Brian Mast: “You want to be in a fight, you got to be present for it.”

There are not U.S. combat forces conducting operations or engaged in hostilities in Lebanon.

The gangs will essentially block the streets with rubble, with debris, they'll dig giant ditches in the road, and so these military and police units can't traverse.

One of the big things would be to take the able-bodied males and put them into the police and military, which are actively recruiting.

They were given the best possible deal, more generous than anybody else across the globe, and it's something that they turned their back on.