Military Mom Outraged by Biden Claim We’re Losing in Afghanistan

RUSH: Beverly in East Texas, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: East Texas blessings to you, Mr. Limbaugh.

RUSH: Thank you very much.

CALLER: From a military mother of two, I’m wondering, sir, if I might shift your focus from the war on economy to the war that we are also fighting on another front. Might I do that, sir?

RUSH: You mean the war that Joe Biden says we’re losing?

CALLER: Yes, sir.

RUSH: That would be the war in Afghanistan?

CALLER: On Saturday our president said we aren’t winning which I would assume our enemies assume that that means we’re losing, as we now hear more from Iran, North Korea, and all the other bullies that are lining up. I want to speak on behalf of military families. We have two children serving. My husband served in Vietnam, and he also served under Jimmy Carter despite (unintelligible) and the hippies spitting on him. But we have a son who serves. He’s been over eight or nine times. He’s home right now in Florida. We saw him last week, celebrated his 30th birthday with him. He went over right after the election and was there through Christmas, and, you know, the military honors its commander-in-chief and they’re not going to speak a word of dishonor because that’s their character, not his. And what we see happening is we military families are in great despair right now, and I’m wondering if you can give us some words of encouragement because we’re not through with this war. My son said one day, ‘We’re fighting a war while America’s at the mall or the movies.’

RUSH: I most definitely can give you words of encouragement.

CALLER: Well, I certainly appreciate that.

RUSH: I’ll tell you what my first words of encouragement would be in response to your legitimate concerns. When the commander-in-chief and the man-in-waiting, which in this case is Plugs Biden, when they’re both out there saying we’re losing

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Beverly in East Texas. Nice to have you on the
E I B Network alone, East Texas. Blessings to you,
Mr Limbaugh, Thank you very much. From a military mother
of two. I'm wondering, sir, if I might shift your
focus from the war on economy to the war that
we are also fighting on another front? Might I do that? Sir?

(00:20):
You mean the war that Joe Biden says we're losing, yes, Sir,
and the war in Afghanistan that on Saturday our President
said we aren't winning, which I would assume our enemies
assume that that means we're losing. As we now hear
more from Iran, North Korea and all the other bullies
that are lining up. I want to speak in behalf
of military families. We have two children serving. My husband

(00:43):
served in Vietnam and he also survived under Jimmy Carter
despite five risks and the hippis spitting on him. But
but we have a son who serves. He's been over
eight or nine times. He's home right now in Florida.
We saw him last week celebrate his thirtieth birthday with him.
He went over right after the election and was there

(01:03):
through Christmas. And you know, the military honors it is
commander in chief, and they're not going to speak a
word of dishonor because that's their character, not his. And
what we see happening is we military families are in
great despair right now, and I'm wondering if you can
give us some words of encouragement because we're not through

(01:25):
with this war. My son said, one day, we're fighting
a war while America is at the mall or the movies. Uh,
I most definitely can give you words of encouragement. Well,
I could, certainly. I'll tell you what my first words
of encouragement would be in response to your legitimate concerns.

(01:46):
When when when the commander in chief and the man
in waiting, which in this case is Plugs Biden, when
they're both out there saying we're losing, you have to
wonder what is their motivation? Is their motivation to inspire
the troops, is their motivation to set the stage for

(02:06):
our withdrawal because we can't win? You know, Beverly, it
looks to me like the foreign policy of this administration
is to make friends with every enemy, or as many
as possible, and to spit on our friends. And it's Okay,
why do this was? I think some of this is

(02:29):
cultural life. I think some of the Obama administration reject
the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness,
both domestically and in the arena foreign policy. And they've
got chips on their shoulders for whatever reason. And and
then they're just gonna you know, for example, we've looked
at the Palestinians and Hamas and and has bothered. We've

(02:50):
looked up too long as the enemy. That there's too
long is the enemy. We need to change our thinking.
We need to try to make them our friends. Obama said,
we need to reach and get this if you know
folk to the Taliban, I know what you're getting. Ready,
if you if you want real sophistry, this is scary
incompetent sophistry. You're exactly right, Beverley. We need to reach
out to moderate members of the Taliban like we did

(03:14):
the Shia. And there are no moderate Taliban. There are
no moderate Al Qaeda. They are either dead or alive,
but they are not moderate. And we've got a guy
who wants to attach US political labels to extreme radical

