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July 24, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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British Broadcasting Corporation, uh BBC, has admitted that many of the victims of Israeli retaliation in Lebanon are terrorists and not innocent civilians.
A BBC reporter said that he saw Hezbollah terrorists using a private home and added, it's uh difficult to quantify who is a terrorist and who is a civilian.
No, it's only difficult if you're not really trying to.
Uh if you're trying to protect the uh the the template here or the action line that Israel is killing innocent civilians uh and so forth, then you have trouble recognizing the truth that the Hezbollah types are using private homes as their launchers for his Catusha rockets uh and and other rockets that they are firing, and it's typical.
Hide behind civilians uh and and uh therefore try to win the PR battle.
Yeah, terrorists in this circumstance, kind of like Democrats.
When they lose, they claim a moral victory.
If they're not totally obliterated, then they we won!
And that's one of the one of the problems here is the um is the PR spin associated with all this.
All right, let's let's keep going.
Audio soundbite number three.
This is from the Beltway Boys on the Fox News channel on Saturday.
Ned Lamont represents, if he wins, represents a triumph in the Democratic Party for the move on.org, Howard Dean, Daily Coss, Michael Moore, left wing of the Democratic Party, which is not only, you know, bad on foreign policy but on globalization, but is also just as nasty and mean uh on the left as uh Rush Limbaugh and those other hot dogs on the right.
What has gotten into this guy?
I I mean, I uh this is this is it's uh he knows better than this.
There's got to be some some reason for that.
He knows that this program is not on the same page as those guys.
But let's talk about this Lieberman thing because the latest announcement is that Der Schlieckmeister's going in there to uh to campaign for him.
And I'll tell you the reason why, folks, it's really not complicated.
The Democrats, more and more of them are really getting afraid of the moveon.orgs and the and the daily cosas and uh and these these wackos at the Democrat Underground.
Uh and and they're they're trying to uh deflect as much of the influence of these people as possible.
If Lieberman can get the Democrat nomination in this uh in this primary, uh then uh Democrats think that it'll have it'll it'll have dealt a severe blow to the uh Kook Fringe base that considers themselves to be the ones that running the party.
The only really powerful person the Cook Fringe base has been able to install is Howard Dean.
Uh but you for all of that, uh it's still laughable to try to watch Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer and all that flock to their blog meetings, flock to their to their uh strategy sessions, say what they want those people um uh uh what those people want to hear.
Uh so you can say that there are elements of the Democratic Party that are scared about the blogs, maybe the moderate Democrats.
I don't believe there's a moderate Democrats.
That's the thing.
A Democrat is a Democrat.
Liberal is a liberal.
Uh there there are various stages of liberal, but and uh I think I think moderate Democrats just uh just call themselves moderate for the obvious reasons they don't want to be called liberals that scares them.
And of course, moderate carries with it this uh eludite leafism uh smarter than everybody else in the room.
Uh uh people that uh more thoughtful, uh not knee-jerk uh in their reactions.
Now, a couple things on um on Mr. Buckley.
Uh uh I did not see this.
I've got the audio sound bites.
Apparently it was Saturday on CBS.
Their weekend info, babe uh Thalia assure us, uh, went up there uh to uh Buckley's house in Stamford, did an interview.
I don't know if they left anything on the cutting room floor uh or not, if back if Buckley had said anything uh nice or positive about Bush, but let's let's listen to uh some of the sound bites.
This happened on the CBS evening news, and of course, this is a typical drive-by media.
Go out and find any conservative to rip Bush, and that just leaves them of the need to do it themselves.
Uh we have the first of four soundbites, I think it's four that we have.
Let me double check just to make sure that I'm not missing one.
Yep, first of four.
All right.
Uh question.
Actually, statement.
Uh she says, Buckley finds himself parting ways with President Bush, whom he praises as a decisive leader, but admonishes for having strayed from true conservative principles in his foreign policy.
In particular, Buckley views the three and a half year Iraq war as a failure.
