus our attention on Afghanistan.
- 174
- 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:06,958
- Henry Whelan was a good man,
- he meant well,
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- 00:10:07,042 --> 00:10:09,292
- but he just wasn't getting the job done.
- 176
- 00:10:09,375 --> 00:10:13,708
- Now, given your reputation
- and your formidable drive,
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- 00:10:13,792 --> 00:10:17,500
- our hope is that you're the man
- who will get the job done.
- 178
- 00:10:18,042 --> 00:10:21,583
- First things first. We want you to make
- an assessment of the situation here.
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- 00:10:21,667 --> 00:10:23,875
- Travel the country, talk to people.
- 180
- 00:10:23,958 --> 00:10:27,958
- At the end of that assessment,
- you'll tell us what needs to be done,
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- 00:10:28,042 --> 00:10:31,875
- how you're gonna get it done
- and what you need in order to get it done.
- 182
- 00:10:32,792 --> 00:10:34,417
- - So, now...
- - To that end...
- 183
- 00:10:35,333 --> 00:10:36,625
- - I'm sorry.
- - Oh, you go.
- 184
- 00:10:36,708 --> 00:10:38,417
- - I thought you were finished.
- - You go.
- 185
- 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:39,500
- - You sure?
- - You go.
- 186
- 00:10:39,583 --> 00:10:41,042
- - I thought you were finished.
- - No.
- 187
- 00:10:43,458 --> 00:10:45,042
- To that end...
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- 00:10:45,425 --> 00:10:48,875
- now is probably
- a good time to share with you
- 189
- 00:10:48,958 --> 00:10:52,708
- where the president hopes
- that assessment might land.
- 190
- 00:10:52,792 --> 00:10:55,958
- Obviously, the endgame here
- is to just finish this thing.
- 191
- 00:10:56,042 --> 00:10:58,333
- So, how do we do that?
- 192
- 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:02,958
- - Is it by reducing our footprint here?
- <i>- The civilian executive.</i>
- 193
- 00:11:03,667 --> 00:11:08,083
- <i>These were guys who, in Glen's eyes,
- hadn't earned their power the way he had,</i>
- 194
- 00:11:08,167 --> 00:11:10,542
- <i>through hard work and discipline.</i>
- 195
- 00:11:10,625 --> 00:11:15,958
- I don't know. But whatever it is,
- we want you to bring it on home, Glen.
- 196
- 00:11:16,042 --> 00:11:18,167
- But, whatever you do,
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- 00:11:18,250 --> 00:11:22,208
- please do not ask the president
- for more troops.
- 198
- 00:11:23,583 --> 00:11:25,167
- No more troops, Glen.
- 199
- 00:11:25,958 --> 00:11:30,250
- <i>These were men who'd acquired</i>
- <i>their power through charm and seduction,</i>
- 200
- 00:11:30,333 --> 00:11:35,083
- <i>and who seemed to serve no purpose other
- than to stand in the way of his greatness.</i>
- 201
- 00:11:35,167 --> 00:11:36,708
- God, it's so fucking hot!
- 202
- 00:11:36,792 --> 00:11:38,833
- Fuck!
- 203
- 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:41,500
- Another fucking assessment.
- 204
- 00:11:41,583 --> 00:11:46,000
- How many assessments do they need?
- Just one fucking assessment after another.
- 205
- 00:11:46,792 --> 00:11:48,417
- They all point the same direction.
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- Bring General Glen McMahon in here
- and do whatever the fuck he says!
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- 00:11:52,708 --> 00:11:56,125
- Settle down, Greg.
- They just wanna feel involved, is all.
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- 00:11:57,250 --> 00:12:01,042
- <i>Wars aren't fought</i>
- <i>by nations or by armies.</i>
- 209
- 00:12:01,125 --> 00:12:03,042
- <i>Wars are fought by men.</i>
- 210
- 00:12:04,292 --> 00:12:08,042
- <i>There are two types of general
- in the American military.</i>
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- 00:12:08,125 --> 00:12:09,917
- <i>There are those who believe they can win</i>
- 212
- 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,583
- <i>in the face of all evidence
- to the contrary.</i>
- 213
- 00:12:12,667 --> 00:12:15,292
- <i>And there are those who know they can't.</i>
- 214
- 00:12:15,375 --> 00:12:17,000
- <i>Unfortunately for the world,</i>
- 215
- 00:12:17,083 --> 00:12:20,458
- <i>it's the believers
- who climb to the top of the ladder.</i>
- 216
- 00:12:20,542 --> 00:12:24,542
- <i>It's guys like Glen
- who get given the keys to the castle.</i>
- 217
- 00:12:24,625 --> 00:12:27,625
- President Karzai is very much
- looking forward to meeting you.
- 218
- 00:12:27,708 --> 00:12:31,500
- I think you will like each other.
- There is no need to be nervous.
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- 00:12:35,458 --> 00:12:36,792
- I'm not nervous.
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- 00:12:53,708 --> 00:12:54,708
- Fuck!
- 221
- 00:12:55,750 --> 00:12:56,750
- Fuck it.
- 222
- 00:12:57,875 --> 00:13:00,875
- Ah! General, excuse me.
- 223
- 00:13:00,958 --> 00:13:03,625
- We are trying
- to make this Blu-ray player work.
- 224
- 00:13:03,998 --> 00:13:06,033
- Do you know how they function?
- 225
- 00:13:06,917 --> 00:13:11,542
- Normally, you have those wires with
- the red, the yellow and the white plug.
- 226
- 00:13:11,625 --> 00:13:14,083
- But this machine seems
- only to have this wire.
- 227
- 00:13:14,958 --> 00:13:18,417
- I can't find where to plug it
- into the television.
- 228
- 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:20,042
- I'm sorry, Mr. President.
- 229
- 00:13:20,125 --> 00:13:22,667
- I'm afraid I don't know
- a whole lot about technology.
- 230
- 00:13:23,333 --> 00:13:26,667
- I'm sure I could have somebody come by
- and take a look at it for you.
- 231
- 00:13:26,750 --> 00:13:28,167
- Fuck it. Never mind.
- 232
- 00:13:29,167 --> 00:13:30,833
- I think I need a new television.
- 233
- 00:13:32,292 --> 00:13:33,875
- I'm sorry, General.
- 234
- 00:13:35,792 --> 00:13:36,875
- Please, let's sit.
- 235
- 00:13:52,667 --> 00:13:53,667
- Welcome.
- 236
- 00:13:55,042 --> 00:13:57,750
- - Thank you, Mr. President.
- - Please call me Hamid.
- 237
- 00:13:57,833 --> 00:13:59,833
- Excuse me.
- 238
- 00:14:00,750 --> 00:14:01,750
- Please.
- 239
- 00:14:05,042 --> 00:14:09,000
- Your predecessor, General Whelan,
- I liked him.
- 240
- 00:14:09,917 --> 00:14:12,125
- I'm not entirely certain he liked me.
- 241
- 00:14:13,167 --> 00:14:14,792
- He didn't visit very often.
- 242
- 00:14:15,417 --> 00:14:16,708
- Why was he dismissed?
- 243
- 00:14:17,542 --> 00:14:21,125
- It seems one minute he was here...
- 244
- 00:14:22,208 --> 00:14:24,125
- the next minute, not here.
- 245
- 00:14:24,908 --> 00:14:26,875
- Well, Mr. President,
- 246
- 00:14:26,958 --> 00:14:29,833
- I think our government
- simply felt it was...
- 247
- 00:14:29,917 --> 00:14:32,875
- time our effort took a new direction.
- 248
- 00:14:33,667 --> 00:14:36,600
- And what is this new direction?
- 249
- 00:14:37,625 --> 00:14:41,792
- It is most important to me
- that we build Afghanistan.
- 250
- 00:14:41,875 --> 00:14:46,750
- Together, we build Afghanistan
- into a free and prosperous nation.
- 251
- 00:14:47,333 --> 00:14:49,333
- Free from fear and conflict.
- 252
- 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,250
- - I see. I see.
- - Yeah.
- 253
- 00:14:52,333 --> 00:14:54,458
- Sounds a lot like the old direction.
- 254
- 00:14:57,625 --> 00:14:58,458
- No.
- 255
- 00:14:58,542 --> 00:15:02,125
- But perhaps you yourself
- are the new direction.
- 256
- 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,875
- New strong personality.
- 257
- 00:15:04,958 --> 00:15:08,250
- New energy. New commitment.
- 258
- 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:13,750
- Well, General,
- I wish you the best of luck.
- 259
- 00:15:13,833 --> 00:15:19,375
- Sir, my team and I are about
- to embark on a...
- 260
- 00:15:19,458 --> 00:15:20,625
- a tour of the country
- 261
- 00:15:20,708 --> 00:15:22,601
- so that we may make an assessment...
- 262
- 00:15:22,625 --> 00:15:26,375
- to precisely understand
- what is required of us here.
- 263
- 00:15:26,458 --> 00:15:30,542
- It would be an honor if you would
- consider joining me on the tour,
- 264
- 00:15:30,625 --> 00:15:34,958
- so that our project
- might be a unified endeavor.
- 265
- 00:15:36,208 --> 00:15:38,125
- A sharing of our purpose...
- 266
- 00:15:47,333 --> 00:15:49,167
- Of our shared purpose.
- 267
- 00:15:53,708 --> 00:15:55,583
- Thank you for the invitation, General.
- 268
- 00:15:56,917 --> 00:15:59,150
- It's very generous.
- 269
- 00:15:59,333 --> 00:16:01,458
- But...
- 270
- 00:16:03,750 --> 00:16:05,292
- I've seen the country.
- 271
- 00:16:27,417 --> 00:16:30,958
- <i>To get inside</i>
- <i>the mind of Glen McMahon,</i>
- 272
- 00:16:31,042 --> 00:16:36,042
- <i>you really need first to get a handle
- on the madness of modern American war.</i>
- 273
- 00:16:36,125 --> 00:16:38,583
- Lieutenant Colonel Frank Groom.
- Welcome to Kandahar, sir.
- 274
- 00:16:38,667 --> 00:16:41,875
- Nice to meet you, Frank.
- I'm here to get the lay of the land.
- 275
- 00:16:44,042 --> 00:16:45,750
- <i>Counterinsurgency.</i>
- 276
- 00:16:45,833 --> 00:16:47,625
- <i>In the good old days,</i>
- <i>wars were fought</i>
- 277
- 00:16:47,708 --> 00:16:50,542
- <i>against conventional armies
- from nation states.</i>
- 278
- 00:16:50,625 --> 00:16:53,875
- <i>Guys in uniforms, like Nazis and stuff.</i>
- 279
- 00:16:54,750 --> 00:16:57,583
- <i>When, however, you've just gone
- and invaded a place</i>
- 280
- 00:16:57,667 --> 00:16:58,976
- <i>that you probably shouldn't have,</i>
- 281
- 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,292
- <i>you end up fighting against just
- regular people in regular-people clothes.</i>
- 282
- 00:17:04,708 --> 00:17:08,000
- <i>These guys are what are called insurgents.</i>
- 283
- 00:17:08,083 --> 00:17:10,500
- <i>Basically, they're just guys
- who picked up weapons 'cause...</i>
- 284
- 00:17:10,583 --> 00:17:13,500
- <i>so would you,
- if someone invaded your country.</i>
- 285
- 00:17:13,583 --> 00:17:15,417
- <i>Funnily enough...</i>
- 286
- 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:18,333
- <i>insurgencies are next to impossible
- to defeat.</i>
- 287
- 00:17:19,125 --> 00:17:22,000
- <i>And so, if you wanna go on
- pretending you can win,</i>
- 288
- 00:17:22,083 --> 00:17:23,875
- <i>you're really left with no option</i>
- 289
- 00:17:23,958 --> 00:17:26,167
- <i>but to try to convince
- the country you've invaded</i>
- 290
- 00:17:26,250 --> 00:17:28,333
- <i>that you're actually here to help.</i>
- 291
- 00:17:30,833 --> 00:17:33,667
- He's saying the Americans
- are urinating in the streets,
- 292
- 00:17:33,750 --> 00:17:36,750
- and they call us motherfuckers
- all day.
- 293
- 00:17:36,833 --> 00:17:40,333
- It's motherfucker motherfucker
- all the time.
- 294
- 00:17:40,417 --> 00:17:44,500
- And it's considered in our culture
- a very bad thing to fuck your own mother.
- 295
- 00:17:44,583 --> 00:17:48,083
- In ours, too... in ours, too.
- 296
- 00:17:48,167 --> 00:17:52,875
- <i>This is counterinsurgency.</i>
- <i>It's a popularity contest.</i>
- 297
- 00:17:52,958 --> 00:17:54,042
- Salaam alaikum.
- 298
- 00:17:54,125 --> 00:17:55,601
- <i>You're trying</i>
- <i>to convince the people</i>
- 299
- 00:17:55,625 --> 00:17:58,833
- <i>that they're better off with you
- than they are with the insurgents.</i>
- 300
- 00:17:58,917 --> 00:18:02,833
- <i>Basically, it works like this.
- You install a local government.</i>
- 301
- 00:18:04,167 --> 00:18:07,958
- <i>You provide security for the people
- so that that democracy can take root.</i>
- 302
- 00:18:08,042 --> 00:18:10,226
- We're training them up,
- taking them out on maneuvers.
- 303
- 00:18:10,250 --> 00:18:11,684
- <i>You train up the local forces</i>
- 304
- 00:18:11,708 --> 00:18:14,000
- <i>so that they can provide
- the security for themselves.</i>
- 305
- 00:18:14,083 --> 00:18:16,250
- I mean, they're sweet kids.
- They're good kids.
- 306
- 00:18:16,333 --> 00:18:19,208
- Good-natured. Integrational.
- 307
- 00:18:19,292 --> 00:18:21,792
- You know, they are very integrational
- as a people.
- 308
- 00:18:22,500 --> 00:18:26,125
- You know, I mean,
- they are committed to...
- 309
- 00:18:28,667 --> 00:18:31,458
- - But...
- <i>- Or at least you try to.</i>
- 310
- 00:18:32,583 --> 00:18:34,542
- I don't know, sir, they're also lazy.
- 311
- 00:18:34,625 --> 00:18:37,667
- I mean, they really seem
- like they don't wanna be here.
- 312
- 00:18:37,750 --> 00:18:40,708
- They steal our shit and basically,
- they're on drugs all the time.
- 313
- 00:18:40,792 --> 00:18:43,458
- I mean,
- they are fucking high all the time.
- 314
- 00:18:44,333 --> 00:18:46,542
- Excuse my language, sir.
- 315
- 00:18:46,625 --> 00:18:49,458
- <i>You do whatever you can
- to stimulate the local economy.</i>
- 316
- 00:18:49,542 --> 00:18:51,750
- Heroin is the only thing
- bringing money in.
- 317
- 00:18:51,833 --> 00:18:54,184
- Not that I like to think where
- the money is going to exactly,
- 318
- 00:18:54,208 --> 00:18:56,917
- but money keeps the people happy,
- so we're rolling with that.
- 319
- 00:18:57,917 --> 00:18:59,833
- Can't they grow something else?
- 320
- 00:19:00,597 --> 00:19:03,208
- Yeah, they could grow cotton.
- Cotton would grow here.
- 321
- 00:19:03,292 --> 00:19:06,059
- - Why don't they grow cotton then?
- - Because the United States Congress
- 322
- 00:19:06,083 --> 00:19:08,500
- will not allow any United States aid
- and development funds
- 323
- 00:19:08,583 --> 00:19:11,000
- to be directed
- towards the cultivation of a crop
- 324
- 00:19:11,083 --> 00:19:14,375
- that will end up on the world market
- in competition with US farmers.
- 325
- 00:19:15,375 --> 00:19:18,500
- - Which pretty much rules out cotton.
- - Sure.
- 326
- 00:19:19,083 --> 00:19:21,500
- - So we're growing heroin instead.
- - Right.
- 327
- 00:19:21,583 --> 00:19:23,625
- I think we're doing
- a pretty good job here, sir.
- 328
- 00:19:23,708 --> 00:19:28,167
- <i>You build infrastructure.</i>
- <i>Roads, schools, stuff like that.</i>
- 329
- 00:19:28,250 --> 00:19:31,375
- What kind of presence
- does the Taliban have here?
- 330
- 00:19:31,458 --> 00:19:33,708
- - Who?
- - The Taliban.
- 331
- 00:19:33,792 --> 00:19:37,208
- <i>In short, you get off your bases
- and you go make friends with the people.</i>
- 332
- 00:19:38,375 --> 00:19:41,333
- <i>Killing insurgents all the while,
- of course.</i>
- 333
- 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:45,375
- <i>Nation building. Hearts and minds.</i>
- 334
- 00:19:45,458 --> 00:19:47,333
- Hello! Hello, all.
- 335
- 00:19:47,417 --> 00:19:49,292
- Let me break it down
- this way, General.
- 336
- 00:19:49,375 --> 00:19:52,208
- We've been in Helmand province
- for five years now,
- 337
- 00:19:52,292 --> 00:19:56,917
- and in all that time, all we've
- really managed to secure is this base.
- 338
- 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,625
- Now, you go out there, you go into Marjah,
- 339
- 00:19:59,708 --> 00:20:03,000
- you go into Lashkar Gah,
- it's all Pashtun, as you know.
- 340
- 00:20:03,625 --> 00:20:06,000
- This is the Taliban.
- 341
- 00:20:06,083 --> 00:20:09,417
- We're not winning any hearts
- and minds there, I can tell you that.
- 342
- 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:14,083
- I'm not sure we ever will.
- Kandahar's the same, of course.
- 343
- 00:20:15,708 --> 00:20:18,458
- Can I be completely frank with you, sir?
- 344
- 00:20:18,542 --> 00:20:21,667
- If I was you, I'd cut Helmand loose.
- 345
- 00:20:22,792 --> 00:20:25,375
- I'd concentrate
- on those parts of the country
- 346
- 00:20:25,458 --> 00:20:28,958
- that are at least, in some way,
- sympathetic to the mission,
- 347
- 00:20:29,042 --> 00:20:31,125
- and I'd cut it loose.
- 348
- 00:20:31,208 --> 00:20:33,292
- It's a lost cause.
- 349
- 00:20:33,375 --> 00:20:37,500
- This whole province constitutes
- just 4% of the population of the country.
- 350
- 00:20:37,583 --> 00:20:40,542
- It's strategically meaningless.
- 351
- 00:20:40,625 --> 00:20:43,833
- I'd cut Helmand loose, sir.
- 352
- 00:20:51,875 --> 00:20:55,792
- <i>The thing about counterinsurgency</i>
- <i>is that it doesn't really work.</i>
- 353
- 00:20:56,583 --> 00:20:59,875
- <i>We tried it in Vietnam. That went well.</i>
- 354
- 00:21:01,125 --> 00:21:02,875
- <i>The British and the French gave it a shot,</i>
- 355
- 00:21:02,958 --> 00:21:05,625
- <i>trying to hang on
- to their crumbling empires.</i>
- 356
- 00:21:05,708 --> 00:21:07,333
- <i>It just hasn't worked.</i>
- 357
- 00:21:08,708 --> 00:21:11,583
- <i>To me, it would seem kind of simple why.</i>
- 358
- 00:21:11,667 --> 00:21:14,583
- <i>You can't win the trust of a country
- by invading it.</i>
- 359
- 00:21:15,417 --> 00:21:17,792
- <i>You can't build a nation at gunpoint.</i>
- 360
- 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,958
- <i>For guys like Glen however,</i>
- 361
- 00:21:23,042 --> 00:21:26,125
- <i>counterinsurgency hasn't worked
- for one simple reason.</i>
- 362
- 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,833
- You ready, boss?
