Glenn Beck and Tracey Holmes dissect recent terror attacks, framing them as symptoms of a 47-year war against Islamism originating in the 1979 Iranian Revolution. They argue the U.S. must undergo radical military confrontation to treat this "cancer," comparing inevitable collateral damage to chemotherapy side effects. The discussion highlights Iranian women's soccer players facing execution threats in Australia and connects supply chain disruptions near the Strait of Hormuz to a broader "Red-Green Alliance." Ultimately, Beck urges listeners to view this struggle as a definitive civilizational choice between liberty and submission, mirroring the Cold War fight against communism. [Automatically generated summary]
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You might want to listen to the whole show because there's a couple of turning points.
Today was a turning point.
We talked about, you know, the terror attacks that happened yesterday and what they mean.
I started with, you know, Islamism is cancer.
That's what it is.
And we have to start treating it like that.
And you're going to start seeing people as pushback comes back because of this war, you're going to start seeing people say, we were better off before we were fighting it.
Were we?
Listen to that monologue.
Islamism is cancer.
Also, we had the woman who is the lady in Australia who has been doing the main coverage on the escape of those Iranian soccer players, the girls.
What were they facing?
What was really happening when they didn't salute the flag and they didn't sing the national anthem?
What happened and how did they get out?
She tells a riveting story on that and so much more you don't want to miss on today's podcast.
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I'm going to give you a couple of pieces of audio here from the FBI yesterday during a press conference after the shooting at Old Dominion University.
The FBI gave an update.
And here is cut one from the FBI on the terrorist shooter at Old Dominion, Virginia.
I can tell you that we have confirmed reports that prior to him conducting this act of terrorism, he shouted Aloha stated Alo Akbar.
And he was formerly a subject of an FBI investigation, material supporting terrorism.
I'd like to know when that actually happened.
Was that under the Biden administration or the Trump administration?
Because I know that one administration likes to excuse people who are like, oh, well, you know, they're not really terrorists.
I'd like to know exactly what happened to that investigation from the FBI.
When it happened, will tell us an awful lot.
And here is the FBI again on the students, the ROTC, that stopped the shooter.
Listen.
There were students who were in that room that subdued him and rendered him no longer alive.
I don't know what else to say, but they basically were able to terminate the threat.
So he was not shot.
He was not shot.
He shot three people.
Correct.
We have information that he shot three people.
And he's no longer alive.
Amen.
Now, in Michigan, we had another terrorist attack, this time on a synagogue.
And I'm going to later talk to you about what happened there and how the media, New York Times, MSNBC, or whatever the hell they're calling it now, what they are now saying, who's responsible?
And I'll give you two guesses: Jews and Republicans.
If that's what you guessed, you're absolutely right.
We'll get into that here in a minute.
But I want to spend some minutes being very, very clear on something because you are now going to start hearing blame on this, all these terror attacks, because more are coming.
And all these terror attacks, you know, they didn't have to happen, yada, yada, yada.
So let me be very clear.
Please hear me, America.
Please hear me on this.
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The war in Iran did not begin yesterday.
Yesterday was a pivot point, and I'll explain in a minute, but it didn't begin, you know, with Donald Trump declaring war, didn't with the latest missile strike or the intelligence briefings or the latest headlines scrolling across your phone.
That's not when it started.
This war began in 1979 when the Shah fell and the Marxist students gathered with the Islamists.
They worked together to destabilize Iran and overthrow the country of Iran.
When the diplomats were blindfolded from America and marched through the gates of the embassy and they held them there for 444 days, that's when this started.
From that moment forward, Iran declared something really simple and they've been shouting it and chanting it in their streets since 1979.
Death to America.
They chanted it.
And every president from Reagan to Bush to Clinton, all of them, even those who were just candidates, including Hillary Clinton and Al Gore, have all said the same thing.
Iran is the central engine of terror in the modern world.
They are a death cult.
And all of them have said on both sides of the aisle, if it's not stopped, the day will come when we're going to face a nuclear-armed Iran.
Diagnose, the diagnosis has been delivered by doctor after doctor that the American people have hired, and it's the same thing.
And I think those doctors, those presidents, have all in their own way been a little bit cowardice.
And maybe they made the decision.
I'm not going to say that they were cowards.
They didn't have the guts to pull the trigger because they thought there were other options on the table.
And the American people said, well, maybe it's not that serious.
Okay.
I'm going to be the doctor that you don't want to hear from today.
I'm sorry.
