What President Limbaugh Would Do About Afghanistan

RUSH: To Chicago, Bob, hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hello, welcome (chuckles) or thank you.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I was just wondering, Rush: If you were president, what would you be doing right now in Afghanistan? What do you think we should be doing? Do you think we should be doing more ant-insurgency or more antiterrorism, more or less troops, different troops, that sort of thing?

RUSH: Well, I’m not a commanding officer. I would listen to those who are. It’s very simple: We win; they lose.

CALLER: But did you see the interview on 60 Minutes this weekend, with the general?

RUSH: Yeah, and he said he’s only talked to the commander-in-chief one time in 70 days.

CALLER: Right. And he was talking about, you know, be more careful in our bombing and stuff and I know that’s something that’s driven you crazy when the Democrats have said that in the past, and I was just wondering what you thought about that.

RUSH: It is a dichotomy. When the cowards who are our enemy bury themselves in homes in neighborhoods with women and children wearing the burqas, it is difficult for us to go out and get the guys because we are limited by our compassion for not causing collateral damage.

CALLER: So you would just take the gloves off?

RUSH: No. I’d listen to what the generals say. But the bottom line is, what would I’d do in Afghanistan? I’d win. Here. Obama has spoken up again. It’s not hard. You know, in a war, the operating philosophy is, ‘Well, what’s the endgame? When do you get out?’ After you win! We win; they lose. Here’s Obama, at the White House, after he met with UN Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen… Did they get a new secretary-general? I thought the Secretary General was Ban Ki-moon from one of the Koreas. Anyway, here’s Obama. He said this about their… By the way, he’s ignoring Richard Cohen’s warning and Howard Fineman’s warning to stay Off TV. Obama is on TV again saying Afghanistan… Well, you listen. Here’s what he said.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
To Chicago. Bob, Hello and welcome to the E I
B Network. Hello, welcome, Thank you. Yes, Um, I was
just wondering Russia, if you were president, what would you
be doing right now? In Afghanistan? What do you think
we should be doing? Do you think we should be
doing more anti insurgency or anti terrorism? More or less troops,

(00:20):
different troops, that sort of thing. Well, I'm not a
commanding officer. I would listen to those who are. It's
very simple. We win, they lose. But did you see
the interview at sixty minutes this weekend with the General. Yeah,
he said he's only talked to the commander in chief
one time in seventy days, right, and he was talking about,
you know, being more careful in our bombing and stuff.
And I know that's something that's driven you crazy when
the Democrats have said that the past, and it is

(00:43):
it is a dichotomy when the when the cowards to
our enemy bury themselves in homes and neighborhoods with women
and children wearing the burkas. Uh, it is difficult for
us to go out and get the guys because the
we are we are limited Beard by our compassion for
not causing collateral damage until you would just take the
gloves off. No, I've listened to what the general say.

(01:05):
But the bottom line is, you want what I do
in Afghanistan, I'd win and we're here. Obama has spoken
up again. It's it's not hard, you know, in a war.
The operating philosophy is, you know, well, what's the end game?
When do you get out? After we win? We win,
they lose. Here's Obama at the White House after he

(01:25):
met with U n Secretary General Anders Folk Rasmus. They
give a new secretary General. I think the Secretary General
is banking Moon from from one of the Korea's anywhere.
Here's Obama. He said this about their by the way
he is, he's ignoring Richard Cohen's warning and Howard Feynman's warning, uh,

(01:45):
stay off TV. Obama on TV again, saying after well
he you listen. Here's what he said. We talked about
obviously the most important NATO mission right now, and that
is Afghanistan. And we both agree that it is absolutely
critical that we are successful in dismantling, disrupting, destroying the

(02:06):
Alqaeda network, and that we are effectively working with the
Afghan government by the security necessary for that country. This
is not an American battle. This is a NATO mission
as well, and we are working actively and diligently to

(02:27):
consult with NATO at every step of the way. He's
the NATO general of this uh this uh Ander's fall
grass muscles, the NATO general, not the UN Secretary general. Anyway, Obama,
I know this is not an American battle. He said that,
you heard him. It's not an American battles of NATO mission.
Who's NATO? We are we in the Brits or NATO? Well, yeah,

(02:51):
the Australians, you know, the people from oz cool. But
but we're we're it's not an American battle. Why I thought?
I just think we remembered all during the Iraq War
that Afghanistan is where we should have been, as what
Obama was saying, where we should have been. We should
go out there and capture Bin Laden. Now it's not
an American battle, the NATO mission. We gotta do what

(03:15):
we can out there to succeed in dismantling, disrupting, just
drawing the all kind of net where it's not our
it's not our battle. Therefore, what this means is when
we lose, it's not his fault. It's Natos. This is
Chris from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Welcome, sir, It's an
honor to have you on the program. Hello, thanks taking

(03:37):
my call, Rush. I just wanted to call in weighing
on Afghanistan and the troop increase issue. You're talking about
a country roughly beside of Texas. Now we've had twenty
some thousand troops are there. From the majority of the
time we were waging an unconventural war against smallpox, totalvan

(03:58):
targeting leaders. Well, the talibanis has adapted to our tactics.
They have grown stronger and they have a larger footprint
in the country. Now we need more troops over there.
The first thing that needs to be done is we
need to secure the borders. We have an abundance of
fighters continually following in from Pakistan into Afghanistan causing the

(04:23):
problems over there. You've been there, I trust I've been
there four times, yes, sir, your U S Military you
served there four times, yes, sir. So you know the
idea of not giving the commanders what they're requesting over
there is uh. It seems to me like it's it's

(04:43):
it's politically driven and Uh, if we're going to make
a decisive decision decision to go and win this war,
then we need to support the commanders. Well, of course
it's politically driven because Obama doesn't want to anger his
friends lunatic base who are anti military or anti war,
anti victory. He needs them supporting his healthcare agenda and

(05:05):
so forth. You understand the concept of the concept of
victory is not in fact. Did you hear Obama say
today that those are not an American war? There's a
NATO war. Did you hear him saying that it is?
But who's been taking to lead the entire US funded

(05:25):
It is our responsibility. We were over there for one reason,
one reason only two. Uh. Secure that country so that
Talibani surgeons cannot set up a stronghold neck country have
very range of launch attacks to the rest of the world.
Chris here is exactly right. Uh. Stateless nations are exactly
the kind of places that the as Obama was, the

(05:46):
Taliban and I'll tie to target. That's why they went
to Afghanistan in the first place. It was a stateless place.
I could take it over that Taliban did. That's why
Somalia was attractive to him. I got a note. This
is funny. I got a note from my good friend
Andy McCarthy, who is a National Review online. Rush I,
I gotta respectfully disagree with you here. I think it's

(06:06):
great Obama saying this is not America's war. That's the
best chance we have a winning Stop and thinking about
this now, Andy, we've had him on the program. Andy
was in the prosecutorial team that put the blind Shake
omar abdel Raman behind bars. Uh. He has spent his

(06:28):
life studying these people. And Jesus, Rush, I gotta disagree
with you with Obama saying it's not America's war, it's
the first chance we might have really have here to
win it. Since America can't be victorious but NATO can.
All these international list is Andy's point, all these international
institution at gold points to YEA, let them win. That's great.

(06:49):
Bad what America doesn't making a little point