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August 25, 2006, Friday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	That is absolutely right, uh Johnny Donovan, and welcome, uh ladies and gentlemen to uh this stellar hour, the stellar three hours of Rush Limbaugh's show.
	Uh and by the way, Rush will be back on Monday.
	And let's start off.
	I wrote a uh a column.
	I'm not going to read it, but I'm just going to let you know what it was about.
	It was last week.
	And actually I got a lot of support of mail, but there's some kind of weird uh mail that I received.
	Anyway, the question I ask is, will the West defend itself?
	You know, there's a lot of controversy about uh our response to uh terrorism and terrorism states.
	Now, the first question we have to ask ourselves, and just you know, we're we're not suggesting anything yet, but we just have to ask ourselves a basic question.
	Does the United States alone have the power to eliminate uh terrorists and terrorist states?
	And the you know the terrorist states that support them, and we know what they who they are.
	And in terms of capacity, as opposed to will, the clear answer is yes we do.
	Now let me just give you example.
	Think about it.
	Currently, the United States has an arsenal of 18 Ohio class submarines.
	Now, I know a lot of people don't know about Ohio-class submarines, but they're some really big babies.
	Just one of these submarines is loaded with 24 Trident missiles.
	There, and each missile has eight nuclear warheads capable of being independently targeted.
	So what does that mean?
	That means that the U.S. alone, we don't have to call France and we don't have to call England, we don't have to call German or it Germany or Italy.
	The U.S. alone has the capacity to wipe out a terrorist state such as Iran or Syria, or any other state that supports uh terrorist groups or engages in terrorism.
	And we can do that without risking the life of a single soldier.
	And we just find out where their nuclear facilities are and just you know have our Ohio class uh submarines bomb them.
	Now, before I go further, I am not suggesting that we rush to use that capacity to crush the states that are supporting terrorism.
	There might be less dramatic military means.
	But what I am suggesting is that appeasement will bear no fruit for us.
	And that's what Europe and many Americans want for us to appease these terrorists.
	Come to the table and talk with Iran.
	Now, do you realize, folks, that if Iran develops nuclear capacity, how long do you think it will be before terrorists also have these weapons?
	And who do you think they're gonna use them against?
	Well, United States is a candidate.
	They know that we have this capacity.
	That is the mulahs in Iran know that we can wipe them off the face of Earth.
	But because of worldwide opinion, public opinion, which often appears to be on their side, coupled with our weak will, these mullahs know that we will never use it.
	I'm 70 years old, but I you know, but if if you actually looked at me, you probably guess I'm around 45 or 42 or something like That.
	But anyway, I'm 70 years old.
	And I lived during the big war, World War II.
	And today's Americans are vastly different from those of my generation who fought the life and death struggle of World War II.
	Now, you you'd find Americans saying, well, what about the collateral damage?
	What about the innocent people being killed?
	Well, in World War II, that would have fallen on deaf ears.
	When we firebomb cities in Germany and Japan, and matter of fact, the loss of lives through saturation bombing far exceeded the loss of lives, uh the innocent loss of lives with the atomic bombs on Hiroshima, uh Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	And I'm imagining uh if if today's Americans had been around in World War II, after the Battle Midway, and the long string of Japanese defeats in the Pacific, including Guam, Okinawa, the Philippines, had today's Americans been around, they would have been pursuing Japan for peace.
	They would say, well, let's end the killing, let's negotiate a peace treaty with Japan.
	They would have done the same thing in in 1945 when when Germany was just about on its knees, just about ready to collapse, and the Germans were suing for peace.
	And I imagine today's Americans, had they been around, they said, oh, let's stop the killing, let's sue for peace.
	Now, had Harry Truman or earlier uh President Roosevelt, had they negotiated a peace treaty with Japan and Germany, what do you think that would mean?
	It means that the only thing that would have been achieved is that Japan and Germany, if we would have by having a treaty, we would have given Japan and Germany time to recruit their losses and resume their aggression at a later time, possibly equipped with nuclear weapons back in 1945-46 or 4748.
