1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: I've had a couple of deep conversations over the weekend. 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: One of them was with the father of three, who's 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: almost forty years old. He's as smarter guy as you 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: can possibly meet as you go along the road to life, thoughtful, sincere, 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: very very well read, and deeply concerned. He was, in 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: fact the first person that really made an argument that 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,959 Speaker 1: it may be too late already to stop the catastrophe 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: that's coming. I thought about that. In fact, it made 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: me a bit sleepless. The reality is in real life, 10 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: and that is where we live. There are consequences to craziness, insanity, madness, 11 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: intimations towards violence. The simple truth is there are three 12 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million people that live in the United States, 13 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: and astounding percentages of them cannot tell you what the 14 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: First Amendment is, don't know what the American Revolution was 15 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: fought over, have no idea what side was what with 16 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: regard to the Civil War, don't know much about World 17 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: War II or the Civil Rights movement, and don't know 18 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: who the Vice president is. There's a book that was 19 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: written a long time ago, really a collection of essays. 20 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: It was called The Federalist Papers, and it's a primer 21 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: for what happens in a society, a republic. If the 22 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: people don't care, if they have lassitude, they're apathetic, indifferent. 23 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: There is something that it seems a lot of Americans 24 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: don't understand. Even though they may be indifferent, there is 25 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: no indifferent rents on the part of those who would 26 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: prey on that indifference to take power for themselves for 27 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: their selfish causes. That's exactly what happened in Israel. Benjamin 28 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: Netan Yahoo is one of the world's most incompetent leaders 29 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: of government, along with being one of its most corrupt. 30 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: Here is how Benjamin Netanyah, who stayed in power. He 31 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: made a deal with the extremists, and the extremists did 32 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: everything they could to incite the Palestinians. Bibi net In 33 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: Yahoo did everything he could to consolidate his power and 34 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: to grant himself as Prime Minister, a license to steal 35 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: and to commit corrupt acts because he was accused of crimes. 36 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: What he sought to do politically was to undo the 37 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: independent israelijudiciary. No democracy survives without an independent judiciary. And 38 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: in the United States, a deep, deep, deep marker of 39 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: our corruption in decay is in the corruption of the 40 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: United States Supreme Court through people like Clarence Thomas and 41 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: Samuel Alito. But back in Israel, hundreds of thousands of 42 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: people took to the streets to protest, to protest the 43 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: attacks on democracy. They protested weekend after weekend after weekend 44 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: over the course of a year. Time and time again. 45 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: Israeli national security officials warned the country was becoming vulnerable 46 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: to attack because it looked weak. Weakness invites aggression. And 47 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: then Hamas struck and now the war has come. The 48 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: war that is about to launch in Gaza is extremely dangerous. 49 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: There is a Chinese naval task force that is arriving 50 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: in the Middle East. There is a Russian naval presence. 51 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: Most Americans don't know that an American destroyer was involved 52 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: in sustained combat operations shooting down Iranian drones shot from 53 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: their Houti allies in Yemen aimed at Israel. The world 54 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: is a powder keg ready to explode, and just weeks 55 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: ago it wasn't so. The implications of Benjamin Netanyahu's incompetence 56 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: and the weakness that was seen as a result of it, 57 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 1: and the aggression that it inspired by a great evil 58 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: as evil as Isis. Is something every American should appreciate 59 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: because there are two American Air Force carrier strike groups 60 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: off the coast of Israel. Two million goss who live 61 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: lives essentially in an open air prison run by Hamas 62 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 1: or under grave humanitarian threat. These are human beings. They 63 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 1: are made just like the Jews and the Christians in 64 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: God's image, and their suffering is not to be disregarded. 65 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: There is nothing that anybody can do to stop the 66 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: war that is coming. Hamas will be eliminated by Israel. 