Islamism, this revolutionary, apocalyptic ideology that is behind the Iranian regime, is cancer.
Islamism is cancer.
And just like cancer, at first you may not notice it.
You can dismiss the early symptoms.
You can tell yourself that you're just tired or, you know, maybe that lump was there before.
Whatever it is, you tend to go into denial.
Maybe you even begin to blame your own habits.
Maybe I cause this.
I've smoked my whole life.
I didn't eat right.
I'm just probably overreacting.
All of these things.
That's normal to happen.
But cancer does not care about your denial.
In fact, It's its favorite environment to grow in.
While you're denying it, it continues to grow and it grows while you argue whether or not it even exists.
And it spreads as you debate with yourself whose fault is it.
It feeds while you reassure yourself that everything is still basically normal.
All the while, it's doing one thing.
It is eating the healthy parts of your body.
It is taking it cell by cell, slowly, quietly, patiently.
It is just eating.
And one day, you go to the doctor and the doctor looks at the scan and says something that you never ever want to hear.
It's no longer isolated.
It's everywhere.
At that point, you have a choice to make.
And that's the pivot point.
That's where we are right now.
It is everywhere.
And so now your options change.
Okay, the treatment has to change.
It's no longer a simple surgery that you could have had a few years ago.
It's something much, much harsher.
It becomes radical because the cancer has become radical.
So now you need chemotherapy and radiation and radical invasive surgery.
None of these are good.
None of these are going to make you feel good, but it's designed to purge the body of something that is eating you from the inside out.
And each of the treatments are brutal, but let me just concentrate on one.
Let me just talk to you about chemo.
Let me liken chemo to what we're facing right now, this war and the effects of it.
Okay.
So war is the chemo that we're putting through.
The hair falling out is the terror attacks that you're seeing.
Now, you have a choice.
Are we going to treat this or not?
Are we just going to deny that it was really a problem?
But really, the choice is this.
Do you want to live or not?
Because when the cancer becomes this bad, that is the choice.
Do you want to live or do you want to just live your remaining days feeling good?
But they're going to be short days.
Chemo will weaken you.
And it is.
It will weaken us.
It will make you sick.
We'll have protests in the streets.
We'll be arguing with each other.
We will deplete our armed forces.
It's going to make us weaker.
We will lose hair, all kinds of effects that we really don't want.
We'll be vomiting all the time.
Those things are the terror attacks that are happening, and you will feel worse during the treatment.
And then some people will say, which in a very narrow sense is absolutely true.
You know what?
We were better off before the chemo started.
That's absolutely true.
You were kind of.
Kind of.
You were dying, but you were feeling better.
But if you wouldn't have done anything, you were dead.
In a very short period of time, you'd be dead.
Now, it doesn't matter.
And it may even piss the patient off when the doctor like I come in, come in and tell the truth.
But here's the truth.
None of this had to happen.
We didn't have to do this.
I've been on the air for 50 years.
So I've been on the air.
In fact, I was on the air a couple of years before we went into, or before they took our hostages in Iran.
I've been talking about Iran forever.
And if we would have done the things at the time we should have, none of this would have happened.
But now we have no good options left.
There's nothing.
It's death or this.
And that's where we are.
And this confrontation is not a sudden war, okay?
It's 47 years of ignored warnings, finally reaching the stage where the disease can no longer be contained with polite diplomacy and hopeful secrets.
And so the side effects are ugly.
There will be retaliation.
There will be terror.
There will be more terror attempts and more terror.
There will be economic shocks.
Okay?
But we weren't better than we were before we started the treatment.
We were just in denial and the effects of it being in every organ of our body was just starting to show signs of a problem.
But if you waited and continued to do nothing, it would kill us for sure.
Now, what would have happened if Ronald Reagan, one of my heroes, would have gone in and said, Beirut, nothing, and punish them at that point?
He didn't.
He said, we can negotiate.
We can do all kinds of things.
The tumor was small.
We'll try other things.
We chose to delay.
We chose negotiations for the last 47 years without consequence.
We chose sanctions without enforcement.
We chose to hope that cancer just might stop growing.
It would choose to stop growing.
Cancer never makes that decision because cancer to live must feed on something.
And so it's spread through Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis, through militias in Iraq and Syria, now in our universities, now in our media.
It's infected every organization, our government, it's in our neighborhoods, it's in many of American mosques.
It's here, gang.
And it is the most radical form of cancer.
And the body of Western civilization has a long history of fighting this kind of cancer.
And so we have a long history of knowing what happens if it goes untreated.
