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JD Vance: I Am Genuinely Angry At George W. Bush "I'm genuinely still angry at George W. Bush over this, even though, again, I try to be charitable and I have friends who worked for him, think he's a great guy. Not saying he's not, but when I was a senior in high school, I remember I'm at a restaurant. It's called Skyline Chili in southwestern Ohio. And this guy comes out of Skyline Chili. He's got like a World War II red veterans hat. We call them Red Hatters in the United States. So he was a veteran of World War II. And I remember feeling like, because you know even that stage, this is probably 2003, 2002 maybe, remember thinking to myself, 'This generation is dying away.' I have this feeling, right? Because most veterans you met, they were veterans of Vietnam, maybe of the first Iraq war. But I just went up and I shook his hand. I said, 'Thank you, sir, for your service.' And you know, he was like genuinely touched. But I remember thinking, 'This guy answered the call. Now we have to answer the call.'" "You know, September 11th happened when I was a junior in high school. And there was this patriotic sense of, 'This is our World War II,' right? And even some of the historical analogies that got used were the exact same. Saddam Hussein was Adolf Hitler. What if you had had an opportunity to stand up and say no to Adolf Hitler when he annexed the Sudetenland? Wouldn't you have taken that chance? And it's like they were so good at tapping into that patriotic reservoir. And by the way, I think that reservoir is a very valuable thing. I think it's important for statesmen to cultivate it, but only to tap into it when it's really necessary and when it's really justified." "And what was so screwed up about Iraq is, I mean, I remember I went to the Marine Corps recruiter and I wanted to be a Marine because my older cousins were Marines and people said the Marines were the toughest. Whether that's true or not, that was certainly the impression that Marines had of themselves. I signed on the dotted line. I went in what's called open contract. So sometimes you sign up and you have your job assigned like you already know what you're going to do. I went open contract. I said, 'You can give me whatever job you want to. I just want to be a Marine.' And I did that because I loved my country and I wanted to contribute in the same way that that guy who wore a red hat, was still wearing his red hat, was still proud of it, knew that he contributed. And that led me of course to go to Iraq from '05 to '06 and made a lot of friends, gained a ton of appreciation for the Marine Corps as an institution and the people, but became a little jaded about our political leadership." "Why are you, you said you're kind of annoyed at Bush? Because that patriotic reservoir that exists in any country, I think it's maybe most powerful in the United States of America because again, we have 70 plus percent of young people say they would die for their country. It's very unique among advanced economies. And I'm sure a lot of people in Europe look at that and say, 'Oh, those jingoistic idiots, they're wrong or there's something bad about that.' But I actually think you have to have a real nation, you have to have the willingness that if, God forbid, something happens, you're willing to put on your uniform and go and do what needs to be done. But again, in order for that to work, in order for that feeling to be justified, leaders have to not take advantage of it. You can't say Saddam Hussein is Adolf Hitler. He wasn't." "You got to be careful with it. And I don't think that George W. Bush was careful with it. I think that he called the nation to do something that ultimately wasn't actually in our best interest as a nation, but more fundamentally, he drew on that wellspring of patriotism to direct us to do something that we shouldn't have been doing in the first place."

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