{"id":690213,"date":"2021-08-27T13:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T17:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=690213"},"modified":"2021-08-27T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T17:05:34","slug":"its-a-haunting-question-marine-veteran-seth-moulton-tears-up-over-whether-20-years-in-afghanistan-was-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-a-haunting-question-marine-veteran-seth-moulton-tears-up-over-whether-20-years-in-afghanistan-was-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s A Haunting Question\u2019: Marine Veteran Seth Moulton Tears Up Over Whether 20 Years In Afghanistan Was \u2018Worth It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-a-haunting-question-marine-veteran-seth-moulton-tears-up-over-whether-20-years-in-afghanistan-was-worth-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=690213&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Seth-Moulton-e1630081849647.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"42.492271105826\">\n<p>A Democratic Massachusetts representative and U.S. Marine veteran, Seth Moulton, teared up Friday when asked if the 20 years of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan were \u201cworth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere the last two decades worth it, as you watch the way we\u2019re leaving the country and watching more Americans die, 13 of them, and 18 injured?\u201d MSNBC host Willie Geist asked Moulton, referring to the Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/pentagon-kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terrorist attack<\/a> outside the Kabul airport that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/united-states-marines-killed-kabul-afghanistan-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed<\/a> 13 U.S. service members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWillie, I\u2019m not going to sit here and try to argue that it was worth it,\u201d Moulton responded, trying to hold back his tears. \u201cThe hardest question that I ever got as a young, 20-something Marine officer in Iraq was, \u2018hey, sir, why are we here?\u2019 It\u2019s a haunting question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Marine veteran then added that no matter how the U.S. service members ended up in Afghanistan, he had \u201cnever been prouder to be an American,\u201d commending the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/20\/video-baby-afghanistan-kabul-airport-wall-escape-taliban-american-soldiers-marines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bravery<\/a> of those on the ground. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/jennifer-griffin-impossible-withdrawal-deadline-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Impossible Deadlines From The Get-Go\u2019: Fox News NatSec Reporter Says Military Was Given Herculean Task In Afghanistan)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s Mike Barnicle also appeared on the Friday morning episode of \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d where he asked Moulton if a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/25\/peter-meijer-seth-moulton-travel-kabul-us-evacuations-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brief clandestine trip to Kabul<\/a> changed his view of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt changed a lot. Let\u2019s start with the fact that Washington put them in this place. Put them in this impossible place, in this impossible situation, with a nearly impossible mission,\u201d Moulton replied. \u201cYet the Marines on the ground are so committed to saving these Afghan friends because they know that America made them a promise that they want to stay there as long as it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democratic Massachusetts representative and U.S. Marine veteran, Seth Moulton, teared up Friday when asked if the 20 years of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan were \u201cworth it.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}