If you had a European prime minister who had experienced what we've experienced, it would be expected that he would uh retire, Razan.
All right.
Um next soundbite, she says, has this administration been distracted by Iraq?
I think it has been engulfed by Iraq, by which I mean that no other subject interests anybody other than Iraq.
The continued tumult in Iraq has overwhelmed what perspectives one might otherwise have entertained with respect to uh well other parts of the media with respect to Iran in particular.
And she says, has has Mr. Bush found himself in any different circumstances than any of the other presidents you've known in terms of these crises.
I think uh Mr. Bush faces uh uh singular problems.
Best defined, I think, as the absence of effective conservative ideology.
With the result that he ended up being uh very extravagant in domestic spending, extremely tolerant of excesses by Congress, and uh in respect of uh of foreign policy, incapable of bringing together such forces as apparently were necessary to conclude the Iraq challenge.
And the final one, what uh President Bush's foreign policy legally legacy will be to his successor.
There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush.
I don't believe his successor would re-enunciate the words that he used in his second inaugural address because they were too ambitious.
So therefore, I think his legacy is indecipherable.
Okay.
Now, what explains this?
Uh uh, you know, there's uh we we dealt with this once before.
This is not the first time that Mr. Buckley has been highlighted by uh uh drive-by media in his uh disagreements with President Bush.
I think uh uh and I don't uh look, I don't want to speak for him.
I uh uh as to soundbite number three, let's tackle that one first, because that that's the easiest.
Everybody has said this.
I have said this.
Buckley just said it in a different way.
When he says, uh, I think Mr. Bush faces a singular problem best defined, I think, as the absence of effective conservative ideology.
Well, I'll climb on board, I'll agree with that.
Uh, but all he's saying is that Mr. Bush is a Republican, but he is not the leader of a movement.
Um Buckley's pal was Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan was the definition of a conservative.
And he showed how it could be done.
He won two landslides.
He got the country behind him on virtually everything that he was doing, to the chagrin of all of his opponents.
But he was leading a conservative movement.
He was an elected conservative leader.
Uh there isn't one in Washington right now in terms of idi ideology or uh uh leading a movement.
That's why so many Republican conservatives are off the reservation and trying to carve their own niche, is because there's not this figurehead uh uh leader, well, not figurehead, but substantive leader, who is leading a movement.
We have a Republican president who is conservative on some things and others he's not.
Uh and and he is he's going about his job in his own way.
Uh that certainly is no crime, but to the drive-by media, why why that would be an indictment.
Uh, has lost his uh wheels as a conservative because they are interested in conservatism losing its wheels.
They are interested in conservatism falling apart because they know conservatism is the foundation and a dynamic of the of the Republican Party.
So when you have somebody as power powerful as Mr. Buckley saying it, they got all excited and they start panting.
Republican Party about to fall apart.
Bill Buckley says so we got it on tape.
Saturday night CBS evening news.
As to the uh the other things, particularly uh Iraq.
Uh you know, Mr. Buckley, as I said earlier, supported the war in Vietnam, and Vietnam had not attacked us, just as Iraq had not attacked us.
Uh he did so because he supported the war against the global spread of communism.
That's why I spent some time in my first hour monologue here trying to draw some similarities between the spread of communism worldwide and the attempted spread of militant Islam worldwide.
I think that there are many similarities.
It's not a perfect analogy.
Uh but Iraq is clearly a front in the war on terror.
Uh I I think Mr. Buckley and others who viewed the Soviet Union as the big enemy.
Uh when the Soviet Union went down, the big enemy went down, and hey, come on home.
Let's not involve ourselves.
We out there in the world, we don't have the power to do it.
It's not our prerogative.
Let's just, you know, let's leave it alone.
We we've dealt with the big enemy, we've put it down uh and and we can now you know take care of our own domestic problems and do so responsibly and so forth.
The the the the thing that it seems to me so many people forget here is 9-11.
Uh when we were attacked, uh and and it it's it's gonna happen more and more if we uh if if we ignore it, if we put our heads in the sand and say, well, you know, this is not uh something for us anymore where the world can fight its battles without us because we're we're gonna head back.
