September 7, 2021 • 28 mins
RUSH: Let’s play audio sound bite number 16. CNN’s Anderson Cooper 180, with hardly any audience, which is why we’re going to play this bite for you, spoke with the international correspondent at CNN, Michael Ware. Cooper said, ‘Everybody seems to admit, look, there’s no military solution, and yet politically there’s hardly any civilians on the ground in a lot of these areas, and the Afghan government is riddled with corruption. We’re trying to bolster in these areas a government which has not represented its people.’
WARE: We’re not at the point where we could lose this war. This Taliban will continue to fight as long as US troops or foreign troops want to be there. So the whole idea is to put enough military pressure on the Taliban war machine to parlay that pressure at the negotiating table or to bring a political solution. Now, President Obama has to man up and decide: is he going to fight this war or is he going to oversee an American defeat.
RUSH: A CNN reporter says to Obama, man up or lose Afghanistan? Man up or lose? Or is he going to oversee an American defeat? What do you think the answer to the question is? He’s willing to oversee an American defeat. He came out and said victory is an uncomfortable word in Afghanistan. So, meanwhile, the general who Obama wants and who Obama appointed and who Obama got confirmed wants some more troops. Mr. President, you are not a state senator from Illinois. You are the commander-in-chief of the US military. Do your job. Drop the politics. We got heroes on the battlefield giving their last full measure of devotion to this country and you’re voting ‘present.’ All because he doesn’t want to upset the applecart, the precious balance in Congress on his health care bill — well, on a health care bill because of the radical left. And now The Politico is fascinated with who leaked this news that Obama’s not gonna come up with the troops that the general wants, who leaked that the general wants the troops. It’s the funniest thing. It’s the most incredible story.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's play audio somebody number sixteen CNN's Anderson Cooper one
eight with hardly any audience, which is why we're going
to play this bite for you. Spoke with the International
Correspondent CNN Michael ware. Cooper said, everybody seems to admit, look,
there's no military solution, and yet politically there's hardly any
civilians on the ground in a lot of these areas,
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and the Afghan government is riddled with corruption. We're trying
to bolster in these areas of government which is not
represented its people were. Now where we could lose this war.
The Taliban will continue to fight as long as U
S troops for foreign troops want to be there. So
the whole idea is to put enough military pressure on
the Taliban war machine to polly that pressure at the
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gust Shadding table all to bring a political solution. Now,
President Obama has to man up on the side. Is
he going to fight this war or is he going
to ovasey an American defeat? CNN reporters says to Obama,
man up or lose Afghanistan, Man up or lose or
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is he going to oversee an American defeat? What do
you think the answer to the question is he's willing
to oversee an American defeat. He came out and said
victories something. It's a it's a it's an uncomfortable proposition
word in Afghanistan. So meanwhile, the general who Obama wants
and who Obama appointed, who Obama got confirmed once some
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more troops. Mr President, you are not a state senator
from Illinois. You are the commander in chief of the U. S. Military.
Do your job. Dropped the politics. We got heroes on
the battlefield giving their last full measure of devotion to
this country, and you're voting present, all because he doesn't
want to upset the apple cart, the precious balance in
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Congress on his healthcare bill, well on a healthcare bill
because of the radical left. And now the politico is
fascinated with who leaked this news that Obama is not
going to come up with the troops that the general wants.
Who leaked that the general wants the troops. It's the
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most the funniest thing, it's the most incredible story. President
Obama wants more time to develop a new strategy in Afghanistan.
His general wants forty more troops. Otherwise, the general says,
we and the Allies run the risk of losing the war.
Would agreeing to forty more troops jeopardize liberals support for Obamacare?
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Stop and think about that. The President of the United
States is teetering. He's flirting with the actual concept of
defeat in Afghanistan. Forty thou troops, the general says, makes
the difference forty troops in one hand, or losing or
jeopardizing support of liberals for Obama air in Congress. What
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does this tell you about the man? These are the
domestic political questions that hunt Barack Obama. He's playing politics
when he ought to be fighting and winning a war,
acting like a commander in chief who gives a damn
about his troops in the field. He's playing golf. He's
yucking it up with Letterman. He's got his stupid Health
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and Human Services Secretary telling people how to sneeze on
their sleeves. He's sitting on a report from his commanding
general Afghanistan that says we are boost troop numbers there
faced the distinct possibility of defeat, and he wants more
time to study a new strategy. He's doing nothing. He
has the reports, he won't make a decision. He's voting
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present to their election of duty. What what are we
going to do in Afghanistan? I thought that was settled,
now now it's not. Afghanistan was a central theater. That's
where we had to go. That's we're gonna beat these guys.
Taliban ala Qaida Wish made a mistake. Should have gone
in there. Wasted all this treasure, all these resources. Now
we're there in Obama flirting with defeat, all to make
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certain his Obamacare is not jeopardized in the House. This
is what you get when the radical left runs. Every
branch of the federal government isn't on the golf course.
He's making jokes on Letterman Lamb jokes at that, and
now he's spouting additional lies, threats, end of the world.
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We're all going to die at a climate change conference,
which is nothing more than a meeting of worldwide leftists
to seek to implement a worldwide government that has control
over every aspect of every person's life on this planet.
That's the end game. Now, this Afghanistan report, this this
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is this is this is Hilary us in the Political
to Day, Bob Woodward's Monday Morning exclusive on the sixty
page report from General McCrystal to Obama about Afghanistan policy
was a rite of passage for the new administration, the
first major national security league, and a sure sign that
the celebrated Washington Post reporters penetrated yet another administration. So
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now the story is who leaked this, Who did it,
and why did they do it. The simplest theory, and
one most administration officials Monday were endorsing, is that the
military or civilian Pentagon official who supports mccrystal's policy put
it out in an attempt to pressure Obama to follow
the suggestion and increase troop levels. But not everybody in
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Washington believer in in this theory, so all manner of
other theories flourished. There are believers in the reverse leak,
in which the League itself has meant to damage McCrystal
um or his position by inducing White House anger at
the general. There's the fake leak in which the White
House may have been trying to back itself into a corner.
