Wednesday, June 20, 2007

RE: Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell   [W. Thomas Smith Jr.]

What a great interview!

Best answer (regarding a question about rules of engagement and the possibility of modifying them):

If you don't have trust in us as a military, as a fighting force, as special forces; then I don't understand why you would send us over there.

I use the analogy — and I'm not trying to insult anybody — but an interviewer asked me that same question; and I was like, 'Look, how long have you been married?'

He was like, 'ten years.'

I was like, 'Do I come into your bedroom and tell you how to make love to your wife? No I don't. Alright? I assume you know how to do it.'

I've been doing this [being a special operations warfighter] for a long time. So have the generals and the admirals and the colonels who tell me how to fight. So I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't come onto our battlefield and tell us how to win this war.

We know how to do it. It's our job.

If you're a politician, you deal with politics.

I'm a soldier. I deal with war.

Editor’s note: Please see this note.

06/20 02:40 PMShare