1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Let's play audio somebody number sixteen CNN's Anderson Cooper one 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: eight with hardly any audience, which is why we're going 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 1: to play this bite for you. Spoke with the International 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: Correspondent CNN Michael ware. Cooper said, everybody seems to admit, look, 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: there's no military solution, and yet politically there's hardly any 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: civilians on the ground in a lot of these areas, 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: and the Afghan government is riddled with corruption. We're trying 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: to bolster in these areas of government which is not 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: represented its people were. Now where we could lose this war. 10 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: The Taliban will continue to fight as long as U 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: S troops for foreign troops want to be there. So 12 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: the whole idea is to put enough military pressure on 13 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: the Taliban war machine to polly that pressure at the 14 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: gust Shadding table all to bring a political solution. Now, 15 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: President Obama has to man up on the side. Is 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: he going to fight this war or is he going 17 00:00:53,159 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: to ovasey an American defeat? CNN reporters says to Obama, 18 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: man up or lose Afghanistan, Man up or lose or 19 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: is he going to oversee an American defeat? What do 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: you think the answer to the question is he's willing 21 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: to oversee an American defeat. He came out and said 22 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: victories something. It's a it's a it's an uncomfortable proposition 23 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: word in Afghanistan. So meanwhile, the general who Obama wants 24 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: and who Obama appointed, who Obama got confirmed once some 25 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: more troops. Mr President, you are not a state senator 26 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: from Illinois. You are the commander in chief of the U. S. Military. 27 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: Do your job. Dropped the politics. We got heroes on 28 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: the battlefield giving their last full measure of devotion to 29 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: this country, and you're voting present, all because he doesn't 30 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: want to upset the apple cart, the precious balance in 31 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: Congress on his healthcare bill, well on a healthcare bill 32 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: because of the radical left. And now the politico is 33 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: fascinated with who leaked this news that Obama is not 34 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: going to come up with the troops that the general wants. 35 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: Who leaked that the general wants the troops. It's the 36 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: most the funniest thing, it's the most incredible story. President 37 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: Obama wants more time to develop a new strategy in Afghanistan. 38 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: His general wants forty more troops. Otherwise, the general says, 39 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: we and the Allies run the risk of losing the war. 40 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: Would agreeing to forty more troops jeopardize liberals support for Obamacare? 41 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: Stop and think about that. The President of the United 42 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: States is teetering. He's flirting with the actual concept of 43 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: defeat in Afghanistan. Forty thou troops, the general says, makes 44 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: the difference forty troops in one hand, or losing or 45 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: jeopardizing support of liberals for Obama air in Congress. What 46 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: does this tell you about the man? These are the 47 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: domestic political questions that hunt Barack Obama. He's playing politics 48 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: when he ought to be fighting and winning a war, 49 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: acting like a commander in chief who gives a damn 50 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: about his troops in the field. He's playing golf. He's 51 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: yucking it up with Letterman. He's got his stupid Health 52 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: and Human Services Secretary telling people how to sneeze on 53 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 1: their sleeves. He's sitting on a report from his commanding 54 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: general Afghanistan that says we are boost troop numbers there 55 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: faced the distinct possibility of defeat, and he wants more 56 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: time to study a new strategy. He's doing nothing. He 57 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: has the reports, he won't make a decision. He's voting 58 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: present to their election of duty. What what are we 59 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: going to do in Afghanistan? I thought that was settled, 60 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: now now it's not. Afghanistan was a central theater. That's 61 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: where we had to go. That's we're gonna beat these guys. 62 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: Taliban ala Qaida Wish made a mistake. Should have gone 63 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: in there. Wasted all this treasure, all these resources. Now 64 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: we're there in Obama flirting with defeat, all to make 65 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: certain his Obamacare is not jeopardized in the House. This 66 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: is what you get when the radical left runs. Every 67 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: branch of the federal government isn't on the golf course. 