MORE EQUIPMENT AND TROOPS TO
NATO’S THANKS BUT I WONDER WHERE
THEY COME FROM.
PENTAGON OFFICIALS ADMITTING
EVERY BRANCH OF THE MILITARY IS
DEPLETED STRUGGLING TO MAKE
RECRUITING GOALS.
AT LEAST 22% OF AMERICANS AGE
7224 TYPE TO SERVE WITHOUT A
WAIVER.
ONLY 9% OF THEM HAVE ANY
INCLINATION SO IS NOW A BAD TIME
TO LOAN OUR TROOPS TO MIDDLE?
RETIRED MARINE SGT. FOX NEWS
CONTRIBUTOR, JOEY JONES.
WHAT YOU THINK?
YOU SEE THIS IN HERE PENTAGON
SAYING WE ARE HAVING A HARD TIME
RECRUITING AND THE PRESIDENT IS
LIKE LET’S SEND A COUPLE HUNDRED
THOUSAND NORTH TO ROMANIA.
>> I DON’T KNOW WHERE IT IS HERE
OTHER THAN POSTURING WHICH IS
NOT A BAD MILITARY MOVE IF IT
WORKS DEVISED AND PLAN, WE TALK
ABOUT SWEDEN AND FINLAND, THE
NEWS HERE IS VERY, TO GET TURKEY
ON BOARD. WE HAVE BASICALLY COMPLETELY ANY
WE HAVE BASICALLY COMPLETELY ANY
NOTION WE ARE SUPPORTING THEM.
MAYBE THE GUY WHO FOUGHT THE 20
WERE HERE IN AFGHANISTAN, I AM
STILL A LITTLE ATTACHED TO THAT
WORK THAT IS A TERRIBLE A YEAR
AGO, MAYBE WE ARE ALREADY THERE,
WE FELT LIKE WE WERE DOING IT
WRONG AND NOBODY IS INNOCENT IN
WAR.
KENNEDY: BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENT
KINDS, THE TURKISH REGIME LIKES
TO LUMP THE ENTIRE GROUP
TOGETHER CALLING FOR THE DEATH.
>> ISIS WITH US AND THE PKK THAT
TURKEY SAYS THE ORGANIZATION
KILLED CIVILIANS, I’M NOT SURE
HOW TRUE IT IS BUT THE IDEA IS
THESE ARE TWO GROUPS WE HAVE
HELD AN ALLIANCE WITH UP UNTIL
ABOUT A YEAR END A HALF AGO WHEN
PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOT
INTERVENE TURKEY BASICALLY
ANNIHILATING THEM SO FINLAND AND
SWEDEN HAVE HARBORED SOME OF
THEM PROBABLY THEIR MONEY TO AND
THEY DESIGNED AN AGREEMENT WITH
TURKEY SAYING WILL GIVE UP
SUPPORTING THEM TO COME INTO
NATO, WHAT BOTHERS ME ABOUT THIS
IS WHO’S GOING TO BE ON THE HOOK
FOR PUTTING ANYTHING SWEDEN OR
FINLAND?
RUSSIA HAS SHOWN NO INTEREST IN
TAKING OR DOING ANYTHING, IT’S
GOING TO BE US SO HOW BIG OF A
CHECK WILL COST US TO BRING INTO
NATO AND IS IT NECESSARY?
>> EVEN THE COST OF IN POLAND --
>> POLAND, ROMANIA, A COUPLE COUNTRIES.
AND F35 FIGHTER JETS AND COUNTER
ATTACK MISSILES AND OTHER
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF
STUFF.
KENNEDY: MORE LAUNCHING PADS
WITH GREAT BRITAIN, TOO.
ALL EXPENSIVE.
LIBERTY MINDED PEOPLE FOR A
WHILE TALKING ABOUT DOWNSIZING
OUR FOOTPRINT IN EUROPE AND THIS
IS THE OPPOSITE.
>> ALL THOSE FOLKS IN ALEXANDRIA
IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA ARE LOVING
THIS.
KENNEDY: OF COURSE.
WHEN THERE WAS HOUSING CRIMES IN
THIS COUNTRY AND THE ECONOMY WAS
CONTRACTING, THE SUBURBS AROUND
WASHINGTON D.C. WERE EXPLODING.
>> EVERYONE IS GOING TO LIKE IT
PRETTY WELL BUT I THINK THE
PROBLEM I HAVE IS WHERE IS THE
STRATEGY, WHAT IS THE MISSION
AND GOAL?
I DON’T KNOW THIS.
RUSSIA FROM TRYING TO EXPAND,
HOPEFULLY SWEDEN AND FINLAND
WHERE THEY WERE LOOKING AT NEXT
BUT ALSO NOT AT THE PENTAGON OR
IN THE WHITE HOUSE OR POLICY
EXPERT ON THINGS AT THIS LEVEL.
KENNEDY: BUT YOU HAVE AN
EXPERTISE -- IT’S UNTOUCHABLE.
IT’S SOMETHING WE DON’T TALK
ABOUT IN FACT HOW WE ARE STUCK
IN PLACES FOR 20 YEARS.
>> YOU TELL ME YOU ARE GOING TO
LIBERATE IRAQ AND THEN THE NEXT
THING I KNOW I’M LOSING MY LEG
IN AFGHANISTAN, HOW DID WE GET
HERE?
KENNEDY: AND WE GET OUT OF
AFGHANISTAN AND THEN THIS IS
WHAT I THOUGHT FOR?
>> AND WHEN WE GO WHAT I WOULD
LIKE TO TALK ABOUT MOST, CAN’T GET PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY NOW,
GET PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY NOW,
IS A HUGE DROP-OFF AFTER A WAR,
THAT’S FOR SURE BUT WHEN YOU
LOOK AT THE SITUATION WE ARE IN
NOW, IT’S NOT JUST BECAUSE
PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO SERVE, IT’S
BECAUSE THEY CAN’T.
WE RAISE A GENERATION WHO IN MY
OPINION SPEND MORE TIME INDOORS
AND OUTDOORS.
KENNEDY: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT
MEANS?
WE LOOK LIKE THE PEOPLE IN WALLY
CRUISING AROUND.
>> THESE AREN’T REAL, GATED
THINGS, LIKE CAN’T RUN A MILE,
CAN’T DO A PULL UP WERE TATTOOS
ON THE FOREHEAD.