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They actually right this, that the White House did this
on purpose to back itself into a corner, or what what?
There were constant leaks during the Bush administration about Iraq
war policy, and there was never this hand ringing. Why
who's doing this? Why are they doing this? Who wants
to damage our beloved President Bush? Now? Oh no, the
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first major foreign policy leak. Who's trying to do this?
And why? For what purpose? Could it be? Obama leaked
it himself to back himself into a corner. It actually
says that, yeah, he wants to back himself into a corner,
So he's got his buddies at CNN openly telling him
the man up or risk losing the war in Afghanistan.
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Or I totally believe, by the way, I totally believe
the possibility that somebody in the White House leaked discredit McCrystal.
Remember these guys the left, the far left, they don't
like a victorious America. That's imperialism. They love it when
the US military loses. Look at look at their their
efforts to secure defeat during the Iraq War. They're all
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about the America, American military being humbled and being defeated.
So it's entirely possible to me that somebody would leak
this to make McCrystal look bad, uh as as a
way of damaging him and making Obama look good to
the left, as he's trying to do by not caring
about defeat or victory in military conflict. We'll go to
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Hilliard in Florida and Roger, thank you for calling, sir.
Welcome to the E I B Network. Hello, Rush, how
are you? I'm very well, sir, Thanks much as pleasure
to talk to you. Yes, I think basically what's happened
there is the White House didn't leak a thing. It
was the General himself for one of his staff members
to be sure that Obama wasn't gonna sit on his
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bluots because he considers Afghanistan and distraction right now, Well,
it's possible. I I'll tell you what's what's fascinating to
me about this is it all during even Watergate, Let's
go back to the number one leaker was Deep Throat,
and nobody cared what his motivation was because they all
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knew he was out to destroy Dixon, which was fine,
that was cool. They all focused on the substance of
what deep Throat had to say. And you know what
deep Throat really was. You know, I'll tell you the
real lesson that nobody draws, the correct lesson that nobody
draws the deep Throat. Deep Throat was not so much
bringing down a president, although he did. What Deep Throat
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was doing was actually manipulating and controlling media, and he
showed how easy it was to do it. Woodward and Bernstein,
of course, have these great journalistic reputations as the as
the two kings of investigative journalism. They are the models
there what's taught in journalism schools that Deep Throat manipulated
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those guys. He had them going everywhere he wanted them
to go. They would they found out nothing on their own,
a very little other than what he led them to
or fed them. And the real lesson of deep Throat
is how leakers can manipulate the media. But in this case,
in this case of the leak about the need for
more troops in Afghanistan, uh the drive bys or other,
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who is doing this and what is their motivation? Who
is tampering with our beloved president? You want to hear
some of the other theories about this, It's um It's
most likely somebody who has or is cultivating a personal
relationship with Woodward and positioning himself to look good in
Woodward's next book. So the leaker might just be engaging
in that because he wants to be a star in
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Woodward's mind. The Pentagon hasn't changed, and there are a
lot of people within the Pentagon who understand the strategic
use of the leaks and Heather Hurlbert, the executive director
of the Democrat leaning National Security Network Democratic Anyway, one
possibility have to look at is this being leaked by
somebody who is in league with the neo connassault on Obama,
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where anything short of all in is framed as wee
can defeat. So of all the theories, three of the
four are going to nail Obama somebody and the other
the other theory is Obama's backing himself into a corner.
But here's the thing you have to remember. Let's get
back to the substance of this. Not only was Afghanistan
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the war the liberals said we should fight. We are
fighting it exactly the way they said we should and
the way they wanted us to. That is, we have
given charge of the thing essentially to NATO, and NATO
is now screwing it up. We have begged other countries
to go in with us, and very few have, and
those who have only have set trainers or medical or
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other support personnel, very few troops and now most of
this wonderful multinational force are pulling out or threatening to
And we're fighting the war with both hands tied behind
our backs. We're not even allowed to attack the enemy
near houses. It's it's the left dream war. If this
is this is this is the prototype. This is the
way they wanted us to find the war. This is
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where they've taken us. How could we possibly lose? The
world was asked to participate a world buddy or a
multinational body. NATO is running the show, not the United States.
Uh that We're gonna show Buny House. Now, we're gonna
capture a Sama and we're gonna kick Butter. We're gonna
show that Bush was wrong to go into a rock
and blah blah blah blah blah, and we're on the
verge of defeat and Obama. Look, I told you yesterday.
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I was in Coach Zorn's sweet at the Redskins Rams
on Sunday and he had as his guests and his
wife Joy four handsome young Marines who were being deployed
soon They were then put A fifth buddy of theirs
was on the phone with me in twenty nine Palms, California,
and some of them are going to the hell Hall
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areas of Afghanistan summer, going to Camp le June. People volunteered.
They're out there defending and protecting the U. S. Consta
tuition in this government and the people of this country.
They're fighting for freedom. And we got this guy fighting
the perfect war the way the left said we should
do it. And we're on the verge of defeat. And
the balance here is, oh gosh, do I send forty
more troops and risk losing my base in the healthcare debate?
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Or do I not send forty loseing Afghanistan but get healthcare.
That's the question our commander in chief is asking himself. Meanwhile,
the media is obsessed with who leaked this and why
are they out there trying to damage our beloved young president.