67 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: They will certainly try to at least. The danger of 68 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: this war escalating on the northern border or in the 69 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: West Bank is profound. The United States is just two 70 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: steps away from direct conference with Iran. These are the 71 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: consequences of these years of insanity. There's a simple truth 72 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: about human history. Each successive century has been deadlier than 73 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: the last. The seventeenth century deadlier than the sixteenth, the 74 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: eighteenth more so than the seventeenth, the nineteenth deadlier than 75 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: the eighteenth. Until things went truly off the rails in 76 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: the twentieth and by the middle of the twentieth century, 77 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: man possessed all the weapons he needed to extinct humanity 78 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: from the face of the earth. More than one hundred 79 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: million people died killed violently in the Second World War. 80 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: Douglas MacArthur talked about this from the battleship Missouri anchored 81 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 1: in Tokyo Bay, when the guns fell silent after years 82 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: of war. He talked about the fact that mankind had 83 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: reached the abyss and that if humans could not figure 84 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: out how to live with one another and to establish 85 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: a permanent peace, then surely we were at the end 86 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: of civilization. What MacArthur said was that since the beginning 87 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: of time, people have killed each other, and people have 88 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,239 Speaker 1: sought to make peace with one another, and up until 89 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: that time, all of the institutions that had ever been 90 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: imagined between governments had failed to keep the peace. And 91 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: the war that came would be the last war between 92 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: human beings that did not end the human race. Since then, 93 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: there have been many wars fought across the globe. In fact, 94 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: there has not been a single day of peace since 95 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: that day on Earth where no one was fighting. But 96 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: what we have avoided is a great power confrontation war 97 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: between the countries that have the technological and military capacities 98 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: to wipe out everybody on the earth, and those countries 99 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: and those weapons are drawn closer together in the Middle East. 100 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: Here at home, in the United States, there is a 101 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 1: carnival of idiocy reigning supreme on the floor of the 102 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: United States House of Representatives. Imagine one hundred years from now, 103 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: our descendants looking back, as the winds of catastrophe are stirring, 104 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: trying to understand the idiocy of this ageance for it 105 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: by the American people in a moment of real crisis, 106 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: on the edge of real consequences. Imagine how they will 107 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: judge us. Imagine what the historians will say. We are 108 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: in a most dangerous hour. What's happening in Washington, DC 109 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: is obscene. The fact that Donald Trump, who incited an insurrection, 110 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: who lied about the results of an election, a man 111 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: found guilty of sexually abusing a woman by a jury 112 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: of his peers, This man, who tried to burn down 113 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: the US Constitution, defended by the blood sacrifice of one 114 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: million Americans, is fifty points ahead in the Republican primary, 115 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 1: and he's winning in a head to head race against 116 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. National sickness. Does that reveal? What decay? Does 117 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: that expose? What rot are we dealing with this country, 118 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: the greatest in the world, founded on an idea made 119 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: up by all the people of the world, is humanity's 120 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: greatest hope. We have fed more people, cured more people, 121 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: liberated more people than all of the other nations put 122 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: together since the beginning of time. We are not a 123 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: perfect country, but the idea of America is a noble one. 124 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: Yet in twenty twenty three, where is the nobility and 125 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: defense of it? Where are the people who will stand 126 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: up and say enough? The hour is drawn short. They 127 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: must stand up. You must stand up. We must all 128 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:09,199 Speaker 1: stand up against this madness. Our children should live in 129 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: peace and hope and prosperity, not under the threat of 130 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 1: war and cast suffering and death. That this moment has 131 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 1: come understand was brought by politics and corruption and selfishness. 132 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: We're all tied together, and anybody who tells you we're 133 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: not as a fool. The corruption of one man in 134 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: Israel has brought the whole world to the brink of 135 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: war because his corruption and weakness stirred evil. And when 136 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 1: evil sees weakness, it strikes. And that evil has yoked 137 00:11:55,600 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: a million Palestinians to it. They don't care about the 138 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: lives of those people. But Americans should because America is 139 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: a country founded on an idea about human rights that, 140 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: though we have lived imperfectly, we now understand includes all people. 141 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: All people. That's the American position, and it would be 142 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: better if more Americans understood it.