So yes, what comes next is going to make you vomit.
It's going to make your hair fall out.
It's going to make you feel like crap.
It's going to be painful.
And here's the thing you really don't want to hear.
And because we waited so long, we may die anyway.
But if the body has a chance of survival, it must be cut out completely.
And every cell, you know, when the surgeons go in for surgery like this, when they think they're finished, they leave the body open and they say, send everything out and let's look at the margins.
And then they get it back.
Did they cut everything?
Because if there's one cell of the cancer left behind, it grows back.
And it grows stronger, more aggressive, and more determined.
And you're in the same situation.
This is where we're at now, America.
This is it.
This is what history is demanding of Western civilization right now.
Not denial, not delay, not pretending the diagnosis is wrong or never came, not pretending that cancer maybe isn't so bad.
Doctors have warned us for 40 years.
The patient is finally open on the operating table.
And like it or not, the time for debate is over.
Here's my change.
I have told you this is, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not trying to sway you and I'm still not trying to sway you, but I have not been clear where I stood.
Today, after the terror attacks yesterday, I'm very clear.
I'm very clear.
The body is open.
The surgery has begun.
Whether you were for the surgery or against the surgery, the body is on the table and the surgeons have their hands and their scalpels in and they are cutting the cancer out.
This isn't exploratory surgery.
You know, back when I was growing up, before we had CAT scans and everything else, you had exploratory surgery where they just cut somebody open.
We think he might have cancer, cut them open.
The worst thing that would happen is the surgery would be very short and the doctor would come out and say, we just sewed him back up.
It's too far gone.
Okay?
We're already in the surgery.
We know exactly how bad this cancer is.
We're not exploring to see how bad.
We know how bad it is.
And this might sound like a justification for war, but it is not.
It is a justification for getting all of the margins.
You already have the body open.
So it doesn't matter.
Do you think it gets better or worse if we now sew the body back up?
Do you think they learned the lesson of, oh, we better not screw with America?
Or do they learn the lesson, you just hit them and they're such cowards, they're so weak, they will never come for us.
It doesn't go away.
It only reinforces what Reagan sent in Beirut.
It only gets worse.
And we're all in denial if we think we didn't know exactly what we're dealing with.
My question to you today is, are we really at the point in our country where we have family members, our brothers and sisters, saying stop the surgery, sew him back up and let him die?
Are we really in that place?
Or can we find ourselves growing back into a nation that is strong enough to say, this patient is worth saving?
It's worth the radical steps that we have to take and the pain we will endure because life, this life, is worth saving.
That's your choice, America.
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We welcome Tracy Holmes now, sports journalist, host of the Sports Ambassador in Australia.
Thank you for staying up so late for us.
I know it's very late in Australia.
Not at all.
Pleasure to be on your program.
Thanks for having me.
You bet.
So, Tracy, we've been watching, we've been watching from afar this amazing story.
Can you tell us from the beginning?
I mean, let's start with the national anthem.
When the girls' soccer team was out, we had just started bombing Iran, and the soccer team is standing on the field.
The national anthem is played, and they don't sing.
Start there.
How shocking was that?
And how much trouble were they in?
And did they?
Well, they're in a lot of trouble.
Yeah, so if I rewind even further, back in the Qatar FIFA World Cup in 2022, the men's team did the same thing.
They had turned up to play on the back of a massive protests in their country.
And when the anthem played, they did not sing.
They were then instructed they must sing by game two, otherwise they would face consequences when they got back home.
So when the women did the same thing, it was an act of bravery.
It was a real statement.
But I think we also need to pull back and look at the wider context.
As you say, 48 hours earlier, the bombing campaign had started in their country.
So their country was essentially at war.
And there were pockets of celebrations in the streets, even here in Australia, where quite a large Iranian expat community lives.
And so there was all of this feeding into them and feeding into where they stood on this.
So game number one, national anthem plays, they don't sing, and there were repercussions.
We know that because by game two, not only had we seen the security apparatus tighten around the team at their team hotel, but by game two, they not only sang the anthem, they also saluted the flag.
Wow.
So any idea?
We've heard rumors, their families, some of them may have been taken or taken in for questioning, or at least the message was sent, you will behave, we have your families.
Correct?
Yeah, pretty much.
They also had to sign statements before they left, which was tying them from what we believe to some sort of financial commitment that these girls would all return home.
Otherwise, there would be a penalty for the family to pay, financial or otherwise.