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In the Washington Post, get this, I love this is
uh an editorial wavering on Afghanistan. That's the headline. I
get this subhead Washington Post. President Obama seems to have
forgotten his own arguments for a counter insurgency campaign. Obama
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forgot his position. This is constructive criticism. Obama seems to
have forgotten his own arguments. Why yes, it was only
last March, Obama outlined in a major speech what he
called a comprehensive new strategicy for Afghanistan that he said
marks the conclusion of a careful policy review. That strategy
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unambiguously stated that the US would prevent the return of
the Taliban government and enhanced the military, governance, and economic
capacity of the country. Washington Post says we strongly supported
the President's conclusion those goals were essential. So it was
a little startling to hear. Obama suggested several TV interviews
on Sunday that he had second thoughts where the process
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working through that strategy. First question is are we presuming
the right strategy on NBC with supporting Afghan national government,
building capecitive in the army. Well, we'll move forward if
it doesn't. I'm not interested in being in Afghanistan being Afghanistan.
By the way, I'm not thumping the table. My arm
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is just hitting it. Are you hearing it? I'm not
stumping on the table. I've been very good about this.
So basically, we have incompetence on parade, we have indecision
on parade, we have an inexperience on We got a
man with a five minute career who has no experience
running anything but a bunch of community agitators and organizers
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now in charge of victory or Dafeva and Afghanistan, and
he is forgotten. The Washington Post allows that he has
forgotten his own argument, forgotten his own argument. Not only
is it naive, it is dangerously generous and will encourage
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more of this kind of indecision. And if the media
is knowing he just forgot, I guess he just forgot
his policies. We're a little troubled by this, but maybe
he'll end up doing the right A p in USA today,
Obama may change Afghanistan course again. Now the headline suggests
that Obama changed policy from Bush and has to change again. Uh,
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say that means he's already failed. The White House is
looking at expanding counter terror operations in Pakistan as an
alternative to a major military escalation in Afghanistan. Oh, so,
I guess the March policy, which Obama has forgotten, according
to the Washington Post, is already a failure. So now
we got to go to a different policy, this one
counter intern insurgency, counterintelligence, insurgencies and Pakistan they're going to
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branch out. Don't forget. During the campaign, am I the
only one to remember this? Obama said he'd knew come
over there even if the Pakistani government didn't nobody. Well, yeah,
we had to dial that back because, folks, the man
is a walking threat to this country as we've known
it in every way possible domestic foreign policy. This is
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incompetent Buddism on parade. Elaine in Battle on New York. Thanks,
and welcome to the e I B Network, hira Us.
How are you just fine? Thanks? I wanted to go
back to the leaking problem from the White House. Yeah, okay,
I think that it's obvious who's doing the leaking. I
think it's the White House itself because it's they can't
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come out and say, Amantha, what should we do? Because
he's so indecisive that he has to try to It's
a roundabout way of pulling the public to see what
the reaction will be. So you think there's maybe a
trial balloon. Put the leak out to see if the
American people even care about Afghanistan. Well, to see how
mad the left is going to get if they'll let
him do it or not. Uh, well, that it could be,
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that's what. It's always a possibility. But I think I frankly,
I think they already know. I mean John Kerry and
Nancy Pelosi last week and a couple others, some of
the California congressional delegation delegation I think the week before
that warned Obama if you, if you ramp up troop levels,
we may not pay for no more expansion in Afghanistan.
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That's that's uh that what preceded it. Now the now
the leak comes, and it could be it could be
a trial balloon. Who knows the It's one or two
things the leak there. Either Obama is trying to help
his position of not expanding, sitting tight, rethinking the strategy,
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or the leak is to embarrass Obama and protect the military.
Here people's lives on the line. I mean, this is
not we don't playing bean bag here. You know, we're
not leaking about a proposed new piece of legislation on
the snail darter. Well, hell, even if we did that,
we're gonna ruin people's lives. People's lives in California being
ruined because of attention to animals the water has been
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shut off, the farmers in this in this in the
central Valley. I mean, uh, it's crazy. So I you know,
the leak probably purposeful, well, no doubt it was purposeful.
The the end result of it will is still unknown.
But watching the media coverage is still what's laughable. Oh,
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Mama forgot apparently forgot his previous position on afghanistand that
he announced in March. And maybe Obama is trying to
back himself into a corner here, uh with by leaking
his own indecision on what to do about whether or
not we win. How silly is all this Datona Beach, Florida.
This is his friend. Great to have you with us,
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Hello than well, thank you. I just want to make
a quick point about this whole Uh who sent the memo?
They sent the memo to me, it's a non issue.
And as the United States timmy veteran, it outrages me
that people see this situation. They see we need forty
is a more troops, we need more supplies, and it's
even a decision to him, there's no decisions. Our general
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on the ground has said, we may suffer a loss,
we may sail this war effort. If we do not
get this support, there's no issue. There's no decision. The
only decision that needs to be made is what units
get a phone call to start the buffle? Bad dragon,
Wait a minute, that in the in the America. You
and I grew up in in the America, your parents,
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my parents and grandparents grew up in, of course, but
that's not America right now. This country is being led
by people to whom victory in foreign conflicts sometimes is
a sin. Uh. Sometimes it's imperialism and not what it
is what it is, you know. Bill Parcels used to
say of a football team, you are what you are
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your record. If you're four and twelve or four and twelve,
and are were any moral victories in there? It is
what it is. Obama has got a request from a
general underground forty troops or I don't think we can
win this in Obama only re examined the strategy. Didn't
A're gonna worry about the left wing base voting on
my domestic I mean he's dialing back our nuke arsenal.
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He withdrew the missile shield that was going to be
placed in Europe to defend the Czech Republican poland. Uh,
he's making deals with Ruschet's propping up dictatorships in in
Central and South America. It is what it is, friend, H,
I agree with you. Infuriates the heck out of me,
like you don't even know. I think. I think it
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infuriates the heck out of millions of Americans that we
don't yet know are infuriated because nobody's covering him, nobody's
talking about when we get these they still get these
mythical poles or Obamas percent approval and fifty two percent approval.
