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Speaker 1: To Chicago. Bob, Hello and welcome to the E I

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Speaker 1: B Network. Hello, welcome, Thank you. Yes, Um, I was

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Speaker 1: just wondering Russia, if you were president, what would you

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Speaker 1: be doing right now? In Afghanistan? What do you think

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Speaker 1: we should be doing? Do you think we should be

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Speaker 1: doing more anti insurgency or anti terrorism? More or less troops,

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Speaker 1: different troops, that sort of thing. Well, I'm not a

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Speaker 1: commanding officer. I would listen to those who are. It's

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Speaker 1: very simple. We win, they lose. But did you see

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Speaker 1: the interview at sixty minutes this weekend with the General. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he said he's only talked to the commander in chief

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Speaker 1: one time in seventy days, right, and he was talking about,

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Speaker 1: you know, being more careful in our bombing and stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I know that's something that's driven you crazy when

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Speaker 1: the Democrats have said that the past, and it is

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Speaker 1: it is a dichotomy when the when the cowards to

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Speaker 1: our enemy bury themselves in homes and neighborhoods with women

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Speaker 1: and children wearing the burkas. Uh, it is difficult for

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Speaker 1: us to go out and get the guys because the

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Speaker 1: we are we are limited Beard by our compassion for

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Speaker 1: not causing collateral damage until you would just take the

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Speaker 1: gloves off. No, I've listened to what the general say.

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Speaker 1: But the bottom line is, you want what I do

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, I'd win and we're here. Obama has spoken

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Speaker 1: up again. It's it's not hard, you know, in a war.

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Speaker 1: The operating philosophy is, you know, well, what's the end game?

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Speaker 1: When do you get out? After we win? We win,

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Speaker 1: they lose. Here's Obama at the White House after he

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Speaker 1: met with U n Secretary General Anders Folk Rasmus. They

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Speaker 1: give a new secretary General. I think the Secretary General

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Speaker 1: is banking Moon from from one of the Korea's anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Here's Obama. He said this about their by the way

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Speaker 1: he is, he's ignoring Richard Cohen's warning and Howard Feynman's warning, uh,

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Speaker 1: stay off TV. Obama on TV again, saying after well

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Speaker 1: he you listen. Here's what he said. We talked about

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Speaker 1: obviously the most important NATO mission right now, and that

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Speaker 1: is Afghanistan. And we both agree that it is absolutely

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Speaker 1: critical that we are successful in dismantling, disrupting, destroying the

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Speaker 1: Alqaeda network, and that we are effectively working with the

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Speaker 1: Afghan government by the security necessary for that country. This

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Speaker 1: is not an American battle. This is a NATO mission

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Speaker 1: as well, and we are working actively and diligently to

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Speaker 1: consult with NATO at every step of the way. He's

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Speaker 1: the NATO general of this uh this uh Ander's fall

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Speaker 1: grass muscles, the NATO general, not the UN Secretary general. Anyway, Obama,

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Speaker 1: I know this is not an American battle. He said that,

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Speaker 1: you heard him. It's not an American battles of NATO mission.

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Speaker 1: Who's NATO? We are we in the Brits or NATO? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Australians, you know, the people from oz cool. But

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Speaker 1: but we're we're it's not an American battle. Why I thought?

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Speaker 1: I just think we remembered all during the Iraq War

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Speaker 1: that Afghanistan is where we should have been, as what

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Speaker 1: Obama was saying, where we should have been. We should

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Speaker 1: go out there and capture Bin Laden. Now it's not

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Speaker 1: an American battle, the NATO mission. We gotta do what

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Speaker 1: we can out there to succeed in dismantling, disrupting, just

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Speaker 1: drawing the all kind of net where it's not our

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Speaker 1: it's not our battle. Therefore, what this means is when

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Speaker 1: we lose, it's not his fault. It's Natos. This is

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Speaker 1: Chris from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Welcome, sir, It's an

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Speaker 1: honor to have you on the program. Hello, thanks taking

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Speaker 1: my call, Rush. I just wanted to call in weighing

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Speaker 1: on Afghanistan and the troop increase issue. You're talking about

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Speaker 1: a country roughly beside of Texas. Now we've had twenty

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Speaker 1: some thousand troops are there. From the majority of the

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Speaker 1: time we were waging an unconventural war against smallpox, totalvan

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Speaker 1: targeting leaders. Well, the talibanis has adapted to our tactics.

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Speaker 1: They have grown stronger and they have a larger footprint

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Speaker 1: in the country. Now we need more troops over there.

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Speaker 1: The first thing that needs to be done is we

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Speaker 1: need to secure the borders. We have an abundance of

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Speaker 1: fighters continually following in from Pakistan into Afghanistan causing the

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Speaker 1: problems over there. You've been there, I trust I've been

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Speaker 1: there four times, yes, sir, your U S Military you

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Speaker 1: served there four times, yes, sir. So you know the

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Speaker 1: idea of not giving the commanders what they're requesting over

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Speaker 1: there is uh. It seems to me like it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's politically driven and Uh, if we're going to make

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Speaker 1: a decisive decision decision to go and win this war,

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Speaker 1: then we need to support the commanders. Well, of course

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Speaker 1: it's politically driven because Obama doesn't want to anger his

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Speaker 1: friends lunatic base who are anti military or anti war,

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Speaker 1: anti victory. He needs them supporting his healthcare agenda and

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Speaker 1: so forth. You understand the concept of the concept of

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Speaker 1: victory is not in fact. Did you hear Obama say

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Speaker 1: today that those are not an American war? There's a

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Speaker 1: NATO war. Did you hear him saying that it is?

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Speaker 1: But who's been taking to lead the entire US funded

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Speaker 1: It is our responsibility. We were over there for one reason,

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Speaker 1: one reason only two. Uh. Secure that country so that

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Speaker 1: Talibani surgeons cannot set up a stronghold neck country have

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Speaker 1: very range of launch attacks to the rest of the world.

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Speaker 1: Chris here is exactly right. Uh. Stateless nations are exactly

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Speaker 1: the kind of places that the as Obama was, the

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Speaker 1: Taliban and I'll tie to target. That's why they went

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Speaker 1: to Afghanistan in the first place. It was a stateless place.

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Speaker 1: I could take it over that Taliban did. That's why

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Speaker 1: Somalia was attractive to him. I got a note. This

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Speaker 1: is funny. I got a note from my good friend

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Speaker 1: Andy McCarthy, who is a National Review online. Rush I,

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Speaker 1: I gotta respectfully disagree with you here. I think it's

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Speaker 1: great Obama saying this is not America's war. That's the

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Speaker 1: best chance we have a winning Stop and thinking about

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Speaker 1: this now, Andy, we've had him on the program. Andy

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Speaker 1: was in the prosecutorial team that put the blind Shake

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Speaker 1: omar abdel Raman behind bars. Uh. He has spent his

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Speaker 1: life studying these people. And Jesus, Rush, I gotta disagree

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Speaker 1: with you with Obama saying it's not America's war, it's

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Speaker 1: the first chance we might have really have here to

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Speaker 1: win it. Since America can't be victorious but NATO can.

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Speaker 1: All these international list is Andy's point, all these international

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Speaker 1: institution at gold points to YEA, let them win. That's great.

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Speaker 1: Bad what America doesn't making a little point