68 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: He's making jokes on Letterman Lamb jokes at that, and 69 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: now he's spouting additional lies, threats, end of the world. 70 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: We're all going to die at a climate change conference, 71 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: which is nothing more than a meeting of worldwide leftists 72 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: to seek to implement a worldwide government that has control 73 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 1: over every aspect of every person's life on this planet. 74 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: That's the end game. Now, this Afghanistan report, this this 75 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:00,679 Speaker 1: is this is this is Hilary us in the Political 76 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: to Day, Bob Woodward's Monday Morning exclusive on the sixty 77 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,239 Speaker 1: page report from General McCrystal to Obama about Afghanistan policy 78 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: was a rite of passage for the new administration, the 79 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: first major national security league, and a sure sign that 80 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: the celebrated Washington Post reporters penetrated yet another administration. So 81 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: now the story is who leaked this, Who did it, 82 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: and why did they do it. The simplest theory, and 83 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: one most administration officials Monday were endorsing, is that the 84 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: military or civilian Pentagon official who supports mccrystal's policy put 85 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: it out in an attempt to pressure Obama to follow 86 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: the suggestion and increase troop levels. But not everybody in 87 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: Washington believer in in this theory, so all manner of 88 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: other theories flourished. There are believers in the reverse leak, 89 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: in which the League itself has meant to damage McCrystal 90 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: um or his position by inducing White House anger at 91 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: the general. There's the fake leak in which the White 92 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: House may have been trying to back itself into a corner. 93 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: They actually right this, that the White House did this 94 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: on purpose to back itself into a corner, or what what? 95 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: There were constant leaks during the Bush administration about Iraq 96 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: war policy, and there was never this hand ringing. Why 97 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: who's doing this? Why are they doing this? Who wants 98 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: to damage our beloved President Bush? Now? Oh no, the 99 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: first major foreign policy leak. Who's trying to do this? 100 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: And why? For what purpose? Could it be? Obama leaked 101 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: it himself to back himself into a corner. It actually 102 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: says that, yeah, he wants to back himself into a corner, 103 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: So he's got his buddies at CNN openly telling him 104 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: the man up or risk losing the war in Afghanistan. 105 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: Or I totally believe, by the way, I totally believe 106 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: the possibility that somebody in the White House leaked discredit McCrystal. 107 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: Remember these guys the left, the far left, they don't 108 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: like a victorious America. That's imperialism. They love it when 109 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: the US military loses. Look at look at their their 110 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: efforts to secure defeat during the Iraq War. They're all 111 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: about the America, American military being humbled and being defeated. 112 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: So it's entirely possible to me that somebody would leak 113 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: this to make McCrystal look bad, uh as as a 114 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: way of damaging him and making Obama look good to 115 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: the left, as he's trying to do by not caring 116 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: about defeat or victory in military conflict. We'll go to 117 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: Hilliard in Florida and Roger, thank you for calling, sir. 118 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: Welcome to the E I B Network. Hello, Rush, how 119 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: are you? I'm very well, sir, Thanks much as pleasure 120 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: to talk to you. Yes, I think basically what's happened 121 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: there is the White House didn't leak a thing. It 122 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: was the General himself for one of his staff members 123 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: to be sure that Obama wasn't gonna sit on his 124 00:07:55,440 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: bluots because he considers Afghanistan and distraction right now, Well, 125 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: it's possible. I I'll tell you what's what's fascinating to 126 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: me about this is it all during even Watergate, Let's 127 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: go back to the number one leaker was Deep Throat, 128 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: and nobody cared what his motivation was because they all 129 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: knew he was out to destroy Dixon, which was fine, 130 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: that was cool. They all focused on the substance of 131 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: what deep Throat had to say. And you know what 132 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: deep Throat really was. You know, I'll tell you the 133 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: real lesson that nobody draws, the correct lesson that nobody 134 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: draws the deep Throat. Deep Throat