	Now, also there's kind of another interesting thing I point out uh in this little article, actually it's an excellent article, who's in it's uh you can get it from my website at WalterE.
	Williams.com.
	And for all you ladies out there, there's a handsome photo there as well.
	Uh we might also note all the occupation problems we're having in Iraq.
	Well, we didn't have those kind of occupational uh occupation problems in World War II with Germany and Japan.
	Why?
	The reason was that we completely demoralize our enemies, leaving them with neither the will the means to resist.
	And so I think one of the one of the uh differences between today and yesterday was that our adversaries in the Middle East, they have advantage that the Axis powers did not have.
	That is, they have the Western press and public opinion.
	And you can see this, and sometimes the Western press almost seems to be on their side.
	That is, you see the widespread condemnation of alleged atrocities and prisoner mistreatment treatment uh by the U.S., either at uh Agrave uh prison in Iraq, and I've seen uh fraternity uh uh hazing worse than that, or uh in Guantanamo.
	But how much in the media, how much media condemnation have you seen of the beheadings and other gross atrocities by the by the Islamists who are killing people left and right?
	And you see, and you see, I mean, with with this this recent Israeli uh uh conflict with uh in Lebanon with the Hezbollah, you see the reporters coming saying, Oh, look at the innocent civilians being killed.
	Well, I doubt whether Israel intended to uh hit the civilians, they were after Hezbollah, and moreover, Hezbollah was dressed up as uh in civilian clothes.
	But the terrorists worldwide, they attack civilians by intention.
	That is, this uh these uh airplanes that they that they uh this plot to uh to uh bomb the airplanes uh en route to United States was that military on there, was that a military target?
	No, it was a civilian target target.
	The the launches of the rockets into Israel is what were they aiming for military targets or were they after civilians?
	Or the the bombing of the trains in in Spain and in and in uh England, were they after military targets?
	No, they're after civilians.
	And lo and behold, when have you heard the Western media or any media whatsoever, I haven't heard it, you can tell me uh if you if you're aware of it, when have you heard them condemn the Hezbollah and Hamas and all these other groups for specifically targeting civilians.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I think that Americans need to get some guts, because we cannot depend on the UN, nor can we depend on our European allies to fight this war against terrorism.
	You can be on with us by actually not us, with me by calling 800-282-2882, and we'll be back after this.
	We're back, and for those of you who tuned in late, who came late to class to the EIB institute, um, this is Walter Williams sitting in for Russia and Russia will be back on uh Monday.
	And by the way, the second hour we're gonna have a little bit of Williams on Williams.
	Anyway, the the next important topic I want to talk about, terrorism is very, very important, and terrorist states are very uh important as well.
	But many of you parents out there, uh you're facing the sadness of sending your kids off to college and facing what they sometimes call the emptiness uh syndrome.
	I know when we were sending my daughter off to college, uh, it was awful for uh Mrs. Williams, uh she felt felt very sad, and she was uh, you know, sometimes I I catch her, I'd come down for a drink of water, and I'd see her kind of sobbing, you know, uh, you know, my daughter being off to college.
	Anyway, I didn't have any pity on Mrs. Williams because I told her we only have one child, and I told her I wanted six or seven, and she didn't want any, but we settled with one, and I told her that if she had listened to me, she wouldn't be so sad.
	There would be five more kids at home with her.
	But anyway, um, you might be interested, those of you sending your kids off of college, you might be interested of some of the kinds of things they will encounter.
	Now, and and matter of fact, and they're encountering at a high price, the uh average tuition across the United States is 21,000 a year, and at some colleges it's over 40,000.
	And so you might say, well, what are your kids learning?
	Well, at Occidental College in Los Angeles, there's a course, it's called The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie.
	Now, it's a course where the professor explores ways in which the scientific racism has been put to use in the making of a Barbie doll.