And also after the incident, yeah, we also heard from one of the state spokespeople on state television basically saying that these women were not just traitors, they were wartime traitors, the worst of the worst, and they should be punished sufficiently given that tag.
Well, I mean, we know what, I mean, in America, the only crime that comes with a constitutional punishment is traitor.
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It's very hard to prove in America, but it is, it's constitutionally required death.
I've got to believe that's the kind of punishment they were talking about in Iran.
Yeah, well, you would hate to think that that's what they were going to face, but we're in a situation now where six of the women stayed in Australia.
They have sought asylum and been given visas.
The Australian government offered emergency visas to any female in that team that wanted one.
There was one other who originally accepted one and then changed her mind.
Now, those that didn't accept them have flown to Malaysia.
They were supposed to get on a flight to go onwards to Turkey and then bus across the border into Iran, but they've been prevented from doing that.
They can't find plane access to be able to get back into the vicinity of Iran.
So they're still in Malaysia.
And there are rumors that there are some people in Malaysia now, perhaps another three, who are also seeking asylum.
So what has happened if they do get home?
Do you have any idea why they would have chosen to go home?
Was it family or were they believers in the regime?
Do you know?
Well, we don't know the breakdown of that, but I imagine there may have been some that were regime supporters.
We have seen one woman in particular, one of the players who has put up a very pro-regime message on her Instagram account.
But you don't know whether that is done through coercion.
But, you know, if you have to think about that choice to make as a young female, do I stay in a foreign land where I don't speak the language and know nobody, but I will have freedom that I do not have at home?
Or do I go back to my family who was under threat because of my position?
We've also seen a change in state television broadcasting who have said that any girl that comes home will be celebrated as a national hero.
So they're being put in this terrible psychological position where they've got to be, you know, backflipping on what they want and what they think and what they're being threatened with and how they have to pretend if they don't believe.
So I saw one of your reports and I can't believe this is true.
I mean, Donald Trump had to get involved and say, and I hope it wasn't too much pressure that it took, but he said, look, guys, if you don't take them, we will.
But I've heard reports from you that your Secretary of Foreign Affairs have some kind of deal that if somebody wants to defect, that his office has to be alerted and then he alerts the country of origin.
Is that true?
No, that's not true.
No, so what happens is...
Oh, thank God.
Thank God.
I thought, boy, Australia is lost if that's happening.
No, the Home Affairs Minister has just stated that, you know, the government, they can't coerce people into seeking asylum, so it has to come from the person themselves.
And, you know, once that approach has been made, they do everything in their power to facilitate that, which is what happened.
The Home Affairs Minister actually flew to the Gold Coast where the team was staying to be able to meet with those who were seeking asylum.
And then they did organise within the next 48 hours or so individual meetings with each of the girls to determine which way they thought to try and give them some space away from the very tight security around them who were trying to prevent them from making such decisions.
So President Trump didn't have to get involved?
Well, it was good that he did, I think, because that highlighted the situation to a whole lot of other people and around the world.
It got further headlines because of that.
But the time he rang where he said, you know, basically, if you don't do it, we will, the Prime Minister said to him, thanks very much.
We've already got this under control.
Our Home Affairs Minister is in a room with them right now.
And that's when Donald Trump then put out another truth saying he's got this.
The Australian Prime Minister's all over it.
I saw a video of protesters actually laying down in front of the bus at one point.
And I thought, well, here's a group of protesters I actually applaud for the first time in a long time.
These protesters that were saying, don't ship them back.
Don't allow that bus to move.
Have you seen any, what is the reaction in Australia?
Is it pro saving them or are you getting pushback?
And, you know, we're unfortunately having terror attacks because of the war here in America.
Are you seeing any signs of trouble for you guys for saving them?
No, but as you know, we've had trouble recently, you know, building up in the last few months.
We've had some attacks on, you know, synagogues.
We've had the Bondi beach shooting.
You know, there is this.
But we've also had, you know, months and months of protests as well.
But, you know, one thing I should mention is the public support for the women's football team of Iran has been overwhelmingly positive and very receptive to the government offering them these asylum visas, these emergency visas.
But at the same time that this was happening, the government took a position where temporary visa holders in the Middle East region, and I think there's about 12,000, maybe more, they have now been restricted.
So even if they have a visa to come here, because they are now at war, they will be restricted.
And it's up to the Home Affairs Minister as to whether he will allow those visas, visa holders to actually come into the country.
So it's like he was giving visas to the women on one hand, but those that already had visas but are not in the country yet are being restricted from coming here.
And that's understandable given that war changes everything.