was not so much 135 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: bringing down a president, although he did. What Deep Throat 136 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: was doing was actually manipulating and controlling media, and he 137 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: showed how easy it was to do it. Woodward and Bernstein, 138 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: of course, have these great journalistic reputations as the as 139 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: the two kings of investigative journalism. They are the models 140 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: there what's taught in journalism schools that Deep Throat manipulated 141 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: those guys. He had them going everywhere he wanted them 142 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: to go. They would they found out nothing on their own, 143 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: a very little other than what he led them to 144 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: or fed them. And the real lesson of deep Throat 145 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 1: is how leakers can manipulate the media. But in this case, 146 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: in this case of the leak about the need for 147 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 1: more troops in Afghanistan, uh the drive bys or other, 148 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: who is doing this and what is their motivation? Who 149 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: is tampering with our beloved president? You want to hear 150 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: some of the other theories about this, It's um It's 151 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: most likely somebody who has or is cultivating a personal 152 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: relationship with Woodward and positioning himself to look good in 153 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: Woodward's next book. So the leaker might just be engaging 154 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,839 Speaker 1: in that because he wants to be a star in 155 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: Woodward's mind. The Pentagon hasn't changed, and there are a 156 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: lot of people within the Pentagon who understand the strategic 157 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: use of the leaks and Heather Hurlbert, the executive director 158 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 1: of the Democrat leaning National Security Network Democratic Anyway, one 159 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: possibility have to look at is this being leaked by 160 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: somebody who is in league with the neo connassault on Obama, 161 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: where anything short of all in is framed as wee 162 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: can defeat. So of all the theories, three of the 163 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: four are going to nail Obama somebody and the other 164 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: the other theory is Obama's backing himself into a corner. 165 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: But here's the thing you have to remember. Let's get 166 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:23,599 Speaker 1: back to the substance of this. Not only was Afghanistan 167 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: the war the liberals said we should fight. We are 168 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: fighting it exactly the way they said we should and 169 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: the way they wanted us to. That is, we have 170 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: given charge of the thing essentially to NATO, and NATO 171 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: is now screwing it up. We have begged other countries 172 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,839 Speaker 1: to go in with us, and very few have, and 173 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: those who have only have set trainers or medical or 174 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: other support personnel, very few troops and now most of 175 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: this wonderful multinational force are pulling out or threatening to 176 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: And we're fighting the war with both hands tied behind 177 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: our backs. We're not even allowed to attack the enemy 178 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: near houses. It's it's the left dream war. If this 179 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 1: is this is this is the prototype. This is the 180 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,839 Speaker 1: way they wanted us to find the war. This is 181 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: where they've taken us. How could we possibly lose? The 182 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,559 Speaker 1: world was asked to participate a world buddy or a 183 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: multinational body. NATO is running the show, not the United States. 184 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: Uh that We're gonna show Buny House. Now, we're gonna 185 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: capture a Sama and we're gonna kick Butter. We're gonna 186 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: show that Bush was wrong to go into a rock 187 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: and blah blah blah blah blah, and we're on the 188 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: verge of defeat and Obama. Look, I told you yesterday. 189 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: I was in Coach Zorn's sweet at the Redskins Rams 190 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: on Sunday and he had as his guests and his 191 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: wife Joy four handsome young Marines who were being deployed 192 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: soon They were then put A fifth buddy of theirs 193 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: was on the phone with me in twenty nine Palms, California, 194 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: and some of them are going to the hell Hall 195 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: areas of Afghanistan summer, going to Camp le June. People volunteered. 196 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: They're out there defending and protecting the U. S. Consta 197 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: tuition in this government and the people of this country. 198 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: They're fighting for freedom. And we got this guy fighting 199 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 1: the perfect war the way the left said we should 200 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 1: do it. And we're on the verge of defeat. And 201 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: the balance here is, oh gosh, do I send forty 202 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: more troops and risk losing my base in the healthcare debate? 