I I don't hear from any of these people who have opposition to what we're doing, their own plan other than isolationism.
Now they don't like that word when I use it, but I don't know what else they're talking about, because I don't hear another plan.
I don't I don't hear a plan to deal with this.
And it's clearly something in my mind has to be dealt with.
Brief time out, folks, back right after this.
And back to the phones, 800-282-2882.
Uh Lenin Santa Barbara, nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Uh thank you.
It's a privilege to be on the show.
Thank you.
What I want to say is that Mr. Buckley is philosophically senile.
He looks at these events, Iraq, Israel, uh uh in Lebanon.
He looks at them one at a time.
He tries to relate him backwards to a world that was, and not forward to the world that is going to be and the real battles we are going to have to fight.
I a lot of people agree with you uh on that.
Uh you know, the the uh well when you say philosophically senile, I I'm not talking about his age, but you're right th you're you're saying it a different way than I did.
You're talking about Cold Warriors.
You're talking about guys I mean, Buckley was uh profoundly instrumental in in instigating this nation's fight against the Soviets and making sure that someone actually took it to them rather than appease them.
If you go back and look at national exactly, national review was for the destruction of the Soviet Union.
National Review was not for the appeasement of it.
National Review educated the American public as best it could on the true nature of communism and communism's leaders.
It was their real enemy.
And I'm saying when it went down, mission accomplished, and the rest of this is just a bunch of skirmishes that we have no business being involved in.
Well, you've said it, of course, a hundred times better than I said it.
But the fact is this guy is unable to have a new perspective on the enemies we're confronting now.
And he doesn't see the relationships between them.
He's like the guys doing the 9-11 report, saying, Well, they didn't do this here, and they the uh Iraqis weren't really connected here.
He really has no overview as the world situation today.
That's very sad.
It's a great loss to lose Mr. Buckley, but we have to move on and get more spokesman for people who do understand who you're number one.
Yeah, but you know, I'm always one who looks for good in everything.
And in the case of Mr. Buckley, as You know, uh man that I admire tremendously.
I think there's something to learn here.
If if Bill Buckley, who is not senile, trust me, if Bill Buckley's philosophically senile.
Well, yeah, I know, but I mean for anybody questioning his age and his faculties, don't.
Uh that's all I'm telling you.
I've I've been around him recently.
He's still who he is.
Um I mean, yeah, health problems here and there, but I mean his mind is he's who he is.
But it's an indication if Bill Buckley can arrive at this view, then it easily explains why so many other Americans can as well.
And so you have to say, okay, why?
You can say, well, he fails to relate current to past and has lost a contextual relationship.
Maybe true, but uh at the same time, this insistence or this this this uh thing he said that uh uh British Prime Minister would resign and disgrace or so forth.
We're not a we don't have a parliamentary system here.
We don't, you know, presidents don't resign over this.
They carry out their policies and they stand for re-election.
Uh really lies with Mr. Bush, who has is he's inarticulate at best, and he has not given us the true overview of the situation in in the Middle East,
including things that nearby, whether it's Ukraine or Uzbekistan, all of the tremendous changes that are going on in this entire subcontinent or half continent, and Bush isn't putting them together.
Maybe he's afraid we wouldn't understand.
But Buckley apparently doesn't get it at all.
Well, you know, you you can you can say that that all of this is uh uh is is Bush's fault, but I'll I'll tell you, there are a number of forces here at work that uh I mean I you you think he's he's not even tried to make the case for the uh successes.
Oh, I think he's tried.
He hasn't.
But you think but you think it's the you think it's a result of his uh lack of articulation?
I think he hasn't done it enough, and he hasn't given us the big picture.
I think he thinks we're not up to understanding it, that we just say, oh, this is a lot of hogwash.
Uh I don't I don't think that's I don't think that's the case at all.
But you you gotta I hate to say this, but you have to trust me.