So FIFA begins in, what, less than 100 days, I think.
What are the ramifications on FIFA?
Because it's co-hosted here in America.
It is, and there's been a lot of focus on America because we know that, again, immigration has been in the news for a long time, you know, deportations as well.
So people were wondering if each of the teams that have qualified would be able to get in there.
The president has said that any qualified team, as long as, you know, the officials and the players pass through rigorous security checks, will be allowed to come in.
The Iran team, on the back of the war, the regime has said it's unlikely we will come.
Then, you know, there were statements coming out of the U.S. saying they were still welcome to come because they have qualified.
And these are notes from FIFA as well.
Then the regime has come out in about the last 24 hours or so and said, how can we come?
That's ridiculous.
We're not coming.
Now, in the last hour, I've seen a statement from the team itself saying, hang on, we're the players.
We qualified.
This only happens once every four years.
We deserve the right to be there.
So there's a lot of different, you know, the narratives are all over the place.
Tracy, I would love to stay in touch with you.
I found your reporting to be just remarkable on this.
And you have a, I know you have a book out.
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What is your book called?
The dragon?
It's called The Eye of the Dragonfly.
Right, which I'm fascinated to read because you look at the world through the prism of sports.
And I know you've been doing this forever and ever and ever.
And I just really appreciate your outlook and your take on things.
So thank you for joining us.
I appreciate it.
Thank you so much for having me, Glenn.
You bet.
Tracy Holmes, sports journalist, host of the Sports Ambassador in Australia.
She is the person that has really been following this.
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It is happening, whether you like it or not.
And we have to fight it.
And the key to fighting it is to understand it.
And nobody is willing to really tell you what's going on.
Thank God for social media because you can see videos.
And we've been showing some of these videos.
In fact, let me show one of them here real quick.
And then I'm going to get to Robin's point.
But how do you expect not to have all kinds of terror attacks in a country where you have Muslims here in the U.S.?
Here's one of them.
Here in the U.S. talking about why Islam is here in the U.S. Cut six.
Why am I migrating here?
Why am I in America?
The Prophet's companions left Mecca to go to a land that had no Muslims.
We are in this country purely for the sake of Allah.
The moment you make this intention, you will look at things different.
People will meet you different.
How could it be that your co-workers know you as a Muslim for 10 years?
Not once you presented Islam to them.
You don't know why your purpose is here.
Are you guys together?
We are in this country for Allah.
As we're here living in the U.S., what is our role now?
What is the way forward?
Let me just quote for you an ayah of the Quran, and I'm going to try to encapsulate it.
Allah is saying, do not obey the disbelievers.
Don't yield to them.
And then he gives us the process of what to do next.
And so make jihad against them.
What is your duty as a member of the ummah now that you are also an American?
It is our physical jihad duty to fight the entire earth until we enter it into the ummah.
Until the whole world is under Islam.
That is the plan.
Like it or not, that is the plan.
And we are in this war, whether you like it or not.
If you choose to be awake and see it, we have a chance of survival.
If you choose to continue down this road of denial, of acquiescence, we're dead.
We're all dead.
The Western world is dead.
Look at Europe.
It's over, gang.
is over.
They don't have the, Germany just tried to raise their army.
They couldn't because anyone who was going to join was a young foreign national.
They don't have enough young German men to join the army and they're not going to hand them guns and weapons and all of this information over to people who are not even citizens.
It's over.
It's over.
The question is, are you over?
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Okay, so I can talk a big game.
And I think this is what Robin was saying in a nice way.
She was saying, you know, Glenn, okay, so her exact quote was, when is Baron and Glenn's son going to join the military?
Well, I can't speak for President Trump and I can't speak for Baron.
I can speak for my son.
My son and I had that conversation this week, this week.
If you don't know what you want to do, if you really, if you might want to consider, now is the time to join the military.
Why would you say that to your son?
We're at war.
Because I believe we have a president who's not going to put our soldiers through an endless meat grinder without any thought.
He is not going to send a single soldier out without the ability to shoot back and kill them.
Okay?
If you're going to go into war, you want to go in with a warrior.
You want to go in with somebody who is saying, I value your life over the enemy's life.
And I'm going to take care of you and do everything I can to equip you to survive while you're in that environment.
He could be out in two years.
Yes, he might be.
He might be.
And if we switch directions in two years, we are so screwed.
We're so screwed.
But here's what people don't understand from the left.
And I give Robin the benefit of the doubt.
I'm not saying she's on the left by any stretch of the imagination.