203 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: Or do I not send forty loseing Afghanistan but get healthcare. 204 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: That's the question our commander in chief is asking himself. Meanwhile, 205 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: the media is obsessed with who leaked this and why 206 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 1: are they out there trying to damage our beloved young president. 207 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,199 Speaker 1: In the Washington Post, get this, I love this is 208 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: uh an editorial wavering on Afghanistan. That's the headline. I 209 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 1: get this subhead Washington Post. President Obama seems to have 210 00:12:54,040 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: forgotten his own arguments for a counter insurgency campaign. Obama 211 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 1: forgot his position. This is constructive criticism. Obama seems to 212 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: have forgotten his own arguments. Why yes, it was only 213 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: last March, Obama outlined in a major speech what he 214 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: called a comprehensive new strategicy for Afghanistan that he said 215 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: marks the conclusion of a careful policy review. That strategy 216 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: unambiguously stated that the US would prevent the return of 217 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: the Taliban government and enhanced the military, governance, and economic 218 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: capacity of the country. Washington Post says we strongly supported 219 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: the President's conclusion those goals were essential. So it was 220 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: a little startling to hear. Obama suggested several TV interviews 221 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: on Sunday that he had second thoughts where the process 222 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: working through that strategy. First question is are we presuming 223 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: the right strategy on NBC with supporting Afghan national government, 224 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: building capecitive in the army. Well, we'll move forward if 225 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: it doesn't. I'm not interested in being in Afghanistan being Afghanistan. 226 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,559 Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not thumping the table. My arm 227 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 1: is just hitting it. Are you hearing it? I'm not 228 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: stumping on the table. I've been very good about this. 229 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,239 Speaker 1: So basically, we have incompetence on parade, we have indecision 230 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: on parade, we have an inexperience on We got a 231 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: man with a five minute career who has no experience 232 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: running anything but a bunch of community agitators and organizers 233 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: now in charge of victory or Dafeva and Afghanistan, and 234 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: he is forgotten. The Washington Post allows that he has 235 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: forgotten his own argument, forgotten his own argument. Not only 236 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: is it naive, it is dangerously generous and will encourage 237 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: more of this kind of indecision. And if the media 238 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: is knowing he just forgot, I guess he just forgot 239 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: his policies. We're a little troubled by this, but maybe 240 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: he'll end up doing the right A p in USA today, 241 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: Obama may change Afghanistan course again. Now the headline suggests 242 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: that Obama changed policy from Bush and has to change again. Uh, 243 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: say that means he's already failed. The White House is 244 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: looking at expanding counter terror operations in Pakistan as an 245 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: alternative to a major military escalation in Afghanistan. Oh, so, 246 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: I guess the March policy, which Obama has forgotten, according 247 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: to the Washington Post, is already a failure. So now 248 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: we got to go to a different policy, this one 249 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: counter intern insurgency, counterintelligence, insurgencies and Pakistan they're going to 250 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: branch out. Don't forget. During the campaign, am I the 251 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: only one to remember this? Obama said he'd knew come 252 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: over there even if the Pakistani government didn't nobody. Well, yeah, 253 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: we had to dial that back because, folks, the man 254 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: is a walking threat to this country as we've known 255 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: it in every way possible domestic foreign policy. This is 256 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: incompetent Buddism on parade. Elaine in Battle on New York. Thanks, 257 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: and welcome to the e I B Network, hira Us. 258 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: How are you just fine? Thanks? I wanted to go 259 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: back to the leaking problem from the White House. Yeah, okay, 260 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: I think that it's obvious who's doing the leaking. I 261 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: think it's the White House itself because it's they can't 262 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: come out and say, Amantha, what should we do? Because 263 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: he's so indecisive that he has to try to It's 264 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: a roundabout way of pulling the public to see what 265 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: the reaction will be. So you think there's maybe a 266 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: trial balloon. Put the leak out to see if the 267 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: American people even care about Afghanistan. Well, to see how 268 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: mad the left is going to get if they'll let 269 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: him do it or not. Uh, well, that it could be, 270 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: that's what. It's always a possibility. But I think I frankly, 271 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: I think they already know. I mean John Kerry and 272 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi last week and a couple others, some of 273 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: the California congressional delegation delegation I think the week before 274 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: that warned Obama if you, if you ramp up troop levels, 275 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: we may not pay for no more expansion in Afghanistan. 