	Well, if your kid goes to Johns Hopkins, uh the university uh students can enroll.
	Now, I don't know where these courses are currently offered in this September, but uh they were offered before.
	Uh at Johns Hopkins University, students can enroll in a course called Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll in Ancient Egypt.
	And part of the course includes slides, slideshows of women in ancient Egypt vomiting on each other, having intercourse and fixing their hair.
	Uh at Harvard University, uh students can take a course called Marxist Concepts of Racism, which examines the role of capitalism and capitalist development and expansion in creating of racial inequality.
	Now, what's the result of some of the stuff going on in college?
	Well, according to a 2000, year 2000 American Council of Trustees and Alumni study, and the study was called Losing America's Memory.
	And they point out that not one of the top 50 colleges and universities today requires American history of its students.
	There's a Center for Survey Research and Analysis at University of Connecticut, and it gave its seniors 80, it's gave its uh 81 percent of its seniors, they gave 81 percent of the seniors D or F in a knowledge of American history.
	The students could not identify Valley Forge, they could not uh talk about the basic principles of the United States Constitution, or even mention any words from the Gettysburg Address.
	But however, according to another survey, they found that American adults can more readily identify Simpson cartoon characters than name the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
	That's a tragedy, folks.
	Now, this academic dishonesty doesn't end with these phony courses.
	Uh it there's also fraudulent grading.
	Open fraudulent grading, and actually call it grade inflation.
	That's a euphemism, but it's fraudulent grading.
	Uh for example, uh, at Harvard University's educational policy committee found that some professors award A's for just average work.
	A Boston Globe study found, and matter of fact, after the study was found, Harvard was embarrassed because 91% of Harvard students graduated with honors.
	And that means mostly A's and maybe a few Bs.
	Now I doubt whether these honored students could pass a 1950 high school graduation test.
	And here's the evidence.
	You say, well, okay, Williams, what's the evidence?
	Well, according to the Department of Education's 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, they found that only 31% of college graduates are proficient in prose.
	Only 25% are proficient in reading documents.
	And 31% are proficient in math.
	Now, you don't have to read this uh Department of Education's National Assessment of Adult Illiteracy to find out that we're graduating a lot of Doomkoffs from the colleges.
	All you gotta do is ask some employers that hire these high school graduates, and they have to hire English teachers to teach these people how to write a memorandum.
	They have to uh hire mathematicians to teach these people just ordinary uh computation.
	Now, you say, who's to blame for the sad state of affairs?
	By the way, if you don't want your children indoctrinated, I know at least two excellent colleges send them to.
	One's Hillsdale uh College in Michigan, and another's Grove City.
	They do not tolerate this kind of stuff, and the kids come out of those colleges reading and writing and pro-American.
	That is a lot of kids are just taught anti-Americanism uh in colleges.
	But who is to blame for this?
	Well, for the most part, yeah, I you know, professors and the presidents there to blame, but I blame the trustees of the college.
	That is the trustees of the college have ultimate authority, and unfortunately, a lot of trustees, these are big businessmen, rich people that sit on the boards of trustees, they they are busy with their own affairs, and they don't have they don't know much about the colleges.
	And so uh so what I propose, I was I was uh on the Board of Trustees until I quit of a major in Eastern uh college, and I was suggesting that the Porter Trustees hire an ombudsman that's directly accountable to the board to tell us what's going on in the university.
	And the president of that college told me, uh, Williams, don't you trust the president?
	I said, yes, I trust the president, but I want verification.
	That's what we need.
	We need boards of trustees to do their job, and we'll be back with you more of your calls after this.
	We're back.
	Uh it's Walter Williams sitting in for a rush and Rush will be back on Monday.
	And you can be on with us by calling 800-282-2882.
	And folks, when I was talking about colleges, you know, I was criticizing Harvard and those other colleges.
	I'm an equal equal opportunity guy.