And please don't hammer her, insider, stonehammer her.
She's probably speaking from the place of a mother and maybe a mom who has already faced this before and it didn't work out well.
So she's coming from a place, for instance, I was just telling Ricky this story off the air and I said, Rafe and I had this conversation.
And he said, what did Tanya say?
And I said, we're not having that conversation with Tanya.
You don't bring your mom in on that kind of conversation at that early stage.
You don't, because you know how moms are going to react.
What are you talking about?
No, But people who are cut from our cloth actually believe in something.
We don't necessarily, we can look at the military as one of the benefits of great education, great discipline.
You'll have a different outlook on life and probably a better outlook on life if you've gone through the military.
But we also know that means you got to serve your country.
And that may mean that you're fighting a war in today's world.
That's what that may mean.
This is why people in red states join the military and blue states don't.
Because when you join, if you're in a leftist mentality, generally you think military is stupid.
The people who join it are losers.
And the only reason to get into it, not for your child, but maybe for a minority child, they can join the military to get free education.
That's not what that is.
It's not what that is.
And I believe that conservatives, whether they live in red states or blue states, they understand that.
And so they know the cost going in.
But you don't have that conversation with your mom at first.
You have that dads and their sons have that conversations.
And then they sit at the table with mom at the table.
And, you know, that's when your son will say something like, dad and I have been talking about the military.
And then your wife looks at you and you look at your son like, you're dead to me.
Why would you say you and I have been talking about this?
It's because they're stupid.
They're young.
They haven't been married yet.
They don't know.
You don't say things like that to your mom.
You just bring it up, son.
You just bring it up.
You know, I've been thinking about what do you guys think?
Anyway, because now you've started another war in the house.
Rafe and I had this conversation this week, that it is a viable option.
And now is the time, if you ever thought about it, now is the time to get in.
So I don't, I would never, I mean, gosh, if you've listened to me for long at all, you know I cry over Kleenex commercials.
I cry on everything.
You don't think I feel empathy when we're sending people into battle?
You don't think that I don't think of the sons and the daughters and the moms and the dads that have lost their kids or could lose their kids?
I said to you just when Trump started this and decided, green light, go in, take care of this.
I said to you, I couldn't do that.
I could not be the president of the United States.
That was first, my first thought.
I could not be the president of the United States because I don't think I would have the courage knowing what you know about war.
I wouldn't have the courage to say these millions of lives are all going to change because of my decision.
I just don't think I could do it.
It would take massive amounts of prayer and God going, would you finally listen to me?
Before I would have the courage to do it.
So Anybody who is making a case for war and would not send their kids in themselves, don't listen to them ever.
Don't ever listen to them.
Anybody who hasn't who doesn't have real respect for the military and looks at the military, especially those war-hardened leaders, the ones who are generals now but have been through war over and over and over again, if they look at them like they're just warmongers, don't listen to them.
Those guys have been.
They've been there.
They know what that meat grinder is.
They're the least likely to want to go into war.
They don't want it because they know what it means.
But what this means is fight it or die from the cancer that is Islamism.
That's it.
We have Islamists here.
They're in all of our institutions.
They're in our government.
They have put us to sleep.
They have told us and fed us lies that there are nothing to worry about, nothing to see here.
And it's time for us to grow up.
It's time for us to grow up.
Not because I want this war, not because I endorse this war, but because I am at the point, and I would hope that a lot of people are coming to this point, where you don't now have a choice.
Whether you wanted to be there or not, you got to do it.
You may have been against this, but let me ask you, what happens if we stop right now?
Do you think the terror attacks in the country get worse or better?
Do you think we have taught the people who want to attack us here in America that they shouldn't do that?
Or if we would fold up our tent and go home and say, okay, we're sorry, do you think that would make them more emboldened or less emboldened?
I mean, just critical thinking here on this.
It's happening.
So now, what are you going to do about it?
What are you going to do about it?
Especially, you know, because we don't know anything.
You know, today is Al-Quds Day.
And this was a holiday started by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.
And Al-Quds Day in Iran is a celebration of Al-Quds, okay?
The liberation of Al-Quds.
Quds is Jerusalem.
So this is the celebration of the liberating army that will march in and liberate Jerusalem.
That's the IRGC is, they also have the Iranian Al-Quds force.
That's the Jerusalem army that will march in, kill all the Jews.
That's what you're dealing with here.
It's not like, oh, we just wanted to coexist.
No, Kill all the Jews.
Then kill all the Americans.
Little Satan, great Satan.
