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Dec. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 28, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
Mark Stein, honored to be behind the eggnog-colored EIB microphone for the next three hours.
I'm from the foreign exchange wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a terrific program.
Penniless foreign students like me get to come and study here.
And in return, every American gets subjected to a full cavity search, even if they're not flying anywhere.
It's just a terrific program.
I'm here, like every undocumented American.
I've got my underwear loaded with explosives and we're going to release them over the course of the next three hours.
Happy Christmas bank holiday Monday.
Today is a public holiday if you're in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands.
But it's a regular working day for you schmucks in the United States because under President Obama, you're only entering the intermediate stage of utopia where you get European levels of taxation but not European levels of days off.
I don't know whether we're ever going to get to that divine stage.
But if you're in one of the many countries enjoying a day off today, particularly if you're standing in line at the airport in Amsterdam and you've got four, five, six, seven hours to kill while they subject you to the secondary cavity search, do give us a call.
Let us know what things are like that.
Mr. Snerdley is so naive.
He wants to know what the holiday is there.
December the 26th, the day after Christmas, that is Boxing Day in the British Commonwealth and other places, Boxing Day.
But if Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, then you take the following Monday off in compensation for not having Saturday off because you've already taken it off anyway.
That's the way it works.
January the 4th, this is how great it is.
Basically, Christmas, you can't get anybody on the phone in a British office from about December the 17th to the third week of January because they're just off for Christmas.
Monday, January the 4th is a holiday in the United Kingdom.
And I believe Tuesday, January the 5th is a holiday after in Scotland because Hogman A falls, I think Hogman A falls on a weekend this year and they always get January the 2nd off anyway, which is the, because that's the day after Hogmanay.
So Tuesday, January the 5th is still part of the Christmas break in Scotland because it's the first Hog Tuesday after Hog Monday or whatever.
Anyway, they've got holiday.
Poor old Mr. Snerdley, he's looking there so naive.
You're not still doing this sucker five-day workweek thing, are you?
Boy, no advanced society does that any longer.
Get out of here.
There's one board every minute.
So we're just entering the to me, it always feels like seasonal Stockholm syndrome.
If you've ever had the misfortune to spend Christmas, because you know, basically here it's a day, boom, Christmas.
Christmas is a day called December 25th, December 26th.
Everything's back for normal.
You can say goodbye to your Auntie Mabel.
Don't have to see her again.
Don't have to pretend to be nice to your family.
Boom, you're out of there.
You're gone.
If you go and have Christmas in a European country, you're with them for three weeks.
There's nowhere to go.
There's nothing to do.
Everything's closed.
You just hold up in there with them.
It's the nearest I've spending Christmas in the United Kingdom.
Last time I did it, it was the closest I hope I ever come to experiencing my own personal hostage crisis.
It's like seasonal Stockholm syndrome.
You're there after, you know, by midway through the second week, the figgy pudding starts, it's rock solid, but it's starting to look pretty good.
And it's a better conversationalist than your Auntie Mabel, too.
Anyway, that's Christmas.
That's Christmas overseas.
We haven't reached that advanced stage of civilizational development yet.
We're going to talk about the Christmas Day panty bomber, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutalab, the guy on the Northwest flight to Detroit while visions of sugar plums danced in his pants.
Having a great Christmas day.
I love this.
Where's this?
Headline from the Washington Post.
The Washington Post headline is so different from the Bush presidency.
Imagine a headline like this in the Bush days.
Obama addresses airline security in low-key fashion.
I'll say, I'll say, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Incompaterno, went on TV and says, she goes on TV and says, the system worked.
The system worked.
That's great news, isn't it?
Who knew the system depended on randomly selected flying Dutchmen scattered among the passengers?
If you've wondered where the $50 billion in Homeland Security that we're paying for, where it goes to, we're spending it on deputizing random Dutch men and installing them on selected incoming flights to the United States.
So you've got nothing to worry about.
That's where it's going.
The $50 billion, the $50 billion.
The system worked.
So Obama, what they mean though, by Obama address, that actually is pretty low-key.