There are people in this White House who would blow you away with their intellect, and the president's one of them if he chose to redress you in that way.
Why he doesn't is not because he doesn't think um we can't understand it or uh or won't believe it.
There's there there's something else going on here.
You have to understand there is a shadow government out there, Bob, or uh uh I'm sorry, uh Len, there's a shadow government going on out there uh that's doing its best to sabotage everything that we're doing.
The one mistake that Bush made well, the one must one of the mistakes Bush made was the new tone when he assumed office.
He didn't clean out the Clinton's in some of these positions at the Pentagon and at the State Department, and they had CIA and they've been free to leak all this gobbledygook war plans and what have you, uh trying to show that it was going to be a new Washington.
We're gonna stop all this partisan infighting here.
We're gonna come together as a country and get along.
And once again, it was it was uh, you know, well-intentioned but naive.
The liberals don't want to get along with people, they want power, and they will sabotage whoever has it in order to get it back themselves.
This has led us to fighting what I call a minimalist war in Iraq.
The idea, and I think this is something that probably is bothering a lot of people, maybe bothering Mr. Buckley for all I know.
The idea that we can't take care of this in three and a half years is what's astounding to people.
And they're right, we could.
We could take care of this much sooner than we have, but we're fighting under different rules.
And it's it's witnessable here in the way that uh Israel and Hezbollah are going at it.
You know, it it's the old and you can say the number of reasons for, well, the media's on scene every day showing civilian casualties and showing the results of all the military action, and that's gonna temper people because the world is gonna say step it!
That's killing, and not violent, and then enough.
It was easier in the old days when nobody saw this stuff.
Nobody saw 92,000 battle fatalities in the Pacific Theater in World War II, and nobody saw the million and a half Japanese deaths.
So it was easier to do.
It's a different set of circumstances today, and it results in the United States and its allies not using the full force of the power that uh we are able to project in in order to appease and and get caught up and worried about whether people think of you and world opinion and so forth.
You're gonna get hamstrung, and we're hamstrung.
Precisely where we are.
With half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All the while using talent on loan from God.
Yes, it all happens at the same time.
It's a miracle.
Uh back to the Fawns, Bob in Brownstone, Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
Glad you waited.
Thanks, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Um reason I called uh I remember back in 2004 you counseling us to uh uh be patient with Bush because he wasn't firing back with the 527s and carry attacks against him.
And I would I would urge the same caution here and same patience with the Israelis.
You know, they've never been one to uh uh pay much attention to uh world opinion and and I think they're massing on the border, and I think we're gonna see a large pincer movement going into uh southern Lebanon and maybe beyond, who knows what else.
But uh I think I think they're preparing, and I think they're gonna do uh a marvelous job for us.
Well, so a lot of people are hoping that uh because they want to see the old Israel.
They want to see the same old Israel.
Uh Israel shows the way.
Israel Israel lights the Israel lights the way on this.
Uh uh Israel doesn't fight minimalist wars.
It hasn't in the past.
Um I mentioned Ralph Peters had a piece on Saturday in the New York Post headline, Can Israel win?
And he says, not the way it's fighting.
I'll give you some excerpts of this just so you understand what I'm talking about.
But you mentioned the tanks.
You mentioned Israel is is massing the tanks on the border here.
Can I point something out for you?
Wall-to-wall coverage this weekend of the of the war on Fox, CNN, PMS NBC, etc.
And it it uh is it struck you, folks, has it has it uh is it have you been aware, have you realized that you haven't seen any pictures or video tape of all the rockets that Hezbollah has lobbed at those tanks?
All we hear from the reporters that tanks are massed just across the border, and we see videotape of the pank tanks.
Have you seen any of those tanks targeted by Hezbollah?
Now, this is not just an empty baseless question.
There's a there's a reason for it because I would think that if you're Hezbollah and the enemy has all kinds of tanks and armored personnel carriers, artillery and so forth, then it's an appropriate military target to hit, is it not?
Fire your Catus at it, fire your rockets at that massed uh unmassed base of weaponry and take it out.