	Now, at George Mason University where I teach, uh, according to an a um a report, it's becoming it says George Mason is becoming one of the nation's first four-year public universities to drop the SAT and other standard standardized tests from its admissions requirements for certain students.
	Now uh the uh the chairman of the emissions, the dean of emissions, uh he says it's not race motivated.
	But they're gonna drop the SAT and other standardized tests for certain students, and so they say that high school seniors with a 3.5, that's a B plus or A minus grade point average, and who are in the top 20% of their class won't have to submit an SAT or ACT score with their application.
	Well, folks, there's a problem with that, and as I alluded to it when I was talking about uh Harvard and other schools, and that is if there's if there are fraudulent grades issued in college, they're also issued in high schools.
	They're also given you at some high schools, a student will get an A for and the all the and the A only means that he did not throw a chair at the teacher.
	That's what the A means.
	Uh there's I know of cases, and I've written about in the past, where students have graduated from high school with a 3.5 grape on average or higher.
	And they were in the top 10 percent of the class, and these students could not score 700 out of 1,600 on an SAT exam.
	Now, now let's look at 700.
	Now, when you take an SAT, you take it, you know, you uh um a verbal and a quantitative or math.
	For those of you in Rio Lindo, it's a math test.
	Yeah, I gotta leave Russia's lines alone.
	But anyway, they score a 3.5, they have grade point average 3.5 and top 10 percent, and they can't score 750 on SAT exam.
	Now, let me tell you about SAT.
	You get 400 total points just for showing up.
	That's you get you get 400 points just for showing up.
	And so 750 means that you can hardly read and write.
	But uh according to this report, uh, my university is going to start admitting students uh that have a 3.5 grade point average and who are in the top 20 percent of their class.
	But uh that's life in the uh big city.
	But they come to a realization when they come to the economics department because we do not play anything.
	We do not even play the radio in my department.
	Uh we are very tough uh graders.
	Let's take a few calls.
	Uh we have Sam from Chicago.
	Welcome to the show, Sam.
	How are you, Dr. Williams?
	Okay.
	Dr. Williams, I believe that this country is in a period of the dark years.
	And I'm ho I cannot wait till they end.
	Uh wait till the end.
	Yes, I I I'm hoping that we're going to be able to do that.
	Well, are you are you waiting for the light?
	Well, I tell you what, I want to may I ask you a question, Dr. Williams.
	Go ahead.
	Have you ever served in the military of the United States of America?
	Yes, I have.
	When?
	And from nineteen fifty-nine until nineteen sixty-one.
	Well then I'll tell you what my la my labor services were confiscated.
	They call it a draft, but the it's you know it's confiscation of labor services.
	Well, I misjudged you then, because I hear a person, a well-educated man on the radio, who is cavalierly advancing the use of submarine-based multiple entry vehicles.
	Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
	No, I'm gonna let you go.
	I'm gonna let you go.
	I said later on, I said, Well, it may not be time for that, but we should recognize that we have this power.
	But you that's what you advocate is a possible solution to Iran building a nuclear weapon that we should incinerate, and you uh you know that that will happen, hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions of people.
	That's what you say is a a response.
	I ask you, do we do you believe that the Shah of Iran was a brutal dictator?
	Of course he was.
	So I want it I want to understand the concept.
	Why would the people of Iran ever trust like want to affiliate with the United States of America?
	No, no, no, wait, wait, wait, you got some.
	All I want them to do is to fear us if they act nasty with us.
	Well, I ask you, if you're a country where the great superpower of the planet for the last century allowed, pushed, advocated, supported, a brutal dictator in your country, why wouldn't you as a people of that country believe that that will never happen again, and the only way that we will never allow that to happen again is if we get the most sophisticated destructive weapon on the planet?
	Why isn't that a reasonable concept?
	Well, I don't think it's a re I don't think it's unreasonable.
	I ask you another question.
	Well, no, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
	Let me let me ask you a question.
	No, because this is this is give and take.
	Okay, now would you be satisfied?
