Dennis Prager Show - The Dennis Prager Show LIVE Aired: 2022-01-21 Duration: 11:54 === Music Repeats (02:11) === [00:00:00] *music* [00:00:20] *music* *music* [00:00:48] *music* *music* [00:01:08] *music* *music* *music* *music* *music* [00:01:36] *music* *music* *music* [00:01:54] *music* *music* *music* === Respecting Differences (03:57) === [00:02:12] We'll be right back. [00:02:41] We'll be right back. [00:03:11] We'll be right back. [00:03:41] We'll be right back. [00:04:11] We'll be right back. [00:04:41] We'll be right back. [00:05:10] Hi everybody. [00:05:13] It's already Friday. [00:05:16] You know my theory on weeks, so I will simply go on to a subject. [00:05:22] 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. [00:05:37] In this regard, there are differences that I have with some people that I don't respect the difference. [00:05:44] If you think America is systemically racist, I have contempt for you. [00:05:48] So, just to be on the record, I don't have respect for everybody I differ with. [00:05:53] In this one, I do. === Why We Should Engage? (06:00) === [00:05:55] But I differ strongly. [00:05:59] There is a very strong notion among some Especially among conservatives. [00:06:05] That America not get involved in the Ukraine issue. [00:06:11] What do we care about Ukraine? [00:06:13] It's just 40 million people. [00:06:16] As if, by the way, that's determinative of whether or not we get involved. [00:06:22] The number of people in the country, there are fewer in Taiwan. [00:06:25] So do we say bye-bye Taiwan, let China swallow you? [00:06:31] We said bye-bye Hong Kong. [00:06:35] 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. [00:06:49] Of course, the answer to that is this wasn't the government that the deal had been made with. [00:06:55] 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. [00:07:13] When you let aggressors aggress, they don't stop. [00:07:21] The notion of appeasing people, it's not our interest. [00:07:25] That was what was said by many with regard to Hitler. [00:07:29] It's not, and I'm not saying that Putin is Hitler. [00:07:32] I'm just giving that as an example. [00:07:36] Oh, it's not our interest. [00:07:38] So what is our interest other than an attack on the United States of America, on any of the 50 states or territories? [00:07:48] Nothing is our interest? [00:07:52] The world can go to hell, but hey, we're protecting Manhattan. [00:07:57] It doesn't make sense. [00:08:02] It's very hard to live in isolation like that. [00:08:07] There's another argument they give. [00:08:09] Well, look at our interventions, what failures they were. [00:08:13] So what exactly are we talking about? [00:08:18] Vietnam? [00:08:20] Vietnam was a failure when we left, not when we fought. [00:08:24] I just finished a gigantic work on the Vietnam War. [00:08:29] It didn't convince me that we lost. [00:08:31] We lost when we left. [00:08:33] You lose when you surrender. [00:08:37] That's when you lose. [00:08:40] Afghanistan? [00:08:44] 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. [00:09:00] I believe in a binary view of sex, so I divide Afghans between men and women. [00:09:07] It's not woke, it's just true. [00:09:12] We didn't lose in Afghanistan until we left Afghanistan. [00:09:17] Next week I'll read to you some of the things that have been happening in Afghanistan since we left. [00:09:24] Not to mention that it could easily serve as a base for eventual attacks on Americans. [00:09:31] We were paying a very small price to stay in Afghanistan. [00:09:36] Almost no troops killed. [00:09:39] But we allowed for some degree of stability in that country. [00:09:47] Iraq? [00:09:48] Iraq is a mixed bag. [00:09:49] I don't know. [00:09:50] Nobody knows. [00:09:51] If Saddam Hussein were allowed to stay in power, what would have happened? [00:09:58] Libya? [00:09:59] I will acknowledge that as truly evil as Gaddafi was, the chaos that ensued after his fall may not have justified the intervention there. [00:10:12] To be pro-intervention is not to be pro-every intervention. [00:10:17] Sometimes you just don't know. [00:10:20] Life is messy. [00:10:26] Hey, Ukraine, it's okay if you lose more of your territory to Russia. [00:10:32] Why do we care? [00:10:34] We're sitting pretty in New York and Chicago and Iowa. [00:10:41] I don't follow that. [00:10:44] I don't follow it morally, aside from just sheer political concerns. [00:10:52] Wall Street Journal, how the West is losing Ukraine. [00:10:59] 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. [00:11:09] But the administration is also signaling that an invasion is likely, and if so, It's worth explaining why deterrence will have failed. [00:11:19] The fault lies mainly with Vladimir Putin and his desire to restore greater Russia. [00:11:25] Yes, that's pretty important to understand. [00:11:29] Putin would like to restore the Soviet Union, or greater Russia, depends on what term you use. [00:11:36] That doesn't stop with Ukraine. [00:11:40] Why not invade Armenia? [00:11:42] That was part of the Soviet Union. [00:11:44] Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania. [00:11:47] I mean, they have a couple of million, three million people in each country, or something to that effect.