- 363
- 00:21:28,917 --> 00:21:30,625
- <i>Nobody's ever done it right.</i>
- 364
- 00:21:31,417 --> 00:21:35,042
- Yes, I am, Pete. I sure as hell am.
- 365
- 00:21:45,583 --> 00:21:47,333
- - Andy?
- - Yes, sir.
- 366
- 00:21:48,083 --> 00:21:50,375
- - Good job.
- - Thank you.
- 367
- 00:21:50,458 --> 00:21:51,708
- Let's lose Fox News.
- 368
- 00:21:51,792 --> 00:21:55,042
- Won't do us any good to have a bunch
- of angry perverts yelling at us all day.
- 369
- 00:21:55,125 --> 00:21:56,708
- - Yes, sir.
- - So...
- 370
- 00:21:56,792 --> 00:21:59,667
- we probably need
- to get to work on this assessment.
- 371
- 00:21:59,750 --> 00:22:01,958
- - Already written it.
- - When?
- 372
- 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:04,292
- It's already written. Did it last night.
- 373
- 00:22:04,375 --> 00:22:08,417
- Needs a little flesh on the bone,
- but basically it's written.
- 374
- 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:10,042
- All right, what's it say?
- 375
- 00:22:12,375 --> 00:22:13,542
- Greg...
- 376
- 00:22:14,958 --> 00:22:17,500
- I wanna take Helmand province.
- 377
- 00:22:19,750 --> 00:22:21,667
- I wanna take Helmand province
- 378
- 00:22:21,750 --> 00:22:25,000
- precisely because everyone else
- seems to think we can't have it.
- 379
- 00:22:25,083 --> 00:22:26,393
- If we're gonna win
- the trust of this country,
- 380
- 00:22:26,417 --> 00:22:30,417
- we can't be seen to accept that there's
- a whole chunk of it we can't handle.
- 381
- 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:32,000
- We're here to provide security.
- 382
- 00:22:33,375 --> 00:22:36,625
- I say the first order of business
- is we secure that corner of the country
- 383
- 00:22:36,708 --> 00:22:38,875
- everyone else seems to think
- we can't control.
- 384
- 00:22:39,458 --> 00:22:40,875
- Okay.
- 385
- 00:22:40,958 --> 00:22:42,500
- I didn't come here to manage this war,
- 386
- 00:22:42,583 --> 00:22:44,917
- and I sure as shit didn't come here
- to close it out.
- 387
- 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:46,708
- Came here to win.
- 388
- 00:22:48,583 --> 00:22:52,125
- I'm taking Helmand
- then I'm taking Kandahar.
- 389
- 00:22:53,167 --> 00:22:54,708
- What do you say to that?
- 390
- 00:22:59,667 --> 00:23:01,708
- All right, and another thing.
- 391
- 00:23:03,083 --> 00:23:06,125
- Being that this is
- a nation-building exercise and all,
- 392
- 00:23:06,625 --> 00:23:09,417
- seems to me it'd behoove us
- to have someone in the room
- 393
- 00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:12,917
- who's actually from the nation
- we're building. Don't you think?
- 394
- 00:23:15,667 --> 00:23:16,875
- Copy.
- 395
- 00:23:16,958 --> 00:23:20,833
- We are here to build, to protect.
- 396
- 00:23:21,583 --> 00:23:25,917
- We are not here to harass, to intimidate.
- 397
- 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,958
- We're not here to shoot first
- and ask questions later.
- 398
- 00:23:29,917 --> 00:23:33,875
- We must not be driven
- by fear and suspicion.
- 399
- 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,833
- We are here above all else...
- 400
- 00:23:41,833 --> 00:23:44,417
- to support the civilian population.
- 401
- 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:48,708
- And to that end,
- we must avoid killing it at all cost.
- 402
- 00:23:49,875 --> 00:23:54,083
- Civilian casualties cannot be seen
- as an unfortunate byproduct of conflict.
- 403
- 00:23:54,167 --> 00:23:57,833
- They must be treated as errors
- of the greatest consequence.
- 404
- 00:24:00,458 --> 00:24:02,667
- This is the war we are fighting.
- 405
- 00:24:04,083 --> 00:24:07,667
- It's a complex war,
- but it's a war nonetheless.
- 406
- 00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:09,875
- Let me reaffirmate that
- right from the get-go.
- 407
- 00:24:09,958 --> 00:24:12,042
- This is a war.
- 408
- 00:24:14,167 --> 00:24:16,500
- But it's a war that cannot be won
- 409
- 00:24:16,583 --> 00:24:20,458
- by the virtues of our unassailable
- military might and power alone.
- 410
- 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:25,250
- This war will be won primarily
- 411
- 00:24:25,333 --> 00:24:29,458
- with the unassailable might
- and power of our ideals.
- 412
- 00:24:32,875 --> 00:24:34,000
- Yeah.
- 413
- 00:24:37,792 --> 00:24:38,792
- Yeah.
- 414
- 00:24:40,917 --> 00:24:43,375
- - Forty thousand?
- - I'm afraid so.
- 415
- 00:24:43,458 --> 00:24:45,268
- God damn it. What did we tell you?
- No more troops.
- 416
- 00:24:45,292 --> 00:24:47,000
- Don't ask for more troops. What do you do?
- 417
- 00:24:47,083 --> 00:24:49,333
- You ask for 40,000 more troops.
- 418
- 00:24:49,417 --> 00:24:52,417
- Well, Dick, Helmand province
- ain't exactly about to secure itself.
- 419
- 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:54,458
- Probably should've asked for a lot more.
- 420
- 00:24:54,542 --> 00:24:56,226
- I just thought 40,000 sounded
- like a reasonable number.
- 421
- 00:24:56,250 --> 00:24:58,917
- There's no reasonable number, Glen,
- except perhaps zero.
- 422
- 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,667
- That's a reasonable number. Zero.
- I thought you understood that.
- 423
- 00:25:02,750 --> 00:25:04,375
- Yeah, this "no more troops" thing,
- 424
- 00:25:04,458 --> 00:25:06,518
- is that coming from the president,
- or coming from you?
- 425
- 00:25:06,542 --> 00:25:09,083
- Of course it's coming from the president.
- 426
- 00:25:09,167 --> 00:25:10,351
- Why would it be coming from me?
- 427
- 00:25:10,375 --> 00:25:13,417
- Why do I care if we send more troops
- over there or we don't?
- 428
- 00:25:13,500 --> 00:25:16,500
- I don't know, Dick.
- I'm just trying to work this thing out.
- 429
- 00:25:16,583 --> 00:25:18,125
- The president gave me a job to do.
- 430
- 00:25:18,208 --> 00:25:20,542
- - This is what I need to get it done.
- - God damn it.
- 431
- 00:25:20,625 --> 00:25:23,250
- I'll be there day after tomorrow
- with the secretary of state.
- 432
- 00:25:23,333 --> 00:25:25,583
- We'll figure this nonsense out then.
- 433
- 00:25:25,667 --> 00:25:27,833
- - Roger that.
- - God damn it.
- 434
- 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,083
- God damn it.
- 435
- 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:39,500
- There it is.
- 436
- 00:25:39,583 --> 00:25:42,542
- What did I tell you?
- He's on retired-general time.
- 437
- 00:25:42,625 --> 00:25:45,458
- His mind's on a golf cart somewhere,
- halfway down the fairway.
- 438
- 00:25:45,542 --> 00:25:48,375
- He doesn't have the constitution
- for the hard stuff anymore.
- 439
- 00:25:48,458 --> 00:25:50,417
- He's obviously in the wrong fucking job!
- 440
- 00:25:51,708 --> 00:25:53,375
- That thing's off, right?
- 441
- 00:25:53,458 --> 00:25:55,583
- I'm sorry to have to tell
- you this, General,
- 442
- 00:25:55,667 --> 00:25:59,583
- but we're gonna sit on your report
- until after the Afghan elections.
- 443
- 00:26:00,250 --> 00:26:05,333
- With all due respect, Madam Secretary,
- the election is a month away.
- 444
- 00:26:05,417 --> 00:26:09,417
- I know it is but as I'm sure you know,
- an election here is a fragile thing.
- 445
- 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:11,625
- It's a very delicate thing,
- 446
- 00:26:11,708 --> 00:26:16,417
- and nobody wants its smooth running to be
- muddied by a big new American offensive.
- 447
- 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:18,375
- No, I told you no more troops, Glen.
- 448
- 00:26:18,458 --> 00:26:20,226
- Now we're gonna have to
- rethink the game plan.
- 449
- 00:26:20,250 --> 00:26:22,167
- Well, Dick, with all due respect,
- 450
- 00:26:22,250 --> 00:26:25,667
- you told me you didn't care
- if I got more troops or I didn't,
- 451
- 00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,083
- so I'm trying to work out
- how to get the job done.
- 452
- 00:26:28,167 --> 00:26:29,875
- No, I did not say I didn't care.
- 453
- 00:26:29,958 --> 00:26:31,750
- - I believe you did.
- - I did not say that.
- 454
- 00:26:31,833 --> 00:26:33,518
- - I believe you did.
- - No. No, I didn't. I...
- 455
- 00:26:33,542 --> 00:26:37,167
- - You did, Dick.
- - Whoever said what,
- 456
- 00:26:37,250 --> 00:26:40,708
- a troop surge and an election
- don't sit well together,
- 457
- 00:26:40,792 --> 00:26:43,208
- so this is the way it's gotta be.
- I'm sorry.
- 458
- 00:26:43,292 --> 00:26:45,434
- I don't know what I'm supposed
- to be doing in the meantime.
- 459
- 00:26:45,458 --> 00:26:48,833
- I have a strategy. I'm ready to execute.
- 460
- 00:26:48,917 --> 00:26:51,708
- The suggestion now
- seems to be that I thumb twiddle.
- 461
- 00:26:52,995 --> 00:26:54,500
- With all due respect,
- Madam Secretary...
- 462
- 00:26:54,583 --> 00:26:56,833
- General, please spare me
- the "all due respect" stuff.
- 463
- 00:26:56,917 --> 00:26:58,833
- It's really giving me the fucking creeps.
- 464
- 00:27:00,333 --> 00:27:03,875
- I think, I think we all understand
- your frustration, Glen,
- 465
- 00:27:03,958 --> 00:27:06,833
- but these elections have to run smoothly.
- 466
- 00:27:06,917 --> 00:27:10,458
- We need a legitimate partner
- in power here.
- 467
- 00:27:10,542 --> 00:27:13,250
- You need a legitimate partner here.
- 468
- 00:27:13,333 --> 00:27:16,083
- So we just have to sit tight.
- 469
- 00:27:16,167 --> 00:27:18,750
- Why don't you do that SNORPP thing
- you did in Iraq?
- 470
- 00:27:18,833 --> 00:27:22,667
- You know, get your systems in place,
- get everybody talking together.
- 471
- 00:27:22,750 --> 00:27:26,250
- The time will fly, you know?
- Get everybody excited.
- 472
- 00:27:26,333 --> 00:27:29,500
- You know, you're the best
- in the business at this stuff.
- 473
- 00:27:31,042 --> 00:27:33,434
- <i>We've been operating</i>
- <i>at an extremely high optempo.</i>
- 474
- 00:27:33,458 --> 00:27:36,667
- <i>In the last week,
- we've conducted six air assaults</i>
- 475
- 00:27:36,750 --> 00:27:39,167
- <i>into previously denied territories.</i>
- 476
- 00:27:39,250 --> 00:27:42,042
- <i>We're also</i>
- <i>in final coordination with RC South</i>
- 477
- 00:27:42,125 --> 00:27:45,792
- <i>to develop an ops box</i>
- 478
- 00:27:45,875 --> 00:27:49,792
- <i>in the seams
- existing along the provincial border.</i>
- 479
- 00:28:03,708 --> 00:28:05,792
- You got that Lexus?
- 480
- 00:28:05,875 --> 00:28:09,167
- No. No, now we got a Prius.
- She got the new Prius.
- 481
- 00:28:09,250 --> 00:28:10,250
- Sweet.
- 482
- 00:28:10,333 --> 00:28:11,684
- Yeah, my wife, too. She's got one.
- 483
- 00:28:11,708 --> 00:28:13,417
- We both have one. We love it.
- 484
- 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:15,250
- My first car was a Taurus.
- 485
- 00:28:15,333 --> 00:28:17,573
- My father bought it.
- 486
- 00:28:22,125 --> 00:28:23,375
- What do you got?
- 487
- 00:28:24,792 --> 00:28:25,792
- Sir.
- 488
- 00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:28,417
- Where you boys headed?
- 489
- 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:30,417
- Back to our patrol base, sir. Sasquatch.
- 490
- 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,333
- Where you coming from?
- 491
- 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,976
- Where are we from in the States,
- or where have we just been?
- 492
- 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,500
- Where have you just been?
- 493
- 00:28:36,583 --> 00:28:38,750
- Italy, sir, on R&R.
- 494
- 00:28:39,917 --> 00:28:41,583
- R&R in Italy.
- 495
- 00:28:41,667 --> 00:28:42,792
- - Yes, sir.
- - Well...
- 496
- 00:28:44,083 --> 00:28:45,417
- Attention on deck!
- 497
- 00:29:03,458 --> 00:29:06,000
- So why the long faces?
- You just got back from Italy.
- 498
- 00:29:08,292 --> 00:29:11,333
- I'm guessing you ate
- some sensational food,
- 499
- 00:29:11,417 --> 00:29:13,917
- saw some antiquities?
- 500
- 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,875
- I bet you got yourselves good and drunk
- and bumped into beautiful girls.
- 501
- 00:29:25,417 --> 00:29:26,917
- So what's it like out there?
- 502
- 00:29:27,917 --> 00:29:28,917
- Out where, sir?
- 503
- 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,458
- - Sasquatch, son.
- - Oh...
- 504
- 00:29:31,542 --> 00:29:33,958
- it's not good, sir.
- You know, I mean, it's whatever.
- 505
- 00:29:34,042 --> 00:29:37,542
- - It's... it's okay.
- - No, it's a fucking shithole, sir.
- 506
- 00:29:51,125 --> 00:29:52,934
- No, I don't know.
- We'll see where we land.
- 507
- 00:29:52,958 --> 00:29:54,375
- Cory, what time's that bird due?
- 508
- 00:29:54,458 --> 00:29:56,750
- - In about 20 minutes.
- - Cancel it.
- 509
- 00:29:56,833 --> 00:29:58,625
- Uh, why's that, boss?
- 510
- 00:29:58,708 --> 00:30:00,750
- I'm going to Sasquatch
- with those boys there.
- 511
- 00:30:00,833 --> 00:30:04,042
- General, those boys are heading out
- to an inhospitable corner of the world.
- 512
- 00:30:04,125 --> 00:30:05,833
- I'm a goddamn Ranger, Frank.
- 513
- 00:30:06,833 --> 00:30:08,833
- Those boys, they need me.
- 514
- 00:30:55,167 --> 00:30:57,375
- I've spent the last week or so
- 515
- 00:30:58,125 --> 00:31:02,167
- talking to guys
- who I would call middle management.
- 516
- 00:31:02,250 --> 00:31:04,875
- But you boys are at the coal face.
- 517
- 00:31:04,958 --> 00:31:07,375
- After all the blah, blah, blah,
- 518
- 00:31:07,958 --> 00:31:10,667
- you boys are where it actually happens.
- 519
- 00:31:11,250 --> 00:31:15,708
- I'd go so far as to say
- you boys are the only thing that counts.
- 520
- 00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:19,125
- If it doesn't happen here,
- it doesn't happen. End of story.
- 521
- 00:31:20,417 --> 00:31:23,208
- - Yes, son?
- - If what doesn't happen, sir?
- 522
- 00:31:25,042 --> 00:31:26,167
- It, son.
- 523
- 00:31:27,375 --> 00:31:28,792
- Okay, thank you, sir.
- 524
- 00:31:31,625 --> 00:31:33,917
- Does anyone here know what "it" is?
- 525
- 00:31:35,375 --> 00:31:36,375
- Anyone?
- 526
- 00:31:37,875 --> 00:31:38,917
- Anyone?
- 527
- 00:31:41,083 --> 00:31:42,833
- To secure the area, sir.
- 528
- 00:31:43,917 --> 00:31:48,417
- To protect the people from the enemy
- so they can go about building their lives.
- 529
- 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,542
- Okay. Okay, thank you, Sergeant.
- 530
- 00:31:51,625 --> 00:31:55,583
- Okay, but I can't tell the difference
- between the people and the enemy.
- 531
- 00:31:55,667 --> 00:31:57,042
- They all look alike to me.
- 532
- 00:31:57,125 --> 00:31:59,542
- I'm pretty sure
- they're the same people, sir.
- 533
- 00:32:00,250 --> 00:32:03,917
- I understand it can be tough, son,
- but that's the job.
- 534
- 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,583
- I have another question.
- 535
- 00:32:05,999 --> 00:32:11,042
- I hear now they're giving out medals
- for heroic restraint.
- 536
- 00:32:11,125 --> 00:32:12,292
- Do I have that right?
- 537
- 00:32:12,375 --> 00:32:13,583
- Courageous restraint.
- 538
- 00:32:14,250 --> 00:32:15,792
- And that is right.
- 539
- 00:32:15,875 --> 00:32:18,250
- Well, I don't mean to be rude, sir,
- 540
- 00:32:18,333 --> 00:32:21,292
- but I do not understand
- what the fuck that means.
- 541
- 00:32:25,750 --> 00:32:29,917
- It means, son, that sometimes
- when you're dealing with an insurgency,
- 542
- 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,375
- you're not gonna be 100% clear
- on who the enemy is.
- 543
- 00:32:34,042 --> 00:32:36,500
- It means you're gonna find yourself
- in situations where,
- 544
- 00:32:36,583 --> 00:32:38,417
- when you're afraid or whatnot,
- 545
- 00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:40,141
- you're gonna have to make
- a judgment call.
- 546
- 00:32:40,542 --> 00:32:44,667
- Because, as Sergeant Ortega here
- has so rightly pointed out,
- 547
- 00:32:44,750 --> 00:32:48,708
- your mission is to protect the people,
- not kill them.
- 548
- 00:32:49,292 --> 00:32:51,625
- We can't help them
- and kill them at the same time.
- 549
- 00:32:51,708 --> 00:32:55,208
- It just ain't humanly possible.
- Do you understand me?
- 550
- 00:32:55,292 --> 00:32:57,125
- No, not really, sir. No.
- 551
- 00:32:57,708 --> 00:33:00,167
- What part are you struggling
- to comprehend, son?
- 552
- 00:33:00,250 --> 00:33:03,875
- I don't know, sir. It seems to me
- that we all here with our guns and shit,
- 553
- 00:33:03,958 --> 00:33:09,000
- trying to convince these people that
- deep down we're actually really nice guys.
- 554
- 00:33:09,083 --> 00:33:12,750
- And I don't know how to do that, sir,
- when every second one of them
- 555
- 00:33:12,833 --> 00:33:15,458
- or every third one of them
- or every tenth one of them
- 556
- 00:33:15,542 --> 00:33:17,500
- is trying to fucking kill me, sir.
- 557
- 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,625
- 'Cause I'm a marine. 'Cause we're marines.
- 558
- 00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:23,750
- And it seem like now
- they handing out medals
- 559
- 00:33:23,833 --> 00:33:26,083
- for heroically not being a marine, sir.