Purpose of armies is to kill people and break things, right?
But but and this is elementary military strategy, folks, but Hezbollah doesn't seem interested at all in taking out those tanks, and there are lots of them that have been massed on the border.
Uh and don't tell me it's because they can't recalibrate their aim, the azimuth and the uh algorithms and all that.
Don't tell me it's it's I'll tell you why they're not aiming at those tanks.
It's because they don't care about the tanks.
They want to kill innocent civilians.
They want to kill Jews.
This is not about a war to them.
This is about continued acts of terror.
You don't get 72 virgins for wiping out an Israeli tank.
You just don't.
I've I can I I haven't read it, but I am relatively confident in pointing this out.
Um, you know, network info, babes, go stand by the tanks.
It's gonna be your safest place to be because they're not going to be targeted.
The worst place the infobabes and the media could be is next to some Jewish settlements or some Jewish civilian populations Because that remains the target.
You know, uh, I was told over the weekend uh this there's a there's a similar thing that happened here in World War II.
Remember Hitler's bombing campaign against England.
He was preparing for the invasion.
Um the the goal of that battle for the Germans was to gain air superiority over the British Isles, and they were within literally a few days of succeeding by concentrating their attacks on RAF airfields and radar installations and other similar support units.
They were taking out the Royal Air Force's ability to wage war.
Then a British pilot on a bombing mission over Germany one night got lost.
He accidentally dropped his load, so to speak, on Berlin.
And that just made Hitler so damn mad and the uh and the Third Reich High Command so so mad that he shifted the focus of his bombing from the strategy of acquiring air superiority to essentially terror bombing, bombing innocent civilian targets in London and other parts of the UK in hopes of breaking the will of the English people.
Well, this gave the RAF a breather and a chance to put itself back together.
It did not destroy the will of the British people because Churchill was there guiding them through it all, and it made them mad as it made Hitler, the RAF was able to put itself back together and wage war, and as we all know what happened, Hitler uh went down to defeat with via suicide and a number of other things.
Point here is, ladies and gentlemen.
If Hezbollah was anything other than a bunch of wacko terrorists, it would be using its military assets to attack Israeli military assets, and it's not, but the Israelis are doing that.
The Israelis are aiming at every military asset of Hezbollah they can find.
They're trying to root out these bunkers.
They're trying to find the cache of weapons that's inside them.
They're trying to bomb the bunkers that the Hezbollah cowards are hiding under, and they are bombing civilian locations where the lock the rockets that Hezbollah is launching are being launched from.
Hezbollah, typical terrorist cowards hiring uh hiding behind innocent civilians.
And don't forget this, pointed us out last week.
Hezbollah is not letting innocent Lebanese civilians leave the neighborhood.
They got roadblocks set up.
They want these people killed.
So there's there's a there's a lot to learn.
There's there's video of the tanks right now.
I bet I bet not one tank has been hit.
I'll bet not one tank has been lost.
I'll bet Hezbollah's not even trying to hit the weapons of war as used by Israel.
They're just trying to kill Jews, folks.
It's just it's that simple.
They're just engaged in in blatant terrorism, which is their stock and trade.
Why should they why should they change now?
Uh here is uh the real sad thing about this, too, by the way, is that the people responsible for this are not suffering at all.
Bashar Assad, Ahmadini Zad, uh, and whoever else in these satellite countries that's behind all this, the Hezbollah guys, they're dying, uh, but the leadership's still pretty intact.
But it is Israeli civilians and and uh and some Lebanese civilians that are being killed here or wounded uh and and injured, but uh far more uh Israeli civilians are being wounded and killed than are Lebanese.
Because even as the BBC is reporting, most of the Lebanese dead are in fact terrorists, disguised as civilians living in these homes, which are serving as rocket launchers.
Jim in Kansas City, Missouri, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Second time caller, everyday listener.
I'm glad to have you.
Let me get right to it.
Uh, as I've been surveying the general attitude of what I see in the United States at this time, and more specifically focusing on your previous comments about Mr. Buckley and the idea of a minima minimalist war.