I don't believe it' anywhere near that high. I think
people are shocked. I think people are outraged. I think
when Biden speaks up and says, if we if we
lose thirty five season in the House, that's the end
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of the road for what Barack and they know, they
know exactly what's that. And they were counting on Acorn,
you know, to be the balance and fraudulent elections. Uh,
they're counting on acorn to help over and now the
acorn has been exposed. I mean this, this is Uh.
They know the problem that they're in, and yet their
arrogance is such it's not gonna take them off their
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game at all. They're gonna ram whatever they want down
our throats, whether we want it or not, because that's
who they are. Now, you couldn't have said it. You
couldn't have said it better. There's no there's no question,
General says the forty troops or we lose. Okay, but
that's not Remember, for the first time in my lifetime,
and maybe not in the country's history, I don't know.
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I haven't been alive for the entire two hundred plush years,
but in my lifetime, I have never seen a political
party spend years trying to secure defeat in a military
conflict like the Democrats did in a Rock. So it
shouldn't surprise you at all that now that they're running
the show that victory is not a big deal. And
remember Obama said in Afghanistan the whole concept of victory
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troubles him. Yeah, but up until now is we need
to get out of Iraq. To Afghanistan is the big issue.
And now it looks like Obama wants to turntail and
run from that. And I'll play I'm red right and
blue to the bone, all right, we don't run, and
the President I let us run and secures the defeat
in Afghanistan. I feel sorry for his chance is coming
up in twelve. Well, we don't have We don't have
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time to wait till we got a rebound in twenty
ten in the mid term congressional elections. Robert and Staten Island.
I'm glad you waited, sir. You're next on the E
I B Network. Hello, are you good? Listen? I've got
the dilemma, aarent dilemma. So here I am. My son
is joined the military and h as the next marine,
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former marine where never the next marine. I was all
for it, Uh, you know, I think it would be
good for him. But right now I feel that it's
sort of I feel like they're gonna do to these
boards they did to them in Vietnam, and the same
party that was in charge then is in charge now.
And I just see that Dave fifty five, thou American
boy has died in Vain over there because of their
humanityans that they pulled over there, And I see to say,
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I see history repeating itself, and I don't As a father,
I don't know what to tell my son. It's like,
you know, I'm proud of him. But I'm like, you know, Rob,
you sure you want to you want to do this?
At this point in time, I'm in a dilemma. I
don't know what to do, and it's like it's really
bothering the inside as a as a you know, a
very patriotic person. I'm sure that there Yeah, probably a
lot of military families with family members either in root
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or already in Afghanistan or scratching their heads over this
and say, well it is you know, if we're not
going to have the backing of the commander in chief,
you know, is it is it? Is it worth it?
I think frankly a lot of people are asking that
question about Obama on everything. Is this worth it? Is
the historical relevance of his president, the first black prisit
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worth all this? As clearly there are there are designs
on the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness,
and one of those is the United States military. So I, um,
you know, I think this is even worse than Vietnam.
In Vietnam they were trying to win me. They're bumbling around,
and they were in competent, and the micro managing it
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and everything, and they they they were, they were trying
to win, and even when we did win, we let
Walter Klondike talk us out of it. In this situation,
I don't think there's even any pretense of trying to win.
In fact, I think Obama ramped up Afghanistan simply to
follow through and what he was talking about during the campaign,
ripping Bush, ripping the surge, ripping a rock. That's a
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bad move. We need to be focusing on Afghanistan. That's
where we need to go. We need to capture Obama
some whatever, and what's where we need to go. Okay,
So put some troops in there, announced a big bull policy,
appoint a new general, and uh and and do it.
I mean, this is the left dream war. You got
NATO running things, You've got a few other nations participating.
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We've got rules of engagement that penalize our own troops,
can't hit the enemy if they're in houses. And so
for that's a perfect war. And what does it get us.
It get us, gets us on the brink of defeat.
So that's um just another in a long line of
illustrations of what happens with these people end up in charge.
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Stephen in New Orleans your next on the E I
B Network. Hello, sir rush what and what and a hunter?
I just I mean, I'm listening to all this and
I can't believe we've We've got the general on the
ground asking for more troops and they're doing the two
steps that the Tony two steps. I mean, if they're
not gonna send them, why don't we get them the
hell out of there. That's that's pretty much my comment.
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But this is this is that's a mistake too. I
know what you're saying. If we're not gonna win, get
out of there. And there are, by the way, there
are there are a lot of people who, um look
at Afghanistan as the place empires die. A lot of
people think Afghanistan is the armpit of the world and
it's not worth going in there. The well, look, the
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Soviet Red Army, the only place ever lost was in Afghanistan.
We're gonna lose. We're gonna to get out of their rush.
I get emails with people like this a whole time.
We're gonna get mired in there, We're gonna lose, A're
gonna ruin our empire. We are not the Soviet Union. Well, uh,
to take that but may be closer to it than
we ever thought we would be. But traditionally, now we're
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this is the United States of America. We don't lose.
But this is certainly not how you engage in. If
you show up, you don't cut tail and run. That's
not who we are. That's not what we are, and
that's not who we've been. So it's a little late
to say, well, if we're not gonna win, let's get out.
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That's to me, not the question. Unfortunately it is with
this administration. But it's the wrong question. Can you actually
believe that we're discussing whether or not we can win?
I mean, who are who are the enemy? Who are
we finding? Al Qaeda, the Taliban, ring a bell, the
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people that we just had this big terror bust in
New York, They're still out there, they're plotting future attacks.