And they've been saying that, and they're clear.
And anybody who doesn't take people who want, let me just, again, let me just put you in this quick situation.
You're living next door to a neighbor who moves in, and then they move in, they say, they pop their head over the fence and say, I'm going to kill you, and I'm going to kill every member of your family.
And you're like, dude, I don't even know what are you talking about?
I don't want any trouble with you.
I'm going to kill you and every member of your family.
Would you just ignore that?
First, you'd call the police.
And if the police said, well, call us if there's a problem, but I can't do anything about him saying, would you take steps to protect yourself and your family?
Would you be prepared if that person ever came across that fence?
Would you take them seriously?
Because if you didn't take them seriously, you would be the one responsible for your family's death.
Because anyone who says that to you with meaning every day, They're going to kill you.
What do you do about it?
This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
There comes a time in every man's life and every nation's life when it has to stop pretending that danger is just going to fade away.
There comes a time where you hope it never arrives, but I believe it now has arrived, where you can no longer avoid it.
You can no longer say, well, I hope this is pushed off for another 10 or 15 or 20 years and let somebody else deal with it.
America is at that point, I believe, right now.
Communism Misunderstood in Venezuela00:12:10
You know, nearly half a century ago, the world was facing, you know, totalitarian ideology that believed that history belonged to it.
Communism.
It promised a paradise.
It spoke the language of justice and fairness.
And it hid its iron fist behind slogans about equality and peace and all of this garbage.
And a lot of people just insisted that it was misunderstood.
And maybe, to give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe some of them believed that, well, it will work.
It will work, but it never has.
And early on, you can understand those arguments.
You can't anymore.
And by the 1960s, we knew exactly who they were.
You know, even though intelligent people said it was misunderstood, they said if we were patient, if we would just show them respect, if we could just be more accommodating, it would moderate.
History answered that illusion with prison camps and secret police and a wall that cut halfway through a city.
What we're living through right now is very familiar.
It's very familiar.
Another ideology has been growing quietly in the shadows of the modern world, promising utopia.
It speaks the language of faith and grievance.
It literally promises paradise.
It uses the language of justice.
And it has, in the past, hid its iron fist behind slogans about equality and peace.
And again, just like in the past, many intelligent people insist it's just misunderstood.
It's just misunderstood.
Again, if we would just be patient, if we would be respectful, if we would just accommodate, it will moderate.
And unlike communism of the past, which rejected religion, this one wraps itself in religion.
But its goal is just like the communism of the Cold War and the national socialism of the Nazis.
It's just political power and political power over every nation, over every single person, over every single person's individual choices.
And that choice is, that force is Islamism.
That is the political Islamic ideology that insists that government and religion are one.
Government, law, and even your thought must submit to this rigid and quite honestly, very violent religion.
And like communism before it, it promises justice while delivering tyranny.
Like communism before it, it believes history itself is moving inevitably towards their victory.
And it isn't just like communism.
It literally joined ranks with communism and the Marxist and the communists and the anarchist in 1979.
We can prove it to you on film in Iran.
And for decades, we have pretended that it was something else, that it wasn't that.
We called it extremism.
We thought, you know, it was just a few angry individuals.
We called it terrorism as though it was only a tactic, misunderstood, marginal, not representative.
But it's not a tactic or just an idea.
Ideas don't fly airplanes into buildings.
People do.
Ideas don't, you know, don't inspire suicide bombers, global terror networks, and regimes that openly chant for the destruction of entire nations.
Ideas drive people to do that.
And the idea behind Islamism is painfully clear.
It teaches that all the world must eventually be governed by a single religious authority.
It teaches that war against unbelievers is justified until that goal is achieved, until you submit.
Submit.
And if you don't, you can be raped, sold into slavery, or killed.
If you don't submit, you can be lied to.
You can be used and abused, and it doesn't matter.
And their God endorses that.
Chaos and bloodshed are not tragedies.
They are a necessary step toward a divine end.
Listen to that.
In the West, we look at bloodshed, we look at war as a tragedy.
We look at it as something that we don't want.
In political Islam, it is a necessary step toward a divine end.
And you know who has joined it?
Those who believe the ends justify the means.
Those who believe in collectives, not the individual.
None of this is a conspiracy theory.
None of this.
You know, when I first started laying this out back in the early 2000s, everybody said I was a conspiracy theorist.
I had nothing to back it up.
And I said, what they're saying backs it up.
But now you see it.
The Red-Green Alliance.
It's there.
And for years, the West has responded with denial.
