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Years of Conflict End?
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| Technical director. | |
| He said George Washington. | |
| I did not start broadcasting when George Washington was president because there were no broadcast facilities. | |
| There was no electricity at the time. | |
| No, my first president, let's see, I began broadcasting in 82, so that would have been Ronald Reagan time. | |
| Yep. | |
| It's a happy time in America, I must say. | |
| Okay, let's begin. | |
| Sean, you sent me a... | |
| Here we go. | |
| Number 021. Will we meet the threat of challenging climate, the challenging climate we're all feeling, already ravaging every part of our world with extreme weather? | |
| Or will we suffer the merciless march of ever-worsening droughts and floods, more intense fires and hurricanes, longer heat waves? | |
| It's something that I broadcast regularly, Bjorn Lomberg and others who actually report on the science, that a lot of what he just said isn't true, but it doesn't matter because the left believes it, the left owns the media, and so people believe it. | |
| For example, more intense hurricanes? | |
| That's just not true. | |
| We are not experiencing more intense hurricanes. | |
| The intensity of fires, to the extent that they are more intense, has to do with the treatment of brush more than any other single thing. | |
| By the way, here I am in Texas where you guys had a freeze, didn't you? | |
| Yeah, how does one explain that? | |
| But anyway, we won't deal with that. | |
| The merciless march of ever-worsening droughts and floods. | |
| More people have water to drink today than at any time in the history of the human race, just for the record. | |
| Okay? | |
| Maybe, I don't know if there are ever worsening droughts. | |
| I do know that people have more water than at any time in history. | |
| That would seem to me to be what counts. | |
| All right, number 22. We've ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan. | |
| And as we close this period of relentless war, We're opening a new era of relentless diplomacy, of using the power of our development aid to invest in new ways of lifting people up around the world. | |
| I love that. | |
| We've ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan. | |
| That's not true. | |
| We've ended 20 years of American troops in Afghanistan. | |
| We have not ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan. | |
| I wish we did. | |
| The Taliban has taken over? | |
| That would be like saying if Churchill had decided not to fight Hitler any longer. | |
| Well, we've ended all these years of conflict with Germany. | |
| Except when you have tyrants in charge, violent tyrants, you have not ended conflict. | |
| You have only ended your role in it. | |
| The statement is fascinating. | |
| It's so incorrect that it really demands explanation. | |
| Why would somebody say something so incorrect? | |
| We have not ended 20 years of conflict. | |
| We have ended 20 years of American engagement, or at least direct engagement. | |
| And that is because, basically, most people, and I even include a lot of conservatives, really don't give a damn about Afghans. | |
| Something I've never quite understood. | |
| I am forthright about this. | |
| I think America should be the world's policeman. | |
| Because if America's not the world's policeman, there are two things that will happen. | |
| Bad people will become the world's policeman, or there will be no policeman, and there will be just mass evil. | |
| So I fully plead guilty to the belief that America has a moral role to play in this world. | |
| And especially when it is at such little sacrifice as it was for the last couple of years in Afghanistan. | |
| We lost more people to the suicide bombing when Joe Biden said we would leave. | |
| In that day, we lost more servicemen than in the last year and a half. | |
| All put together. | |
| We're opening a new era of relentless diplomacy. | |
| Is there anybody who understands what that means? | |
| Relentless diplomacy with whom? | |
| With the Taliban? | |
| Yeah, that's actually one of those that he has in mind. | |
| Using the power of our development aid to invest in new ways of lifting people up around the world. | |
| I must admit that I didn't understand most of his speech. | |
| That is one of the sentences I have no idea what he was talking about. | |
| Number 23. Over the last eight months, I've prioritized rebuilding our alliances, revitalizing our partnerships, and recognizing they're essential and central to America's enduring security and prosperity. | |
| We have reaffirmed our sacred NATO alliance to Article V commitment. | |
| How many people in that audience understood Article 5 commitment? | |
| But in any event, we have reaffirmed our sacred NATO alliance. | |
| Do you know that every NATO ally that I have read about with the possible, well, I can't even think of an exception, thought that the American withdrawal from Afghanistan was an insult to NATO because none of them were in fact asked, should we do it? | |
| Let alone should we do it the way we did it? | |
| I watched the House of Commons and the condemnations of Joe Biden made by members of Parliament, not to mention in the House of Lords. | |
| This notion of rebuilding our alliances, I don't think that they have been weaker at any time in my lifetime than already in the last six months. | |
| Number 24. We rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, and we're running to retake a seat in the Human Rights Council next year at the UN. Okay, look, obviously he's on the left, he believes in the Paris Climate Agreement, so I have nothing to say. | |
| We're running to retake, running, to retake a seat at the Human Rights Council. | |
| Well, it's an interesting question whether we should be on the Human Rights Council. | |
| It is usually, the Human Rights Council is usually headed by a tyrannical regime. | |
| And so, nothing moral is done in the Human Rights Council. | |
| Nothing for human rights is done at the Human Rights Council. | |
| And that is why the United States left. | |
| So, maybe we should be on it. | |
| But I want you to know why we're not on it. | |
| Number 25. U.S. military power must be our tool of last resort. | |
| Not our first. | |
| It should not be used as an answer to every problem we see around the world. | |
| So this is a perfect example of the straw man argument. | |
| When exactly has military power been our first resort? | |
| I can't think of any time. | |
| Second, it should not be used as an answer to every problem we see around the world. | |
| Has anybody ever advocated that... | |
| Can the use of American military power be used as an answer to every problem we see around the world? | |