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Aug. 15, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 15, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Great news for Democrats out there today.
Just popped.
Walmart stores posted its first profit decline in a decade.
Uh today, as the world's largest retailer was forced to pay a hefty price for withdrawing from Germany, selling its stores there at a loss to a rival.
The chief executive Lee Scott also.
I better wait.
I better wait.
There's so much cheering out there among the liberals in the audience, they're not hearing the rest of the story.
Walmart suffered a profit loss.
I mean, this is the kind of thing that makes Liberal Democrats stand up and cheer, ladies.
Walmart is one is big on their enemies list out there.
The chief executive Lee Scott also said that sales at Walmart's U.S. stores were disappointing as high gasoline and energy prices hit the pocketbooks of uh customers.
Results were still in line with expectations.
The company reiterated its guidance uh for the year company stock fell 65% or one and a quarter percent, 1.4% to 4445 in late morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Well uh well I know Ned Lament just lost money.
Then Lament owns thirty-one thousand dollars of Walmart.
Um he bought it independently, didn't buy it through uh an asset managing firm.
He actually went out and bought a bunch of shares for his wife, his daughter, and himself.
Umart, so um Ned Lament will take a loss as Walmart stock.
But I mean, you know, sometimes you gotta bend over and grab the ankles uh uh on just on principle, and uh Ned Lament and Walmart suffering some losses.
And I I I uh you probably saw this.
The ratings for CBS 60 minutes on Sunday night were higher than for the uh football game on NBC that night with Mahmood Amadinizad.
You didn't see it.
Yeah, you gotta listen to this.
Um just listen to this.
Mike Wallace, out of retirement, by the way, uh, to go over and do an interview with uh Ahmadinezad, just as he interviewed uh Saddam Hussein.
I think he's interviewed Fidel.
How about those pictures of Fidel, by the way, in the in the red Santa Claus uh jumpsuit there with uh Hugo Chavez.
I swear in one of those pictures, he looks like a corpse, and they just got the hand position.
I I just I look at that and says this man look alive.
Uh uh we'll see.
At any rate.
A question from Mike Wallace.
What do you think of George Bush as a man as a commander-in-chief of the so-called free world?
Mr. Bush can be in the service of his own people.
He can save the American economy.
Without killing people, without occupation, without threats.
I am very saddened to hear that one percent of the total population is in prisons.
That's the same thing.
And 45 million people don't have a health care cover.
That is very sad to hear.
Holy cow, Amadinizad with Democrat talking points.
You've got Hassan Nasralla of the Hezbows with Democrat talking points.
You have uh bin Laden and Zawayhiri when they release tapes.
Democrat talking points.
Now, Amadinizad is just saddened that forty-five million Americans uh don't have health care cover.
That's very sad for for him to hear.
Wallace says, Um uh and then after that, Ahmedizan had a new message for President Bush.
But uh, please give him this message, sir.
Those who refuse to accept an invitation to good will not have a good ending or fate.
What does that mean?
You see that his approval rating is dropping every day.
The hatred vis-a-vis the president is increasing every day around the world.
For a ruler, this is the worst message that he could receive.
Rulers and uh heads of government at the end of their office must leave the office holding their heads high.
Unbelievable.
The Democrat talking points.
Do you know who this guy is?
You know what we need to do?
Um Coco, I got a research project for you.
I read this.
This has been the last two months.
Ahmadinizad did a an extensive interview with Der Spiegel, uh, the German magazine, and he made no bones about who he is or what he wants or what his objectives are.
Mike Wallace didn't get close to finding out who this guy is.
Uh and and it's it's this this is just stark.
In that interview, you didn't hear a word about American health care.
You didn't hear a word about Bush's approval rating.
What you heard from or what you read uh in the Der Spiegel interview with Ahmadinizad was how we've got to move Israel, we gotta move the Jews out of the Middle East.
It's unfair that they're there.
The Holocaust was caused by the Germans.
Israel ought to be in Germany, Israel ought to be in Europe.
Um it was he was uh c we didn't hide his anti-Semitism, didn't didn't hide his hate.
You go even without reading that, you all know that the oil price has been spiking upward every time uh Mahmoud uh suggested Israel be wiped out.
Uh in fact he said it just the other day, and the French foreign minister uh uh Blaze Dus de Blaze, whatever his name, Philippe Dus de Blaze said, Well, we uh just prior to Ahmadinejad saying that had said that Iran very reasonable.
Uh we can deal with them and so forth.