- 560
- 00:33:28,167 --> 00:33:30,750
- I'm confused,
- is what I'm trying to say, sir.
- 561
- 00:33:32,958 --> 00:33:35,792
- Well, then you're just gonna have
- to get yourself unconfused, son.
- 562
- 00:33:47,875 --> 00:33:50,625
- <i>On the day</i>
- <i>of the Afghan general elections,</i>
- 563
- 00:33:50,708 --> 00:33:53,333
- <i>for which Glen had waited so patiently,</i>
- 564
- 00:33:53,417 --> 00:33:55,792
- <i>Badi Bassim joined his team.</i>
- 565
- 00:33:56,875 --> 00:33:59,958
- <i>Cory wouldn't tell me
- where he found Glen his Afghan mascot.</i>
- 566
- 00:34:00,042 --> 00:34:01,208
- No, I'm doing your job!
- 567
- 00:34:01,292 --> 00:34:03,792
- <i>He said he just found him
- in the phone book.</i>
- 568
- 00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:04,917
- Put the bag down.
- 569
- 00:34:05,667 --> 00:34:07,750
- <i>I assume that was a joke.</i>
- 570
- 00:34:11,958 --> 00:34:13,375
- My name is Captain Badi Bassim.
- 571
- 00:34:13,458 --> 00:34:16,458
- I'm here to start work
- with General McMahon.
- 572
- 00:34:17,417 --> 00:34:19,750
- - Who?
- - McMahon.
- 573
- 00:34:19,833 --> 00:34:21,625
- - McMahon?
- - Yeah.
- 574
- 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,083
- - Why are you not wearing the uniform?
- - My uniform is in my bag.
- 575
- 00:34:27,167 --> 00:34:30,750
- It's too dangerous for me to wear it
- while I am walking here from my home.
- 576
- 00:34:31,708 --> 00:34:32,833
- Unzip it.
- 577
- 00:34:34,333 --> 00:34:35,875
- Unzip the bag.
- 578
- 00:34:43,458 --> 00:34:45,458
- My uniform.
- 579
- 00:34:45,542 --> 00:34:49,042
- - Why are you walking in here?
- - Why I am working here?
- 580
- 00:34:49,125 --> 00:34:51,792
- Walking! Walking! Walking here?
- 581
- 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:53,625
- Walking.
- 582
- 00:34:54,542 --> 00:34:55,583
- I like to walk.
- 583
- 00:35:04,875 --> 00:35:07,583
- Badi! Come in. Come in.
- 584
- 00:35:12,292 --> 00:35:15,458
- Everyone, this is my new aide-de-camp,
- Badi Bassim.
- 585
- 00:35:15,542 --> 00:35:17,750
- He's a soldier and a scholar.
- 586
- 00:35:18,542 --> 00:35:21,125
- This is the face of the new Afghanistan.
- 587
- 00:35:21,208 --> 00:35:25,583
- Greg, you know. That's Cory.
- You know Cory. Pete Duckman.
- 588
- 00:35:25,667 --> 00:35:26,667
- And...
- 589
- 00:35:27,333 --> 00:35:30,958
- we got people here
- from Spain and Italy and...
- 590
- 00:35:31,750 --> 00:35:34,083
- - You know, places like that.
- - Okay.
- 591
- 00:35:38,417 --> 00:35:41,292
- - Have you voted?
- - I wanted to report to you first.
- 592
- 00:35:41,375 --> 00:35:42,458
- - You haven't voted?
- - No.
- 593
- 00:35:42,542 --> 00:35:43,934
- Good. Good. You can do it right here.
- 594
- 00:35:43,958 --> 00:35:46,143
- We got a polling booth right here,
- right around the corner.
- 595
- 00:35:46,167 --> 00:35:47,167
- Okay.
- 596
- 00:35:47,250 --> 00:35:50,000
- - Election day. It's exciting.
- - Yeah.
- 597
- 00:35:52,167 --> 00:35:54,167
- This is important, Badi.
- 598
- 00:35:54,250 --> 00:35:57,458
- That long line of men,
- that slow shuffle there,
- 599
- 00:35:57,542 --> 00:36:00,125
- that's the slow shuffle towards freedom.
- 600
- 00:36:01,875 --> 00:36:06,125
- The steps are small but, by God,
- their importance...
- 601
- 00:36:07,375 --> 00:36:09,208
- It's like the moon landing.
- 602
- 00:36:09,292 --> 00:36:11,208
- Small step, giant leap. Yeah.
- 603
- 00:36:11,292 --> 00:36:13,875
- Are you familiar
- with the moon landing, son?
- 604
- 00:36:13,958 --> 00:36:16,375
- - Yes, sir.
- - It's like the goddamn moon landing.
- 605
- 00:36:16,458 --> 00:36:18,875
- Yes, sir, I agree. It's very important.
- 606
- 00:36:18,958 --> 00:36:20,125
- - Yes, it is.
- - Yeah.
- 607
- 00:36:20,208 --> 00:36:22,625
- - A what?
- - We're gonna have another election.
- 608
- 00:36:22,708 --> 00:36:24,542
- We can't ignore these fraud allegations.
- 609
- 00:36:24,625 --> 00:36:26,792
- They're coming in
- from every corner of the country
- 610
- 00:36:26,875 --> 00:36:31,125
- and everything points
- to a ridiculous Karzai victory.
- 611
- 00:36:31,208 --> 00:36:33,583
- I mean, the whole thing
- just smells stupid.
- 612
- 00:36:33,667 --> 00:36:34,667
- Sure.
- 613
- 00:36:34,750 --> 00:36:38,583
- Sure, there's gonna be irregularity
- now and again.
- 614
- 00:36:38,667 --> 00:36:43,708
- But surely a result
- is the best possible outcome. Yeah?
- 615
- 00:36:43,792 --> 00:36:47,125
- The polling station,
- the one right there over where you are...
- 616
- 00:36:47,625 --> 00:36:53,208
- 367 registered voters,
- 1,200 votes counted.
- 617
- 00:36:53,292 --> 00:36:56,917
- It's a joke.
- We're going to a runoff election.
- 618
- 00:36:58,042 --> 00:36:59,792
- Tell them what you told me!
- 619
- 00:37:04,708 --> 00:37:06,833
- - About what, sir?
- - About the elections.
- 620
- 00:37:06,917 --> 00:37:09,500
- About the whole concept of elections
- in this country.
- 621
- 00:37:09,583 --> 00:37:12,625
- Well, I was just observing, sir,
- 622
- 00:37:12,708 --> 00:37:15,917
- that people don't quite
- understand elections.
- 623
- 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,708
- They see that the president is alive,
- everything is okay.
- 624
- 00:37:19,792 --> 00:37:21,851
- So what's the big problem?
- Why are we having an election?
- 625
- 00:37:21,875 --> 00:37:22,875
- Yeah.
- 626
- 00:37:22,958 --> 00:37:24,439
- And then you have an election anyway,
- 627
- 00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:27,292
- and people vote for whoever
- the local leaders tell them to vote for.
- 628
- 00:37:27,375 --> 00:37:28,375
- Yeah.
- 629
- 00:37:28,458 --> 00:37:30,658
- Because they don't want to have
- their heads chopped off.
- 630
- 00:37:31,042 --> 00:37:32,542
- See what I mean?
- 631
- 00:37:38,542 --> 00:37:42,583
- Thank you for that...
- 632
- 00:37:42,667 --> 00:37:45,792
- I'm sorry, Glen.
- We're going to a runoff election.
- 633
- 00:37:47,375 --> 00:37:49,458
- Jesus H...
- 634
- 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,125
- I got the White House sitting on my report
- till after these elections get done.
- 635
- 00:37:55,208 --> 00:37:59,417
- I can't do anything until the president
- approves my recommendations.
- 636
- 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:04,458
- And now you're telling me that's not gonna
- be until after another goddamn election?!
- 637
- 00:38:04,542 --> 00:38:08,000
- You need a legitimate partner here, Glen.
- Karzai ain't that guy.
- 638
- 00:38:09,667 --> 00:38:11,125
- You gotta understand,
- 639
- 00:38:11,208 --> 00:38:14,000
- what we're trying to do here
- is like raising a child.
- 640
- 00:38:14,917 --> 00:38:17,333
- And a child needs two parents.
- 641
- 00:38:18,083 --> 00:38:23,458
- Two parents who love it
- and each other very much.
- 642
- 00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:27,458
- That's what it needs, above all else.
- 643
- 00:38:31,417 --> 00:38:34,458
- Well, then your wife, Mrs. Karzai...
- 644
- 00:38:34,542 --> 00:38:38,750
- I'm assuming that you're the daddy
- in this metaphorical relationship...
- 645
- 00:38:38,833 --> 00:38:40,375
- We suspect your wife Karzai
- 646
- 00:38:40,458 --> 00:38:42,208
- might be a drug addict.
- 647
- 00:38:42,292 --> 00:38:45,333
- He eliminated his chief opponent
- in this election
- 648
- 00:38:45,417 --> 00:38:47,542
- by spreading
- a pretty vicious homosexual rumor,
- 649
- 00:38:47,625 --> 00:38:51,292
- and we're pretty sure that his brother
- is a straight-up criminal warlord.
- 650
- 00:38:51,375 --> 00:38:53,250
- Oh, come on, Pat!
- 651
- 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:55,167
- You got a bee in your bonnet.
- 652
- 00:38:55,250 --> 00:38:58,958
- You just don't like him for some reason,
- whatever it is. And seriously...
- 653
- 00:38:59,042 --> 00:39:04,250
- Anyway, I wanna know,
- how is Washington any different, huh?
- 654
- 00:39:04,333 --> 00:39:06,625
- Seriously! Tell me!
- 655
- 00:39:09,583 --> 00:39:11,000
- Yeah.
- 656
- 00:39:12,667 --> 00:39:13,833
- You can't.
- 657
- 00:39:21,375 --> 00:39:26,125
- <i>On page 74 of One Leg at a Time,
- Just Like Everybody Else,</i>
- 658
- 00:39:26,208 --> 00:39:29,125
- <i>Glen wrote, and I quote.</i>
- 659
- 00:39:29,208 --> 00:39:31,750
- <i>A good leader lives by a set of rules.</i>
- 660
- 00:39:33,250 --> 00:39:37,042
- <i>A great leader knows when to break them.</i>
- 661
- 00:39:37,125 --> 00:39:38,125
- Morning.
- 662
- 00:39:39,292 --> 00:39:40,625
- - Morning, all.
- - Sir.
- 663
- 00:39:40,708 --> 00:39:42,208
- - Morning.
- - Morning, sir.
- 664
- 00:39:42,292 --> 00:39:43,292
- Morning, boys.
- 665
- 00:39:43,375 --> 00:39:44,625
- - Morning, sir.
- - Boss.
- 666
- 00:39:45,625 --> 00:39:47,750
- Morning, Matt. You're up early.
- 667
- 00:39:48,433 --> 00:39:50,167
- Yes, sir. We've got a problem.
- 668
- 00:39:51,125 --> 00:39:54,250
- Somebody leaked your report.
- The Washington Post has a copy.
- 669
- 00:39:54,333 --> 00:39:55,333
- No.
- 670
- 00:39:55,917 --> 00:39:59,292
- - Somebody gave it to Bob Woodward.
- - Woodward? No.
- 671
- 00:40:00,083 --> 00:40:02,792
- Oh, my God almighty.
- You find the source?
- 672
- 00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:04,833
- Sir, the source?
- 673
- 00:40:04,917 --> 00:40:06,792
- This is terrible.
- Goddamn terrible news.
- 674
- 00:40:06,875 --> 00:40:08,559
- Do you hear that?
- Someone leaked the assessment.
- 675
- 00:40:08,583 --> 00:40:10,208
- - Oh, terrible.
- - Terrible. Shocking.
- 676
- 00:40:10,292 --> 00:40:12,458
- - Shocking.
- - Shocking.
- 677
- 00:40:12,542 --> 00:40:13,792
- - Terrible.
- - Shocking.
- 678
- 00:40:13,875 --> 00:40:16,000
- Yeah, well...
- 679
- 00:40:19,042 --> 00:40:22,125
- I don't think it really matters
- who leaked the assessment.
- 680
- 00:40:22,208 --> 00:40:24,375
- Question is,
- what are we gonna do about it?
- 681
- 00:40:24,458 --> 00:40:26,042
- I wanna do the 60 Minutes interview.
- 682
- 00:40:26,125 --> 00:40:31,250
- Sir, as your senior PAO,
- I must counsel strongly against it.
- 683
- 00:40:31,333 --> 00:40:33,083
- It would be foolhardy.
- 684
- 00:40:33,167 --> 00:40:36,917
- I really don't think
- now's the time to court media attention.
- 685
- 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,643
- At the very moment,
- allegations are being made
- 686
- 00:40:38,667 --> 00:40:42,333
- - that you leaked this report yourself.
- - I'm choosing to embrace the leak, Simon.
- 687
- 00:40:42,417 --> 00:40:45,667
- I don't seem to be getting any traction.
- Do you know what I'm saying? Traction?
- 688
- 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:49,018
- We got ourselves a president
- who appears not to be aware of the fact
- 689
- 00:40:49,042 --> 00:40:51,167
- that the United States is
- at war right now,
- 690
- 00:40:51,250 --> 00:40:53,125
- and he's that war's commander in chief.
- 691
- 00:40:53,208 --> 00:40:56,375
- - I gotta get me some traction.
- - You need cut through.
- 692
- 00:40:56,458 --> 00:40:59,292
- Exactly. Cut through. You need to get me
- some goddamn cut through.
- 693
- 00:40:59,375 --> 00:41:00,750
- I can handle that for you, sir.
- 694
- 00:41:00,833 --> 00:41:03,875
- Sorry. No offense, Simon,
- how exactly are you gonna do that?
- 695
- 00:41:03,958 --> 00:41:06,000
- I'll quieten this whole situation down.
- 696
- 00:41:06,083 --> 00:41:08,875
- Again, I'm sorry,
- I don't wanna start a fight here.
- 697
- 00:41:08,958 --> 00:41:11,375
- And please forgive me
- for speaking for you, sir.
- 698
- 00:41:11,458 --> 00:41:15,542
- But the general didn't hire me
- to make things quiet, okay?
- 699
- 00:41:16,250 --> 00:41:18,708
- Look, you're so good at your job,
- 700
- 00:41:18,792 --> 00:41:22,833
- but that job is basically
- writing press releases.
- 701
- 00:41:22,917 --> 00:41:24,625
- Here's the thing about press releases.
- 702
- 00:41:25,208 --> 00:41:27,375
- Nobody reads 'em, okay?
- 703
- 00:41:27,458 --> 00:41:30,667
- They're boring.
- And they're bullshit.
- 704
- 00:41:30,750 --> 00:41:32,583
- And everyone knows they're bullshit.
- 705
- 00:41:32,667 --> 00:41:36,125
- Correct me if I'm wrong,
- you hired me to make some noise.
- 706
- 00:41:36,958 --> 00:41:41,500
- You know, the right kind of noise.
- Our noise.
- 707
- 00:41:42,083 --> 00:41:43,583
- Pete.
- 708
- 00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:46,208
- - Boss.
- - Move those vehicles to the right.
- 709
- 00:41:46,292 --> 00:41:49,250
- I wanna make sure the M-ATVs are
- clearly visible in the background.
- 710
- 00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:50,833
- Copy that.
- 711
- 00:41:50,917 --> 00:41:52,792
- They're...
- They're completely blocking them.
- 712
- 00:41:52,875 --> 00:41:54,625
- - This one?
- - Both of them.
- 713
- 00:41:54,708 --> 00:41:57,792
- Just get 'em out of there.
- Get 'em out of there!
- 714
- 00:41:57,875 --> 00:42:00,958
- Hey. How're we doing over here? Good?
- 715
- 00:42:01,042 --> 00:42:02,226
- - Great.
- - You good? Good. Okay.
- 716
- 00:42:02,250 --> 00:42:04,559
- - Yeah, I think we're getting close.
- - Oh, that's exciting.
- 717
- 00:42:04,583 --> 00:42:06,542
- I don't wanna interrupt.
- 718
- 00:42:07,458 --> 00:42:11,667
- I mean, I know you have your own
- world of questions to ask in there.
- 719
- 00:42:14,375 --> 00:42:17,292
- You might wanna think about
- asking the general...
- 720
- 00:42:17,375 --> 00:42:19,583
- how much face time
- he's had with the president
- 721
- 00:42:19,667 --> 00:42:21,333
- since taking over the position.
- 722
- 00:42:22,333 --> 00:42:23,500
- Okay.
- 723
- 00:42:23,583 --> 00:42:26,917
- Yeah. You know, if you run out
- of stuff to talk about or whatever.
- 724
- 00:42:29,250 --> 00:42:30,542
- You're welcome.
- 725
- 00:42:31,792 --> 00:42:35,167
- Yes, the leak was unfortunate.
- There's no denying it.
- 726
- 00:42:35,250 --> 00:42:36,875
- It's unfortunate.
- 727
- 00:42:37,667 --> 00:42:40,792
- One would always choose
- to mull these things over
- 728
- 00:42:40,875 --> 00:42:44,375
- in the sensible calm
- of the proper quiet places.
- 729
- 00:42:45,083 --> 00:42:48,417
- But this war is tough. War is tough.
- 730
- 00:42:49,333 --> 00:42:53,042
- And the president
- has tough decisions to make.
- 731
- 00:42:53,792 --> 00:42:56,750
- How many times have you spoken
- to the president since you've been here?
- 732
- 00:42:56,833 --> 00:42:59,417
- Since I've been here in Afghanistan,
- leading ISAF?
- 733
- 00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:00,500
- Yes.
- 734
- 00:43:02,458 --> 00:43:06,042
- Once. I've spoken to the president once.
- By video teleconference.
- 735
- 00:43:06,125 --> 00:43:09,417
- You've spoken to the president
- once in, what, 70 days?
- 736
- 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:10,833
- That's right.
- 737
- 00:43:10,917 --> 00:43:13,042
- You're the leader
- of US forces in Afghanistan,
- 738
- 00:43:13,125 --> 00:43:15,917
- and you have spoken to the president
- once in 70 days?
- 739
- 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,375
- - Yes, ma'am.
- - Why is that?
- 740
- 00:43:19,958 --> 00:43:21,292
- I don't know...
- 741
- 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,500
- I'm guessing he's very busy.
- 742
- 00:43:27,625 --> 00:43:28,958
- Probably.
- 743
- 00:43:31,583 --> 00:43:33,434
- What the fuck's
- the matter with you, Glen?
- 744
- 00:43:33,458 --> 00:43:34,625
- Are you out of your mind?
- 745
- 00:43:34,708 --> 00:43:37,292
- One second we're dealing
- with this so-called fucking leak,
- 746
- 00:43:37,375 --> 00:43:39,250
- the next you're on the fucking television
- 747
- 00:43:39,333 --> 00:43:42,792
- backing the president into the most
- ham-fisted corner I've ever seen.
- 748
- 00:43:42,875 --> 00:43:46,083
- I honestly believe you've made it
- your sole mission to fuck me.
- 749
- 00:43:46,167 --> 00:43:49,875
- Well, Dick, I answered the questions
- that were asked of me.
- 750
- 00:43:49,958 --> 00:43:52,476
- - I thought I was being fair.
- - It's not a question of fair, Glen.
- 751
- 00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:55,708
- It's a question of what the fuck
- were you doing on the television?
