Dennis Prager Show - Biden Speaks at the U.N. - Does Anything He Say Make Sense?
Aired: 2021-09-22
Duration: 08:14


=== Years of Conflict End? (08:14) ===

[00:00:00]  Technical director.
[00:00:02]  He said George Washington.
[00:00:04]  I did not start broadcasting when George Washington was president because there were no broadcast facilities.
[00:00:09]  There was no electricity at the time.
[00:00:12]  No, my first president, let's see, I began broadcasting in 82, so that would have been Ronald Reagan time.
[00:00:21]  Yep.
[00:00:22]  It's a happy time in America, I must say.
[00:00:26]  Okay, let's begin.
[00:00:31]  Sean, you sent me a...
[00:00:33]  Here we go.
[00:00:36]  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?
[00:00:49]  Or will we suffer the merciless march of ever-worsening droughts and floods, more intense fires and hurricanes, longer heat waves?
[00:01:04]  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.
[00:01:23]  For example, more intense hurricanes?
[00:01:26]  That's just not true.
[00:01:28]  We are not experiencing more intense hurricanes.
[00:01:31]  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.
[00:01:42]  By the way, here I am in Texas where you guys had a freeze, didn't you?
[00:01:47]  Yeah, how does one explain that?
[00:01:49]  But anyway, we won't deal with that.
[00:01:51]  The merciless march of ever-worsening droughts and floods.
[00:01:56]  More people have water to drink today than at any time in the history of the human race, just for the record.
[00:02:03]  Okay?
[00:02:04]  Maybe, I don't know if there are ever worsening droughts.
[00:02:07]  I do know that people have more water than at any time in history.
[00:02:11]  That would seem to me to be what counts.
[00:02:15]  All right, number 22. We've ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan.
[00:02:22]  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.
[00:02:37]  I love that.
[00:02:39]  We've ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan.
[00:02:42]  That's not true.
[00:02:44]  We've ended 20 years of American troops in Afghanistan.
[00:02:47]  We have not ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan.
[00:02:51]  I wish we did.
[00:02:55]  The Taliban has taken over?
[00:02:58]  That would be like saying if Churchill had decided not to fight Hitler any longer.
[00:03:06]  Well, we've ended all these years of conflict with Germany.
[00:03:12]  Except when you have tyrants in charge, violent tyrants, you have not ended conflict.
[00:03:21]  You have only ended your role in it.
[00:03:27]  The statement is fascinating.
[00:03:29]  It's so incorrect that it really demands explanation.
[00:03:35]  Why would somebody say something so incorrect?
[00:03:38]  We have not ended 20 years of conflict.
[00:03:43]  We have ended 20 years of American engagement, or at least direct engagement.
[00:03:49]  And that is because, basically, most people, and I even include a lot of conservatives, really don't give a damn about Afghans.
[00:03:57]  Something I've never quite understood.
[00:04:00]  I am forthright about this.
[00:04:02]  I think America should be the world's policeman.
[00:04:05]  Because if America's not the world's policeman, there are two things that will happen.
[00:04:09]  Bad people will become the world's policeman, or there will be no policeman, and there will be just mass evil.
[00:04:18]  So I fully plead guilty to the belief that America has a moral role to play in this world.
[00:04:27]  And especially when it is at such little sacrifice as it was for the last couple of years in Afghanistan.
[00:04:35]  We lost more people to the suicide bombing when Joe Biden said we would leave.
[00:04:43]  In that day, we lost more servicemen than in the last year and a half.
[00:04:48]  All put together.
[00:04:52]  We're opening a new era of relentless diplomacy.
[00:04:55]  Is there anybody who understands what that means?
[00:04:59]  Relentless diplomacy with whom?
[00:05:02]  With the Taliban?
[00:05:03]  Yeah, that's actually one of those that he has in mind.
[00:05:07]  Using the power of our development aid to invest in new ways of lifting people up around the world.
[00:05:15]  I must admit that I didn't understand most of his speech.
[00:05:18]  That is one of the sentences I have no idea what he was talking about.
[00:05:22]  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.
[00:05:39]  We have reaffirmed our sacred NATO alliance to Article V commitment.
[00:05:47]  How many people in that audience understood Article 5 commitment?
[00:05:51]  But in any event, we have reaffirmed our sacred NATO alliance.
[00:05:56]  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?
[00:06:16]  Let alone should we do it the way we did it?
[00:06:21]  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.
[00:06:33]  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.
[00:06:44]  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.
[00:07:01]  We're running to retake, running, to retake a seat at the Human Rights Council.
[00:07:09]  Well, it's an interesting question whether we should be on the Human Rights Council.
[00:07:13]  It is usually, the Human Rights Council is usually headed by a tyrannical regime.
[00:07:19]  And so, nothing moral is done in the Human Rights Council.
[00:07:23]  Nothing for human rights is done at the Human Rights Council.
[00:07:26]  And that is why the United States left.
[00:07:29]  So, maybe we should be on it.
[00:07:31]  But I want you to know why we're not on it.
[00:07:34]  Number 25. U.S. military power must be our tool of last resort.
[00:07:42]  Not our first.
[00:07:43]  It should not be used as an answer to every problem we see around the world.
[00:07:49]  So this is a perfect example of the straw man argument.
[00:07:53]  When exactly has military power been our first resort?
[00:07:58]  I can't think of any time.
[00:08:01]  Second, it should not be used as an answer to every problem we see around the world.
[00:08:06]  Has anybody ever advocated that...
[00:08:09]  Can the use of American military power be used as an answer to every problem we see around the world?