276 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: That's that's uh that what preceded it. Now the now 277 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: the leak comes, and it could be it could be 278 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: a trial balloon. Who knows the It's one or two 279 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: things the leak there. Either Obama is trying to help 280 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: his position of not expanding, sitting tight, rethinking the strategy, 281 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: or the leak is to embarrass Obama and protect the military. 282 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: Here people's lives on the line. I mean, this is 283 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: not we don't playing bean bag here. You know, we're 284 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: not leaking about a proposed new piece of legislation on 285 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: the snail darter. Well, hell, even if we did that, 286 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna ruin people's lives. People's lives in California being 287 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 1: ruined because of attention to animals the water has been 288 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: shut off, the farmers in this in this in the 289 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: central Valley. I mean, uh, it's crazy. So I you know, 290 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: the leak probably purposeful, well, no doubt it was purposeful. 291 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 1: The the end result of it will is still unknown. 292 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: But watching the media coverage is still what's laughable. Oh, 293 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: Mama forgot apparently forgot his previous position on afghanistand that 294 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: he announced in March. And maybe Obama is trying to 295 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: back himself into a corner here, uh with by leaking 296 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: his own indecision on what to do about whether or 297 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: not we win. How silly is all this Datona Beach, Florida. 298 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: This is his friend. Great to have you with us, 299 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:47,239 Speaker 1: Hello than well, thank you. I just want to make 300 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: a quick point about this whole Uh who sent the memo? 301 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: They sent the memo to me, it's a non issue. 302 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: And as the United States timmy veteran, it outrages me 303 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: that people see this situation. They see we need forty 304 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: is a more troops, we need more supplies, and it's 305 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: even a decision to him, there's no decisions. Our general 306 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: on the ground has said, we may suffer a loss, 307 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: we may sail this war effort. If we do not 308 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: get this support, there's no issue. There's no decision. The 309 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: only decision that needs to be made is what units 310 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,399 Speaker 1: get a phone call to start the buffle? Bad dragon, 311 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that in the in the America. You 312 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: and I grew up in in the America, your parents, 313 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: my parents and grandparents grew up in, of course, but 314 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 1: that's not America right now. This country is being led 315 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: by people to whom victory in foreign conflicts sometimes is 316 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: a sin. Uh. Sometimes it's imperialism and not what it 317 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: is what it is, you know. Bill Parcels used to 318 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: say of a football team, you are what you are 319 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: your record. If you're four and twelve or four and twelve, 320 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: and are were any moral victories in there? It is 321 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: what it is. Obama has got a request from a 322 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,719 Speaker 1: general underground forty troops or I don't think we can 323 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: win this in Obama only re examined the strategy. Didn't 324 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: A're gonna worry about the left wing base voting on 325 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: my domestic I mean he's dialing back our nuke arsenal. 326 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: He withdrew the missile shield that was going to be 327 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: placed in Europe to defend the Czech Republican poland. Uh, 328 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: he's making deals with Ruschet's propping up dictatorships in in 329 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: Central and South America. It is what it is, friend, H, 330 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: I agree with you. Infuriates the heck out of me, 331 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: like you don't even know. I think. I think it 332 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: infuriates the heck out of millions of Americans that we 333 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: don't yet know are infuriated because nobody's covering him, nobody's 334 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,719 Speaker 1: talking about when we get these they still get these 335 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: mythical poles or Obamas percent approval and fifty two percent approval. 