Then Mahmoud comes out and basically says Jews need to be exterminated, and Dus de Blaze had to uh had a pull back and uh and condemn those remarks.
Mike Wallace says, President Bush has said he's vowed he will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
Do you believe him?
The problem that President Bush has that in his mind he wants to solve everything with bombs.
The time of the bomb is in the past.
It's behind us.
Today is the era of thoughts, dialogue, and cultural exchanges.
Right.
This from the guy who sponsors the whole technique of suicide bombing.
This from the guy whose country is making all of the IED explosives, these roadside bombs that are being used in Iraq.
This from the guy supplying rockets and other weapons to the Hezbows in southern Lebanon.
It is clear who Mahmood thinks his audience is when he goes on 60 minutes.
He's talking to pacifist Americans.
He's talking to the American left.
He is attempting to energize the American left here.
The American left's a bunch of patsies.
The American left is uh uh uh uh they're the soft.
Uh he's he's trying to energize them and uh and and and get them all excited about peace and and and and dealing reasonably with Mahmoud because I'm doing bombs are in the past.
Bombs are in the past.
We're developing a nuclear weapon, of course, but bombs are in the in the past.
Today's the era thoughts of dialogue and cultural exchanges.
Try flying over Iran.
I want to fly over your country to cultural exchange.
They won't let you do it.
You've got to fly around to get into um nobody's people are scared of death fly over Iran.
They'll shoot you down left and right.
Now we have a um this is a montage of of Mike Wallace's questions to Mahmood Ahmadine Zad that we put together just to illustrate the tone of the interview.
I couldn't be happier for the privilege of sitting down with a president of Iran.
Were we wrong to go into Iraq?
What do you think of George Bush as a man and as commander in chief of the so-called free world?
What do you think of George W. Bush?
You despise the Zionists.
Why are they worried about your jacket?
I think you look just fine.
Are you a vain man?
Let me assure you, you look your best.
What do you do for leisure?
I'm told that your aides want us to wind up our interview.
But you kindly promise to answer my questions, and I still have just a few left.
Okay.
you have it.
We'll be uh he really looked his best.
And that's important, you know.
Mahmood looked his best jacket, was cool too.
Yes.
You know, one thing that Mike Wallace forgot to ask, and maybe he did ask it and they just edited out, but I forgot to ask Mahmoud Ahmadine's odd his views on social security, uh, social security reform and uh and Medicare, Medicaid reform, uh, as as well.
I would have loved to know what uh Mahmood Ahmadinezad thinks.
We've posted, we've linked the um posted a link to the Mahmood Ahmadinizad interview in Der Spiegel.
We also, in the upcoming issue, it's not in your hands yet, we're still working on it, but the upcoming issue of the uh Limbaugh letter in our reality intrudes section, uh, have a piece I am holding it here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers, in fact.
I'm the editor and publisher, I have these things in advance.
The Ahmadinizad threat.
Uh, with quotes from Mahmood from various sources, uh, and reaction to him from uh from various leftists around the world and Americans as well.
I have to play you this sound by it's actually a montage.
Uh Robin Williams announced that he's returning to rehab uh for alcoholism.
Uh we have a montage here from CBS The Insider Reporter.
Uh CBS Entertainment Tonight reporter Kevin Frazier, NBC's extra reporter Carlos Diaz, access Hollywood reporter Billy Bush, and uh Laura Spencer uh reporting that Robin Williams has returned to rehab.
Listen, it's a montage.
Robin Williams is in rehab.
The 55 year old star made the courageous announcement today that while he recovers, his rep says he asks that you respect his and his family's privacy during this time.
Robin Williams has checked himself into rehab.
He decided to take proactive measures to deal with this for his own well being and the well-being of his family.
Robin Williams returns to rehab.
Williams began drinking again and checked himself into a 30-day program at a drug and alcohol facility.
Robin Williams has sadly fallen victim to his demons again.
Robin reportedly entered the residential rehab facility last month.
Williams publicist also told us the comedian hoped for his and his family's privacy to be respected during this difficult time.
It was a mere 10 days prior to this that Robin, courageously now facing his demons, was on the Tonight Show lampooning and making fun of others in such similar circumstances.
But we will respect his um his his right to privacy, and we will we will wish him the best.
Uh Melissa in London, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rat S Makaditas from London.
Thank you.
Well, I heard some of your theories and some of your other callers' theories on why Israel and the US agreed to this peace fire.
Yes.
Personally, I think it's because of the Brits.