We convinced ourselves that if we just avoided speaking out about the ideology itself, the problem would shrink.
That maybe if we would just accommodate, it would get better.
We thought, well, we'll use diplomacy and we can negotiate with it.
But ideology does not negotiate with reality.
Reality, it reshapes reality until it fits the ideology.
Have you noticed that's what's happening?
Reality hasn't changed.
Reality is reality.
But your idea of reality has been so hammered and so squashed that it now is reshaped until it fits with an ideology.
But that doesn't make it real.
Makes it a lie.
And every year that we delay in confronting the truth by not calling it out by its name, the movement grows stronger.
Iran's revolutionary regime has spent decades exporting this doctrine all over, arming militias, financing terror groups, destabilizing governments from Lebanon to Yemen, Europe.
Look at the shape Europe's in.
Venezuela, did you know that Hezbollah was off the shore on an island of Venezuela training in Venezuela?
Did you know that Hezbollah is in Mexico, is in Cuba?
Why do you think we're going after these people in Cuba and Mexico and Venezuela?
Why do you think he's putting all of that effort into that?
Because we must get that and the Chinese and the Russia out of this.
We are a nation under attack that is sleeping at the switch.
It's here.
We saw it yesterday with terror attacks.
It is here.
It's here.
And other radical networks have spread the same kind of doctrine through the mosques and the media and the universities around the world.
This is no longer a military challenge.
Those days are gone.
This is a civilizational challenge, which means the answer cannot come from bombs alone.
It won't.
It can't.
This no longer is a war.
I've been telling you this for years.
We are in World War III.
You just don't know it yet.
Well, I'm sorry to say, we may be able to put this whoop ass back into its can, but I'm not sure we can.
We opened that can up, and I'm not sure we can now.
It may be stronger here and in the rest of the world than we thought it was.
And I'm glad I know it now.
The real battlefield, honestly, is the same one that Ronald Reagan spoke about in the 1960s when he said, it's a time for choosing.
It's a time now to confront communism and on the battlefield of ideas.
It's freedom versus submission.
Individual conscience versus enforced orthodoxy.
Government of, for, and by the people versus ruled by divine decree, interpreted and held hostage by men with guns.
Which do you want?
Because those are the stakes.
You know, the one thing that Donald Trump has done for half of the country is, and I think if you look at the people of Cuba, you see the people in Iran.
You see the people who are now protesting in favor of the United States at the American embassies in Canada.
Did you know that the Iranian people had a pro-America rally in front of the American embassy in Toronto?
Probably never heard that.
They don't want to cover that.
But have you noticed that the West, what the one thing he is doing is while he is destabilizing things, he is also helping us rediscover the confidence that we once had.
The confidence that liberty is not merely one option among many options of government.
Liberty is the only system that protects human dignity.
It allows our faith without coercion.
It allows debate without imprisonment, dissent without death.
You know, when the football players, the Iranian soccer team in Australia, when they didn't sing the national anthem, they were told, you will face consequences because you are now a war traitor.
That meant come home and we're going to execute you.
When we were at war, all these athletes here in America could not only not sing the national anthem, they could turn their back on the flag and take a knee on the field and they just got richer.
That's not oppression, people.
That's dissent without death in a free country.
And when people living under tyranny see the difference as they are beginning to see it right now, that there is somebody willing to stand up.
When they see the difference, history begins to move.
And that's what ultimately defeated communism.
Not military strength, moral clarity.
The fall of the Soviet Union began the day Ronald Reagan stood and said, that is an evil empire and it must not survive.
That ideology is evil and stands against everything that the Western civilization teaches.
And when that truth became real and undeniable and spoken, the ideology collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions.
Now, why could today possibly be any different?
Because it's almost the same ideology, just wrapped in different clothes.
Every Generation Must Preserve Freedom00:01:26
Well, it will happen again if we have the courage to recognize the moment we were all born for.
This isn't a clash with a religion.
This is a struggle with a political ideology that has weaponized religion.
And the choice in front of us right now is the same one Reagan described decades ago.
Whether we accept a slow surrender, disguised as tolerance, or we stand firmly with the principles that built the free world.
Because freedom has always required vigilance.
It requires the willingness to stand up and defend it in the spoken word and, God forbid, sometimes with armies, but always with truth.
And every generation is eventually asked the same question.
Will you preserve liberty for those who come after you?
Or are you going to let fear and confusion and denial slowly just trade it all away?
That is the time for choosing.
And I'm sorry to say, I really am, because I'm a lazy guy.