- 752
- 00:43:55,792 --> 00:43:59,075
- Why am I seeing you on the television?
- 753
- 00:43:59,458 --> 00:44:00,833
- Now we gotta fix this.
- 754
- 00:44:00,917 --> 00:44:04,042
- We gotta find a way
- of taking the heat out of this thing.
- 755
- 00:44:04,125 --> 00:44:07,167
- Now you've gone and lit a fucking fire
- under it! Do you understand?
- 756
- 00:44:07,250 --> 00:44:09,542
- - Yeah, I see.
- - Here's where we're gonna start.
- 757
- 00:44:09,625 --> 00:44:11,625
- You're gonna get on the phone
- to Bob Gates and...
- 758
- 00:44:11,708 --> 00:44:14,792
- Hang on, Dick. You're cutting out.
- I can't hear you. Can you hear me?
- 759
- 00:44:14,875 --> 00:44:17,542
- Yeah, I can hear you.
- And please stop calling me Dick!
- 760
- 00:44:17,625 --> 00:44:20,542
- Shit. Something's wrong.
- I can't hear a word you're saying.
- 761
- 00:44:20,625 --> 00:44:22,375
- Let me... let me try this.
- 762
- 00:44:26,667 --> 00:44:28,467
- - Can you hear me now?
- - Yeah, I can hear you.
- 763
- 00:44:28,542 --> 00:44:31,208
- Okay, something's wrong here.
- Hold on a minute, Dick.
- 764
- 00:44:31,292 --> 00:44:34,375
- - Oh, God.
- - Andy, get your ass in here!
- 765
- 00:44:39,083 --> 00:44:40,750
- - Yes, sir.
- - Got a problem.
- 766
- 00:44:40,833 --> 00:44:42,393
- I can't hear a word Dick's saying.
- 767
- 00:44:42,417 --> 00:44:43,917
- He can hear me, but I can't hear him.
- 768
- 00:44:47,333 --> 00:44:49,583
- - All right, can you hear us now?
- - Yeah, I can hear you.
- 769
- 00:44:54,333 --> 00:44:57,208
- - What about now, Mr. Dick, sir?
- - Yeah, I can hear you!
- 770
- 00:44:58,500 --> 00:44:59,875
- I'm... I'm sorry.
- 771
- 00:44:59,958 --> 00:45:02,000
- - I'm sorry, Dick.
- - Oh, gosh!
- 772
- 00:45:02,792 --> 00:45:04,208
- Can't hear a word you're saying.
- 773
- 00:45:04,292 --> 00:45:07,083
- Andy's gonna have to work on this,
- and pronto!
- 774
- 00:45:07,167 --> 00:45:09,250
- - Yes, sir.
- - This is goddamn unacceptable.
- 775
- 00:45:09,333 --> 00:45:11,375
- No, no, we need to talk.
- 776
- 00:45:11,458 --> 00:45:12,625
- I'll talk to you later, Dick.
- 777
- 00:45:12,708 --> 00:45:14,917
- We need to finish...
- We need to finish this thing.
- 778
- 00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:22,000
- Well done.
- 779
- 00:45:22,083 --> 00:45:23,833
- - Thank you, sir.
- - Well done.
- 780
- 00:45:23,917 --> 00:45:26,792
- <i>Ladies and gentlemen,</i>
- <i>the President of the United States.</i>
- 781
- 00:45:28,458 --> 00:45:29,542
- Thank you.
- 782
- 00:45:30,250 --> 00:45:33,833
- I wanna speak to you tonight
- about our effort in Afghanistan.
- 783
- 00:45:34,417 --> 00:45:37,792
- It's an extraordinary honor for me
- to do so here at West Point,
- 784
- 00:45:37,875 --> 00:45:42,083
- where so many men and women
- have prepared to stand up for our security
- 785
- 00:45:42,167 --> 00:45:45,792
- and to represent
- what is finest about our country.
- 786
- 00:45:45,875 --> 00:45:47,125
- As your commander in chief,
- 787
- 00:45:47,208 --> 00:45:50,000
- I owe you a mission
- that is clearly defined...
- 788
- 00:45:50,083 --> 00:45:53,208
- - Yes, you do.
- - And worthy of your service.
- 789
- 00:45:53,292 --> 00:45:57,208
- And that's why I insisted
- on a thorough review of our strategy.
- 790
- 00:45:58,083 --> 00:46:00,792
- And as commander in chief,
- I have determined that
- 791
- 00:46:00,875 --> 00:46:03,458
- it is in our vital national interest...
- 792
- 00:46:03,542 --> 00:46:06,958
- to send an additional 30,000 US troops
- to Afghanistan.
- 793
- 00:46:07,750 --> 00:46:11,833
- After 18 months,
- our troops will begin to come home.
- 794
- 00:46:11,917 --> 00:46:14,042
- I do not make this decision lightly.
- 795
- 00:46:14,833 --> 00:46:20,750
- We have been at war now for eight years,
- at enormous cost in lives and resources.
- 796
- 00:46:21,333 --> 00:46:23,851
- Years of debate over Iraq and terrorism
- 797
- 00:46:23,875 --> 00:46:26,625
- have left our unity
- on national security issues in tatters.
- 798
- 00:46:27,625 --> 00:46:30,208
- And having just experienced
- the worst economic crisis
- 799
- 00:46:30,292 --> 00:46:31,708
- since the Great Depression,
- 800
- 00:46:31,792 --> 00:46:33,958
- the American people are
- understandably focused on
- 801
- 00:46:34,042 --> 00:46:37,417
- rebuilding our economy
- and putting people to work here at home.
- 802
- 00:46:47,083 --> 00:46:48,083
- Sir.
- 803
- 00:46:51,625 --> 00:46:53,375
- You got your troops.
- 804
- 00:46:57,833 --> 00:47:00,500
- Buddy here just announced
- 805
- 00:47:00,583 --> 00:47:03,792
- to the whole of Afghanistan
- that we are about to abandon it!
- 806
- 00:47:04,667 --> 00:47:06,476
- That's like telling the bad guys
- all they gotta do
- 807
- 00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:08,180
- is wait out the next 18 months
- 808
- 00:47:08,208 --> 00:47:09,542
- and then we'll be gone!
- 809
- 00:47:11,833 --> 00:47:17,667
- And so he just told an auditorium
- full of young American soldiers
- 810
- 00:47:17,750 --> 00:47:20,958
- the war they've been asked to fight
- these last eight years
- 811
- 00:47:21,042 --> 00:47:23,083
- has been nothing more than
- 812
- 00:47:23,167 --> 00:47:25,792
- one great monumental waste
- of everybody's time.
- 813
- 00:47:25,875 --> 00:47:30,167
- That was a clusterfuckingly
- stupid fucking speech!
- 814
- 00:47:33,292 --> 00:47:34,542
- Thank you, Greg.
- 815
- 00:47:36,375 --> 00:47:39,208
- Well, you heard him.
- 816
- 00:47:39,833 --> 00:47:43,208
- He's not giving us the full 40,000.
- They're giving us 30.
- 817
- 00:47:43,292 --> 00:47:44,958
- I just got off the phone with the SecDef.
- 818
- 00:47:45,042 --> 00:47:47,750
- We gotta get the rest
- from our coalition partners.
- 819
- 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,417
- Looks like we're going to Europe, boys.
- So pack your...
- 820
- 00:47:54,458 --> 00:47:57,542
- Oh, I don't know, fuck it!
- Pack whatever it is they wear in Europe.
- 821
- 00:47:58,958 --> 00:48:01,875
- Speedos and shit! Willy.
- 822
- 00:48:09,708 --> 00:48:11,875
- <i>The world stage.</i>
- 823
- 00:48:11,958 --> 00:48:16,417
- <i>It's always seemed funny to me
- how a man can go from looking at a map of,</i>
- 824
- 00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:19,875
- <i>I don't know, say Helmand province,</i>
- 825
- 00:48:19,958 --> 00:48:23,708
- <i>to finding himself in Europe
- trying to persuade our friends and allies</i>
- 826
- 00:48:23,792 --> 00:48:27,292
- <i>that his crazy dream
- is their crazy dream too.</i>
- 827
- 00:48:27,375 --> 00:48:29,542
- Bonjour, General.
- 828
- 00:48:29,625 --> 00:48:30,833
- Thank you.
- 829
- 00:48:30,917 --> 00:48:32,833
- - Bonjour, monsieur.
- - Hello.
- 830
- 00:48:34,500 --> 00:48:36,167
- Okay, so tomorrow afternoon,
- 831
- 00:48:36,250 --> 00:48:38,958
- you have the presentation
- to l'École Militaire.
- 832
- 00:48:39,942 --> 00:48:42,833
- Tomorrow night,
- dinner with the minister of defense.
- 833
- 00:48:42,917 --> 00:48:44,833
- That is a gala dinner, by the way.
- 834
- 00:48:44,917 --> 00:48:48,875
- Just a heads-up so you can prepare
- yourself mentally. It's a big one.
- 835
- 00:48:48,958 --> 00:48:51,333
- Meetings the next day.
- Then we got the night free.
- 836
- 00:48:51,417 --> 00:48:53,708
- - And then to Berlin.
- - Yeah.
- 837
- 00:48:55,833 --> 00:48:59,375
- Here we go.
- Obama is in Copenhagen tonight.
- 838
- 00:48:59,458 --> 00:49:01,833
- They wanna know
- if you can spare time for a meeting
- 839
- 00:49:01,917 --> 00:49:04,333
- on Air Force One tomorrow morning.
- 840
- 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,809
- The president wants some face time.
- 841
- 00:49:06,833 --> 00:49:09,958
- Now he wants fucking face time.
- Fucking dick.
- 842
- 00:49:11,417 --> 00:49:13,333
- So can you do that, boss?
- 843
- 00:49:13,417 --> 00:49:15,833
- Then we can jet across
- to Copenhagen at zero six.
- 844
- 00:49:15,917 --> 00:49:18,792
- The president's gonna be
- on the tarmac at 8:30.
- 845
- 00:49:19,750 --> 00:49:22,917
- Well, you're the keeper of my schedule,
- Cory. You tell me if I can do it.
- 846
- 00:49:25,392 --> 00:49:28,000
- Okay, yeah, we can have you back
- in Paris early afternoon,
- 847
- 00:49:28,083 --> 00:49:31,204
- depending on how much time you two need.
- And I can shift your morning meetings.
- 848
- 00:49:31,250 --> 00:49:34,375
- See that out there? I'm calling that dusk.
- 849
- 00:49:34,458 --> 00:49:36,708
- That's close of fucking business.
- 850
- 00:49:38,417 --> 00:49:40,083
- Boss, you good with this?
- 851
- 00:49:40,167 --> 00:49:43,125
- Sure, Pete. We're not in theater.
- You boys earned it.
- 852
- 00:49:47,708 --> 00:49:49,949
- Sir, have you had a chance
- to say hello to your wife yet?
- 853
- 00:49:50,458 --> 00:49:51,726
- You know, she checked in this morning.
- 854
- 00:49:51,750 --> 00:49:54,042
- I think she's waiting for you
- in your room.
- 855
- 00:49:54,125 --> 00:49:56,250
- Shit. Right, I should do that.
- 856
- 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,601
- What room am I in again?
- 857
- 00:50:00,625 --> 00:50:01,917
- - 517.
- - What?
- 858
- 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,375
- - Five-seven-one.
- - Five-one-seven.
- 859
- 00:50:03,458 --> 00:50:05,875
- - Stop. Go.
- - Five-one-seven.
- 860
- 00:50:05,958 --> 00:50:07,375
- Five-one-seven.
- 861
- 00:50:22,333 --> 00:50:24,375
- - Hi, boss.
- - Hey, Willy.
- 862
- 00:50:30,083 --> 00:50:33,083
- - Hi. Hi, honey.
- - Hi.
- 863
- 00:50:33,167 --> 00:50:34,008
- Hi.
- 864
- 00:50:35,125 --> 00:50:36,958
- I'm sorry, I've been delayed.
- 865
- 00:50:38,708 --> 00:50:41,458
- The president is wanting time
- with me tomorrow,
- 866
- 00:50:41,542 --> 00:50:43,167
- and we've been trying to ascertain
- 867
- 00:50:43,250 --> 00:50:47,708
- whether... whether or not
- we can accommodate this request.
- 868
- 00:50:49,083 --> 00:50:51,268
- I'm gonna leave you two be. I'll be...
- 869
- 00:50:51,292 --> 00:50:54,250
- - I'll be right next door.
- - Okay, thank you, Willy.
- 870
- 00:51:02,958 --> 00:51:06,125
- Well, we're in Paris.
- 871
- 00:51:06,208 --> 00:51:09,625
- Yeah. Hopefully we'll get to see
- some sights.
- 872
- 00:51:09,708 --> 00:51:14,875
- Yeah, I'll have Cory
- schedule some time.
- 873
- 00:51:14,958 --> 00:51:15,958
- - Yeah.
- - Okay...
- 874
- 00:51:16,042 --> 00:51:18,242
- but you do what you gotta do,
- because I am here for you.
- 875
- 00:51:18,292 --> 00:51:19,292
- Oh, yeah?
- 876
- 00:51:22,750 --> 00:51:25,208
- - How's Tim?
- - Oh, he's good. He's good.
- 877
- 00:51:25,292 --> 00:51:26,958
- - He sends his love.
- - Okay.
- 878
- 00:51:27,842 --> 00:51:29,750
- He's got a new girlfriend now.
- 879
- 00:51:30,333 --> 00:51:31,667
- Yeah, I like her.
- 880
- 00:51:31,750 --> 00:51:34,500
- Yeah, her daddy's an ILE instructor
- over at Leavenworth.
- 881
- 00:51:35,750 --> 00:51:38,542
- Yeah, she's sweet. You'll like her.
- 882
- 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:50,458
- Well...
- 883
- 00:51:54,042 --> 00:51:57,958
- Well, I think it's just great you're
- getting to see the president, honey.
- 884
- 00:51:59,792 --> 00:52:01,667
- You must be very excited, huh?
- 885
- 00:52:38,250 --> 00:52:39,833
- Hey, Glen.
- 886
- 00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:44,083
- Hope you don't mind me hitching a ride.
- I'm on my own dash to see the president.
- 887
- 00:52:44,167 --> 00:52:46,287
- They told me you were heading
- over there this morning.
- 888
- 00:52:48,208 --> 00:52:50,750
- No problem, Pat. My plane is your plane.
- 889
- 00:52:51,708 --> 00:52:54,292
- - Knock yourself out.
- - Thanks, Glen.
- 890
- 00:52:54,375 --> 00:52:57,458
- So my hope is, depending on how long
- your meeting goes with the president,
- 891
- 00:52:57,542 --> 00:52:59,875
- we can have you back in Paris NLT 1400,
- 892
- 00:52:59,958 --> 00:53:02,042
- then straight to
- the École Militaire for 1500.
- 893
- 00:53:02,125 --> 00:53:04,375
- My uniform will be crushed
- after these flights.
- 894
- 00:53:04,458 --> 00:53:06,042
- I'll need a shower, a fresh shave.
- 895
- 00:53:06,125 --> 00:53:08,184
- I'm allowing for four solid hours
- with the president.
- 896
- 00:53:08,208 --> 00:53:10,476
- If it's less than that,
- we should be fine to go via the hotel.
- 897
- 00:53:10,500 --> 00:53:12,625
- I am just contingency planning
- for the possibility
- 898
- 00:53:12,708 --> 00:53:14,083
- we may be running tight on time.
- 899
- 00:53:14,167 --> 00:53:15,976
- - Can we move the École Militaire back?
- - Not really.
- 900
- 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:17,059
- Gonna be a lot of people there.
- 901
- 00:53:17,083 --> 00:53:19,924
- We have the gala dinner right after.
- We don't have any wiggle room here.
- 902
- 00:53:19,958 --> 00:53:22,434
- You should wear the fatigues
- to the thing this afternoon.
- 903
- 00:53:22,458 --> 00:53:24,875
- The general, direct from the battlefield.
- 904
- 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,542
- No need to shower
- when you're straight from the fight.
- 905
- 00:53:28,625 --> 00:53:29,667
- - That's good.
- - Yeah.
- 906
- 00:53:29,750 --> 00:53:30,934
- - It's very good.
- - I like that.
- 907
- 00:53:30,958 --> 00:53:33,292
- Well, just make sure
- Willy has my fatigues on standby.
- 908
- 00:53:35,250 --> 00:53:37,208
- Talking points for the president.
- 909
- 00:53:53,458 --> 00:53:54,708
- How you doing, Glen?
- 910
- 00:54:00,333 --> 00:54:02,792
- This one is a bitch, right?
- 911
- 00:54:03,875 --> 00:54:05,875
- Nothing about war is easy, Pat.
- 912
- 00:54:07,167 --> 00:54:08,250
- Right on.
- 913
- 00:54:08,833 --> 00:54:12,375
- Though I'm guessing, somewhere deep down,
- you were happier in Iraq.
- 914
- 00:54:14,458 --> 00:54:16,250
- A soldier leading soldiers.
- 915
- 00:54:17,917 --> 00:54:22,958
- Soldiers above you, soldiers below you.
- Just a nice bubble of soldiers.
- 916
- 00:54:23,042 --> 00:54:27,583
- Just ordered. Right? 'Cause it has to be.
- 917
- 00:54:28,333 --> 00:54:31,958
- War is chaos, so then the army has to be
- the opposite of chaos.
- 918
- 00:54:32,708 --> 00:54:35,042
- But now you find yourself
- in the real world.
- 919
- 00:54:35,125 --> 00:54:37,725
- Now you're dealing with civilians,
- and civilians don't make sense.
- 920
- 00:54:38,708 --> 00:54:41,700
- Not making sense is a luxury
- I can't afford.
- 921
- 00:54:43,292 --> 00:54:44,833
- Lives depend on it.
- 922
- 00:54:45,583 --> 00:54:47,708
- - No, of course.
- - Yeah.
- 923
- 00:54:48,625 --> 00:54:49,917
- Absolutely.
- 924
- 00:54:50,958 --> 00:54:53,542
- And you can't live in the bubble forever.
- 925
- 00:54:53,625 --> 00:54:56,042
- You gotta rise as your talents dictate.
- 926
- 00:54:58,417 --> 00:54:59,917
- What do you want, Pat?
- 927
- 00:55:01,875 --> 00:55:04,208
- How do you think this ends?
- 928
- 00:55:05,042 --> 00:55:07,917
- Simple. We either win it or we lose it.
- 929
- 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:09,042
- Yeah, I don't know.
- 930
- 00:55:10,125 --> 00:55:12,500
- I think I'm gonna call bullshit
- on that, Glen.
- 931
- 00:55:13,458 --> 00:55:16,458
- All the winning we were ever gonna do,
- we did in the first six months.
- 932
- 00:55:16,542 --> 00:55:18,342
- And since then,
- we've just been making a mess.
- 933
- 00:55:18,375 --> 00:55:20,125
- And that's all it was ever gonna be.
- 934
- 00:55:21,417 --> 00:55:23,000
- You're not here to win.
- 935
- 00:55:23,625 --> 00:55:26,000
- You're here to clean up the mess.
- 936
- 00:55:27,333 --> 00:55:29,583
- You'll get your 40,000 troops.
- 937
- 00:55:29,667 --> 00:55:33,167
- Get 'em in there. Get your PowerPoint
- presentation in order, you know?
- 938
- 00:55:33,250 --> 00:55:35,375
- Just move the needle a little bit.