I think that Tony Blair is in so much trouble here that the Brits really don't want to get involved unless the United States is going to take a very strong proactive role in this issue.
And because of all of the lids in the US.
Really having a hard time with President Bush on this, and Bush appearing to be weak on the issue itself, that the Brits weren't going to stand up to it.
The Brits have said that they think that the United States and Israel are too hawkish.
And that Israel should just play nice.
Well, you know, it's interesting that you say that, because the last time Tony Blair was here, uh, with a joint press conference, President Bush, it was on a Friday, and he flew out to Pebble Beach for a meeting with uh with uh news corp executive sponsored by uh Rupert Murdoch.
Uh he delivered some of the most powerful comments about who our enemy is that I have ever heard from a world leader.
He he was far more uh forceful uh in identifying militant Islamists Than the President Bush has been.
President Bush has since done so after the London uh attack was thwarted.
Uh I agree with you, but it it's sort of the reverse of like the Bill Clintons of the world.
He only says those things when he's outside the UK.
He's got the George Galloways and the Muslim community here at his throat, and he doesn't say those kinds of things here, and you've got the BBC to contend with.
Well, I guess killing them here.
I understand everybody in the United States had a stronger stance, then the British would be uh more willing to back us up.
Okay, look, here's what's here's what's being put out there.
Now, this this is from a um a reporter columnist actually for the Jerusalem Post, whose uh last name is Glick, Carolyn Glick.
And in a in a great piece uh a couple days ago, she said that she has been told by sources in Washington that the real reason that they all caved here and went to this uh uh resolution into the United Nations is because they they were just frustrated over the incompetence of the Israeli Prime Minister to carry this out.
Uh now it it i in one way that sounds plausible to me in this sense, in the first two weeks of all this, Condoleezza Rice and President Bush both were extremely vocal and vociferous in their insistence that we weren't going to go back to the status quo, that we were gonna have a lasting or a subs uh uh uh uh meaningful whatever it is uh piece.
That we weren't gonna go back to the status quo.
We've gone back to the status quo.
Now what something had to change, and I think the the reason you know if these diplomats, even presidents and so forth have to speak in code when they're speaking uh publicly.
And I think sending Secretary Rice out there, and then the President echoing her was designed to tell the Israelis, go for it.
Kick butt.
Go for it.
We're not gonna we're we're not gonna go back to the past and so forth.
And I think that they saw the Israelis were not succeeding.
I think in their estimation, Olmert was not um running the war and prosecuting it in a way that Israel has in the past, and I think they had to stump in and and and stop it.
That's that's one of the theories going around.
The the why do not the British that the Britain has gone into Neville Chamberlain mode, and they were just really hoping that somebody would come in and kick butt somewhere so that they didn't have to weigh in on anything.
And so the Israelis didn't do it and the U.S. didn't step up to the plate, and so then they were like, oh, well, okay, everybody.
You're right.
One of the things, you're right.
One of the things that's paramount and very obvious is that no leader around the world today has the will at this point in time to deal with the Iranians and with the Syrians.
They just don't.
You can we can argue about why all day long.
I d I wouldn't pretend to have the answer to it, but it's apparently obvious that right now nobody has the will to deal with that.
Let me ask you a question as you're in London.
Uh-huh.
Um about the London population since since the terror attack was thwarted.
Has there been any noticeable change in public opinion about the whole concept of a war on terror?
No.
You think you've got immigration problems back home?
Oh my gosh.
I'm from Texas.
Let me tell you.
The George Galloways of the world rule London.
Ken Livingston rules England.
It's PC in fact, just this morning, a quote unquote unnamed senior Asian British Metropolitan Police officer said that profiling would just be disastrous.
Because, you know, you would just be imprisoned for being Asian in England, and and that's just a terrible thing.
It's like, you know, okay, if Episcopalians were flying planes into buildings, we would be targeting them.
And nobody seemed to care in the seventies.
I mean, they targeted Irish when the IRA was blowing up things.
I know there is a genuine fear of offending people.
There's a there's a uh It's even worse here.
Well, I think that it's less had a stronger stance, and the Liberals really undermine the president on that.
I think if George Bush could take a stronger stance, then Tony Blair would take a stronger stance.
And then Israel would I I think Israel should have been allowed to do what it needed to do.
Well, that's the point.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
If what I have been told is right, and who knows, they were afraid Israel couldn't.
It wasn't being led properly in a manner that it would have accomplished what you say.
And so they had to step in and stop what might have ended up a full-fledged defeat.
It's great that you call Melissa.
Talk to you soon.
