Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Debates The Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal With a Caller
Aired: 2021-05-11
Duration: 02:27


=== Why We Stayed (02:27) ===

[00:00:00]  I mean, we've been there 20 years, and I don't think it's serious to assume that at any point in the near future, those people will be able to construct a safe democracy, not necessarily the West, but anything that provides any level of safety that would allow us to leave.
[00:00:22]  And the other criticism is, you know, when you take these refugees into the U.S., They have to be moved into some neighborhood.
[00:00:31]  And personally speaking, I mean, my neighborhood has changed so dramatically in the last 10, 20 years.
[00:00:39]  I mean, you walk around and English is not the language that you hear spoken.
[00:00:44]  What is the language your neighborhood hears?
[00:00:47]  Spanish.
[00:00:50]  Right.
[00:00:52]  Like we always say, there's nothing...
[00:00:55]  Go ahead.
[00:00:57]  So, I mean, there's nothing, of course, intrinsically wrong with, you know, any other group.
[00:01:02]  Well, we wouldn't have to bring the refugees into the United States if we stayed.
[00:01:06]  So you want it both ways.
[00:01:09]  Abandon these people to death and leave.
[00:01:12]  And I don't necessarily want them as refugees, and I don't want to leave.
[00:01:18]  But your position is, let them die.
[00:01:24]  Well, so that to me is very much kind of a left-wing point of view.
[00:01:30]  The left wants us to leave.
[00:01:32]  Why?
[00:01:32]  The left wants us to leave.
[00:01:34]  It's the only area where there is no left and right on leaving Afghanistan.
[00:01:40]  It's an amazing thing.
[00:01:42]  There are just as many conservatives who want to leave as there are people on the left.
[00:01:47]  Donald Trump wanted to leave.
[00:01:49]  I'm sorry?
[00:01:50]  After 20 years?
[00:01:52]  You don't think it's time?
[00:01:52]  No.
[00:01:53]  Why are we still in Germany after 50 years?
[00:01:57]  Well, I think that's silly, too.
[00:01:59]  Right.
[00:01:59]  Okay.
[00:02:00]  Apparently, Europeans don't think it's that silly, and we have kept the peace there.
[00:02:05]  And what about South Korea?
[00:02:07]  Is that silly, too?
[00:02:09]  Well, South Korea is very different than Germany.
[00:02:12]  Do you really think we need to be there to protect the state, to keep the peace in Europe?
[00:02:16]  Well, you didn't answer me about South Korea.
[00:02:19]  Is it silly to have stayed there 50 years?
[00:02:23]  Yes, I do.
[00:02:24]  I do think it's good.
[00:02:25]  Okay.
[00:02:25]  All right.
[00:02:26]  Listen, you know what my motto is.