(03:36):
thug terrorist murderers. It is outrageous. There's no such thing
as a moderate Taliban. He acts like he's one American idol,
not the presidency. But this could get my son and
daughter killed, and and he'd even let those pictures go
on the TV. He says, we we feel that we

(03:57):
have been so abandoned, but we serve because we love
this country. Mr. We all know that. And this is,
this is needs to be my words of encouragement to you.
I know the US military is beholden to its commander
in chief, but the US military, um, it's mission is victory,

(04:22):
and it's commanding officers on the ground. As long as
they're not handcuffed by mission planning from Washington, As long
as they're not handcuffed by cuts in their budgets and
things that they need, US military can defeat whoever they're
pitted against. There's and there's, and there's I don't think

(04:48):
I don't think there's any doubt that that is the
objective of every individual on the ground in Afghanistan. I
can't publicly, and they would never do so go against
the commander in chief. But it's the and in chiefs
just another obstacle in terms of what he's saying, not
his orders, in terms of what he's saying in this
kind of if. If it's the look at the U. S. Military,

(05:08):
and both Afghanistan and Iraq, for the first time in
many of our lives, underwent and triumphed over one of
the most concentrated efforts to demoralize them that has ever
been undertaken by their own country. Democrat Congress. Yes, sir,
you're right. I called every one of them too. I
want you to know that wasn't just the Democrat Congress,

(05:31):
it was the Democrat Party. It was voters, average citizens
who vote Democrat. Proclaiming victory was impossible. The war is
already lost, and yet the men and women on the
ground in the surge in Iraq prevailed. They overcame at all.
But it was It was striking for all of us,

(05:53):
and it was hurtful, and it also made our blood
boil to see the attempt to demoralize and dispirit members
of our military by elements in our own country that
we had not seen before in such a concentrated way.
There had been pockets of Vietnam after a while, but

(06:14):
from the moment this war started, the Democrats sought to
use it as a political wedge it took us a
while to get there in Vietnam after bungling from Washington,
the Johnson administration. Look, this country wouldn't be what it
is without families like you. This country wouldn't be what

(06:35):
it is without your your uh offspring, your children volunteering
for this. And the people of this country are never
ever going to forget. I don't care who's running this town,
running this country. Uh. That's the kind of thing that
will cause a backlash because this president has said we
need to send more troops over there. Now. Obama did

(06:58):
not specifically say we want to have a meeting with
the Taliban. He said we need to reach out to
moderate elements of the Taliban, just like we did in
a Rock to gang up on Mooki's boys all solder.
But that that is just again. I'll tell you what's

(07:20):
what's really frustrating about that is that kind of irresponsible rhetoric,
whether he means it or not. If he means it,
it's a double bad women. If he's just saying it
as a politician would because he knows or thinks that
most Americans are squishy and would do anything to avoid conflict,
and something we say, well, there are moderates in all

(07:42):
of our enemies. There might just reach out if he
thinks that will keep his approval numbers up. That could
be the reason. Either way, it is irresponsible and it
is incompetent, and it is unforgivable to portray the Taliban
or I'll catch us. Anything is portraying all Kitos's let's
find a moderate bin lauden Uh. It's it's just it's

(08:07):
irresponsible at the least, it's irresponsible and incompetent at the best. Well,
there is no best at the worst. So Beverly Uh,
You and your your family your the backbone of America.

(08:28):
Nobody's gonna forget you. And they're not going to forget
their duty. They won't forget their objective. What is a
moderate Talibana moderate Taliban? But only saw your head halfway off?
And that's who Obama wants to reach other. This is
not about reaching out the moderate Taliban. It's about reaching
out the squishy Americans. Obama is trying to marginalize everybody

(08:53):
by identifying the squishes and the people that he can
roll as moderates and getting them on his side. Where publicans,
democrats and so forth and so on and this. This
is just rhetoric moderate Taliban. Besides that, Obama is not
being honest with you when he says we can reach
out to moderate elements of the Taliban, like we reached

(09:14):
out to the Sunnies the Sunni Uprising against Mookie's boys.
Obama refused to credit the United States, either our diplomacy
or our military for that. He was so wedded to
the notion of American failure in the Rock. If I
sound angry about it, I am. He was so wetted

(09:35):
to the notion of American failure he could not see
it within himself to credit any aspect of American military
strategy or diplomacy for the Sunni Uprising. And now all
of a sudden he wants to replicate that great American
policy with his reach out the moderate Taliban