- 939
- 00:55:35,458 --> 00:55:38,059
- Show everyone how all the graphs are
- pointing in the right direction.
- 940
- 00:55:38,083 --> 00:55:39,875
- That's all you gotta do.
- 941
- 00:55:39,958 --> 00:55:43,042
- That's how this ends best for you
- anyway.
- 942
- 00:55:44,083 --> 00:55:45,583
- A nice-looking set of graphs.
- 943
- 00:55:46,583 --> 00:55:50,500
- Or a nicer-looking set of graphs
- than the last set of graphs.
- 944
- 00:55:51,875 --> 00:55:53,750
- Either that or get yourself fired.
- 945
- 00:55:55,917 --> 00:55:59,042
- Then you can say "I told you so"
- when it all turns to shit
- 946
- 00:55:59,125 --> 00:56:03,250
- or fizzles out or
- however it is this thing ends.
- 947
- 00:56:05,583 --> 00:56:07,583
- There's no street parade
- at the end of this one.
- 948
- 00:56:15,125 --> 00:56:16,458
- It's good to talk.
- 949
- 00:57:09,458 --> 00:57:11,833
- Everybody. How are you?
- 950
- 00:57:11,917 --> 00:57:15,042
- Morning.
- Yeah, it's good to see you again.
- 951
- 00:57:17,167 --> 00:57:19,708
- - How you doing? Good to see you. Nice tie.
- - Thank you.
- 952
- 00:57:19,792 --> 00:57:21,500
- All right. How's it going?
- 953
- 00:57:21,583 --> 00:57:24,250
- - Morning, sir. Nice to see you again.
- - All right. Take care now.
- 954
- 00:57:24,333 --> 00:57:25,643
- It's good to see you,
- Mr. President.
- 955
- 00:57:25,667 --> 00:57:26,947
- All right, see you soon.
- 956
- 00:57:28,583 --> 00:57:31,250
- - Mr. President.
- - It's great to see you, General.
- 957
- 00:57:31,333 --> 00:57:33,750
- I'm sorry,
- but we're running behind schedule.
- 958
- 00:57:33,833 --> 00:57:35,851
- I was looking forward to getting
- some face time with you,
- 959
- 00:57:35,875 --> 00:57:37,958
- but I gotta get this baby in the air.
- 960
- 00:57:38,625 --> 00:57:40,750
- So all right.
- 961
- 00:57:41,542 --> 00:57:42,958
- Smile for the cameras, Glen.
- 962
- 00:57:46,792 --> 00:57:47,833
- All right.
- 963
- 00:57:48,500 --> 00:57:50,083
- Take care.
- 964
- 00:57:50,167 --> 00:57:51,167
- - Pat.
- - Mr. President.
- 965
- 00:57:51,250 --> 00:57:52,351
- - Let's get going.
- - Yes, sir.
- 966
- 00:57:52,375 --> 00:57:54,708
- All right, Magnus, talk to you soon. Okay?
- 967
- 00:58:07,500 --> 00:58:10,125
- <i>You could argue</i>
- <i>that the main reason</i>
- 968
- 00:58:10,208 --> 00:58:12,458
- <i>certain generals like war so much is...</i>
- 969
- 00:58:13,500 --> 00:58:18,833
- <i>well, because it's only in war
- that they feel truly relevant.</i>
- 970
- 00:58:19,542 --> 00:58:24,208
- <i>It's only in war that they feel close
- to the center of power.</i>
- 971
- 00:58:25,292 --> 00:58:29,708
- <i>Only in war do they feel
- the warm glow of other people's attention.</i>
- 972
- 00:58:29,792 --> 00:58:31,375
- Good evening, sir.
- 973
- 00:58:31,458 --> 00:58:34,917
- <i>The attention of people like me.</i>
- 974
- 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,333
- Okay, you know what?
- You both look beautiful.
- 975
- 00:58:37,417 --> 00:58:39,708
- Really.
- 976
- 00:58:39,792 --> 00:58:42,708
- Sir, before you get dragged
- into the hubbub there,
- 977
- 00:58:42,792 --> 00:58:45,125
- I want to introduce you
- to Sean Cullen here.
- 978
- 00:58:45,208 --> 00:58:48,417
- Sean's the writer from Rolling Stone.
- He's been doing that profile piece on you.
- 979
- 00:58:48,500 --> 00:58:50,750
- He's gonna be tagging along
- for a couple days.
- 980
- 00:58:50,833 --> 00:58:53,125
- Thanks for having me, sir.
- It's a real privilege.
- 981
- 00:58:53,917 --> 00:58:55,667
- - Rolling Stone?
- - Yes, sir.
- 982
- 00:58:55,750 --> 00:58:57,030
- Just make sure I'm on the cover.
- 983
- 00:58:58,042 --> 00:59:00,667
- Well, it's between you and Lady Gaga, sir.
- 984
- 00:59:01,625 --> 00:59:05,000
- Well, put me in a heart-shaped
- bathtub with her.
- 985
- 00:59:05,083 --> 00:59:06,976
- Rose petals. Happy to share.
- 986
- 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,292
- Glen, stop joking.
- 987
- 00:59:10,375 --> 00:59:12,667
- I'm deadly serious, son.
- Put me on the cover.
- 988
- 00:59:22,333 --> 00:59:25,500
- Okay, here we are.
- There's the boss. There's Mrs. Boss.
- 989
- 00:59:26,333 --> 00:59:28,917
- Oh, there's me. There's you.
- 990
- 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:30,125
- Where's me?
- 991
- 00:59:31,042 --> 00:59:33,667
- I guess you're on a different table.
- Better keep looking.
- 992
- 00:59:34,292 --> 00:59:36,003
- You serious?
- 993
- 00:59:38,542 --> 00:59:39,875
- - Sorry.
- - Yes?
- 994
- 00:59:39,958 --> 00:59:43,667
- Excuse me.
- I think you are sitting in my seat, sir.
- 995
- 00:59:45,583 --> 00:59:48,875
- Oh, hey, there. I'm sorry.
- Pleased to meet you.
- 996
- 01:00:06,167 --> 01:00:07,417
- Dear.
- 997
- 01:00:08,167 --> 01:00:10,250
- Thank you. Hi.
- 998
- 01:00:17,250 --> 01:00:19,125
- General. Tom Howard, sir.
- 999
- 01:00:19,208 --> 01:00:22,292
- I'm the United States defense attaché
- here in Paris.
- 1000
- 01:00:22,375 --> 01:00:24,625
- Pleased to meet you.
- This is my wife, Jeanie.
- 1001
- 01:00:24,708 --> 01:00:27,542
- Pleased to meet you, Jeanie.
- Are you enjoying your time here in Paris?
- 1002
- 01:00:27,625 --> 01:00:29,625
- Oh, yes, very much. It's lovely.
- 1003
- 01:00:29,708 --> 01:00:32,833
- Isn't it? Have you managed to see
- any museums or exhibitions?
- 1004
- 01:00:32,917 --> 01:00:34,309
- Have you done the Louvre?
- 1005
- 01:00:34,333 --> 01:00:36,667
- I think we're gonna be too busy
- to see the Louvre.
- 1006
- 01:00:36,750 --> 01:00:40,500
- But I've been wandering around by myself
- while Glen's at meetings, and...
- 1007
- 01:00:40,583 --> 01:00:42,417
- oh, my, it's... it's lovely.
- 1008
- 01:00:42,500 --> 01:00:45,167
- General, I thought it went very well
- at the École Militaire today.
- 1009
- 01:00:45,250 --> 01:00:47,833
- I didn't get the opportunity
- to introduce myself there.
- 1010
- 01:00:47,917 --> 01:00:50,792
- But there were some
- very interesting people there today.
- 1011
- 01:00:50,875 --> 01:00:53,833
- If you'd like, I'd be very happy
- to give you a rundown of the who's who
- 1012
- 01:00:53,917 --> 01:00:55,684
- if you get a little window
- in your schedule while...
- 1013
- 01:00:55,708 --> 01:00:57,458
- I appreciate that.
- My schedule's very tight.
- 1014
- 01:00:57,542 --> 01:00:59,458
- Of course. Totally understood.
- 1015
- 01:01:00,292 --> 01:01:03,252
- General, I could introduce you to some
- people here tonight if you'd prefer.
- 1016
- 01:01:03,333 --> 01:01:06,875
- No, I think my team and I
- have a grip on the who's who. Thank you.
- 1017
- 01:01:06,958 --> 01:01:09,417
- Cory, where's Badi?
- 1018
- 01:01:09,500 --> 01:01:11,917
- I don't know, boss.
- He was here a minute ago.
- 1019
- 01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,393
- I thought he was supposed to be
- sitting beside you and Jeanie.
- 1020
- 01:01:15,792 --> 01:01:20,208
- General, I thought it best if you and I
- took this opportunity to talk, so...
- 1021
- 01:01:20,292 --> 01:01:22,708
- so I switched places
- with your colleague over there, I...
- 1022
- 01:01:22,792 --> 01:01:24,500
- Like you said, your schedule's very tight.
- 1023
- 01:01:24,583 --> 01:01:26,292
- What'd you say your name was?
- 1024
- 01:01:27,125 --> 01:01:28,417
- Tom Howard, sir.
- 1025
- 01:01:28,500 --> 01:01:31,500
- What do you think this dinner is for,
- Tom Howard?
- 1026
- 01:01:31,583 --> 01:01:34,792
- General, this dinner
- is to honor you, sir.
- 1027
- 01:01:34,875 --> 01:01:37,167
- Wrong. This dinner is for Afghanistan.
- 1028
- 01:01:37,250 --> 01:01:41,125
- We are here tonight
- because we're at war in Afghanistan.
- 1029
- 01:01:41,208 --> 01:01:44,583
- And you got the goddamn gall
- to kick the only Afghan in the room
- 1030
- 01:01:44,667 --> 01:01:47,083
- - off my goddamn table?
- - I'm sorry...
- 1031
- 01:01:47,167 --> 01:01:49,542
- Let me tell you what I want you to do,
- Tom Howard.
- 1032
- 01:01:49,625 --> 01:01:51,583
- I want you to go sit your ass down
- 1033
- 01:01:51,667 --> 01:01:54,417
- wherever the fuck your ass was officially
- designated to sit,
- 1034
- 01:01:54,500 --> 01:01:57,125
- and I want you to tell Badi
- to bring his ass back over here!
- 1035
- 01:01:57,750 --> 01:01:59,590
- How's that sound, Tom Howard?
- 1036
- 01:02:02,125 --> 01:02:03,333
- I'm sorry, sir.
- 1037
- 01:02:05,083 --> 01:02:06,250
- Ma'am.
- 1038
- 01:02:10,042 --> 01:02:12,042
- I apologize for my language.
- 1039
- 01:02:12,708 --> 01:02:14,868
- - Everything's okay, honey.
- - Boss?
- 1040
- 01:02:15,167 --> 01:02:19,042
- I'm pretty sure the Afghan ambassador here
- is from Afghanistan.
- 1041
- 01:02:19,125 --> 01:02:20,125
- General.
- 1042
- 01:02:29,167 --> 01:02:30,417
- Sir.
- 1043
- 01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:31,750
- Swell.
- 1044
- 01:02:33,167 --> 01:02:37,833
- I don't want for this dinner
- to be awkward for you, General,
- 1045
- 01:02:37,917 --> 01:02:40,875
- so I will tell you now
- that we intend to give you
- 1046
- 01:02:40,958 --> 01:02:43,917
- our portion of the troops
- that you request.
- 1047
- 01:02:44,500 --> 01:02:46,292
- I don't think the Germans will be so easy.
- 1048
- 01:02:47,542 --> 01:02:51,708
- I think that they are feeling
- inclined to withdraw altogether.
- 1049
- 01:02:52,792 --> 01:02:55,542
- And I should add that
- 1050
- 01:02:55,625 --> 01:02:59,042
- I would hate for you to think
- that France is easy.
- 1051
- 01:02:59,625 --> 01:03:04,083
- This must be a final moment, no?
- We cannot stay in Afghanistan forever.
- 1052
- 01:03:05,833 --> 01:03:07,292
- No, we can't.
- 1053
- 01:03:08,583 --> 01:03:09,958
- That's why I'm gonna win it.
- 1054
- 01:03:11,375 --> 01:03:12,458
- Thank you.
- 1055
- 01:03:15,625 --> 01:03:17,625
- That was strange.
- 1056
- 01:04:03,583 --> 01:04:08,375
- Writing a biography, is that something
- you might be open to? Or...
- 1057
- 01:04:08,458 --> 01:04:11,208
- For sure, yeah.
- Something I'm absolutely open to...
- 1058
- 01:04:11,292 --> 01:04:13,708
- It's such a fascinating
- subject matter.
- 1059
- 01:04:13,792 --> 01:04:16,208
- No offense, book could kinda write itself.
- 1060
- 01:04:16,292 --> 01:04:19,125
- We may have a problem
- getting to Berlin tomorrow.
- 1061
- 01:04:19,708 --> 01:04:21,917
- This volcano in Iceland. It's...
- 1062
- 01:04:22,917 --> 01:04:25,208
- canceling all flights
- because of the ash cloud.
- 1063
- 01:04:25,292 --> 01:04:27,500
- - Dude, we got our own plane.
- - Guess this cloud's huge.
- 1064
- 01:04:27,583 --> 01:04:30,417
- Nothing's taking off in Europe.
- They're grounding all air traffic.
- 1065
- 01:04:30,500 --> 01:04:31,917
- We got tonight free, right?
- 1066
- 01:04:33,375 --> 01:04:36,125
- Then what's the plan? We're drinking.
- Tell me we're fucking drinking.
- 1067
- 01:04:40,208 --> 01:04:44,542
- Today is Jeanie and my's
- 30th wedding anniversary, so...
- 1068
- 01:04:45,917 --> 01:04:47,625
- I'm taking her to dinner.
- 1069
- 01:04:48,667 --> 01:04:50,042
- Just the two of you?
- 1070
- 01:04:50,917 --> 01:04:52,167
- Yes.
- 1071
- 01:04:52,250 --> 01:04:54,292
- It doesn't matter, honey. I've had fun.
- 1072
- 01:04:54,375 --> 01:04:55,625
- Good. Good.
- 1073
- 01:04:55,708 --> 01:04:57,292
- We'll come back again
- 1074
- 01:04:57,375 --> 01:04:59,101
- when everything's normal
- and we can do it together.
- 1075
- 01:04:59,125 --> 01:05:00,142
- Sure.
- 1076
- 01:05:01,875 --> 01:05:04,792
- We're together.
- 1077
- 01:05:05,542 --> 01:05:06,708
- Yeah.
- 1078
- 01:05:06,792 --> 01:05:09,625
- This is so special.
- 1079
- 01:05:13,167 --> 01:05:17,333
- You know, the other day
- I was calculating the...
- 1080
- 01:05:17,417 --> 01:05:23,000
- I was working out that we've spent less
- than 30 days a year together
- 1081
- 01:05:23,083 --> 01:05:25,000
- for the last eight years.
- 1082
- 01:05:33,208 --> 01:05:34,625
- And...
- 1083
- 01:05:34,708 --> 01:05:38,292
- I was just thinking
- that it's really interesting,
- 1084
- 01:05:38,375 --> 01:05:39,917
- the way things happen.
- 1085
- 01:05:45,042 --> 01:05:47,000
- Well, if we hadn't gone to war...
- 1086
- 01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:51,042
- if September 11th hadn't happened...
- 1087
- 01:05:51,125 --> 01:05:54,083
- if America hadn't been attacked
- and we hadn't gone to war,
- 1088
- 01:05:54,167 --> 01:05:58,042
- I'd probably be barbecuing something
- in our backyard right now.
- 1089
- 01:05:58,925 --> 01:06:01,417
- But 9/11 did happen, didn't it?
- 1090
- 01:06:01,500 --> 01:06:05,958
- Yes. Yes, I know. I know.
- I know, and I am... I'm sorry.
- 1091
- 01:06:06,042 --> 01:06:09,458
- - I didn't say that to make you feel bad.
- - Why are you thinking about it?
- 1092
- 01:06:09,542 --> 01:06:12,167
- No, I'm not... I'm not...
- I'm not thinking about it, I promise.
- 1093
- 01:06:12,250 --> 01:06:14,417
- Yes, you are. You're calculating days.
- 1094
- 01:06:14,500 --> 01:06:17,292
- You just told me, one day
- you sat yourself down with a calendar
- 1095
- 01:06:17,375 --> 01:06:18,875
- and you calculated days.
- 1096
- 01:06:18,958 --> 01:06:21,958
- Yes, I know. I know.
- But I just did that because...
- 1097
- 01:06:22,042 --> 01:06:24,292
- I did it because
- I was proud of you, honey.
- 1098
- 01:06:34,458 --> 01:06:37,500
- I'm proud of me too. You know?
- 1099
- 01:06:40,250 --> 01:06:42,333
- Yeah, I'm proud of me too.
- 1100
- 01:06:43,875 --> 01:06:45,333
- Do you know?
- 1101
- 01:06:58,125 --> 01:06:59,583
- Oh, honey.
- 1102
- 01:07:00,667 --> 01:07:02,292
- No, honey, look at me.
- 1103
- 01:07:05,833 --> 01:07:07,667
- Everything's gonna be okay.
- 1104
- 01:07:09,750 --> 01:07:11,083
- I know.
- 1105
- 01:07:22,417 --> 01:07:25,500
- Yes, every... everything...
- 1106
- 01:07:27,833 --> 01:07:29,333
- Everything's okay.
- 1107
- 01:07:30,667 --> 01:07:31,750
- Yeah.
- 1108
- 01:07:33,625 --> 01:07:35,375
- Obama's not a leader.
- 1109
- 01:07:36,042 --> 01:07:37,708
- He's an orator.
- 1110
- 01:07:38,500 --> 01:07:42,167
- He hammered the whole world on.
- Yes, we can. Yes, we can.
- 1111
- 01:07:42,875 --> 01:07:45,667
- Really, it's no, we can't.
- 1112
- 01:07:45,750 --> 01:07:46,750
- Yeah.
- 1113
- 01:07:47,667 --> 01:07:49,583
- We can't do Iraq.
- 1114
- 01:07:50,875 --> 01:07:54,125
- He's loud and clear now
- that we can't do Afghanistan.
- 1115
- 01:07:54,208 --> 01:07:55,958
- We can't do Gitmo.
- 1116
- 01:07:56,042 --> 01:07:58,458
- Where the fuck else
- we gonna put all these motherfuckers?
- 1117
- 01:07:58,542 --> 01:08:02,708
- That's a great orator. Right there.
- 1118
- 01:08:02,792 --> 01:08:05,375
- He's sold us on, like a double negative.
- 1119
- 01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:08,500
- Yes, we can not do things.
- 1120
- 01:08:10,167 --> 01:08:12,917
- You know? Or is that a double negative?
- 1121
- 01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,000
- Not really, but I know what you mean.
- 1122
- 01:08:15,083 --> 01:08:16,958
- Yo, look who it is!
- 1123
- 01:08:17,500 --> 01:08:19,083
- Hey.
- 1124
- 01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:21,667
- - Hi.
- - Hello, Mrs. Boss.
- 1125
- 01:08:24,542 --> 01:08:26,208
- Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!
- 1126
- 01:08:27,208 --> 01:08:30,083
- Boss and Mrs. Boss, down there.
- 1127
- 01:08:30,167 --> 01:08:31,417
- - You, drink!
- - No, no.