My thought has been for quite a while that in order for the United States to be totally shaken out of what I feel is a very uh complacent, even apathetic attitude, is that we're gonna have to have another 9-11 event that is going to be of a magnitude that the American people, or at least enough of them, will get the feeling that the only way we can do this is to take Israel's approach.
We just got to go after them and get it done.
And while I don't relish the idea of this, I just don't see any other way that the broad spectrum across the political boundaries is ever going to change unless and until that happens.
Well, so my question is, what are your thoughts on that?
And if not that scenario, what would you see as a scenario?
Well, I'm not gonna sit here and advocate for another 9-11 type attack.
Uh I mean I have I have like you on uh on on many previous occasions, I have said that I fear it is going to take that.
Uh and I did just I mean every day last week, I I thought I went through this, uh explaining why I think it is.
We have so much affluence and prosperity in this country that we have the freedom and the time to ignore it.
If we don't want to pay attention to it, we don't have to.
If we don't if we want to, in as individuals, if we want to assume that uh uh, hey, you know that war's over there.
Nothing to do with me.
I mean, life is to be enjoyed.
I I I'm not gonna get all caught up in this.
That's the safe play.
Uh because once you commit to taking it on, then of course you're committing to being involved in doing something about it.
Uh I don't mean joining the army, but I mean you're you're committing to taking it seriously.
And some people there there's no need.
The United States does not appear to be that threatened uh by this.
But then you bring in such unknowns as Iran and the question, do we want them to become a nuclear Iran or not?
And if we don't, what do we do about it?
And if we don't care, what's our plan to deal with them afterwards?
And I don't know that anybody's got a plan to deal with a nuclear Iraq other than the uh Iran, other than the famous uh containment and uh appeasement uh favorite words of the uh Eastern elites, uh intellectuals.
Um as to whether another nine eleven uh I you certainly don't want to wish that.
But look at it.
Networks still will not play video tape of what happened on 9-11.
It's just too traumatic.
It's just too soon.
Remember, it was too soon to see United 93.
It's just too soon.
Uh our emotions haven't recovered and so forth.
Uh so too many people or enough people in this country can check out.
Uh I don't believe it's a serious problem.
Don't want to play, don't want to participate.
Uh in that case, it's it's tough to muster a national will to deal with a problem that uh other people think is severe and serious.
The parallels here are eerie.
Uh, and I've pointed these out too.
The parallels to Will Winston Churchill trying to warn the British people in the late 30s and early 40s about what was going on in Nazi Germany.
And the uh British leadership at the time just didn't want to hear it.
They had no desire to hear it.
And if even if it were true, it says not our fight, not our problem.
Uh we don't want to get involved.
And we hear the same thing.
So it's just, I guess uh liberals are liberals and human nature of liberals is uh consistent across the span of generations.
Brief time out back and continue after this.
Share with you a little bit of what about uh Ralph Peters wrote, uh big supporter of Israel, by the way, his uh his latest book is never quit the fight.
Famed columnist of the New York Post, uh famed military credentials, as I say, be interviewing him for the next issue of the limbo letter after the program today.
But he wrote on Saturday, Israel's losing this war for a lifelong Israel supporter.
That's a painful thing to write, but it's true.
And the situation's worsening each day.
A U.S. government official put it to me this way.
Israel's got the clock, but Hezbollah's got the time.
The sands of the hourglass favor the terrorists.
Every day they hold out and drop more rockets on Israel.
Hezbollah scores a propaganda win.
All Hezbollah has to do to achieve victory is not to lose completely.
But for Israel to emerge the acknowledged winner, it has to shatter Hezbollah.
Yet Israeli miscalculations have left Hezbollah alive and kicking.
Israel has to pull itself together now to send in ground troops in sufficient numbers with fierce resolve to do what must be done, root out Hezbollah fighters and kill them.
This means Israel will suffer painful casualties more today than if the IDF had gone in full blast at this fight's beginning.