That's who we're Oh, we're gonna quit, We're gonna we
said we can't win this. We're gonna pull back so
we can do healthcare, and so we can do global
warming cap and tax, so we can do all this
other regular, roll nonsensical left wing radical crap that is
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not at all what it pretends to be. It's just
the opposite. It's a crying shame. It is a crying shame.
What is happening to this country into the leadership of
these boobs. I have an idea. I have a way
that Obama can maybe pull is out of the fire
on this afghanistanding. Rather than call a troop build up
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a surge, call it a stimulus. Maybe that'll fly with people.
Let's play audio somebody number sixteen CNN's Anderson Cooper one
eight with hardly any audience, which is why we're going
to play this bite for you. Spoke with the International
Correspondent CNN Michael ware. Cooper said, everybody seems to admit, look,
there's no military solution, and yet politically there's hardly any
civilians on the ground in a lot of these areas,
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and the Afghan government is riddled with corruption. We're trying
to bolster in these areas of government which is not
represented its people were. Now where we could lose this war.
The Taliban will continue to fight as long as U
S troops for foreign troops want to be there. So
the whole idea is to put enough military pressure on
the Taliban war machine to polly that pressure at the
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gust Shadding table all to bring a political solution. Now,
President Obama has to man up on the side. Is
he going to fight this war or is he going
to ovasey an American defeat? CNN reporters says to Obama,
man up or lose Afghanistan, Man up or lose or
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is he going to oversee an American defeat? What do
you think the answer to the question is he's willing
to oversee an American defeat. He came out and said
victories something. It's a it's a it's an uncomfortable proposition
word in Afghanistan. So meanwhile, the general who Obama wants
and who Obama appointed, who Obama got confirmed once some
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more troops. Mr President, you are not a state senator
from Illinois. You are the commander in chief of the U. S. Military.
Do your job. Dropped the politics. We got heroes on
the battlefield giving their last full measure of devotion to
this country, and you're voting present, all because he doesn't
want to upset the apple cart, the precious balance in
(01:52):
Congress on his healthcare bill, well on a healthcare bill
because of the radical left. And now the politico is
fascinated with who leaked this news that Obama is not
going to come up with the troops that the general wants.
Who leaked that the general wants the troops. It's the
(02:12):
most the funniest thing, it's the most incredible story. President
Obama wants more time to develop a new strategy in Afghanistan.
His general wants forty more troops. Otherwise, the general says,
we and the Allies run the risk of losing the war.
Would agreeing to forty more troops jeopardize liberals support for Obamacare?
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Stop and think about that. The President of the United
States is teetering. He's flirting with the actual concept of
defeat in Afghanistan. Forty thou troops, the general says, makes
the difference forty troops in one hand, or losing or
jeopardizing support of liberals for Obama air in Congress. What
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does this tell you about the man? These are the
domestic political questions that hunt Barack Obama. He's playing politics
when he ought to be fighting and winning a war,
acting like a commander in chief who gives a damn
about his troops in the field. He's playing golf. He's
yucking it up with Letterman. He's got his stupid Health
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and Human Services Secretary telling people how to sneeze on
their sleeves. He's sitting on a report from his commanding
general Afghanistan that says we are boost troop numbers there
faced the distinct possibility of defeat, and he wants more
time to study a new strategy. He's doing nothing. He
has the reports, he won't make a decision. He's voting
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present to their election of duty. What what are we
going to do in Afghanistan? I thought that was settled,
now now it's not. Afghanistan was a central theater. That's
where we had to go. That's we're gonna beat these guys.
Taliban ala Qaida Wish made a mistake. Should have gone
in there. Wasted all this treasure, all these resources. Now
we're there in Obama flirting with defeat, all to make
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certain his Obamacare is not jeopardized in the House. This
is what you get when the radical left runs. Every
branch of the federal government isn't on the golf course.
He's making jokes on Letterman Lamb jokes at that, and
now he's spouting additional lies, threats, end of the world.
(04:34):
We're all going to die at a climate change conference,
which is nothing more than a meeting of worldwide leftists
to seek to implement a worldwide government that has control
over every aspect of every person's life on this planet.
That's the end game. Now, this Afghanistan report, this this
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is this is this is Hilary us in the Political
to Day, Bob Woodward's Monday Morning exclusive on the sixty
page report from General McCrystal to Obama about Afghanistan policy
was a rite of passage for the new administration, the
first major national security league, and a sure sign that
the celebrated Washington Post reporters penetrated yet another administration. So
(05:20):
now the story is who leaked this, Who did it,
and why did they do it. The simplest theory, and
one most administration officials Monday were endorsing, is that the
military or civilian Pentagon official who supports mccrystal's policy put
it out in an attempt to pressure Obama to follow
the suggestion and increase troop levels. But not everybody in
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Washington believer in in this theory, so all manner of
other theories flourished. There are believers in the reverse leak,
in which the League itself has meant to damage McCrystal
um or his position by inducing White House anger at
the general. There's the fake leak in which the White
House may have been trying to back itself into a corner.
(06:01):
They actually right this, that the White House did this
on purpose to back itself into a corner, or what what?
There were constant leaks during the Bush administration about Iraq
war policy, and there was never this hand ringing. Why
who's doing this? Why are they doing this? Who wants
to damage our beloved President Bush? Now? Oh no, the
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first major foreign policy leak. Who's trying to do this?
And why? For what purpose? Could it be? Obama leaked
it himself to back himself into a corner. It actually
says that, yeah, he wants to back himself into a corner,
So he's got his buddies at CNN openly telling him
the man up or risk losing the war in Afghanistan.
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Or I totally believe, by the way, I totally believe
the possibility that somebody in the White House leaked discredit McCrystal.
Remember these guys the left, the far left, they don't
like a victorious America. That's imperialism. They love it when
the US military loses. Look at look at their their
efforts to secure defeat during the Iraq War. They're all
(07:12):
about the America, American military being humbled and being defeated.