	I mean, if as I said in my remarks, if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, it won't be long before terrorists will have those nuclear weapons, and how would you like to see one going off in Los Angeles?
	Right now, Doc, of course I would not like to see off in the last time.
	So how are we gonna how are we gonna stop them?
	Right now, Dr. Williams, in the east, the western part of Pakistan is where we know, we believe the people who hit our country on 9-11 are in Pakistan right now, one heartbeat away from probably nine to twenty fully developed nuclear weapons are those people.
	They are protected in that country.
	You tell me why that isn't a greater threat than Iran.
	Well, when we see it as a greater threat, we use the same means that we would use with Iran.
	Dr. Williams, do you believe, as I believe, that when we knew that the people who hit our country, and I call them a criminal organization, because and I believe that John Kerry was right when he said this was a crime problem because it's not a crime pro you know, if you had been around in nineteen forty one, you would have treated the Japanese bombers as a try a crime problem, wouldn't you?
	Doctor, if it's not a you would say let's let's bring these people to court instead of wiping them out.
	Doctor, if it's not a crime problem, then why did why didn't the United States of America when it knew according to uh the uh the homeland security chief about these this plot recently, why weren't our assassins, our military assassins, sent to London to shoot these people in the head with bullets?
	Why were they allowed to get on a plane and why were they allowed to be caught not get on a plane?
	But why was the plot allowed to be exclusive.
	I don't I do not have the answer for it.
	But here's a here's my answer.
	Here's my answer to you.
	That is for example, let's say you live next door to me and y and you do not like me and I don't like you.
	But if you have people coming from your house to raise havoc to to hurt my house and me, I'm gonna tear your house up.
	And it's your job to tell people you do not do that from my house.
	Thank you.
	Let's go to um uh let's go to Ron, Ron in Oakland Michigan.
	Welcome to the show.
	How are you doing today, Dr. Williams?
	Okay.
	Um I just wanted to bring out the point that I agree with you.
	I disagree with your last caller.
	Um rather than um the military right now the way it's focused is that it's not actually putting down all the fire power against any of the enemies.
	It's kind of like pinpoint strikes.
	And in World War II we decimated countries and right now it's like we're punching someone in the eye and waiting for the return punch.
	It's always like that kind of back and forth game.
	You're you're absolutely right and I think they they call it rules of engagement and I think that the rules of engagement in Iraq are leading to the loss of many American lives.
	I just think that uh they have to exercise so much caution before they decide they have to wait until somebody starts shooting at them before they start shooting at the at at the at the enemy and they have to use so much caution and I think it's costing American lives.
	We'll be back with more of your calls after this we're back and it's Walter Williams sitting in for uh Rush Limbaugh and he'll be back on Monday.
	By the way, if you visit Rush Limbaugh dot com you will find a dashing photo of me, Walter Williams and also a link to my website and if that's not enough of a draw this will be you can join Rush 247 and hear everything Rush uh said over the past month and watch past shows on the Ditto cam.
	And by the way, early in the show I said well it's gonna second hour.
	tune in for the second hour because it's going to be a little bit of Williams v.
	Williams.
	Well, what I'm talking about is we're going to have Juan Williams on the show.
	And Juan Williams, for those of you who don't know, he's a very, very widely known person.
	He's the senior correspondent for NPR.
	He's the political analyst for Fox News Channel and a panelist on Fox News Sunday.
	And we're going to talk about his new book called Enough.
	And so make sure you stay tuned for.
	the second hour and call your friends to stay tuned to come in for the second hour.
	Okay folks uh let's let's uh take another phone call uh let's go to Margaret in Great Falls Virginia.
	Welcome to the show, Margaret.
	Yes, thank you Dr. Williams I am delighted to hear your voice.
	I always enjoy the sessions with you.
	Of course the same with uh Rush I have been listening to for eighteen years to this program.
	Um I Well you you've heard me for fourteen hours of course I have heard you before and I read the columns in the Washington Times I love you man.
	Oh thank you.
	Okay.