The situation is grave.
A perceived Hezbollah win will be a massive victory for terror as well as a triumph for Iran and Syria.
And everybody loves a winner, Especially in the Middle East, where Arabs and Persians have been losing for so long.
Israel can't afford a Hezbollah win.
America can't afford it.
Civilization can't avoid it.
And yet it just might happen.
Israel tried to make war halfway and only made a mess.
Let's review where the situation stands.
By trying to spare Israeli lives through the use of air power and long-range artillery fire instead of ground troops.
The IDF played into Hezbollah's hands.
The terrorists could claim that Israel feared them.
Meanwhile, Israeli targeting proved shockingly sloppy, failing to ravage Hezbollah while hitting civilians to the international media's delight.
The IDF is readying a reinforced brigade of armor and three to five thousand troops for a limited incursion into Southern Lebanon, but that won't work.
Not enough troops, and Hezbollah's had time to get locked and loaded.
This is going to be messy.
Any half-hearted Israeli effort will fall short.
Now it goes on.
But let me just read to you the uh the conclusion.
The mess Israel has made of its opportunity to smack down Hezbollah should be a wake-up call to the country's leadership.
The IDF looks like a pathetic shadow of the bold military that Ariel Sharon led into Egypt three decades ago.
The IDF's intelligence, targeting and planning were all deficient.
Technology failed to vanquish flesh and blood.
The myth of the IDF's invincibility just shattered.
If Israel can't turn this situation around quickly, the failure will be a turning point in its history, and not for the better.
I ask him more about this this afternoon when I uh when I speak with him, but uh th I've talked to a lot of people, and there's a well didn't talk communicated, uh email and so forth, but uh it is a different Israel uh in the way they're fighting this battle than the way they have uh uh dealt with it.
I mean, you it wasn't remember when they leveled Arafat's compound in Ramallah?
Not that long ago, this wouldn't care.
Just I mean, rolled the tanks in it, rolled right over it.
Blew up their plumbing, did everything, made life miserable for them in there.
Uh again, because Arafat had backed out of a deal, which is constantly what happens over there.
Now I know this is Lebanon, this is a this is a crossing a uh a country's borders, but if there was ever any justification for it, this is it.
Violation of a UN resolution which over there seems to matter.
Uh uh provocation here that was actually started by Hezbollah, and even that lame-brain Kofi Annan acknowledges that.
Donald in Navarra, Florida.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
How are you doing, Russia?
Fine, sir.
Uh, listen, I was watching the news and listening to you, and I hear about collateral damage as if it's a bad thing.
It's not.
It's a good thing.
These people have to know if you're on a battlefield, if you let terrorists in your neighborhood and you support this kind of thing, there's gonna be a price to pay.
And I don't want to see anybody innocent die.
But if you're letting terrorists lob rockets out of your neighborhood, you're not so innocent, are you?
Well, I don't know that you have any power to keep terrorists out of your neighborhood.
If there's a let terrorists in your neighborhood or not, you probably aren't armed and the terrorists are.
Um, but I understand the um the philosophy.
War.
I feel badly on being so redundant here.
Uh, but I mean, over the past week, this is now the sixth day of this.
But I guess it's necessary for people's historical context uh uh to be brought up to speed.
But you know, war has always been about killing innocent people, in addition to taking out the weapons of war used by the bad guys or your enemy and destroying their ability to fight by killing them too.
But you know, Japan, Germany, I'm i it that's the way it was, but it's it's it's changed now.
There's it's not that way.
There's there are too many eyes, cameras, microphones, and so forth uh recording things, and let's face it, the vast majority of the media in the world covering this is a bunch of leftists and a bunch of pacifists who have chosen sides in this, and it is not Israeli or the uh United States sides that they uh support.
Back in just a second.
Fastest three hours in meat.
I can't believe two hours are already in the can.
But sit tight, folks, lots more straight ahead.
A couple more things on the Israeli Hezbollah conflict, and then on to our domestic stack of stuff.
Interesting things in there.
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