Speaker 1: To Chicago. Bob, Hello and welcome to the E I
Speaker 1: B Network. Hello, welcome, Thank you. Yes, Um, I was
Speaker 1: just wondering Russia, if you were president, what would you
Speaker 1: be doing right now? In Afghanistan? What do you think
Speaker 1: we should be doing? Do you think we should be
Speaker 1: doing more anti insurgency or anti terrorism? More or less troops,
Speaker 1: different troops, that sort of thing. Well, I'm not a
Speaker 1: commanding officer. I would listen to those who are. It's
Speaker 1: very simple. We win, they lose. But did you see
Speaker 1: the interview at sixty minutes this weekend with the General. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said he's only talked to the commander in chief
Speaker 1: one time in seventy days, right, and he was talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, being more careful in our bombing and stuff.
Speaker 1: And I know that's something that's driven you crazy when
Speaker 1: the Democrats have said that the past, and it is
Speaker 1: it is a dichotomy when the when the cowards to
Speaker 1: our enemy bury themselves in homes and neighborhoods with women
Speaker 1: and children wearing the burkas. Uh, it is difficult for
Speaker 1: us to go out and get the guys because the
Speaker 1: we are we are limited Beard by our compassion for
Speaker 1: not causing collateral damage until you would just take the
Speaker 1: gloves off. No, I've listened to what the general say.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is, you want what I do
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, I'd win and we're here. Obama has spoken
Speaker 1: up again. It's it's not hard, you know, in a war.
Speaker 1: The operating philosophy is, you know, well, what's the end game?
Speaker 1: When do you get out? After we win? We win,
Speaker 1: they lose. Here's Obama at the White House after he
Speaker 1: met with U n Secretary General Anders Folk Rasmus. They
Speaker 1: give a new secretary General. I think the Secretary General
Speaker 1: is banking Moon from from one of the Korea's anywhere.
Speaker 1: Here's Obama. He said this about their by the way
Speaker 1: he is, he's ignoring Richard Cohen's warning and Howard Feynman's warning, uh,
Speaker 1: stay off TV. Obama on TV again, saying after well
Speaker 1: he you listen. Here's what he said. We talked about
Speaker 1: obviously the most important NATO mission right now, and that
Speaker 1: is Afghanistan. And we both agree that it is absolutely
Speaker 1: critical that we are successful in dismantling, disrupting, destroying the
Speaker 1: Alqaeda network, and that we are effectively working with the
Speaker 1: Afghan government by the security necessary for that country. This
Speaker 1: is not an American battle. This is a NATO mission
Speaker 1: as well, and we are working actively and diligently to
Speaker 1: consult with NATO at every step of the way. He's
Speaker 1: the NATO general of this uh this uh Ander's fall
Speaker 1: grass muscles, the NATO general, not the UN Secretary general. Anyway, Obama,
Speaker 1: I know this is not an American battle. He said that,
Speaker 1: you heard him. It's not an American battles of NATO mission.
Speaker 1: Who's NATO? We are we in the Brits or NATO? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Australians, you know, the people from oz cool. But
Speaker 1: but we're we're it's not an American battle. Why I thought?
Speaker 1: I just think we remembered all during the Iraq War
Speaker 1: that Afghanistan is where we should have been, as what
Speaker 1: Obama was saying, where we should have been. We should
Speaker 1: go out there and capture Bin Laden. Now it's not
Speaker 1: an American battle, the NATO mission. We gotta do what
Speaker 1: we can out there to succeed in dismantling, disrupting, just
Speaker 1: drawing the all kind of net where it's not our
Speaker 1: it's not our battle. Therefore, what this means is when
Speaker 1: we lose, it's not his fault. It's Natos. This is
Speaker 1: Chris from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Welcome, sir, It's an
Speaker 1: honor to have you on the program. Hello, thanks taking
Speaker 1: my call, Rush. I just wanted to call in weighing
Speaker 1: on Afghanistan and the troop increase issue. You're talking about
Speaker 1: a country roughly beside of Texas. Now we've had twenty
Speaker 1: some thousand troops are there. From the majority of the
Speaker 1: time we were waging an unconventural war against smallpox, totalvan
Speaker 1: targeting leaders. Well, the talibanis has adapted to our tactics.
Speaker 1: They have grown stronger and they have a larger footprint
Speaker 1: in the country. Now we need more troops over there.
Speaker 1: The first thing that needs to be done is we
Speaker 1: need to secure the borders. We have an abundance of
Speaker 1: fighters continually following in from Pakistan into Afghanistan causing the
Speaker 1: problems over there. You've been there, I trust I've been
Speaker 1: there four times, yes, sir, your U S Military you
Speaker 1: served there four times, yes, sir. So you know the
Speaker 1: idea of not giving the commanders what they're requesting over
Speaker 1: there is uh. It seems to me like it's it's
Speaker 1: it's politically driven and Uh, if we're going to make
Speaker 1: a decisive decision decision to go and win this war,
Speaker 1: then we need to support the commanders. Well, of course
Speaker 1: it's politically driven because Obama doesn't want to anger his
Speaker 1: friends lunatic base who are anti military or anti war,
Speaker 1: anti victory. He needs them supporting his healthcare agenda and
Speaker 1: so forth. You understand the concept of the concept of
Speaker 1: victory is not in fact. Did you hear Obama say
Speaker 1: today that those are not an American war? There's a
Speaker 1: NATO war. Did you hear him saying that it is?
Speaker 1: But who's been taking to lead the entire US funded
Speaker 1: It is our responsibility. We were over there for one reason,
Speaker 1: one reason only two. Uh. Secure that country so that
Speaker 1: Talibani surgeons cannot set up a stronghold neck country have
Speaker 1: very range of launch attacks to the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: Chris here is exactly right. Uh. Stateless nations are exactly
Speaker 1: the kind of places that the as Obama was, the
Speaker 1: Taliban and I'll tie to target. That's why they went
Speaker 1: to Afghanistan in the first place. It was a stateless place.
Speaker 1: I could take it over that Taliban did. That's why
Speaker 1: Somalia was attractive to him. I got a note. This
Speaker 1: is funny. I got a note from my good friend
Speaker 1: Andy McCarthy, who is a National Review online. Rush I,
Speaker 1: I gotta respectfully disagree with you here. I think it's
Speaker 1: great Obama saying this is not America's war. That's the
Speaker 1: best chance we have a winning Stop and thinking about
Speaker 1: this now, Andy, we've had him on the program. Andy
Speaker 1: was in the prosecutorial team that put the blind Shake
Speaker 1: omar abdel Raman behind bars. Uh. He has spent his
Speaker 1: life studying these people. And Jesus, Rush, I gotta disagree
Speaker 1: with you with Obama saying it's not America's war, it's
Speaker 1: the first chance we might have really have here to
Speaker 1: win it. Since America can't be victorious but NATO can.
Speaker 1: All these international list is Andy's point, all these international
Speaker 1: institution at gold points to YEA, let them win. That's great.
Speaker 1: Bad what America doesn't making a little point