- 1128
- 01:08:31,500 --> 01:08:34,208
- - You, drink!
- - Down the hatch.
- 1129
- 01:08:34,292 --> 01:08:38,083
- Sir, I just want to say again
- what a privilege this is.
- 1130
- 01:08:39,333 --> 01:08:40,875
- You must be really proud.
- 1131
- 01:08:40,958 --> 01:08:43,958
- - You must be really proud of him.
- - Oh, yes, I am.
- 1132
- 01:08:45,792 --> 01:08:48,875
- - Ah, here we go! Here we go!
- - Oh, yeah!
- 1133
- 01:08:48,958 --> 01:08:50,625
- Go, Pete!
- 1134
- 01:08:53,208 --> 01:08:55,417
- Come on!
- I got your name all over this.
- 1135
- 01:08:55,500 --> 01:08:57,250
- I always loved this asshole!
- 1136
- 01:09:05,250 --> 01:09:07,792
- - We're not flying to Berlin tomorrow.
- - What?
- 1137
- 01:09:07,875 --> 01:09:10,542
- - Not flying to Berlin tomorrow.
- - What?
- 1138
- 01:09:11,083 --> 01:09:13,917
- They won't give us clearance
- to fly to Berlin tomorrow.
- 1139
- 01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:15,958
- USA! Everybody now!
- 1140
- 01:09:16,042 --> 01:09:18,667
- USA! USA!
- 1141
- 01:09:21,042 --> 01:09:23,333
- This is bullshit.
- It's like one phone call.
- 1142
- 01:09:23,417 --> 01:09:26,125
- Hello, they won't let us take off.
- Can you fix it?
- 1143
- 01:09:26,208 --> 01:09:30,167
- Oh, no, monsieur.
- Big volcano. No take off.
- 1144
- 01:09:30,250 --> 01:09:32,708
- Well, this is General Glen McMahon
- we're talking about here.
- 1145
- 01:09:32,792 --> 01:09:34,625
- Oh, General Glen McMahon.
- 1146
- 01:09:34,708 --> 01:09:37,167
- Oh, I did not know.
- Why didn't you say that?
- 1147
- 01:09:37,250 --> 01:09:39,018
- Pardon, monsieur,
- of course you may take off.
- 1148
- 01:09:39,042 --> 01:09:41,417
- - Done! How hard is that?
- - I've made the calls. Believe me.
- 1149
- 01:09:41,500 --> 01:09:43,792
- Listen,
- we are the fucking US military.
- 1150
- 01:09:43,875 --> 01:09:46,083
- We practically invented everything!
- 1151
- 01:09:46,167 --> 01:09:47,967
- And now we have
- some chinless fuck in Brussels
- 1152
- 01:09:48,042 --> 01:09:49,792
- who's telling us
- we can't fly our own plane
- 1153
- 01:09:49,875 --> 01:09:52,292
- because of a volcano in Greenland.
- 1154
- 01:09:52,375 --> 01:09:53,625
- What are we supposed to do?
- 1155
- 01:09:53,708 --> 01:09:56,250
- Sit around here in Paris
- and wait for it to "stop erupting"?
- 1156
- 01:09:56,333 --> 01:09:59,143
- I don't know, Greg. This isn't exactly
- a situation that I've been in before.
- 1157
- 01:09:59,167 --> 01:10:01,375
- Okay, bear with me on this one.
- 1158
- 01:10:01,458 --> 01:10:03,583
- I think I might have
- just solved our problem.
- 1159
- 01:10:55,792 --> 01:10:59,458
- <i>I really can't tell you why</i>
- <i>these guys got so loose in front of me.</i>
- 1160
- 01:11:00,375 --> 01:11:02,833
- <i>Or why Glen let them get so loose.</i>
- 1161
- 01:11:04,125 --> 01:11:06,250
- <i>I can only put it down to hubris.</i>
- 1162
- 01:11:08,542 --> 01:11:12,125
- <i>These guys thought they were
- the most important guys in the world...</i>
- 1163
- 01:11:12,792 --> 01:11:15,083
- <i>with the most important jobs in the world.</i>
- 1164
- 01:11:16,833 --> 01:11:20,875
- <i>Maybe they assumed I thought
- they were as amazing as they did.</i>
- 1165
- 01:11:22,458 --> 01:11:23,708
- What are you writing?
- 1166
- 01:11:25,917 --> 01:11:28,417
- What are you writing?
- You're always writing. I don't like it.
- 1167
- 01:11:28,500 --> 01:11:31,708
- <i>Maybe they thought</i>
- <i>they could do whatever they wanted.</i>
- 1168
- 01:11:31,792 --> 01:11:32,958
- I'm a writer.
- 1169
- 01:11:34,375 --> 01:11:35,583
- I write.
- 1170
- 01:11:37,542 --> 01:11:39,667
- I better like what it is you're writing.
- 1171
- 01:11:41,583 --> 01:11:43,917
- Let's say you have ten insurgents.
- 1172
- 01:11:47,292 --> 01:11:49,625
- Now, let's say you kill two of 'em.
- 1173
- 01:11:51,125 --> 01:11:54,417
- Now, how many insurgents do you have left?
- 1174
- 01:11:57,417 --> 01:11:59,833
- Well, you'd say eight, of course.
- 1175
- 01:12:01,792 --> 01:12:03,292
- Eight. Right?
- 1176
- 01:12:04,208 --> 01:12:05,417
- Right?
- 1177
- 01:12:06,250 --> 01:12:07,250
- Wrong!
- 1178
- 01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:12,708
- In this scenario, ten minus two equals 20.
- 1179
- 01:12:16,208 --> 01:12:19,958
- Let's say the two insurgents
- you just killed...
- 1180
- 01:12:20,042 --> 01:12:24,292
- each had six friends or brothers
- or some such,
- 1181
- 01:12:24,375 --> 01:12:29,792
- who are hovering on the brink of
- joining the insurgency.
- 1182
- 01:12:29,875 --> 01:12:32,542
- They're thinking
- about this insurgency thing.
- 1183
- 01:12:33,292 --> 01:12:39,083
- Looks interesting. But, you know,
- for one reason or other, not for me.
- 1184
- 01:12:39,167 --> 01:12:44,042
- But... So, then you go
- and kill their friend.
- 1185
- 01:12:44,792 --> 01:12:47,250
- Now you've just made up
- their minds for 'em.
- 1186
- 01:12:47,833 --> 01:12:53,792
- Those hovering friends are now
- full, paid-up members of the enemy.
- 1187
- 01:12:53,875 --> 01:12:54,917
- Yeah.
- 1188
- 01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:59,000
- And so, in the math of counterinsurgency,
- 1189
- 01:12:59,083 --> 01:13:00,833
- ten minus two...
- 1190
- 01:13:02,250 --> 01:13:03,250
- equals 20.
- 1191
- 01:13:05,993 --> 01:13:07,417
- Yes, ma'am?
- 1192
- 01:13:07,500 --> 01:13:10,042
- General, the US invaded Afghanistan
- 1193
- 01:13:10,125 --> 01:13:14,000
- because of the al-Qaeda attacks
- on September 11th.
- 1194
- 01:13:14,083 --> 01:13:17,042
- - This is correct, yes?
- - Yeah.
- 1195
- 01:13:17,125 --> 01:13:19,917
- You have been speaking to us now
- for 45 minutes...
- 1196
- 01:13:21,458 --> 01:13:23,958
- Oh, where's the... Oh, thank you.
- 1197
- 01:13:24,750 --> 01:13:25,875
- Thank you.
- 1198
- 01:13:32,208 --> 01:13:35,333
- You have been
- speaking to us now for 45 minutes,
- 1199
- 01:13:35,417 --> 01:13:39,167
- and yet in all of that time you have
- only mentioned al-Qaeda once.
- 1200
- 01:13:39,708 --> 01:13:41,958
- Your own vice president has advocated
- 1201
- 01:13:42,042 --> 01:13:46,000
- a much smaller
- and simpler counterterrorism approach
- 1202
- 01:13:46,083 --> 01:13:48,625
- to incapacitate what is estimated to be
- 1203
- 01:13:48,708 --> 01:13:53,542
- little more than 100 al-Qaeda fighters
- that still remain in Afghanistan
- 1204
- 01:13:53,625 --> 01:13:58,417
- to refocus on what it was
- that started this war in the first place.
- 1205
- 01:13:58,650 --> 01:14:02,333
- Your analysis of the insurgency there
- 1206
- 01:14:02,417 --> 01:14:05,583
- suggests to me
- there is no monolithic Taliban.
- 1207
- 01:14:05,667 --> 01:14:07,750
- You are spread over the entire country.
- 1208
- 01:14:07,833 --> 01:14:11,292
- You are fighting 1,000 separate battles
- with locals
- 1209
- 01:14:11,375 --> 01:14:13,958
- whose principal ideological position
- 1210
- 01:14:14,042 --> 01:14:17,792
- would seem to be simply that they don't
- want foreign soldiers in their village.
- 1211
- 01:14:17,875 --> 01:14:22,000
- And that, General, you must know,
- is a war you will never win.
- 1212
- 01:14:25,750 --> 01:14:28,625
- with all due respect, ma'am...
- 1213
- 01:14:28,708 --> 01:14:30,167
- I must beg to differ.
- 1214
- 01:14:31,333 --> 01:14:33,000
- I firmly believe,
- 1215
- 01:14:33,083 --> 01:14:37,208
- having traveled to all corners
- of the country,
- 1216
- 01:14:37,292 --> 01:14:42,208
- having spoken with many people
- from many walks of life...
- 1217
- 01:14:43,125 --> 01:14:49,000
- that what these people want is the very
- same thing that you and I want.
- 1218
- 01:14:51,125 --> 01:14:56,750
- Freedom, security, stability, jobs.
- 1219
- 01:14:59,125 --> 01:15:02,792
- Progress is being made. Real progress.
- 1220
- 01:15:02,875 --> 01:15:04,667
- But challenges do remain.
- 1221
- 01:15:04,750 --> 01:15:07,000
- Yes,
- I understand all of that, General.
- 1222
- 01:15:07,083 --> 01:15:09,250
- And... and, please,
- let me say quite sincerely
- 1223
- 01:15:09,333 --> 01:15:13,417
- that I do not question
- the goodness of your intent.
- 1224
- 01:15:13,500 --> 01:15:16,542
- I have been listening to you
- here this morning, and...
- 1225
- 01:15:17,333 --> 01:15:18,875
- I believe you are a good man.
- 1226
- 01:15:20,042 --> 01:15:21,042
- I do.
- 1227
- 01:15:22,292 --> 01:15:25,250
- What I question is...
- 1228
- 01:15:26,458 --> 01:15:31,917
- your belief in your power
- to deliver these things that you describe.
- 1229
- 01:15:32,708 --> 01:15:36,958
- I question your belief in the power
- of your ideals.
- 1230
- 01:15:37,042 --> 01:15:38,250
- Ah, well...
- 1231
- 01:15:39,167 --> 01:15:42,250
- I think
- what I am trying to say,
- 1232
- 01:15:42,333 --> 01:15:45,417
- and I apologize, General,
- if this is sounding impolite,
- 1233
- 01:15:45,500 --> 01:15:48,667
- but I question your sense of self.
- 1234
- 01:15:51,708 --> 01:15:54,375
- No, no, no, that's all... all right.
- 1235
- 01:15:56,292 --> 01:16:00,875
- I appreciate your commentary.
- 1236
- 01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:03,917
- I do...
- 1237
- 01:16:04,500 --> 01:16:06,292
- But I have a job to do.
- 1238
- 01:16:06,375 --> 01:16:08,958
- Yes, I understand.
- And I also have a job to do.
- 1239
- 01:16:09,042 --> 01:16:10,708
- And I am trying to do mine.
- 1240
- 01:16:10,792 --> 01:16:13,375
- As an elected representative
- of the people of Germany,
- 1241
- 01:16:13,458 --> 01:16:17,542
- it is my job to ensure
- that the personal ambitions
- 1242
- 01:16:17,625 --> 01:16:21,167
- of those who serve those people
- are kept in check.
- 1243
- 01:16:22,167 --> 01:16:25,833
- You have devoted your entire life,
- General, to the fighting of war.
- 1244
- 01:16:25,917 --> 01:16:28,833
- And this situation
- in Afghanistan, for you,
- 1245
- 01:16:28,917 --> 01:16:31,958
- it is the culmination
- of all your years of training,
- 1246
- 01:16:32,042 --> 01:16:33,958
- all your years of ambition.
- 1247
- 01:16:34,042 --> 01:16:37,042
- - This is the great moment of your life.
- - Well...
- 1248
- 01:16:37,958 --> 01:16:41,000
- It's understandable to me
- that you should have, therefore,
- 1249
- 01:16:41,083 --> 01:16:45,875
- a fetish for completion
- to make your moment glorious.
- 1250
- 01:16:46,458 --> 01:16:50,500
- It is my job, however,
- to ensure that your personal ambitions
- 1251
- 01:16:50,583 --> 01:16:52,542
- are not entirely delusional
- 1252
- 01:16:52,625 --> 01:16:56,625
- and do not carry with them
- an unacceptable cost for everybody else.
- 1253
- 01:17:09,917 --> 01:17:12,500
- - Honey, you okay?
- - I'm fine.
- 1254
- 01:17:12,583 --> 01:17:14,583
- Please don't shut down.
- 1255
- 01:17:14,667 --> 01:17:16,708
- It's our last day together.
- 1256
- 01:17:18,125 --> 01:17:19,708
- Be here with me.
- 1257
- 01:17:45,917 --> 01:17:47,708
- One second. Thank you.
- 1258
- 01:17:48,208 --> 01:17:52,083
- So, just got an email from Gates.
- Good news and bad news.
- 1259
- 01:17:52,167 --> 01:17:56,083
- Spoke with the German defense minister.
- We're getting our troops.
- 1260
- 01:17:56,750 --> 01:17:59,083
- Turns out that crazy bitch
- lady back there
- 1261
- 01:17:59,167 --> 01:18:01,667
- was just some sad, lonely voice
- in the wilderness.
- 1262
- 01:18:01,750 --> 01:18:04,500
- Bad news is,
- they won't let their guys leave the base.
- 1263
- 01:18:04,583 --> 01:18:06,125
- Whatever that means.
- 1264
- 01:18:06,208 --> 01:18:10,167
- But, hey, they're ponying up.
- So I guess job here is done.
- 1265
- 01:18:13,667 --> 01:18:14,917
- Boss?
- 1266
- 01:18:23,375 --> 01:18:28,167
- <i>I used to think that men went gray</i>
- <i>because they had stressful jobs</i>
- 1267
- 01:18:28,250 --> 01:18:30,375
- <i>with stressful decisions to make.</i>
- 1268
- 01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:36,375
- <i>Now, I think it happens
- when men start to feel in their bones</i>
- 1269
- 01:18:36,458 --> 01:18:38,583
- <i>that the great moments of their lives...</i>
- 1270
- 01:18:39,500 --> 01:18:42,875
- <i>might not turn out to be quite as great
- as they'd always hoped.</i>
- 1271
- 01:18:44,750 --> 01:18:47,500
- <i>When the real world starts creeping in.</i>
- 1272
- 01:18:56,167 --> 01:19:00,542
- <i>What separates the believers like Glen
- from everybody else is...</i>
- 1273
- 01:19:01,375 --> 01:19:04,417
- <i>their ability to block
- this real world out.</i>
- 1274
- 01:19:11,208 --> 01:19:13,708
- <i>Some people call this insanity.</i>
- 1275
- 01:19:50,542 --> 01:19:52,708
- Welcome to Operation Moshtarak.
- 1276
- 01:19:54,667 --> 01:19:58,250
- We're taking the Helmand province,
- gentlemen, once and for all.
- 1277
- 01:19:59,375 --> 01:20:03,958
- Moshtarak will be the largest operation
- yet to be conducted since this war began.
- 1278
- 01:20:04,042 --> 01:20:08,125
- So, needless to say,
- it is an important one.
- 1279
- 01:20:09,708 --> 01:20:14,250
- This whole province has been
- a thorn in our ass since day one.
- 1280
- 01:20:14,333 --> 01:20:18,792
- So this here will be a definitive test
- in our resolve.
- 1281
- 01:20:20,125 --> 01:20:22,667
- And that starts right here in Marjah.
- 1282
- 01:20:22,750 --> 01:20:27,375
- If we infill teams here and here tonight,
- we can set up our blocking positions,
- 1283
- 01:20:27,458 --> 01:20:30,167
- hopefully draw enough wiggle room
- for the marines tomorrow.
- 1284
- 01:20:30,250 --> 01:20:32,583
- - Good.
- - The forecast says tonight's the night.
- 1285
- 01:20:32,667 --> 01:20:35,267
- If we don't go in tonight,
- likely have to wait maybe another week.
- 1286
- 01:20:35,792 --> 01:20:38,476
- I want Karzai to sign off on this.
- Cory, can you get him on the phone?
- 1287
- 01:20:38,500 --> 01:20:39,667
- Copy.
- 1288
- 01:20:39,750 --> 01:20:41,333
- And why these spots?
- 1289
- 01:20:41,417 --> 01:20:43,292
- ISR is telling us these locations
- 1290
- 01:20:43,375 --> 01:20:45,917
- are where there still appears to be
- a concentration of movement.
- 1291
- 01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:47,768
- Obviously, we're proceeding
- under the assumption
- 1292
- 01:20:47,792 --> 01:20:51,750
- that anyone who isn't a bad guy
- has moved on or at least hunkered down.
- 1293
- 01:20:51,833 --> 01:20:54,184
- We've made it clear
- to the whole city that's the thing to do.
- 1294
- 01:20:54,208 --> 01:20:56,089
- If I could just ask
- a question, General.
- 1295
- 01:20:56,125 --> 01:20:57,167
- Shoot!
- 1296
- 01:20:57,250 --> 01:21:00,083
- I know this is Marjah,
- but I'm still not quite clear
- 1297
- 01:21:00,167 --> 01:21:03,625
- as to why you're sending boys
- to Nawzad and Musa Qala.
- 1298
- 01:21:03,708 --> 01:21:05,458
- I mean, there's nothing out there.
- 1299
- 01:21:06,292 --> 01:21:09,500
- I'm just not quite clear what it is
- you're trying to control there.
- 1300
- 01:21:11,958 --> 01:21:13,500
- Apart from nothing.
- 1301
- 01:21:16,583 --> 01:21:18,167
- You see this map, Frank?
- 1302
- 01:21:18,917 --> 01:21:20,667
- This one, hmm?
- 1303
- 01:21:21,375 --> 01:21:24,208
- This here is the mess
- I'm having to clean up.
- 1304
- 01:21:24,958 --> 01:21:29,542
- Now, we've been kind enough
- to plan this operation in such a way
- 1305
- 01:21:29,625 --> 01:21:32,833
- as to not make it look like the Americans
- are here to get done what you couldn't.
- 1306
- 01:21:33,500 --> 01:21:35,583
- But that is what's happening.
- 1307
- 01:21:36,667 --> 01:21:38,700
- So, Frank...
- 1308
- 01:21:40,083 --> 01:21:43,500
- while your input is greatly appreciated...
- 1309
- 01:21:43,583 --> 01:21:44,583
- It is.
- 1310
- 01:21:45,292 --> 01:21:48,000
- I wouldn't want you to think
- that it isn't. It is.
- 1311
- 01:21:48,667 --> 01:21:53,250
- I'd also appreciate if you would take
- one nice, big step back
- 1312
- 01:21:53,333 --> 01:21:55,042
- and let me get this shit done.