	All right I just want to set the record straight about the Shah of Iran I lived in Iran under the Shah for seventeen years.
	He is not a brutal, he wasn't.
	The poor man, the way that Carter treated him here was scandalous.
	He was not a brutal dictator.
	He tried to get the country at that time into the 20th century.
	I mean, you see now what a mess it is.
	And that's what he tried to do.
	And also we had at that time Carter.
	Yeah, Carter lost Iran.
	I'm being charitable and calling him President Carter.
	But Carter was mad that the Shah had his Savak and that the Savak several times succeeded in napping these bomb plotters.
	I mean, they had already once placed the bomb.
	a bomb in the cinema somewhere in the south I think it was in uh in uh Koramsha or whatever uh blowing off uh full of kids and children.
	I think there was something like seven sixty or seventy you know casualties and God knows what else and the Shah uh was able with his Tavak and this intelligence uh operation was was to get these people before the chance to road a bomb.
	Let me ask you a question.
	Was the uh was the Shah uh kind of trying to take take the state away from the theocracy.
	Oh definitely the Mars no question I tell you I didn't uh I didn't know for the first ten years that there was such things as Sunnis and and Shiites.
	And and the the Jews had the Armenians, Christians that lived in there.
	We the white people, I mean I married and married an Iranian I uh I could go to church.
	There was a Catholic school with nuns that my children went to for the kindergarten.
	But there was no problem there.
	They had a nice big mosque in Isfahan.
	The Jewish people, I mean, not a mosque, what you call a temple.
	And there was no religious tribe.
	And I think one of the things I might also add to some of the things that you're saying is that I've been teaching for 37 years and I've had a number of Iranian students.
	And you could not find finer individuals and many times very talented individuals.
	But unfortunately, they live in a regime that's really, I don't know, just oppressive.
	Of course, the cream of the crop, you know, is how they live here.
	But if you're asking, was you around a democracy like here when they lived there?
	No, of course not.
	And you couldn't have had it, you know.
	Most of these people were uneducated.
	They still are.
	Yeah, but I think one of the things that, one of the points that you make, and I think this is very, very important to hear,
	and that is uh these oppressure oppressive regimes around the world they export their best people and that is and they ex and the people come to United States uh that's their main designation uh destination and they make us a richer country let's okay let's take another call uh uh James uh uh Golden is uh uh my uh my call screen and he tells me that we have time for another call if I get on with it.
	Let's welcome Don uh from Winston Salem, North Carolina.
	Uh Walter you were talking about Harvard.
	I personally believe that Harvard is a disgrace to the entire educational system in our country and here's why I don't think they um enforce academic integrity even on their tenured professors and and trustees.
	I believe they currently have three or four tenured trustees, tenured professors and trustees who are demonstrated plagiarists.
	Well, I heard that, too.
	And also, look at what they did to their president.
	The president makes a fairly benign statement, and he's run out of town on the rail by the academics, which shows that the trustees don't have any power.
	That is, the inmates are running the prison.
	We'll be back with your calls after this.
	We're back, pushing back the frontiers of ignorance.
	Let's go back to phones, and let's have Jerry from Valdosta, Georgia.
	Welcome to the show.
	Good morning, Walter.
	One short point.
	A deterrent weapon, which we are unwilling to use, is no deterrent.
	Well, our enemies around the world know that.
	Exactly.
	And so they're playing games with us.
	And, see, I think a big part of this is that they have the public opinion, the Western media, and the lack of will by the American people and the lack of the Europeans to defend themselves.
	They did this during World War II.
	That is, when Germany started violating the Versailles Treaty and started rearming in early 30s, Britain and France, France alone could have defeated him but they allowed him to gain all the strength and he and it led to sixty million lives being lost in World War II.
	And do we want to do this again?
	That is appeasement will get you nowhere that is if you appease a barbarian a tyrant all that he'll do is ask for more and so I'm waiting for the American and I hope to God that it does not happen.

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