WEBVTT - Have We Won The War On Terror? 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:15.480 You are entering the freedom huge. It is the anniversary 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.040 of nine to eleven. Have we won the war on terrorism? 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:24.760 Muller's team wiped or lost twenty seven phones? Totally clear. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.560 Biden spokesman tries to duck blow the question. The NFL 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.920 protests and is met with booze and lu Lemon wants 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:38.880 you to resist capitalism. This is the Buck Sexon Show, 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.960 where the mission or mission is to decode what really 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:49.800 matters with passionable intelligence. Make no mistake your great American again, 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:57.640 the Buck Sexon Show begins. He's a great guy. Now, 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.320 welcome friends for the Bucks Acton Show. Honor to have 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.640 you here with me. As we all know, today is 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.840 a day that we will always remember as a country. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.639 I know there's a lot of people sharing their personal memories. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.800 I'll tell you about some of mine over the course 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:18.920 of today. But it changed many lives. We lost many lives, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:23.479 and it also altered the course of the entire world. Right, 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.319 the future of the planet was changed on this day, 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:34.640 back on September eleventh, two thousand, nineteen. Years have passed, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:41.920 and obviously it has been a series of events that 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:43.800 led up to this and then after it that we 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:45.800 have had to confront that we know of as the 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.400 war on Terror. And I have to say, those who 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.000 told us that we would never have a signing on 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.920 the deck of the aircraft carrier to signal the end 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.000 of this, we're correct. There hasn't been a day in 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.200 which we would say that the War on Terror is over, 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.720 because the war on terror will never be over. There's 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:10.079 no such thing terror as a tactic that stretches back 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.520 for as long as there's been human society of any kind. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.840 People use violence and fear for their own advantage, for 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:23.160 the acquisition of power. But if we're talking about radical Jehotism, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.880 and you could obviously argue there is no other form 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:31.440 of Jehotism, then you could also look at what's happened 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.919 in the most in most recent iterations of this conflict 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:40.360 and say we basically have one. We have defeated for now. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.760 I'm not saying I won't be resurgent. Remember the Allies 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.920 defeated Germany in World War One, and then there was 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.120 World War Two. We could see a resurgence of this. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.800 It's not over in that sense, but I remember what 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.040 it was like. I remember being in the CIA and 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.919 people talking about how we were going to be fighting 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:03.160 in Iraq for as long as the Lebanese Civil War 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.200 went on, which was fifteen years. We have been in Afghanistan, 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:11.960 although not in continuous fighting the same way as you've 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.000 seen in another conflicts. We've been in Afghanistan now for 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:20.400 twenty years, basically almost nineteen years, and the country has 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.080 learned some very painful lessons in this whole process. But 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.640 while we're all being instructed by the media to panic 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.720 over COVID, just remember that there were also many times 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.280 when they wanted us to panic even more than was 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:41.640 vaguely necessary, over the threat of jihadism. There were all 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.520 of the remember the color coding system, the creation of 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.120 the TSA, so many of these things that now we 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.200 look back on and say, what were we doing, The 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.320 creation of the National Counterterrorism Center, the Director of National 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.320 Intelligence Office, the DNI, Do we need any of that? 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.720 Did we really fix the problems of stovepiping of intelligence 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.200 between the various agencies and the lack of sharing with 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.120 the FBI, the CIA, and the other three letter and 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.720 assorted agencies of the federal government and the National security apparatus. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.400 Those are questions that no one can definitively answer, But 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.640 the good news is, and I think that we should 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.880 spend some time on that. The good news is that 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.120 we are in a period here of relative calm when 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:37.400 it comes to Jehotism. After multiple wars, after innumerable covert 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:45.680 operations and black ops insertions abroad, we have managed to 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.400 temporarily at least neutralize most of al Qaida in the 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.920 Islamic State. And President Trump does not get nearly enough 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:58.840 credit from this, and he won't. But the roll up 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.479 of Isis, I mean, the the rapid collapse and the 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:06.520 taking of Rocca, that was something that we were told, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.719 even under the Obama administration, would be far more costly, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.159 far more difficult, because Obama wasn't somebody who was really 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.800 leading on any national security issue. He was always looking 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:22.480 for consensus, and consensus when you're talking about battlefield tactics, 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.000 when you're talking about fighting against committed radicals willing to 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.680 lose their lives, is often just too slow or just wrong. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:38.480 Obama administration, you'll recall, was marked with many mass casualty 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.640 terrorist attacks in Europe and here in the United States, 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.400 we've seen far less of that. You think of the 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.039 mass casualty attacks in the name of the Islamic State 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:56.960 San Bernardino attack Pulse Nightclub in Florida. There were the 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.479 first year of the Obama presidency. People often forget this, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.120 but there was ruk Abdulmatalub, the so called underwear bomber. 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.320 And while it did seem so ridiculous to every when 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.839 this guy lit himself in effect on fire and almost 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:16.840 blew himself away, including his most sensitive areas, he did 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.000 almost bring down that plane which would have killed over 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:23.039 a hundred people over Detroit on Christmas Day in the 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.400 first year of the Obama presidency. We were just lucky 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.000 that he was unable to ignite that device. And then 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.279 there was s Faisal Shazad in Times Square, of the 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.520 Times Square bomber, another time, when if he had just 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.559 been a little bit more competent in his bomb building, 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.480 he would have easily killed dozens, perhaps over one hundred 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.040 people in Times Square on a beautiful day in New 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.520 York City, not far from when I was sitting as 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.000 the bomb went off. We've had vehicle attacks, including here 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.440 on the West side of Manhattan and Chelsea. We've had 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.760 attacks in cities across the country. It's hard to remember 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.640 all of them, but it has calmed down quite a bit. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.320 It turned out that trying to appease radical Islam, that 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:09.920 going around the world bowing and apologizing for America was 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:15.760 not an effective national security strategy. That was not going 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:20.480 to do it. And President Trump in office has been 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.200 a necessary corrective to that. What are the things that 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.760 I remember most from nine to eleven and those of 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.960 you who've been listening to me for years now, And 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.440 I'm very honored when I think about the fact that 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.760 there are so many of you across the country, in 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.280 all fifty states now who have spent at least a 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.560 portion of your day, five days a week with me 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:50.040 going on now seven years. What do I remember? Some 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.440 of you will know these anecdotes, But I was in 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:59.520 college on nine to eleven. It's actually going to Shakespeare class. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.960 Studying Shakespeare in college, as one does. I had been 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:08.080 in three Arabic classes, I think, in advance of this, 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.520 because I was already interested in the Middle East. I 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.640 had managed to maneuver my way into an upper level 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.960 generally a senior's only seminar on Arab Israeli conflict, and 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.000 I just thought it would be an interesting area to 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.080 specialize in. And then nine to eleven happened, and all 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:29.080 of a sudden, the recognition as we found out more 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.680 about what happened that day, that we were going to 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.440 go to war, and who knows for how long and 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:40.160 with how many different groups, perhaps even countries. I remember 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.000 going back to my dorm, going back to my dorm 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:51.040 and watching on TV and seeing the second plane hit, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.040 because we were excused right away from class after the 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.320 first plane hit. And I hope that I remember all 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.360 this as it is with these kinds of traumatic events. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.360 As you know, some times people can have timeline errors. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.640 But I remember very clearly seeing as the second plane 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.040 hit and the recognition that now this was obviously an attack, 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.600 This was no accident. When I first sat down, as 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:16.880 everyone else, I think or mostly believed, the initial impression 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.280 was that this was just a tragic accident. But then 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.120 we figured out very quickly that it was an insidious, 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.920 mass casualty attack. And I watched as the towers fell, 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.880 one after the other. I remember thinking how many people 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.439 I might know in those buildings. The husband of my 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.199 mother's sister, my uncle through marriage, working in one of 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.160 the towers. He was late to work that way, otherwise 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.640 late to work that day otherwise he'd be gone, and 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.680 I remember recognizing and saying out loud, we are going 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.440 to war. Changed the course of my life. Otherwise I 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.080 likely would have been someone who went to work on 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.400 Wall Street or management, soulting or something, try to find 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.840 my way to enough success and comfort that I could 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.400 get a decent house in the suburbs, find a nice wife, 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:12.240 and call it a day. Instead, I joined the CIA, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:16.240 got assigned to the counter Terrorism Center, went to Iraq, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.440 Northern Iraq when it was a particularly spicy area of 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.640 the country in two thousand and seven, went back to 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.000 Central Iraq in two thousand and eight, employed to Afghanistan 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.120 in two thousand and nine, and came home from that 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.280 and worked for the NYPD Intelligence Division. Came in right 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:37.840 after the fight Naji Bulazazi attack, and then was assigned 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.839 to the NYPD Task Force working the Faisal Shazad case, 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:46.880 the Times Square bomber, among other averted attacks that we 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.200 worked on during my time there. So it obviously changed 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.440 the course of my life. But I was very lucky 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.319 in that I didn't have any family members lost that 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:55.920 I know so many of you did. I was very 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.640 lucky that I wasn't a fireman or a member of 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.960 the NYPD, or a flight attendant on one of those flights, 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.000 or a pilot or someone working in the Pentagon that day. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.600 What did we learn from nine to eleven as a country? 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.319 One thing is that evil exists, and if it can 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:20.200 catch you sleeping, it will you have to be ever 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.640 vigilant because there will be evil forces at work in 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:27.160 this world, no matter how powerful, wealthy, successful we are 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:31.640 as a nation. There will be those ideologies, those beliefs, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:36.160 those impulses from other human beings to tear us down 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.360 and destroy us. I know it became something of a 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.520 laugh line among the liberal left for a while that 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.839 they hate us for our freedom, But the people that 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.400 drove planes into those buildings did in fact hate us 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:54.840 for our freedom, and their comrades and colleagues today haven't 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.920 changed their ideological predispositions at all. They're absolutely in agreement 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.079 with that that if they could destroy us as a society, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.680 they would. And then there are those within our own 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:10.640 country who you would think would have rallied to our side, 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.560 you would think would understand the stakes and would stop 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:19.120 rooting against us because of their own narrow parochial interests 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:23.559 or their desire to always be proven right. As domestic 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.000 radicals who want to see this country brought low and 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.360 then transformed. They still are very much here as well. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.400 One of my strongest memories from nine to eleven was 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.679 the gathering, the only all school gathering that I can 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.760 remember having when I was at Amherst College, pretty left 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:46.320 wing place in central Massachusetts in the Pioneer Valley. I 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:51.280 remember a professor standing up before the whole student body 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.760 and saying, this is what happens when you make people angry, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:00.559 you see to a certain kind of left wing intellectual, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:06.600 to a certain kind of let's just say it, radical democrat, socialist, 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.040 Marxist America actually got what it deserved that day. There 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.400 were people who were saying that, then we remember this, 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.079 this was a response to our foreign policy. There were 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:23.280 academics who said this. There were journalists who believed this. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.439 Maybe they waited a while to write such things or 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.840 say things out loud, but there was that belief. There 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:36.200 was a flag burning on my campus within weeks of 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:41.680 nine to eleven. Explicitly, these were students explicitly going forward 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.480 to say that we got what we deserved. So while 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.040 we can all talk about our unity and we should 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:52.920 because the vast majority of Americans, yes, including our fellow 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:57.280 Americans who are Democrats, a vast majority recognize what the 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.680 gravity of the situation was and rallied to our flag 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.480 and to our country, and we should remember that. But 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.040 there was an element within our own borders that saw 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.760 what happened, that saw us attacked in this particularly dire 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.560 and vulnerable moment, and thought, this is something that we 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:17.000 can work with, This will be advantageous for us. And 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:21.720 you even see some elements of that still today. Don't 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:28.720 ever forget there are enemies, foreign and domestic. That's one 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.440 of the lessons we should take from nine to eleven, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.440 because neither of them have gone away as much progress 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.520 as as we've made it, as many sacrifices as our military, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.120 law enforcement and first responders have engaged in over the 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:48.920 last almost twenty years. You're in this is the Buck 0:14:49.000 --> 0:15:00.720 Sex and Show podcast. Why in God's name is all 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:07.920 Buildings Matter? Trending on social media right now? What? What 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.120 the heck are people thinking? What is wrong with people? 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.800 All buildings matter? They think that this is clever? Now, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:22.400 Oh okay, because BLM is similar in its gravity and 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:28.600 seriousness to almost three thousand Americans being either incinerated or 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.760 crushed to death in a terrorist attack on all of us, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.960 including black and brown Americans, including people who are black 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.960 and brown who weren't Americans who were visiting that day, 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.760 who were four nationals. There was an attack on all 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:49.120 of us. But we can't even expect true unity in 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.760 this country in a day like this because the BLM 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:57.000 lunatics want to pretend that this is of similar gravity 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:03.680 and seriousness, that incidents like the Michael Brown shooting are 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.560 to be thought of at the same level, the same 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:10.760 categorization of seriousness as as the nine to eleven attack. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.480 BLM is an intellectually and morally unserious movement, you say, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.680 you have to remember that people don't want to hear that, 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.720 And of course anybody in the movement would go into 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.200 a fit of apoplexy. They would lose their minds if 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.440 you said that to them. But it's true, it's true. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.320 If they were serious, they wouldn't do these things. They 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:37.520 wouldn't say and support these things. The trend started because 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.840 a Black Lives Matter supporter wrote on Twitter nine to 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.720 eleven is sad, but let's remember that all buildings matter, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.680 and in response, the attention to tweet received, according to 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:53.480 Newsweek here. There was follow up to this anyway, So 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.680 hashtag all Buildings Matter is now the number one trending 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.160 Twitter thing in the world because the babies of the 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:05.960 BLM movement listen to us. We don't really have arguments, 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:07.920 but if you don't listen, we'll scream in your face 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:12.560 and we'll burn down your building. I've listened. When they 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:16.320 say that police are racist and killing black people regularly 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:21.680 in large numbers, systematically without consequence, they're lying. So I've listened. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.560 It's not true. What else am I supposed to listen 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:29.639 to exactly? But you see, they use disrespect to what 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.720 is sacred to reasonable people to get attention for what 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:39.480 is exaggerated in the minds of brainwashed people. Nine to 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:44.160 eleven is a day that affected the entire country. It's 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.240 a day where the forces of evil killed almost three 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.040 thousand of us and if they could have, would have 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:54.080 killed three million of us in one day. Oh, but 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.879 the BLM activists want to compare it to eight people 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:03.240 who are unarmed. Doesn't mean unthreatening shot eight black Americans. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.720 It's always the focus on black Americans were shot. You know, 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:10.000 there was a kid who had autism, who was shot recently, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.639 a white kid thirteen years old running his mother says 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.080 and shot by police, wasn't killed. No protests about that, 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:22.040 So I guess it doesn't matter as much to these activists. No, 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.200 of course not. It does not matter as much to them. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.639 But just remember, they're showing you the BLM activist, the 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.760 BLM movement, the Democrat Party, the Biden voters, the left. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.760 They're showing you who they are right now with this 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:40.080 All buildings matter, that's right, slapping America in the face 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.960 on this most solemn of days. That's just what the 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.280 left is all about. Thanks for listening to the buses 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.240 and show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:56.560 iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.960 let's talk policy as we think about the greatest threat 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.960 this country faces right now. Our single biggest threat as 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:10.200 a nation right now is internal political division that can 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.280 spiral out of control. That can pull us apart. It 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:16.480 can undermine any of our institutions, a phrase the Libs 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.640 love to use about Trump, as they are constantly undermining institutions. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:26.320 It can pull apart our law enforcement, pull apart our elections, 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.879 It can make us think that the entire system is 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.040 corrupt in ways that are unfixable. If you're wondering what's 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:38.600 our biggest external enemy, until recently, I would have said 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:44.840 it was Jehotism radical Islam as an ideology meant to 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:53.560 confront Western American Judeo Christian civilization. Right. That's and it 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.119 was existential in so far as if they could have 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.359 wiped us out, they would have, but they couldn't. And 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:03.920 now they've lost so many fighters and so many battles, 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:05.960 and spend so many and use so much of their resources. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.919 We always focus on the drain from America, which of 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.080 course we should of blood and treasure into these conflicts. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.920 But remember that it's not an endless flow of committed 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.720 fighters on the other side either, especially as we don't 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:21.679 get involved in places where we don't need to be. 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.240 Let local conflicts remain local outside of our own borders 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.640 to the extent that we can. It's a lesson we've learned. Look, 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.560 I was somebody who thought the Bush administration, with Rumsfeld 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:38.120 and Cheney and these all these very powerful neo Khon 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:42.280 think tanks in DC and the Pentagon policy planners like 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:47.199 Wolfowitz or at dinner with Wolfowitz once a lunch. Actually 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:51.600 deeply unimpressive guy. But anyway, he wouldn't remember. I would 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:53.520 because it's out there thinking this is the guy who's 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.640 the architect of all this stuff, and it was when 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:02.400 he was still Wolfowitz. But we've learned lessons from those mistakes, 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:04.920 I think, and we understand that it is there's nothing 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:10.680 conservative about sending our own people to go rebuild societies 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.320 for other people who are not Americans, and not even 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:18.680 necessarily in allied countries. But if you're wondering what's the 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:20.960 biggest threat we face now is a country external to 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:25.119 this nation, it would be China. And the President knows this. 