So it's entirely possible to me that somebody would leak
this to make McCrystal look bad, uh as as a
way of damaging him and making Obama look good to
the left, as he's trying to do by not caring
about defeat or victory in military conflict. We'll go to
(07:33):
Hilliard in Florida and Roger, thank you for calling, sir.
Welcome to the E I B Network. Hello, Rush, how
are you? I'm very well, sir, Thanks much as pleasure
to talk to you. Yes, I think basically what's happened
there is the White House didn't leak a thing. It
was the General himself for one of his staff members
to be sure that Obama wasn't gonna sit on his
(07:55):
bluots because he considers Afghanistan and distraction right now, Well,
it's possible. I I'll tell you what's what's fascinating to
me about this is it all during even Watergate, Let's
go back to the number one leaker was Deep Throat,
and nobody cared what his motivation was because they all
(08:16):
knew he was out to destroy Dixon, which was fine,
that was cool. They all focused on the substance of
what deep Throat had to say. And you know what
deep Throat really was. You know, I'll tell you the
real lesson that nobody draws, the correct lesson that nobody
draws the deep Throat. Deep Throat was not so much
bringing down a president, although he did. What Deep Throat
(08:38):
was doing was actually manipulating and controlling media, and he
showed how easy it was to do it. Woodward and Bernstein,
of course, have these great journalistic reputations as the as
the two kings of investigative journalism. They are the models
there what's taught in journalism schools that Deep Throat manipulated
(08:58):
those guys. He had them going everywhere he wanted them
to go. They would they found out nothing on their own,
a very little other than what he led them to
or fed them. And the real lesson of deep Throat
is how leakers can manipulate the media. But in this case,
in this case of the leak about the need for
more troops in Afghanistan, uh the drive bys or other,
(09:21):
who is doing this and what is their motivation? Who
is tampering with our beloved president? You want to hear
some of the other theories about this, It's um It's
most likely somebody who has or is cultivating a personal
relationship with Woodward and positioning himself to look good in
Woodward's next book. So the leaker might just be engaging
in that because he wants to be a star in
(09:42):
Woodward's mind. The Pentagon hasn't changed, and there are a
lot of people within the Pentagon who understand the strategic
use of the leaks and Heather Hurlbert, the executive director
of the Democrat leaning National Security Network Democratic Anyway, one
possibility have to look at is this being leaked by
somebody who is in league with the neo connassault on Obama,
(10:03):
where anything short of all in is framed as wee
can defeat. So of all the theories, three of the
four are going to nail Obama somebody and the other
the other theory is Obama's backing himself into a corner.
But here's the thing you have to remember. Let's get
back to the substance of this. Not only was Afghanistan
(10:24):
the war the liberals said we should fight. We are
fighting it exactly the way they said we should and
the way they wanted us to. That is, we have
given charge of the thing essentially to NATO, and NATO
is now screwing it up. We have begged other countries
to go in with us, and very few have, and
those who have only have set trainers or medical or
(10:46):
other support personnel, very few troops and now most of
this wonderful multinational force are pulling out or threatening to
And we're fighting the war with both hands tied behind
our backs. We're not even allowed to attack the enemy
near houses. It's it's the left dream war. If this
is this is this is the prototype. This is the
way they wanted us to find the war. This is
(11:07):
where they've taken us. How could we possibly lose? The
world was asked to participate a world buddy or a
multinational body. NATO is running the show, not the United States.
Uh that We're gonna show Buny House. Now, we're gonna
capture a Sama and we're gonna kick Butter. We're gonna
show that Bush was wrong to go into a rock
and blah blah blah blah blah, and we're on the
verge of defeat and Obama. Look, I told you yesterday.
(11:32):
I was in Coach Zorn's sweet at the Redskins Rams
on Sunday and he had as his guests and his
wife Joy four handsome young Marines who were being deployed
soon They were then put A fifth buddy of theirs
was on the phone with me in twenty nine Palms, California,
and some of them are going to the hell Hall
(11:52):
areas of Afghanistan summer, going to Camp le June. People volunteered.
They're out there defending and protecting the U. S. Consta
tuition in this government and the people of this country.
They're fighting for freedom. And we got this guy fighting
the perfect war the way the left said we should
do it. And we're on the verge of defeat. And
the balance here is, oh gosh, do I send forty
more troops and risk losing my base in the healthcare debate?
(12:18):
Or do I not send forty loseing Afghanistan but get healthcare.
That's the question our commander in chief is asking himself. Meanwhile,
the media is obsessed with who leaked this and why
are they out there trying to damage our beloved young president.
(12:40):
In the Washington Post, get this, I love this is
uh an editorial wavering on Afghanistan. That's the headline. I
get this subhead Washington Post. President Obama seems to have
forgotten his own arguments for a counter insurgency campaign. Obama
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forgot his position. This is constructive criticism. Obama seems to
have forgotten his own arguments. Why yes, it was only
last March, Obama outlined in a major speech what he
called a comprehensive new strategicy for Afghanistan that he said
marks the conclusion of a careful policy review. That strategy
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unambiguously stated that the US would prevent the return of
the Taliban government and enhanced the military, governance, and economic
capacity of the country. Washington Post says we strongly supported
the President's conclusion those goals were essential. So it was
a little startling to hear. Obama suggested several TV interviews
on Sunday that he had second thoughts where the process
(13:46):
working through that strategy. First question is are we presuming
the right strategy on NBC with supporting Afghan national government,
building capecitive in the army. Well, we'll move forward if
it doesn't. I'm not interested in being in Afghanistan being Afghanistan.
By the way, I'm not thumping the table. My arm
(14:07):
is just hitting it. Are you hearing it? I'm not
stumping on the table. I've been very good about this.
