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Transcript: Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," May 18, 2025

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Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal : As a nation, our character is our fate.

He says U.S. leaders are not the cause of the problem, they're the symptom of it.

He's trying to convince people to start a national conversation on character at the bottom, not at the top.

Gen. McChrystal : America needs to harness talent from every corner of society, everyone.

He says the idea that everybody's got to look a certain way, got to have biceps of a certain size is not my experience.

In the counter terrorist fight, where much of my experience was, it became a meritocracy. You didn't care what somebody looked like.

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