336 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:47,719 Speaker 1: I don't believe it' anywhere near that high. I think 337 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: people are shocked. I think people are outraged. I think 338 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: when Biden speaks up and says, if we if we 339 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: lose thirty five season in the House, that's the end 340 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: of the road for what Barack and they know, they 341 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: know exactly what's that. And they were counting on Acorn, 342 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: you know, to be the balance and fraudulent elections. Uh, 343 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: they're counting on acorn to help over and now the 344 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: acorn has been exposed. I mean this, this is Uh. 345 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 1: They know the problem that they're in, and yet their 346 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: arrogance is such it's not gonna take them off their 347 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 1: game at all. They're gonna ram whatever they want down 348 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: our throats, whether we want it or not, because that's 349 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: who they are. Now, you couldn't have said it. You 350 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: couldn't have said it better. There's no there's no question, 351 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: General says the forty troops or we lose. Okay, but 352 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: that's not Remember, for the first time in my lifetime, 353 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: and maybe not in the country's history, I don't know. 354 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 1: I haven't been alive for the entire two hundred plush years, 355 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: but in my lifetime, I have never seen a political 356 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: party spend years trying to secure defeat in a military 357 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 1: conflict like the Democrats did in a Rock. So it 358 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: shouldn't surprise you at all that now that they're running 359 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: the show that victory is not a big deal. And 360 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: remember Obama said in Afghanistan the whole concept of victory 361 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: troubles him. Yeah, but up until now is we need 362 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: to get out of Iraq. To Afghanistan is the big issue. 363 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: And now it looks like Obama wants to turntail and 364 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: run from that. And I'll play I'm red right and 365 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: blue to the bone, all right, we don't run, and 366 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 1: the President I let us run and secures the defeat 367 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. I feel sorry for his chance is coming 368 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: up in twelve. Well, we don't have We don't have 369 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: time to wait till we got a rebound in twenty 370 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: ten in the mid term congressional elections. Robert and Staten Island. 371 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: I'm glad you waited, sir. You're next on the E 372 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: I B Network. Hello, are you good? Listen? I've got 373 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,400 Speaker 1: the dilemma, aarent dilemma. So here I am. My son 374 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: is joined the military and h as the next marine, 375 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 1: former marine where never the next marine. I was all 376 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: for it, Uh, you know, I think it would be 377 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 1: good for him. But right now I feel that it's 378 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:51,959 Speaker 1: sort of I feel like they're gonna do to these 379 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: boards they did to them in Vietnam, and the same 380 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: party that was in charge then is in charge now. 381 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: And I just see that Dave fifty five, thou American 382 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: boy has died in Vain over there because of their 383 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: humanityans that they pulled over there, And I see to say, 384 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 1: I see history repeating itself, and I don't As a father, 385 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell my son. It's like, 386 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,360 Speaker 1: you know, I'm proud of him. But I'm like, you know, Rob, 387 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: you sure you want to you want to do this? 388 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 1: At this point in time, I'm in a dilemma. I 389 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: don't know what to do, and it's like it's really 390 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 1: bothering the inside as a as a you know, a 391 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: very patriotic person. I'm sure that there Yeah, probably a 392 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: lot of military families with family members either in root 393 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: or already in Afghanistan or scratching their heads over this 394 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: and say, well it is you know, if we're not 395 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: going to have the backing of the commander in chief, 396 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: you know, is it is it? Is it worth it? 397 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: I think frankly a lot of people are asking that 398 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: question about Obama on everything. Is this worth it? Is 399 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: the historical relevance of his president, the first black prisit 400 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: worth all this? As clearly there are there are designs 401 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: on the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness, 402 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: and one of those is the United States military. So I, um, 403 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: you know, I think this is even worse than Vietnam. 