Back in a sec.
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Let me expand, if I may, on this report in Ms. Glick's piece in the Jerusalem Post that she has heard from sources in Washington that we pulled out or authorized the ceasefire because the uh United States government had lost confidence in the Israeli Prime Minister's ability to wage and win the war against the Hezbows.
I don't know what to believe.
I mean, I'm not I'm not sure that that I buy that theory, uh because that theory basically says we stepped in because we didn't think Israel could win.
Um if I th I think uh we could have pressured Israel to take it to the enemy and really unload if that's what we wanted.
Uh just as we pressure Israel to do other things.
But as far as Melissa's call from London, um the the problem is Israel and Britain aside, for some reason, at this point in time, and this we have to face uh my good friends, it was decided somewhere that it is not in our best interests to do this.
It was decided it was not in our best interests to go further with this for fear that it would lead to Iran or to Syria.
What this ultimately does is energize the enemy, our enemy.
Everybody in the planet, let's let's just let's shoot straight here.
Everybody on a planet knows full well that we are all that ultimately stands between liberty and tyranny around the world.
The United States of America is it.
We're the ones.
Uh whether Olmert is weak, which he is, or whether Blair is under enormous political pressures within his own party, which he is, doesn't excuse us entering into a deal that's a setback for our cause.
But you know, if we're doing things to please other people, for doing things to lessen pressure on other people, uh working with our allies and so forth, then that sentiment, that desire has apparently carried the day.
Now let me try this thought on you.
We could believe, and I'm talking about at the uh at the leadership level here, we could believe that we were hurting our ability to get the world to pressure Iran to drop its nuke program by continuing to be out of step with these other countries by not pressuring Israel to accept a diplomatic outcome.
I mean, I I it and that we've decided that we need to engender their support for that diplomatic confrontation.
I don't agree with that if that's true, but it's possible.
It's possible here that the real objective from our side is the Iranian nukes.
And so it's possible that by continuing to alienate the rest of the world by supporting Israel during this skirmish with the Hezbows, um uh and appearing so out of step with these other countries um uh that we would hurt our diplomatic effort to stop Iranian nukes from being produced.
And it's a long shot.
Uh and even so, if I'm right, if if uh by pressuring Israel to accept a diplomatic outcome against the Hezbos, if we think that it's gonna buy us goodwill with the rest of the world who wants to uh neutralize Iran's nukes, I don't know.
There are people smarter than I in these circles that deal with this kind of stuff.
I just I keep going back to them.
Well, I think they better surface fast because I I I don't know uh uh none of this just in in a in a gut sense makes any sense to me.
Limbaugh doctrine, peace follows victory.
And I'm telling you, the people that are celebrating in the streets are not us.
And you know damn well that's the case.
Nobody in this country is celebrate, even over the ceasefire.
There's no no no celebrating over the people in their guts know something's wrong about this.
But the um Arabs and the Islamists, the Islamo fascists, the Iranians, the Syrians, even though they're being told to march in the streets, they're still doing it.
And the cameras are rolling and the pictures are being broadcast all over the world.
Here's Jason in Fargo, North Dakota.
Welcome, Jason.
Great to have you with us.
Right on.
Hey, this is an honor, man.
Uh seconded only by if I could shake the hand of President Bush and just say, Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
My family says, Yeah, you're a great guy.
Love the show, been listening since ninety.
Hey, I'm a typical Alpha Himself Irish Mick from the high plains of North Dakota, and I am insane.
I've had enough of this.
I call for a reverse jihad.
The next American that dies, I want 10,000 Powellheads gone.
The next Israeli that dies, 10,000 of them gone.
I'm just so sick of how we're pussyfooting around these people.
They want us dead.
My my father, let me segue here, Air Force Colonel retired in the 1980, sold some aircraft to the Israelis back in the mid-70s, and he came back with these stories of this Israelis saying, My God, I'm glad they're on our side, they're tough, they they will not take it.
And their m their motto of the Mossad is never again.
And we have got to develop that mindset.
I I swear to God, we have got to do this, or we're gonna be done.
Rome will fall in.
Uh true on on most of what you said, except that we're not there.
The um there's a certain there's a certain sizable percentage of the country that is not there.
Who are these people, Rush?
Come up to North Dakota once, man.
Even we know we're an oxymoron up here.
We're very conservative people.
We put liberals in them into office where they're who they are.
I we have we have the only place the only uh state in the union that has a state bank, but yet we're as conservative as they as they get.
