… you, you, you got away with, thank God, because of our, our great skill, of our, our men and women during this operation, some of it also being luck. But The more you go in and do this, the more likelihood you are going to end up getting people killed because there'll be more confidence that's built on the other side, too. And that's when we have some real horrible situations. And you've seen, you saw, you know, in the Iraq war, people, as long we were there, the surgeons got more comfortable. (17:03–17:10)
CLAIM
Asserts that increased military interventions lead to higher risks of casualties due to enemy confidence.
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