- 1313
- 01:21:55,667 --> 01:21:57,958
- Yeah. Yeah?
- 1314
- 01:21:58,042 --> 01:21:59,125
- - What?
- - I can't get him.
- 1315
- 01:21:59,208 --> 01:22:00,518
- They're telling me
- he's in bed with a cold.
- 1316
- 01:22:00,542 --> 01:22:01,976
- Well, did you tell 'em what it's about?
- 1317
- 01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:03,393
- I didn't tell 'em exactly
- what it was about.
- 1318
- 01:22:03,417 --> 01:22:05,351
- - I said it was very important.
- - Jesus H. Christ.
- 1319
- 01:22:05,375 --> 01:22:07,625
- - Just dial the number again. I'll talk.
- - Right. Copy.
- 1320
- 01:22:10,250 --> 01:22:12,250
- Thanks, Bernie.
- Let's assume this is happening.
- 1321
- 01:22:12,333 --> 01:22:13,768
- I'll give you the green light
- soon as I get it.
- 1322
- 01:22:13,792 --> 01:22:15,712
- - Yes, sir.
- - I have General McMahon on the line.
- 1323
- 01:22:18,583 --> 01:22:21,875
- Hello, who am I speaking with?
- This is General McMahon.
- 1324
- 01:22:21,958 --> 01:22:24,625
- I need to speak
- to President Karzai urgently.
- 1325
- 01:22:24,708 --> 01:22:26,851
- I understand he's not feeling well,
- but I need to speak with him.
- 1326
- 01:22:26,875 --> 01:22:27,917
- Is he awake?
- 1327
- 01:22:28,500 --> 01:22:31,000
- Good. Put him on. Put the call through.
- 1328
- 01:22:31,083 --> 01:22:32,625
- What do you mean, he doesn't have one?
- 1329
- 01:22:33,500 --> 01:22:35,917
- What world leader
- doesn't have a phone in his bedroom?
- 1330
- 01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:37,143
- Does he have a cell phone in there?
- 1331
- 01:22:37,167 --> 01:22:38,809
- - Did you try his cell phone?
- - Straight to voice mail.
- 1332
- 01:22:38,833 --> 01:22:39,958
- What?
- 1333
- 01:22:40,042 --> 01:22:43,083
- Well, tell him to turn it back on.
- Please! Please!
- 1334
- 01:22:43,167 --> 01:22:45,500
- This is... I can't...
- 1335
- 01:22:45,583 --> 01:22:48,000
- Oh, fuck it! I'm coming over there.
- 1336
- 01:22:48,083 --> 01:22:51,458
- This is me doing that right now.
- I'm making the appointment right now.
- 1337
- 01:23:03,333 --> 01:23:04,792
- Yes?
- 1338
- 01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:10,667
- - Oh, General, please come in.
- - Mr. President.
- 1339
- 01:23:11,333 --> 01:23:12,750
- Please sit here.
- 1340
- 01:23:13,917 --> 01:23:16,458
- Please, please sit. Sit.
- 1341
- 01:23:22,833 --> 01:23:24,875
- - How are you?
- - I'm fine, sir.
- 1342
- 01:23:24,958 --> 01:23:26,458
- I've been trying to contact you.
- 1343
- 01:23:26,542 --> 01:23:29,292
- Oh, yes, I'm sorry. I'm not feeling well.
- 1344
- 01:23:29,375 --> 01:23:31,000
- I understand, sir.
- 1345
- 01:23:31,083 --> 01:23:33,208
- But did they not tell you this is urgent?
- 1346
- 01:23:33,292 --> 01:23:37,917
- Oh, you know how everything is
- at the top of the mountain, General.
- 1347
- 01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:42,500
- Everybody's urgent
- about everything all the time.
- 1348
- 01:23:42,583 --> 01:23:45,000
- Everything is important.
- Nothing ever really is.
- 1349
- 01:23:45,083 --> 01:23:49,167
- There's nothing
- that cannot wait until morning.
- 1350
- 01:23:49,250 --> 01:23:51,083
- This is important, sir.
- 1351
- 01:23:51,167 --> 01:23:54,458
- We hope to launch
- Operation Moshtarak tonight,
- 1352
- 01:23:54,542 --> 01:23:56,500
- and I need your official consent
- before doing so.
- 1353
- 01:23:56,583 --> 01:23:57,667
- - Really?
- - Yes, sir.
- 1354
- 01:23:57,750 --> 01:23:59,208
- - Why?
- - Because it's your mission.
- 1355
- 01:23:59,292 --> 01:24:00,292
- - It is?
- - Yes, sir.
- 1356
- 01:24:04,542 --> 01:24:07,208
- No one has ever asked me
- to approve a mission before.
- 1357
- 01:24:07,792 --> 01:24:11,458
- Well, that needs to change.
- This mission needs your consent.
- 1358
- 01:24:11,542 --> 01:24:13,458
- If we're to win the trust
- of Helmand province,
- 1359
- 01:24:13,542 --> 01:24:17,583
- it demands that this mission
- be seen to be of your design.
- 1360
- 01:24:17,667 --> 01:24:18,792
- I...
- 1361
- 01:24:21,250 --> 01:24:24,125
- I don't mean to be rude, Mr. President,
- 1362
- 01:24:25,167 --> 01:24:29,167
- but it is imperative that you begin
- to take a leadership role here.
- 1363
- 01:24:29,250 --> 01:24:31,417
- We cannot win this thing alone.
- 1364
- 01:24:31,500 --> 01:24:33,083
- Without your active involvement,
- 1365
- 01:24:33,167 --> 01:24:36,667
- our presence here will never be anything
- more than a foreign occupation.
- 1366
- 01:24:36,750 --> 01:24:41,125
- This is your war.
- For your country. Your people.
- 1367
- 01:24:41,208 --> 01:24:43,542
- Again, I'm sorry, sir...
- 1368
- 01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:48,125
- but you need to behave like a leader.
- 1369
- 01:24:48,208 --> 01:24:50,167
- But I am behaving like a leader.
- 1370
- 01:24:51,208 --> 01:24:52,583
- I'm unavailable.
- 1371
- 01:24:53,500 --> 01:24:58,875
- I am as unavailable to you
- as is your own president.
- 1372
- 01:25:02,833 --> 01:25:05,125
- You have my approval, General.
- 1373
- 01:25:05,708 --> 01:25:09,792
- We both know it was never really
- mine to give. But...
- 1374
- 01:25:11,542 --> 01:25:16,500
- I thank you for inviting me
- to participate in the theater of it all.
- 1375
- 01:25:18,083 --> 01:25:19,083
- And good luck.
- 1376
- 01:25:20,208 --> 01:25:23,083
- I wish you much success.
- 1377
- 01:25:40,042 --> 01:25:41,833
- Good luck tonight, Glen.
- 1378
- 01:25:43,500 --> 01:25:45,500
- Who told you about tonight?
- 1379
- 01:25:48,417 --> 01:25:50,208
- I just mean...
- 1380
- 01:25:50,292 --> 01:25:52,708
- whatever you happen to find yourself
- doing tonight,
- 1381
- 01:25:53,458 --> 01:25:54,625
- good luck with it.
- 1382
- 01:25:56,375 --> 01:25:57,833
- Go fuck yourself, Pat.
- 1383
- 01:25:58,833 --> 01:26:01,292
- Glen? Glen.
- 1384
- 01:26:03,917 --> 01:26:05,083
- What?
- 1385
- 01:26:05,167 --> 01:26:06,750
- Look, I just want to apologize.
- 1386
- 01:26:08,125 --> 01:26:09,250
- You know how the other day
- 1387
- 01:26:09,333 --> 01:26:11,226
- I said there wasn't a parade
- at the end of all this?
- 1388
- 01:26:11,250 --> 01:26:13,500
- I was wrong. It was glib.
- 1389
- 01:26:13,583 --> 01:26:16,292
- I just thought it was a pithy way
- to end the conversation,
- 1390
- 01:26:16,375 --> 01:26:17,375
- but I was wrong.
- 1391
- 01:26:18,292 --> 01:26:20,583
- There's gonna be thousands of parades.
- 1392
- 01:26:21,167 --> 01:26:23,375
- Thousands of 'em all over America.
- 1393
- 01:26:24,958 --> 01:26:27,250
- Only none of them will be for you.
- 1394
- 01:26:30,583 --> 01:26:32,833
- Now that was pithy too, but it was true.
- 1395
- 01:26:34,542 --> 01:26:35,667
- Fuck you!
- 1396
- 01:26:36,333 --> 01:26:37,667
- Roger that.
- 1397
- 01:26:37,750 --> 01:26:39,110
- What was that about, buddy?
- 1398
- 01:26:39,167 --> 01:26:42,375
- Nothing. Let's get to Kandahar.
- We got some fucking winning to do.
- 1399
- 01:26:45,542 --> 01:26:46,958
- Okay, listen up.
- 1400
- 01:26:49,667 --> 01:26:51,458
- This is going to be tough.
- 1401
- 01:26:52,750 --> 01:26:54,792
- I'm not gonna mince words about that.
- 1402
- 01:26:55,500 --> 01:26:56,875
- This will be tough.
- 1403
- 01:26:57,583 --> 01:27:01,375
- This will probably be the toughest mission
- that any of you all will experience.
- 1404
- 01:27:01,458 --> 01:27:03,750
- This is the real deal.
- 1405
- 01:27:04,667 --> 01:27:07,000
- Marjah is Taliban ground zero.
- 1406
- 01:27:08,250 --> 01:27:10,833
- This is gonna be IEDs everywhere.
- 1407
- 01:27:10,917 --> 01:27:13,292
- This is gonna be their best guys.
- 1408
- 01:27:13,375 --> 01:27:15,167
- And they are gonna be prepared.
- 1409
- 01:27:17,875 --> 01:27:19,875
- They know we're coming, gentlemen.
- 1410
- 01:27:21,167 --> 01:27:25,333
- They've known we're coming for weeks.
- So don't be under any illusion.
- 1411
- 01:27:25,417 --> 01:27:27,458
- This will get ugly.
- 1412
- 01:27:28,875 --> 01:27:30,500
- We're gonna lose guys.
- 1413
- 01:27:30,583 --> 01:27:34,625
- I am not gonna lie to you about that.
- There will be casualties.
- 1414
- 01:27:37,958 --> 01:27:40,125
- But if you keep your wits about you,
- 1415
- 01:27:41,417 --> 01:27:44,375
- if you have faith in your ability,
- 1416
- 01:27:44,458 --> 01:27:47,750
- if you have faith in the ability
- of the men next to you,
- 1417
- 01:27:47,833 --> 01:27:50,792
- you will come out the tail end of this!
- 1418
- 01:27:51,708 --> 01:27:53,750
- I have faith in you!
- 1419
- 01:27:53,833 --> 01:27:56,083
- I know who you are!
- 1420
- 01:27:56,167 --> 01:27:59,917
- You are proud members
- of the toughest fucking fighting force
- 1421
- 01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:03,958
- this world has ever known.
- Carry that knowledge with you!
- 1422
- 01:28:04,667 --> 01:28:07,542
- Carry it with pride!
- Do you understand me?
- 1423
- 01:28:08,708 --> 01:28:11,033
- Do you understand me?
- 1424
- 01:28:11,792 --> 01:28:12,917
- That's right.
- 1425
- 01:28:15,542 --> 01:28:18,958
- Any of you so inclined, I'm gonna ask
- this chaplain to say a prayer for us.
- 1426
- 01:28:19,875 --> 01:28:21,208
- Thank you, Captain.
- 1427
- 01:28:24,625 --> 01:28:25,875
- Let us pray!
- 1428
- 01:28:28,208 --> 01:28:32,292
- Almighty God,
- as these marines prepare for battle,
- 1429
- 01:28:33,042 --> 01:28:35,458
- we pray that your Holy Spirit
- shall guide them.
- 1430
- 01:28:36,708 --> 01:28:39,708
- As you brought down the walls of Jericho,
- 1431
- 01:28:39,792 --> 01:28:42,583
- as you dealt out your wrath
- upon the Philistines,
- 1432
- 01:28:42,667 --> 01:28:44,375
- as you crushed the Hittites
- 1433
- 01:28:44,458 --> 01:28:47,875
- and brought retribution upon
- all the enemies of the righteous,
- 1434
- 01:28:48,583 --> 01:28:53,125
- may your mighty hand be upon these men
- and assure their victories.
- 1435
- 01:28:54,583 --> 01:28:56,917
- Be with them, mighty God...
- 1436
- 01:29:27,167 --> 01:29:28,167
- Let's move.
- 1437
- 01:29:45,042 --> 01:29:47,282
- What are you thinking about, buddy?
- 1438
- 01:29:49,958 --> 01:29:53,458
- Well, let's just see
- how this plays out.
- 1439
- 01:29:56,750 --> 01:29:58,292
- The uncrackable nut.
- 1440
- 01:29:59,917 --> 01:30:01,875
- If anyone's gonna crack this,
- it's gonna be you.
- 1441
- 01:30:05,625 --> 01:30:07,833
- You're gonna smash this
- like a monkey on a rock.
- 1442
- 01:30:07,917 --> 01:30:09,042
- Yeah.
- 1443
- 01:30:14,917 --> 01:30:17,825
- You're a killing machine, Glen.
- 1444
- 01:30:19,917 --> 01:30:21,833
- You are the terrorist hunter.
- 1445
- 01:30:23,583 --> 01:30:24,708
- Remember?
- 1446
- 01:30:28,917 --> 01:30:31,292
- You're Big Glen.
- 1447
- 01:30:33,417 --> 01:30:34,792
- You're the Glenimal.
- 1448
- 01:30:44,917 --> 01:30:46,042
- Thank you, General.
- 1449
- 01:31:23,875 --> 01:31:25,458
- I'm hungry.
- 1450
- 01:31:25,542 --> 01:31:27,333
- I wanna eat that motherfucker.
- 1451
- 01:31:27,417 --> 01:31:29,000
- Jesus Christ, man.
- 1452
- 01:31:33,833 --> 01:31:34,875
- Farrenberg.
- 1453
- 01:31:44,917 --> 01:31:45,917
- Move.
- 1454
- 01:31:56,167 --> 01:31:58,375
- Contact front!
- 1455
- 01:31:58,458 --> 01:31:59,726
- Move! Move! Up against the wall!
- 1456
- 01:31:59,750 --> 01:32:00,851
- - Farrenberg.
- - Not too close.
- 1457
- 01:32:00,875 --> 01:32:02,583
- Get off the walls. Now!
- 1458
- 01:32:10,375 --> 01:32:12,500
- - Fuck!
- - Over there, twelve o'clock!
- 1459
- 01:32:13,083 --> 01:32:15,292
- Cole! Cole!
- 1460
- 01:32:15,375 --> 01:32:17,975
- I need to see a weapon.
- He isn't a combatant until I see a weapon.
- 1461
- 01:32:18,042 --> 01:32:20,167
- Fuck, man!
- You think this nigga on his morning jog?
- 1462
- 01:32:22,042 --> 01:32:23,458
- All right. All right.
- 1463
- 01:32:23,542 --> 01:32:25,309
- We're gonna head to that house
- over there at two o'clock.
- 1464
- 01:32:25,333 --> 01:32:26,684
- All right? We're gonna work this shit out.
- 1465
- 01:32:26,708 --> 01:32:29,125
- Cutter, I need you,
- Song, Carroll and Trey,
- 1466
- 01:32:29,208 --> 01:32:32,169
- head over there and get us in, all right?
- We're gonna move up to cover you.
- 1467
- 01:32:32,250 --> 01:32:34,750
- I need ANA guys going in first.
- 1468
- 01:32:34,833 --> 01:32:37,583
- Trey! You take those first two guys
- with you. Copy?
- 1469
- 01:32:37,999 --> 01:32:41,625
- You two, up! Up! Get the fuck up!
- 1470
- 01:32:41,708 --> 01:32:42,708
- Move in.
- 1471
- 01:32:42,792 --> 01:32:44,583
- Come on! Let's go!
- 1472
- 01:32:48,792 --> 01:32:49,792
- Clear.
- 1473
- 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:54,250
- Put that gun up, now.
- 1474
- 01:32:57,875 --> 01:32:59,667
- We're getting ready to move now.
- 1475
- 01:33:13,750 --> 01:33:14,750
- Come on!
- 1476
- 01:33:14,833 --> 01:33:17,083
- Come on. Fucking move! Come on!
- 1477
- 01:33:17,167 --> 01:33:18,750
- Zah, zah, zah, you fuck!
- 1478
- 01:33:18,833 --> 01:33:20,333
- Oh, you fat piece of shit!
- 1479
- 01:33:20,417 --> 01:33:22,625
- Fucking move! Move!
- 1480
- 01:33:25,542 --> 01:33:26,667
- Move!
- 1481
- 01:33:30,250 --> 01:33:31,333
- To the right!
- 1482
- 01:33:33,542 --> 01:33:35,167
- - Clear!
- - All right!
- 1483
- 01:33:35,250 --> 01:33:36,250
- All clear!
- 1484
- 01:33:37,208 --> 01:33:40,250
- Okay. Farrenberg, let's go!
- 1485
- 01:33:42,042 --> 01:33:43,250
- Move. Go in.
- 1486
- 01:33:45,875 --> 01:33:46,875
- All right.
- 1487
- 01:33:48,250 --> 01:33:49,875
- Listen up.
- 1488
- 01:33:49,958 --> 01:33:53,083
- We're gonna get on the roof of this place,
- figure out what we're looking at.
- 1489
- 01:33:53,167 --> 01:33:56,000
- Cutter, Cole, you're coming with me.
- 1490
- 01:33:56,083 --> 01:33:58,333
- The rest of you guys stay put. Copy?
- 1491
- 01:33:58,417 --> 01:33:59,417
- Copy.
- 1492
- 01:34:00,167 --> 01:34:01,167
- Comin' up!
- 1493
- 01:34:02,208 --> 01:34:04,208
- We got movement, twelve o'clock.
- 1494
- 01:34:04,292 --> 01:34:06,458
- About 300 meters, two guys on the roof.
- 1495
- 01:34:07,042 --> 01:34:09,125
- - Are they armed?
- - I don't know.
- 1496
- 01:34:09,208 --> 01:34:11,476
- It's a simple fucking question, Trey.
- Do you see a weapon?
- 1497
- 01:34:11,500 --> 01:34:13,518
- No. That's not what you asked.
- You asked if they were armed.
- 1498
- 01:34:13,542 --> 01:34:15,059
- The answer to that one is,
- I don't fucking know.
- 1499
- 01:34:15,083 --> 01:34:16,268
- Obviously they're armed, Ortega.
- 1500
- 01:34:16,292 --> 01:34:18,132
- Why else would they be
- running around up there?
- 1501
- 01:34:18,208 --> 01:34:20,958
- I don't fucking know, do I?
- I don't understand these fucking people.
- 1502
- 01:34:21,042 --> 01:34:23,125
- All I know is we need to see weapons.
- 1503
- 01:34:25,792 --> 01:34:27,601
- - Are you hit? Are you hit?
- - Fuck!
- 1504
- 01:34:27,625 --> 01:34:29,309
- - I'm fucking hit!
- - Where are you hit?
- 1505
- 01:34:29,333 --> 01:34:30,375
- On my fucking eyes.
- 1506
- 01:34:30,458 --> 01:34:32,559
- - Can you open 'em?
- - What the fuck is going on? Is he hit?