404 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,360 Speaker 1: In Vietnam they were trying to win me. They're bumbling around, 405 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: and they were in competent, and the micro managing it 406 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: and everything, and they they they were, they were trying 407 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: to win, and even when we did win, we let 408 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: Walter Klondike talk us out of it. In this situation, 409 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: I don't think there's even any pretense of trying to win. 410 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: In fact, I think Obama ramped up Afghanistan simply to 411 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: follow through and what he was talking about during the campaign, 412 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: ripping Bush, ripping the surge, ripping a rock. That's a 413 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,640 Speaker 1: bad move. We need to be focusing on Afghanistan. That's 414 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: where we need to go. We need to capture Obama 415 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: some whatever, and what's where we need to go. Okay, 416 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: So put some troops in there, announced a big bull policy, 417 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: appoint a new general, and uh and and do it. 418 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: I mean, this is the left dream war. You got 419 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: NATO running things, You've got a few other nations participating. 420 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: We've got rules of engagement that penalize our own troops, 421 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: can't hit the enemy if they're in houses. And so 422 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: for that's a perfect war. And what does it get us. 423 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 1: It get us, gets us on the brink of defeat. 424 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: So that's um just another in a long line of 425 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: illustrations of what happens with these people end up in charge. 426 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: Stephen in New Orleans your next on the E I 427 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: B Network. Hello, sir rush what and what and a hunter? 428 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: I just I mean, I'm listening to all this and 429 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: I can't believe we've We've got the general on the 430 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: ground asking for more troops and they're doing the two 431 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 1: steps that the Tony two steps. I mean, if they're 432 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: not gonna send them, why don't we get them the 433 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: hell out of there. That's that's pretty much my comment. 434 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: But this is this is that's a mistake too. I 435 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: know what you're saying. If we're not gonna win, get 436 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: out of there. And there are, by the way, there 437 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: are there are a lot of people who, um look 438 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 1: at Afghanistan as the place empires die. A lot of 439 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: people think Afghanistan is the armpit of the world and 440 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: it's not worth going in there. The well, look, the 441 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 1: Soviet Red Army, the only place ever lost was in Afghanistan. 442 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: We're gonna lose. We're gonna to get out of their rush. 443 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 1: I get emails with people like this a whole time. 444 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,239 Speaker 1: We're gonna get mired in there, We're gonna lose, A're 445 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: gonna ruin our empire. We are not the Soviet Union. Well, uh, 446 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 1: to take that but may be closer to it than 447 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 1: we ever thought we would be. But traditionally, now we're 448 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: this is the United States of America. We don't lose. 449 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: But this is certainly not how you engage in. If 450 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 1: you show up, you don't cut tail and run. That's 451 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 1: not who we are. That's not what we are, and 452 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: that's not who we've been. So it's a little late 453 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,120 Speaker 1: to say, well, if we're not gonna win, let's get out. 454 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: That's to me, not the question. Unfortunately it is with 455 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: this administration. But it's the wrong question. Can you actually 456 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: believe that we're discussing whether or not we can win? 457 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: I mean, who are who are the enemy? Who are 458 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 1: we finding? Al Qaeda, the Taliban, ring a bell, the 459 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: people that we just had this big terror bust in 460 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: New York, They're still out there, they're plotting future attacks. 461 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: That's who we're Oh, we're gonna quit, We're gonna we 462 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: said we can't win this. We're gonna pull back so 463 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 1: we can do healthcare, and so we can do global 464 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: warming cap and tax, so we can do all this 465 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: other regular, roll nonsensical left wing radical crap that is 466 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: not at all what it pretends to be. It's just 467 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: the opposite. It's a crying shame. It is a crying shame. 468 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 1: What is happening to this country into the leadership of 469 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: these boobs. I have an idea. I have a way 470 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: that Obama can maybe pull is out of the fire 471 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 1: on this afghanistanding. Rather than call a troop build up 472 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: a surge, call it a stimulus. Maybe that'll fly with people.