So basically, we have incompetence on parade, we have indecision
on parade, we have an inexperience on We got a
man with a five minute career who has no experience
running anything but a bunch of community agitators and organizers
(14:29):
now in charge of victory or Dafeva and Afghanistan, and
he is forgotten. The Washington Post allows that he has
forgotten his own argument, forgotten his own argument. Not only
is it naive, it is dangerously generous and will encourage
(14:57):
more of this kind of indecision. And if the media
is knowing he just forgot, I guess he just forgot
his policies. We're a little troubled by this, but maybe
he'll end up doing the right A p in USA today,
Obama may change Afghanistan course again. Now the headline suggests
that Obama changed policy from Bush and has to change again. Uh,
(15:20):
say that means he's already failed. The White House is
looking at expanding counter terror operations in Pakistan as an
alternative to a major military escalation in Afghanistan. Oh, so,
I guess the March policy, which Obama has forgotten, according
to the Washington Post, is already a failure. So now
we got to go to a different policy, this one
counter intern insurgency, counterintelligence, insurgencies and Pakistan they're going to
(15:46):
branch out. Don't forget. During the campaign, am I the
only one to remember this? Obama said he'd knew come
over there even if the Pakistani government didn't nobody. Well, yeah,
we had to dial that back because, folks, the man
is a walking threat to this country as we've known
it in every way possible domestic foreign policy. This is
(16:09):
incompetent Buddism on parade. Elaine in Battle on New York. Thanks,
and welcome to the e I B Network, hira Us.
How are you just fine? Thanks? I wanted to go
back to the leaking problem from the White House. Yeah, okay,
I think that it's obvious who's doing the leaking. I
think it's the White House itself because it's they can't
(16:33):
come out and say, Amantha, what should we do? Because
he's so indecisive that he has to try to It's
a roundabout way of pulling the public to see what
the reaction will be. So you think there's maybe a
trial balloon. Put the leak out to see if the
American people even care about Afghanistan. Well, to see how
mad the left is going to get if they'll let
him do it or not. Uh, well, that it could be,
(16:55):
that's what. It's always a possibility. But I think I frankly,
I think they already know. I mean John Kerry and
Nancy Pelosi last week and a couple others, some of
the California congressional delegation delegation I think the week before
that warned Obama if you, if you ramp up troop levels,
we may not pay for no more expansion in Afghanistan.
(17:16):
That's that's uh that what preceded it. Now the now
the leak comes, and it could be it could be
a trial balloon. Who knows the It's one or two
things the leak there. Either Obama is trying to help
his position of not expanding, sitting tight, rethinking the strategy,
(17:37):
or the leak is to embarrass Obama and protect the military.
Here people's lives on the line. I mean, this is
not we don't playing bean bag here. You know, we're
not leaking about a proposed new piece of legislation on
the snail darter. Well, hell, even if we did that,
we're gonna ruin people's lives. People's lives in California being
ruined because of attention to animals the water has been
(17:59):
shut off, the farmers in this in this in the
central Valley. I mean, uh, it's crazy. So I you know,
the leak probably purposeful, well, no doubt it was purposeful.
The the end result of it will is still unknown.
But watching the media coverage is still what's laughable. Oh,
(18:21):
Mama forgot apparently forgot his previous position on afghanistand that
he announced in March. And maybe Obama is trying to
back himself into a corner here, uh with by leaking
his own indecision on what to do about whether or
not we win. How silly is all this Datona Beach, Florida.
This is his friend. Great to have you with us,
(18:43):
Hello than well, thank you. I just want to make
a quick point about this whole Uh who sent the memo?
They sent the memo to me, it's a non issue.
And as the United States timmy veteran, it outrages me
that people see this situation. They see we need forty
is a more troops, we need more supplies, and it's
even a decision to him, there's no decisions. Our general
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on the ground has said, we may suffer a loss,
we may sail this war effort. If we do not
get this support, there's no issue. There's no decision. The
only decision that needs to be made is what units
get a phone call to start the buffle? Bad dragon,
Wait a minute, that in the in the America. You
and I grew up in in the America, your parents,
(19:27):
my parents and grandparents grew up in, of course, but
that's not America right now. This country is being led
by people to whom victory in foreign conflicts sometimes is
a sin. Uh. Sometimes it's imperialism and not what it
is what it is, you know. Bill Parcels used to
say of a football team, you are what you are
(19:48):
your record. If you're four and twelve or four and twelve,
and are were any moral victories in there? It is
what it is. Obama has got a request from a
general underground forty troops or I don't think we can
win this in Obama only re examined the strategy. Didn't
A're gonna worry about the left wing base voting on
my domestic I mean he's dialing back our nuke arsenal.
(20:10):
He withdrew the missile shield that was going to be
placed in Europe to defend the Czech Republican poland. Uh,
he's making deals with Ruschet's propping up dictatorships in in
Central and South America. It is what it is, friend, H,
I agree with you. Infuriates the heck out of me,
like you don't even know. I think. I think it
(20:33):
infuriates the heck out of millions of Americans that we
don't yet know are infuriated because nobody's covering him, nobody's
talking about when we get these they still get these
mythical poles or Obamas percent approval and fifty two percent approval.
I don't believe it' anywhere near that high. I think
people are shocked. I think people are outraged. I think
when Biden speaks up and says, if we if we
lose thirty five season in the House, that's the end
(20:56):
of the road for what Barack and they know, they
know exactly what's that. And they were counting on Acorn,
you know, to be the balance and fraudulent elections. Uh,
they're counting on acorn to help over and now the
acorn has been exposed. I mean this, this is Uh.