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:27.800 The President is right about this, he has been all along, 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.600 and I think everyone's waking up to it. When I've 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:35.680 visited China a year ago, a little over a year 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:39.600 ago now, I remember thinking, this is not a place 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.560 that is looking to do its own thing and just 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.320 be prosperous and be left alone. This this is a 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:50.040 massive country, over a billion people, that is ruled with 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.840 an iron fist, that has no real concept or care 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.439 for human rights, I mean, from the government level, for 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:01.080 human rights, individual dignity, rule of law, and will enforce 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.040 its enforce its will upon people, and a lot of 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:10.000 Chinese nationals will go along with all of this because glory, 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:13.160 the national pursuit of glory, can be a very powerful elixir. 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:19.359 And even people who are just working, even just laborers, 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.920 people doing the most mundane jobs, if they believe that 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:28.439 their membership, if you will, in a nationality, in a 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:32.600 nation state family makes them more powerful, makes them part 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:36.760 of something important. There's a lot, there's a lot that 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:39.240 that ruling body that that government can do, can get 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:45.040 away with. So China is our biggest opponent economically, and 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:47.879 give it time. It will also be militarily. I'm certainly 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:50.159 hoping that we never go head to head in a 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:54.280 direct conflict with China. That would be it would be 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.600 catastrophic in ways that it's hard to even imagine. I mean, 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:00.879 it would the casualty rates. I I've seen some of 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.840 the war gaming on this and it's horrible. But it 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:06.919 might be more along the lines of the fight for 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:12.359 influence first on the Chinese national periphery. So the various 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:18.600 countries that it bumps up bumps up against right now, India, Russia, 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:23.640 the literal states, you know, the island island nations, and 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:28.000 countries that have island chains as a major part of 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:35.840 their geography Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea. 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:39.280 How does China interact with all of them? And is 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:41.720 it able to flip them to China's side in what 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:44.639 is going to become a great power struggle along the 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:46.480 lines of what we saw between the US and the 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:49.600 Soviet Union. That's what we're heading for now. Anyone who 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:52.840 would study history would see this coming. And we know 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:54.879 that this is the trajectory of world So China is 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:59.320 the biggest external threat? Can we all agree on that? 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:03.360 I mean, it's nine to eleven. We should remember ignoring 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:07.680 a growing threat can have catastrophic consequences, as it did 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:12.320 on that day. So wouldn't it be in our interest 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:15.679 as a nation to understand now to turn and face 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:20.560 the likeliest place We don't always know, We're not always right, obviously, 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:26.719 but the likeliest place where a major strategic level threat 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:32.920 to this country comes from. Anyone who knows foreign policy, 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:37.199 anything about the military, national security, international relations, knows that 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:41.879 it's got to be China, right apparently not? What do 0:24:41.920 --> 0:24:47.439 you think the Libs believe is the biggest nation state 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:50.680 threat we face or nation state level threat? What what 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:55.560 could end us as a society if we don't rise 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:59.240 to the challenge. Here's the former head of the Department 0:24:59.240 --> 0:25:03.359 of Homeland Secure already under the Obama administration, Jay Johnson, 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:05.840 with an answer. Play three, Joe, I have to say, 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:08.360 the number one threat to our nation and to our 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:11.919 world is global warming. And it's a threat as we 0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:14.840 see in California right now. And it's a threat because 0:25:14.920 --> 0:25:17.760 we are failing to address it. As Barack Obama used 0:25:17.760 --> 0:25:22.240 to say, it is a slow motion emergency. And unfortunately, 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:25.080 our political leaders always deal with the thing that is 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:27.280 on the top of their inbox. This has been a 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:30.280 crisis for some time now that we are failing to address, 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:33.240 and we're seeing the evidence of it more and more 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:38.800 year after year. Global warming the biggest threat we face. 0:25:40.000 --> 0:25:43.400 You see the way they're talking about these wildfires in Oregon. 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:47.560 In California, actually just had someone a listener reach out 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:50.479 and say that she's in a place where they might 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:53.679 have to be evacuated because of the wildfires. I know 0:25:53.680 --> 0:26:00.000 it's very serious. Whether it's wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, it's always 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:02.760 climate change or, as Jay Johnson says, global warming, but 0:26:02.800 --> 0:26:04.320 I thought we didn't call it that anymore? Can we? 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:07.080 Can we just be clear on what the proper name 0:26:07.240 --> 0:26:11.000 is for this scientific phenomenon that they say is the 0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:15.760 greatest national security threat. The biggest threat we face climate 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:18.440 change CO two in the air. You're breathing out CO 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:22.880 two right now. The biggest threat we face as a country, 0:26:22.920 --> 0:26:27.159 as a species is too much of that in the 0:26:27.280 --> 0:26:31.359 air and the atmosphere. We live in a time of 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:37.240 mass media combined with mass hysteria, friends, and the results 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:42.320 are not good. Doesn't strike me as plausible that somebody 0:26:42.359 --> 0:26:48.600 who has not been pressured brainwashed over time could really 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:56.000 think that the biggest threat that we face is climate change. 0:26:56.960 --> 0:26:58.479 There's a lot of other stuff out there. We've got 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:02.399