Jan. 21, 2022 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Hi everybody. | |
| It's already Friday. | |
| You know my theory on weeks, so I will simply go on to a subject. | |
| I want to take a position that not all of you will agree with, and I'm going to go to I respect those who differ. | |
| In this regard, there are differences that I have with some people that I don't respect the difference. | |
| If you think America is systemically racist, I have contempt for you. | |
| So, just to be on the record, I don't have respect for everybody I differ with. | |
| In this one, I do. | |
| But I differ strongly. | |
| There is a very strong notion among some Especially among conservatives. | |
| That America not get involved in the Ukraine issue. | |
| What do we care about Ukraine? | |
| It's just 40 million people. | |
| As if, by the way, that's determinative of whether or not we get involved. | |
| The number of people in the country, there are fewer in Taiwan. | |
| So do we say bye-bye Taiwan, let China swallow you? | |
| We said bye-bye Hong Kong. | |
| That began at the end of the last century with Margaret Thatcher, I'm sad to say, who felt that she had to honor a 100-year deal with the Chinese government to give Hong Kong back to China. | |
| Of course, the answer to that is this wasn't the government that the deal had been made with. | |
| The Chinese government in 1890 was not the Chinese government of thugs and mass murderers that it was in 1990. So let me offer you a simple proposition. | |
| When you let aggressors aggress, they don't stop. | |
| The notion of appeasing people, it's not our interest. | |
| That was what was said by many with regard to Hitler. | |
| It's not, and I'm not saying that Putin is Hitler. | |
| I'm just giving that as an example. | |
| Oh, it's not our interest. | |
| So what is our interest other than an attack on the United States of America, on any of the 50 states or territories? | |
| Nothing is our interest? | |
| The world can go to hell, but hey, we're protecting Manhattan. | |
| It doesn't make sense. | |
| It's very hard to live in isolation like that. | |
| There's another argument they give. | |
| Well, look at our interventions, what failures they were. | |
| So what exactly are we talking about? | |
| Vietnam? | |
| Vietnam was a failure when we left, not when we fought. | |
| I just finished a gigantic work on the Vietnam War. | |
| It didn't convince me that we lost. | |
| We lost when we left. | |
| You lose when you surrender. | |
| That's when you lose. | |
| Afghanistan? | |
| People had a chance in Afghanistan to lead some people, a lot of people, not all by any means, had a chance to lead a normal life, like half the population that's female. | |
| I believe in a binary view of sex, so I divide Afghans between men and women. | |
| It's not woke, it's just true. | |
| We didn't lose in Afghanistan until we left Afghanistan. | |
| Next week I'll read to you some of the things that have been happening in Afghanistan since we left. | |
| Not to mention that it could easily serve as a base for eventual attacks on Americans. | |
| We were paying a very small price to stay in Afghanistan. | |
| Almost no troops killed. | |
| But we allowed for some degree of stability in that country. | |
| Iraq? | |
| Iraq is a mixed bag. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Nobody knows. | |
| If Saddam Hussein were allowed to stay in power, what would have happened? | |
| Libya? | |
| I will acknowledge that as truly evil as Gaddafi was, the chaos that ensued after his fall may not have justified the intervention there. | |
| To be pro-intervention is not to be pro-every intervention. | |
| Sometimes you just don't know. | |
| Life is messy. | |
| Hey, Ukraine, it's okay if you lose more of your territory to Russia. | |
| Why do we care? | |
| We're sitting pretty in New York and Chicago and Iowa. | |
| I don't follow that. | |
| I don't follow it morally, aside from just sheer political concerns. | |
| Wall Street Journal, how the West is losing Ukraine. | |
| Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is visiting Europe this week with a frantic effort to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and we hope he succeeds. | |
| But the administration is also signaling that an invasion is likely, and if so, It's worth explaining why deterrence will have failed. | |
| The fault lies mainly with Vladimir Putin and his desire to restore greater Russia. | |
| Yes, that's pretty important to understand. | |
| Putin would like to restore the Soviet Union, or greater Russia, depends on what term you use. | |
| That doesn't stop with Ukraine. | |
| Why not invade Armenia? | |
| That was part of the Soviet Union. | |
| Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania. | |
| I mean, they have a couple of million, three million people in each country, or something to that effect. |
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