Good Kill

00:30:41,376 --> 00:30:43,127 I think you get to use a little I&I. 373 00:30:44,671 --> 00:30:46,339 Intoxication and intercourse. 374 00:30:47,298 --> 00:30:48,591 Right. 375 00:30:56,891 --> 00:30:59,477 Why do we wear our flight suits, sir? 376 00:31:52,363 --> 00:31:54,324 What's this about, Drier? 377 00:31:58,369 --> 00:32:01,539 - Drier! - I'm not at liberty to say, sir. 378 00:32:04,208 --> 00:32:06,502 It doesn't feel like a medal ceremony. 379 00:32:10,798 --> 00:32:12,050 Sit down. 380 00:32:13,968 --> 00:32:15,970 So word has come down from on high 381 00:32:16,054 --> 00:32:18,056 that, for an unspecified number of missions, 382 00:32:18,139 --> 00:32:19,849 we are to serve another master. 383 00:32:20,892 --> 00:32:22,352 Christians in Action. 384 00:32:24,771 --> 00:32:25,772 The CIA. 385 00:32:26,939 --> 00:32:28,191 - Thank you, sir. - All right. 386 00:32:28,274 --> 00:32:31,319 - We're taking orders from the CIA? - Yeah, you're damn straight, Christie. 387 00:32:31,402 --> 00:32:34,405 The CIA takes orders from the administration, 388 00:32:34,489 --> 00:32:36,824 and since we've sworn an oath to obey that same administration, 389 00:32:36,908 --> 00:32:39,869 and as much as it pains me to take orders from a fucking clerk, 390 00:32:40,578 --> 00:32:42,997 yeah, we're taking orders from the CIA. 391 00:32:44,499 --> 00:32:47,335 Now what I want you to prepare yourselves for is, 392 00:32:48,294 --> 00:32:51,339 the folks in Virginia operate under a different set of ROEs. 393 00:32:52,298 --> 00:32:55,510 They've progressed from what they like to call a "personality strike", 394 00:32:55,593 --> 00:32:58,054 where we know for sure our target is a fucking bad guy. 395 00:32:58,638 --> 00:33:01,118 Now they come up with something they call a "signature strike." 396 00:33:02,725 --> 00:33:04,060 Now what that fucking means is 397 00:33:04,143 --> 00:33:06,312 it's a hit based not on a suspicion of guilt, 398 00:33:06,396 --> 00:33:08,439 but on a pattern of behavior. 399 00:33:09,399 --> 00:33:12,777 So you may be called upon to fire at any dumb shleb in Waziristan 400 00:33:12,860 --> 00:33:15,196 who's carrying an AK-47, even though we all know 401 00:33:15,279 --> 00:33:19,075 that everyone and their mother in Waziristan carries an AK-47. 402 00:33:19,158 --> 00:33:20,743 What about their right to bear arms? 403 00:33:25,456 --> 00:33:26,707 I got my own personal opinions 404 00:33:26,791 --> 00:33:29,085 as to why there's been an expansion of our mission, 405 00:33:29,168 --> 00:33:31,504 which I should probably keep to myself. 406 00:33:33,548 --> 00:33:35,049 But what the fuck. 407 00:33:36,759 --> 00:33:41,222 It's a lot easier to kill these people than to capture them. 408 00:33:41,305 --> 00:33:44,142 Well, it makes sense, sir. If we capture them, we have to torture them. 409 00:33:48,312 --> 00:33:49,313 Sorry, sir. 410 00:33:50,481 --> 00:33:52,650 Well, there is the inconvenient matter of GTMO. 411 00:33:53,860 --> 00:33:56,404 But it's really about the cost in "blood and treasure" 412 00:33:56,487 --> 00:33:59,532 as those D.C. hypocrites, who never pay in either, like to say. 413 00:33:59,615 --> 00:34:02,118 They know that if we try to capture them instead of kill them, 414 00:34:02,201 --> 00:34:04,245 we risk getting killed or captured ourselves. 415 00:34:04,328 --> 00:34:07,415 And the public is tired of watching coffins 416 00:34:07,498 --> 00:34:09,041 roll down airplane conveyer belts. 417 00:34:09,125 --> 00:34:13,004 And the Pentagon is embarrassed by those videos on Al Jazeera, 418 00:34:13,087 --> 00:34:15,840 where some marine denounces America 419 00:34:15,923 --> 00:34:19,677 right before his head's liberated from his shoulders, so... 420 00:34:21,596 --> 00:34:23,431 In many minds, out of all the bad options, 421 00:34:23,514 --> 00:34:24,974 we're the least bad. 422 00:34:27,894 --> 00:34:30,062 Don't ask me if it's a just war. 423 00:34:33,274 --> 00:34:34,567 That's not up to us. 424 00:34:37,487 --> 00:34:39,071 To us, it's just war. 425 00:34:41,616 --> 00:34:45,453 Tommy, you take the lead. Ed, you're backup. 426 00:34:45,536 --> 00:34:46,746 And you get to take over 427 00:34:46,829 --> 00:34:49,248 Tommy's highly-coveted Kahili surveillance assignment. 428 00:34:52,043 --> 00:34:53,044 All right. 429 00:34:56,672 --> 00:34:59,300 - Let's go to Afghanistan. - Fly and fry. 430 00:35:05,932 --> 00:35:09,936 Just between us, the Air Force is making a play with the Pentagon 431 00:35:10,478 --> 00:35:12,772 to run the whole unmanned show. 432 00:35:13,231 --> 00:35:15,691 And they just don't want any 433 00:35:15,775 --> 00:35:19,153 static running missions for the spooks. 434 00:35:20,988 --> 00:35:23,157 And I've always been able to count on ...