They know the problem that they're in, and yet their
arrogance is such it's not gonna take them off their
(21:16):
game at all. They're gonna ram whatever they want down
our throats, whether we want it or not, because that's
who they are. Now, you couldn't have said it. You
couldn't have said it better. There's no there's no question,
General says the forty troops or we lose. Okay, but
that's not Remember, for the first time in my lifetime,
and maybe not in the country's history, I don't know.
(21:37):
I haven't been alive for the entire two hundred plush years,
but in my lifetime, I have never seen a political
party spend years trying to secure defeat in a military
conflict like the Democrats did in a Rock. So it
shouldn't surprise you at all that now that they're running
the show that victory is not a big deal. And
remember Obama said in Afghanistan the whole concept of victory
(21:57):
troubles him. Yeah, but up until now is we need
to get out of Iraq. To Afghanistan is the big issue.
And now it looks like Obama wants to turntail and
run from that. And I'll play I'm red right and
blue to the bone, all right, we don't run, and
the President I let us run and secures the defeat
in Afghanistan. I feel sorry for his chance is coming
up in twelve. Well, we don't have We don't have
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time to wait till we got a rebound in twenty
ten in the mid term congressional elections. Robert and Staten Island.
I'm glad you waited, sir. You're next on the E
I B Network. Hello, are you good? Listen? I've got
the dilemma, aarent dilemma. So here I am. My son
is joined the military and h as the next marine,
(22:43):
former marine where never the next marine. I was all
for it, Uh, you know, I think it would be
good for him. But right now I feel that it's
sort of I feel like they're gonna do to these
boards they did to them in Vietnam, and the same
party that was in charge then is in charge now.
And I just see that Dave fifty five, thou American
boy has died in Vain over there because of their
humanityans that they pulled over there, And I see to say,
(23:04):
I see history repeating itself, and I don't As a father,
I don't know what to tell my son. It's like,
you know, I'm proud of him. But I'm like, you know, Rob,
you sure you want to you want to do this?
At this point in time, I'm in a dilemma. I
don't know what to do, and it's like it's really
bothering the inside as a as a you know, a
very patriotic person. I'm sure that there Yeah, probably a
lot of military families with family members either in root
(23:28):
or already in Afghanistan or scratching their heads over this
and say, well it is you know, if we're not
going to have the backing of the commander in chief,
you know, is it is it? Is it worth it?
I think frankly a lot of people are asking that
question about Obama on everything. Is this worth it? Is
the historical relevance of his president, the first black prisit
(23:49):
worth all this? As clearly there are there are designs
on the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness,
and one of those is the United States military. So I, um,
you know, I think this is even worse than Vietnam.
In Vietnam they were trying to win me. They're bumbling around,
and they were in competent, and the micro managing it
(24:11):
and everything, and they they they were, they were trying
to win, and even when we did win, we let
Walter Klondike talk us out of it. In this situation,
I don't think there's even any pretense of trying to win.
In fact, I think Obama ramped up Afghanistan simply to
follow through and what he was talking about during the campaign,
ripping Bush, ripping the surge, ripping a rock. That's a
(24:32):
bad move. We need to be focusing on Afghanistan. That's
where we need to go. We need to capture Obama
some whatever, and what's where we need to go. Okay,
So put some troops in there, announced a big bull policy,
appoint a new general, and uh and and do it.
I mean, this is the left dream war. You got
NATO running things, You've got a few other nations participating.
(24:54):
We've got rules of engagement that penalize our own troops,
can't hit the enemy if they're in houses. And so
for that's a perfect war. And what does it get us.
It get us, gets us on the brink of defeat.
So that's um just another in a long line of
illustrations of what happens with these people end up in charge.
(25:18):
Stephen in New Orleans your next on the E I
B Network. Hello, sir rush what and what and a hunter?
I just I mean, I'm listening to all this and
I can't believe we've We've got the general on the
ground asking for more troops and they're doing the two
steps that the Tony two steps. I mean, if they're
not gonna send them, why don't we get them the
hell out of there. That's that's pretty much my comment.
(25:42):
But this is this is that's a mistake too. I
know what you're saying. If we're not gonna win, get
out of there. And there are, by the way, there
are there are a lot of people who, um look
at Afghanistan as the place empires die. A lot of
people think Afghanistan is the armpit of the world and
it's not worth going in there. The well, look, the
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Soviet Red Army, the only place ever lost was in Afghanistan.
We're gonna lose. We're gonna to get out of their rush.
I get emails with people like this a whole time.
We're gonna get mired in there, We're gonna lose, A're
gonna ruin our empire. We are not the Soviet Union. Well, uh,
to take that but may be closer to it than
we ever thought we would be. But traditionally, now we're
(26:29):
this is the United States of America. We don't lose.
But this is certainly not how you engage in. If
you show up, you don't cut tail and run. That's
not who we are. That's not what we are, and
that's not who we've been. So it's a little late
to say, well, if we're not gonna win, let's get out.
(26:52):
That's to me, not the question. Unfortunately it is with
this administration. But it's the wrong question. Can you actually
believe that we're discussing whether or not we can win?
I mean, who are who are the enemy? Who are
we finding? Al Qaeda, the Taliban, ring a bell, the
(27:12):
people that we just had this big terror bust in
New York, They're still out there, they're plotting future attacks.
That's who we're Oh, we're gonna quit, We're gonna we
said we can't win this. We're gonna pull back so
we can do healthcare, and so we can do global
warming cap and tax, so we can do all this
other regular, roll nonsensical left wing radical crap that is
(27:36):
not at all what it pretends to be. It's just
the opposite. It's a crying shame. It is a crying shame.
What is happening to this country into the leadership of
these boobs. I have an idea. I have a way
that Obama can maybe pull is out of the fire
on this afghanistanding. Rather than call a troop build up
(27:58):
a surge, call it a stimulus. Maybe that'll fly with people.
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