- 1507
- 01:34:32,583 --> 01:34:34,518
- We're good. We're good.
- Trey's just got shit in his eyes.
- 1508
- 01:34:34,542 --> 01:34:35,542
- Hey, yo, guys!
- 1509
- 01:34:35,625 --> 01:34:38,250
- - Cutter, get the fuck over here!
- - Fuck!
- 1510
- 01:34:38,833 --> 01:34:40,513
- It's just water. It's just water.
- 1511
- 01:34:40,542 --> 01:34:42,226
- Give us... Give me the 203.
- Give me the 203.
- 1512
- 01:34:42,250 --> 01:34:44,451
- - Trey, stay still!
- - Give me your fucking gun!
- 1513
- 01:34:44,500 --> 01:34:48,292
- Ortega! What's going on up there?
- What the fuck's going on up there, guys?
- 1514
- 01:34:49,417 --> 01:34:50,917
- Cover!
- 1515
- 01:34:51,542 --> 01:34:52,542
- Fuck.
- 1516
- 01:34:58,958 --> 01:35:00,667
- Fucking short, man!
- 1517
- 01:35:01,458 --> 01:35:02,458
- Fuck.
- 1518
- 01:35:05,875 --> 01:35:07,917
- - Again!
- - Zah!
- 1519
- 01:35:13,125 --> 01:35:14,292
- - Short!
- - I know.
- 1520
- 01:35:15,458 --> 01:35:16,542
- One more!
- 1521
- 01:35:24,708 --> 01:35:26,167
- Fuck, yeah!
- 1522
- 01:35:29,542 --> 01:35:30,667
- Good job, Cole.
- 1523
- 01:35:31,958 --> 01:35:33,333
- Nice shooting, boys.
- 1524
- 01:35:36,292 --> 01:35:37,917
- - Farrenberg, you hit?
- - Nah.
- 1525
- 01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:40,250
- - Are you hit?
- - No. I'm good.
- 1526
- 01:35:40,333 --> 01:35:41,500
- Fuck.
- 1527
- 01:35:43,375 --> 01:35:46,250
- - Fuck this shit!
- - Cole, where the fuck are you going?
- 1528
- 01:35:46,333 --> 01:35:48,226
- - Dude, where the fuck are you going?
- - Fuck off!
- 1529
- 01:35:48,250 --> 01:35:51,250
- - Corporal, what's happening?
- - Wait, where the fuck are you going, man?
- 1530
- 01:35:51,333 --> 01:35:53,375
- - Shut the fuck up!
- - Wait, Cole! Cole!
- 1531
- 01:35:53,458 --> 01:35:55,792
- - Cole! Get back here, Cole!
- - Cole!
- 1532
- 01:35:55,875 --> 01:35:58,000
- Cole, what the fuck, man?
- Where you going?
- 1533
- 01:35:58,083 --> 01:35:59,434
- Where the fuck
- are you going, man?
- 1534
- 01:35:59,458 --> 01:36:01,667
- - Fuck, Cole!
- - Come back, Cole!
- 1535
- 01:36:02,625 --> 01:36:03,625
- Cole!
- 1536
- 01:38:39,958 --> 01:38:43,583
- They're crawling.
- They're in the middle of an IED belt.
- 1537
- 01:38:43,667 --> 01:38:45,667
- And first and second platoons,
- they're pinned down,
- 1538
- 01:38:45,750 --> 01:38:48,667
- and second is close to requesting QRF.
- 1539
- 01:38:48,750 --> 01:38:50,708
- Tell me something good, Cory.
- 1540
- 01:38:50,792 --> 01:38:52,434
- I'm trying.
- This info ain't meeting me halfway.
- 1541
- 01:38:52,458 --> 01:38:54,059
- I wanna hear something good, God damn it.
- 1542
- 01:38:54,083 --> 01:38:57,292
- I don't want the word "clusterfuck"
- featuring anywhere in tomorrow's news.
- 1543
- 01:38:58,792 --> 01:39:00,352
- Don't worry about the headlines, buddy.
- 1544
- 01:39:11,375 --> 01:39:13,000
- We got civilian casualties.
- 1545
- 01:39:14,958 --> 01:39:18,500
- We got civilian casualties
- southeast corner of town, third platoon.
- 1546
- 01:39:20,667 --> 01:39:22,500
- It's those boys from Sasquatch.
- 1547
- 01:39:30,125 --> 01:39:32,250
- Cutter, find out
- who these fucking guys are.
- 1548
- 01:39:32,333 --> 01:39:34,143
- If they're gonna stand there,
- I wanna know who they are.
- 1549
- 01:39:34,167 --> 01:39:35,500
- How?
- 1550
- 01:39:36,125 --> 01:39:37,625
- Get one of the ANA to talk to 'em.
- 1551
- 01:39:39,042 --> 01:39:42,708
- Them motherfuckers speak Pashto.
- The ANA don't speak Pashto.
- 1552
- 01:39:42,792 --> 01:39:44,375
- I don't know. Figure it out.
- 1553
- 01:39:46,042 --> 01:39:47,167
- The fuck...
- 1554
- 01:39:53,875 --> 01:39:55,917
- Cutter's fucking shit up outside.
- 1555
- 01:40:00,083 --> 01:40:02,934
- - All right. What's the deal here?
- - He's saying he didn't know the bad guys.
- 1556
- 01:40:02,958 --> 01:40:05,999
- They just commandeered his house, and
- there was nothing he could do about it.
- 1557
- 01:40:06,583 --> 01:40:09,250
- Well, that's fucking bullshit.
- We did leaflet drops and shit.
- 1558
- 01:40:09,958 --> 01:40:11,250
- He shouldn't still be here.
- 1559
- 01:40:11,333 --> 01:40:13,614
- Why are you still here?
- What's your reason for being here?
- 1560
- 01:40:28,292 --> 01:40:31,208
- He says that he has
- nowhere to go. He has no wife.
- 1561
- 01:40:31,292 --> 01:40:35,333
- He is worried about leaving his goats.
- He says that he's telling the truth.
- 1562
- 01:40:35,417 --> 01:40:37,667
- You can search his house.
- You will find no weapons.
- 1563
- 01:40:42,208 --> 01:40:43,333
- Wait.
- 1564
- 01:40:43,417 --> 01:40:45,667
- Farrenberg? Farrenberg!
- 1565
- 01:40:45,750 --> 01:40:48,042
- - Yeah, I'm here!
- - Come here!
- 1566
- 01:40:48,917 --> 01:40:51,042
- We're gonna give this guy
- some money, all right?
- 1567
- 01:40:51,125 --> 01:40:52,684
- - You fucking serious?
- - Yeah, I am serious.
- 1568
- 01:40:52,708 --> 01:40:55,125
- Give me the fucking...
- Open the fucking bag.
- 1569
- 01:40:56,958 --> 01:40:59,542
- - What are those, 2.5?
- - Yeah.
- 1570
- 01:41:00,292 --> 01:41:01,458
- Okay, give me one of those.
- 1571
- 01:41:27,750 --> 01:41:31,792
- My name is General Glen McMahon.
- On behalf of the coalition forces,
- 1572
- 01:41:31,875 --> 01:41:36,583
- I wanna apologize to you
- for the loss you've suffered here today.
- 1573
- 01:41:44,458 --> 01:41:48,500
- I know the money that Sergeant Ortega
- gave you can't bring back your family.
- 1574
- 01:41:49,083 --> 01:41:52,625
- But hopefully it can help you to rebuild,
- 1575
- 01:41:52,708 --> 01:41:54,667
- because rebuilding
- is what we're all about.
- 1576
- 01:41:55,250 --> 01:41:57,125
- And providing you
- with the security you need
- 1577
- 01:41:57,208 --> 01:42:00,750
- to live a long and prosperous life.
- 1578
- 01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:15,708
- Roads and schools
- and then jobs, so...
- 1579
- 01:42:15,792 --> 01:42:19,083
- you can raise your families,
- and jobs so you can put food on the table.
- 1580
- 01:42:27,542 --> 01:42:29,583
- The Taliban aren't gonna provide you jobs.
- 1581
- 01:42:30,208 --> 01:42:33,792
- The Taliban aren't here to help you.
- Only we can help you.
- 1582
- 01:42:38,083 --> 01:42:41,875
- We have a saying in America.
- 1583
- 01:42:43,208 --> 01:42:46,417
- You can't make an omelet
- without breaking a few eggs.
- 1584
- 01:42:50,750 --> 01:42:55,833
- I understand that sometimes it can be hard
- to see the helping hand,
- 1585
- 01:42:55,917 --> 01:42:59,000
- what with all the guns
- and the strange guys
- 1586
- 01:42:59,083 --> 01:43:00,833
- and the mess and what have you.
- 1587
- 01:43:05,917 --> 01:43:10,042
- But I assure you,
- this is the hand of helping.
- 1588
- 01:43:10,125 --> 01:43:11,625
- This is the helping hand.
- 1589
- 01:43:17,250 --> 01:43:18,250
- Yeah.
- 1590
- 01:43:31,417 --> 01:43:34,833
- He says that he likes roads and schools,
- but when you leave,
- 1591
- 01:43:34,917 --> 01:43:37,750
- it will all mean nothing
- and they will be left in a big mess.
- 1592
- 01:43:37,833 --> 01:43:39,500
- And every day that you spend here longer,
- 1593
- 01:43:39,583 --> 01:43:41,343
- the worse it will be for them
- when you leave.
- 1594
- 01:43:41,417 --> 01:43:43,625
- So please, leave now.
- 1595
- 01:43:45,125 --> 01:43:46,125
- Please.
- 1596
- 01:43:46,917 --> 01:43:49,417
- I understand your concerns.
- I really do. That's...
- 1597
- 01:43:53,417 --> 01:43:56,875
- That's why we're doing everything
- we can to bring peace,
- 1598
- 01:43:56,958 --> 01:43:59,792
- and to train up your own Afghan forces.
- 1599
- 01:44:03,875 --> 01:44:08,583
- So that they can maintain
- your security...
- 1600
- 01:44:08,667 --> 01:44:12,333
- well into the future.
- 1601
- 01:44:18,750 --> 01:44:20,667
- Please, leave now.
- 1602
- 01:44:30,750 --> 01:44:34,292
- Dragonfly, this is Spartan Two.
- Think we're ready to roll.
- 1603
- 01:45:44,083 --> 01:45:45,667
- Give 'em hell, boys!
- 1604
- 01:45:45,750 --> 01:45:48,583
- Kill those motherfuckers! Eat 'em alive!
- 1605
- 01:46:56,458 --> 01:46:59,917
- Jesus Christ, Willy. What time is it?
- 1606
- 01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:01,375
- It's me, boss.
- 1607
- 01:47:01,958 --> 01:47:03,292
- Sorry to wake you.
- 1608
- 01:47:04,500 --> 01:47:06,083
- We have a problem.
- 1609
- 01:47:06,792 --> 01:47:11,292
- That Rolling Stone article came out,
- and it's not good.
- 1610
- 01:47:38,042 --> 01:47:40,625
- Sir, it says we're shit-talking
- our president.
- 1611
- 01:47:42,917 --> 01:47:44,333
- And our vice president.
- 1612
- 01:47:46,125 --> 01:47:48,750
- That we don't have the support
- of our coalition partners.
- 1613
- 01:47:52,042 --> 01:47:54,167
- And that we're drunk all over Europe.
- 1614
- 01:47:59,708 --> 01:48:03,250
- Basically, a fucking drinking tour.
- All over Europe.
- 1615
- 01:48:03,333 --> 01:48:07,208
- I mean, I don't even know what the legals
- on a thing like this are, you know?
- 1616
- 01:48:07,292 --> 01:48:08,976
- Nothing he says in there
- is actually untrue.
- 1617
- 01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:11,184
- I'll get the editor on the phone
- as soon as it's morning there
- 1618
- 01:48:11,208 --> 01:48:15,875
- and see if there's anything they can do.
- I'm not sure what that's gonna be, though.
- 1619
- 01:48:15,958 --> 01:48:18,375
- Bottom line,
- this is gonna play bad, all right?
- 1620
- 01:48:18,458 --> 01:48:21,958
- It's gonna play really fucking bad.
- So we are in damage control now.
- 1621
- 01:48:22,042 --> 01:48:24,875
- Guys, guys... Is this really that bad?
- 1622
- 01:48:25,500 --> 01:48:27,833
- I mean, yeah, it's colorful, sure. But...
- 1623
- 01:48:28,583 --> 01:48:31,542
- this is Rolling Stone, okay? It's hip.
- 1624
- 01:48:31,625 --> 01:48:34,292
- And you guys...
- You guys are the operators.
- 1625
- 01:48:34,375 --> 01:48:35,625
- You know, you're out there,
- 1626
- 01:48:35,708 --> 01:48:40,542
- you're getting shit done in like
- a totally non-square way.
- 1627
- 01:48:40,625 --> 01:48:43,250
- Yes, Little, you fucking idiot,
- it's that bad.
- 1628
- 01:48:43,333 --> 01:48:44,934
- This was always a terrible idea.
- 1629
- 01:48:44,958 --> 01:48:47,917
- Why you would unnecessarily
- court attention like this is...
- 1630
- 01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:51,458
- - Simon, can you shut the fuck up?
- - I will not shut up!
- 1631
- 01:48:53,083 --> 01:48:54,667
- This is your mess.
- 1632
- 01:48:55,250 --> 01:48:56,500
- You created it.
- 1633
- 01:48:56,583 --> 01:49:01,167
- You invited this Cullen fellow in,
- you didn't properly consult me!
- 1634
- 01:49:01,250 --> 01:49:04,167
- What? I didn't properly consult you?
- Are you fucking kidding me?
- 1635
- 01:49:04,250 --> 01:49:05,518
- We had a conversation.
- 1636
- 01:49:05,542 --> 01:49:07,982
- - Give me his phone number.
- - What? Whose phone number?
- 1637
- 01:49:08,042 --> 01:49:09,809
- This fucking Cullen fuck.
- Give me his fucking phone number!
- 1638
- 01:49:09,833 --> 01:49:12,143
- - I'm not gonna give you his phone number.
- - Why the fuck not?
- 1639
- 01:49:12,167 --> 01:49:15,583
- Because you're acting crazy! You're acting
- like a fucking lunatic right now!
- 1640
- 01:49:15,667 --> 01:49:17,667
- You think this is crazy, huh?
- 1641
- 01:49:17,750 --> 01:49:20,191
- - You think this is me being crazy?
- - Peter! Calm down!
- 1642
- 01:49:20,250 --> 01:49:21,833
- You fucking calm down!
- 1643
- 01:49:21,917 --> 01:49:23,167
- Duckman!
- 1644
- 01:49:25,125 --> 01:49:27,000
- I'm gonna beat you down
- unless you chill out.
- 1645
- 01:49:27,708 --> 01:49:30,958
- Oh, I'd like to see you try, old man.
- Fucking come on!
- 1646
- 01:49:31,042 --> 01:49:32,917
- Settle down, fellas.
- 1647
- 01:49:39,958 --> 01:49:41,875
- I do believe I'm finished.
- 1648
- 01:49:45,917 --> 01:49:47,125
- So...
- 1649
- 01:49:48,917 --> 01:49:50,750
- do me a favor, and...
- 1650
- 01:49:53,417 --> 01:49:55,500
- be lovely to one another.
- 1651
- 01:49:57,167 --> 01:49:58,958
- - Sir.
- - Yes, sir.
- 1652
- 01:51:08,333 --> 01:51:09,333
- Dick.
- 1653
- 01:51:10,042 --> 01:51:11,042
- Glen.
- 1654
- 01:51:11,708 --> 01:51:15,458
- The president wants to see you in DC.
- 1655
- 01:51:15,542 --> 01:51:17,958
- You need to be on a plane this afternoon.
- 1656
- 01:51:19,375 --> 01:51:21,958
- - Okay.
- - Okay.
- 1657
- 01:51:31,417 --> 01:51:32,417
- Andy.
- 1658
- 01:51:38,958 --> 01:51:39,958
- Badi.
- 1659
- 01:51:45,125 --> 01:51:47,292
- Okay. Let's go, Willy.
- 1660
- 01:51:57,333 --> 01:51:58,667
- Fall out.
- 1661
- 01:52:30,958 --> 01:52:35,667
- - Do you need anything, boss?
- - No. Thank you, Willy.
- 1662
- 01:52:38,583 --> 01:52:42,792
- Are you... are you sure you don't need me
- to come with you?
- 1663
- 01:52:44,917 --> 01:52:46,333
- I'm fine, Willy.
- 1664
- 01:52:48,042 --> 01:52:49,375
- - Thanks.
- - Yeah.
- 1665
- 01:53:17,917 --> 01:53:21,792
- <i>And so Glen finally got</i>
- <i>his face time with the president.</i>
- 1666
- 01:53:21,875 --> 01:53:25,583
- <i>Getting fired probably wasn't
- the kind of face time he was after,</i>
- 1667
- 01:53:25,667 --> 01:53:27,583
- <i>but, well,</i>
- 1668
- 01:53:27,667 --> 01:53:30,875
- <i>I guess you could say it was
- kind of a page in the history books.</i>
- 1669
- 01:53:31,458 --> 01:53:33,375
- <i>That was pretty exciting for me.</i>
- 1670
- 01:53:34,667 --> 01:53:37,708
- <i>But, sadly, while I would've liked
- to have thought</i>
- 1671
- 01:53:37,792 --> 01:53:41,375
- <i>that my story had made a difference,
- it didn't.</i>
- 1672
- 01:53:41,458 --> 01:53:45,125
- <i>It just became another
- celebrity-fall-from-grace story.</i>
- 1673
- 01:53:46,125 --> 01:53:48,750
- <i>It would've been nice
- if the conversation after</i>
- 1674
- 01:53:48,833 --> 01:53:52,333
- <i>had been about the failure
- of counterinsurgency,</i>
- 1675
- 01:53:52,417 --> 01:53:55,875
- <i>or why we seem so desperate
- to be at war all the time,</i>
- 1676
- 01:53:55,958 --> 01:53:59,375
- <i>or how maybe what we're doing
- is just making more enemies</i>
- 1677
- 01:53:59,458 --> 01:54:03,042
- <i>all in the name of keeping America safe.</i>
- 1678
- 01:54:03,125 --> 01:54:06,458
- <i>It might've been nice if it had caused
- someone important to ask</i>
- 1679
- 01:54:06,542 --> 01:54:08,542
- <i>what any of this says about us.</i>
- 1680
- 01:54:09,667 --> 01:54:13,375
- <i>But really, the only question
- anyone seemed to want to ask was...</i>
- 1681
- 01:54:13,958 --> 01:54:15,833
- <i>What the fuck was Glen McMahon doing</i>
- 1682
- 01:54:15,917 --> 01:54:18,375
- <i>talking to a Rolling Stone
- reporter anyway?</i>
- 1683
- 01:54:19,542 --> 01:54:21,917
- <i>Which, admittedly, is a good question.</i>
- 1684
- 01:54:23,542 --> 01:54:27,083
- <i>Anyway, in the absence
- of any real soul searching,</i>
- 1685
- 01:54:27,167 --> 01:54:28,500
- <i>what do we do?</i>
- 1686
- 01:54:28,583 --> 01:54:32,833
- <i>Well, obviously, we sack Glen
- and we bring in some other guy.</i>
- 1687
- 01:54:33,833 --> 01:54:35,292
- <i>And that other guy...</i>
- 1688
- 01:54:36,417 --> 01:54:37,958
- <i>was Bob.</i>
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