You know, we come from the from the mindset rush of you you screw me a dime, I'm gonna screw you a dollar.
And what why is the rest of the nation not like this?
Well, because let me let me try to explain this to you.
And if you've listened since nineteen ninety, you've probably heard this.
Pardon the redundancy.
There are many, many factors.
One of the factors is our affluence in this country.
We don't have to take this seriously because since 9-11 and an attempt us, I mean, we stopped the port deal, uh, gasoline prices are a little bit high, but besides that, everything's pretty cool.
Baseball games are being played, the NFL's starting up, had a little heat this summer, that's pretty normal.
But what the hell should we care about all that stuff going on over there?
It's been going on since biblical times.
What job is it?
Why is it our job to stop it and care about it?
Because most people haven't uh haven't yet uh arrived at the point of view that you have about this.
And it's just gonna take it's gonna take more such incidents, it's gonna take a little bit longer.
I have look at when you get down to brass tax, I have full faith in the American people, but they're last to act.
Uh when the uh when the signal goes out when it's in a in in a in unmistakable that there is a genuine threat that that faces um that we face that threatens this affluence and threatens our way of life.
And the American people in mass, well, not in mass, we got a lot of libs.
That's that's factor number two.
You got people in this country, Jason, who actually don't like this country.
Blame this country.
Um I've got a piece in a stack to the LA Times.
Uh I'll have to find it before the show ends.
Uh what what are we doing to cause this?
Why why why do they hate us?
I don't care.
I don't care what I don't either, but I don't either.
But the point is you asked why people aren't like you there's there's more than you care to think who think it's all this is our fault.
And if we would just change the way we live and change the way we act and change who we elect, why then we wouldn't be threatened and the world wouldn't hate us.
I I I whiffed you the tongue in cheek, but this is beyond fun.
This is beyond make us let's have some good times from uh noon to three.
We've got to convince America that that they hate us.
When they yell death to America, they're talking about me and you.
They're talking about my kids.
And and they would love to see every one of us hanging by piano wire off sea poles.
Well it it I I baffled.
My grand dear grandfather said surreal people in surreal environments make surreal decisions.
And I'm convinced that the East and West Coast are just so far removed from reality from hey, bread comes from grain, which has grown in the ground and blah, blah, blah, not a store, that these some of these ideas that come out of these people's minds are beyond insanity.
It's dangerous.
And you're not going to be able to be you, man.
Thank you.
I don't know what to do without you.
I I really wouldn't.
Well, we need more like you.
There's only one of me, but where we need more like you.
Come to Fargo, come to North Dakota, shake hands with anybody.
I see my during my day, and they would uh you would see there's a lot more of us.
By the way, is is Fargo really where that big uh statue of Paul Bunyan is?
No, that's in Bemidji, Minnesota.
Yeah, that's right.
Okay.
Yeah.
No, yeah, you betcha.
Yeah, I heard all that crap my whole life.
Uh you know, the Cohen brothers, I'd love to line them up, and I'll give them a good kick in the mad.
They did nothing for Margo.
Now, by the way, everybody from the Syrial State in California, I was born in LA, truth, nothing play.
Stay out.
We don't need you, North Dakota.
Uh stay out.
But thanks for continuing you.
You bet thanks.
Thanks for the call.
One more one more thing about this, and I cannot emphasize this enough.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, mentioned this at the at the top of the program.
Uh when when you do see these militant Islamists uh shouting death to America and all that, uh it's easy to turn off the television or just think, well, they're thousands of thousands of miles away.
And they're really not.
They're they're much closer than uh than you think.
And for all this talk about peaceful Muslims, and I know there are some, I've I really have to tell you, I am stunned when things like this happen.
There are no there there isn't any condemnation of it from uh for example, let me let's let's talk about London for just a second.
In London, in the latest attack, we're told of 24 Muslims, British citizens, Pakistani natives that are still Muslims, uh, were involved in this plot.
Um if I and this is if I were Muslim and totally free-minded, in innocent, free loving uh Muslim, I would be outraged at these guys for doing what they're doing to tarnish my religion.
But wouldn't you?
But do you hear such outrage?
No.
And one of the reasons they're scared to death that they will be targeted too.
Uh that's that's one of the reasons.
Uh another reason could be they don't disagree with it.
Who knows?
But I'll tell you this in a religious war, which is what this is, and you can people, this is this is this is something about which most people are in utter denial because facing this is something that people, when they don't have to, they won't.
A religious war, and then again, when you just listen to what these people say.
