When you are in an American helicopter in a war zone, the individual told Beck, and you see “a guy on the ground with a rocket launcher … and a video camera,” you have a shoot-to-kill order because the combatant is almost certainly planning to kill you and your teammates and create a propaganda video.

He therefore asked whether the U.S. government agreed to let the Taliban record the exchange, and why, or if we didn’t realize it was being recorded.

“Problem number two: anybody notice that we’re landing in a valley?” Beck asked.