Pundit Review Radio

Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce is a veteran of the Vietnam war and spent 28 years in the U.S. Army. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match. This week Bruce told us the story of Marines in Afghanistan, "In their previous war with the USSR, the Taliban fought dispirited Russian conscripts. They are discovering that the warriors they’re facing now are nothing like those they fought before. These are volunteers and they’re looking for a fight. They don’t cower, they don’t cut and run, they don’t avoid the enemy; they look for him and when they find him, they kill him. What was supposed to be an ambush turned the hunters into the hunted when the Marine platoon turned the tables on them and counter-attacked. They then maintained the momentum of their attack and defeated the Taliban killing 50 without losing a single Marine. That sort of bravery, that sort of skill and that sort of wil