The whole purpose for what they're doing is to wipe the world clean of people that don't agree with their religion, infidels, heretics, whatever you want to call them.
Whatever they want to call them.
You know, in a in a standard war, you go in and you um you you just you beat the uh the crap out of the bad guys, and then you get them to surrender and you make agreements with them, and they uh realize that they have no hope and no prayer, and uh you you turn Germany into a democracy, you turn Japan into a democracy, uh and uh their satellite countries, the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, turn those countries into fledgling democracies or full-fledged democracies now.
But and you do that by virtue of two things.
You defeat them and then you compromise.
There's no compromising in a religious war.
You just there just isn't.
In uh and especially in terms of negotiation and settling things, ceasefires.
Can't we all just get along?
How do you say that to somebody who thinks you don't deserve to live because of what you believe and it's different than what they believe?
And who also believe that their path and their route to salvation is making sure you don't live.
How do you compromise with that?
You can't.
That has to be dealt with and defeated at some point.
Look at your history.
Look at the history of all these religious wars.
There have been countless religious wars, and they all uh have have something in common.
I mean, there there have been any number of crusades uh and then the interreligious wars, certain religions, same religion, different beliefs.
One group said, you can't have those different beliefs and still be one of us.
We're gonna wipe you out, we're gonna burn you at the stake or what have you.
I mean, history's replete with all of these, uh, all these examples.
But when you admit you're in a religious war, when you admit that we're in a religious war with militant Islamic fascists, uh what you're admitting is there's no compromise.
And that means there's no need for a UN, and that means there's no real ceasefire that ever works, and that means that there's no hope.
And I don't think people want to give up hope on the basis of negotiation and diplomacy and so forth.
Because nobody likes the suffering and nobody likes the shooting, and nobody likes the bombing and uh and and all that.
And in the meantime, this this attitude of pretending something that isn't, just allows the other guys to continue to strengthen.
It it uh it encourages them every time they perceive their enemies back out, give up, uh, what have you.
And at until some point they get so big, monstrously large, that their acts become more common, larger and more frequent, and then the wake-up call hits, and we're just not there yet.
Plain and simple.
This episode illustrates that to me uh better than anything else to explain why this ceasefire was negotiated.
We're just not there yet.
We're not ready to admit who the enemy really is.
We're not even willing to profile them at airports when we know that's who's blowing up the airplanes.
We're not even at that point yet.
Back in just a sec.
Back to the phones of the Rush Limbaugh program, Indianapolis and Jeff, nice that you waited, sir.
Welcome.
Uh young conservative did us from Indianapolis rush.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Um let me first preface my question with I do I'm with you that the ceasefire is is not a ceasefire.
It's either a rearming or a temporary stoppage in what's really going on.
But my question is, and you're kind of alluding to this with everything that you've been talking about, is what is that line in the sand?
What has to happen with Iran andor Syria that makes our involvement in the situation become less diplomatic and maybe much more on the side of, shall we say, aggressive use of force.
Well, um the way the way we're going, what I worry about most is that the Iranians and the Hezbows and the Syrians are going to figure they don't have to take a really big step.
Uh all they have to do, because I fear what they're learning.
I fear what they think they're learning.
Um this Hezbollah-Israel war was a skirmish in the end, and yet the United States had democratic politicians that are broadcast all over the world, the worldwide diplomatic community acted as though this were World War III.
And we had to stop this, we have to stop the killing, the suffering.
We had all these bogus pictures coming out of Lebanon via Reuters and AP.
Uh, and they have seen how easy it is to shut their enemies down.
So I think they they they they can probably just continue to take baby steps.
Yeah, these people are patient.
They've got uh they they see that we thwarted another terrorist attempt at a at an airport in London, and we're still not going to target the group of people from whom likely suspects will come.
They see us operating in a politically correct way.
I'll tell you this, just a cut to the chase.
I don't think we're gonna stop them getting nukes.
We're just it isn't gonna happen.
We are not that we're not gonna stop them from getting nuclear weapons.
So I think that the next incident that causes us to really awaken and arise will be the detonation of some sort of a nuke carried by a terrorist somewhere in this country, suitcase or what have you, or maybe in Israel, uh it won't be a big bomb flown over by a missile or a bomber, or it'll be something like I think it's gonna take that.
I think it's gonna take these guys getting a nuke and using it somewhere for the giant wake-up call to be heard.
I hope I'm wrong, but I I have this have this little uh thought that this peace plan uh with uh United Nations resolution 1701 is the 2006 equivalent of Mogadishu.
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