It doesn't get much more low-key than Janet Incompeterno going on TV and saying the system worked.
If that's not a low-key approach to a near-terrorist disaster, I don't know what is.
But it's maybe low-key for him and for Janet in Compaterno, but it's not for you.
It is amazing to me the way every time we have one of these incidents, we introduce a whole new bunch of so-called security procedures.
I think the very first time Mr. Snerdley and I were in a studio together, I'd just flown in from Auckland, New Zealand.
And Mr. Snerdley was very annoyed because he was getting people on the phone saying, why have we got a New Zealander here?
They didn't like the New Zealando, the New Zealandophobes were besieging it, besieging Mr. Snerdley and demanding to know why I was behind the microphone.
I just happened to be in.
I was passing through Auckland.
But I mentioned that I bought a snow globe, a little snow globe for my little girl just at the airport there.
And the lady had rung it up and swiped my credit card and done everything and then said, Oh, wait a minute, you're not flying to America, are you?
And of course, I said, Yes, I was flying to America.
And she looked down her list of newly prohibited items because we'd had the big London failed bomb plot exposed a couple of days earlier.
And the list of newly prohibited items included snow globe because that little sort of liquid that all the little snow is floating around in, we give it the shake.
I could have taken that into the men's room, cracked it open, weaponized the little gel-like liquid within the snow globe, got a crack team of New Zealand jihadist glaziers who were lurking in the greater Auckland area to come into the airport men's room and reglaze my snow globe, and then boarded the plane to explosive effects.
And so instead, I had to stand there while she did the usual thing about reversing the credit card transaction.
And I bought a stuffed sheep for my little girl or whatever.
So that was the no snow globe thing.
And that was just after the London thing.
And that was ever since then, we've had to declare how much shampoo, toothpaste, mouth was, you know, that thing where they ask you how many liquids, gels, and you have to, you can only have an insi-tinsy-wincy little percentage of a fluid ounce, and you have to put it in the little sealed baggie.
And the guy hand it to the guy and he puts it through separate.
That was after the last failed bomb plot.
We took the shoes off for the shoe bomber after the first failed bomb plot.
He didn't succeed either.
He didn't succeed either, but now we all take our shoes off and do the little shoeless shuffle through the line.
The London guys didn't succeed, but now we restrict it in the shampoo and restrict it in the gels and restrict it in the liquids and we have to put them in the little bag and they go through separately.
And the snow globes got banned.
And for a while, I think this was at European airports, they were saying you couldn't have gel-filled bras.
I don't know what I didn't even, I'm not really from, I don't, I've led a sheltered life.
I don't really know what a gel-filled bra is, but gel-filled bras were prohibited.
That is serious profiling.
People say, oh, we're not doing profiling, but they were profiling chicks with great profiles and then making them take off the gel-filled bras.
That was, so that, and I don't even believe there was any security threat with the gel-filled bras.
I think that's just Homeland Security sensing an opportunity here and having some fun.
But so now we're going to have, now this guy succeeds, despite all this, despite banning the snow globes, despite the snow globe, the snow globe security ban, a guy manages to get on the plane with a bomb.
He's got the material sewn into his underwear.
And midway through the flight, he goes to the bathroom and he wires himself up and he comes out and he actually detonates the bomb.
And it's only because the trigger, he's got so excited at the thought of meeting his 72 virgins that all the bits in his underwear have become detached from each other.
So the bomb doesn't actually go off.
But he gets the stuff on the plane, he constructs the bomb in the men's room and he goes there and he lights the fuse or whatever he did, and there's a big loud bang.
And it's only because his various private parts are so excited at the thought of meeting Allah that the material comes detached, that the bomb doesn't go off.
And this is what Janet Incompeterno says when she says the system worked.
The system worked.
So the system has worked so well.
You know what they're going to do now?
You will not be able to have anything on your lap for the final hour of the flight.
We now have federal regulation of laps.
You can't have a laptop on your lap.
You can't have a blanket on your lap.
You can't have a paperback book on your lap for the last hour of the flight.
You know what else they've done?
This is how serious they take this incident.
They've banned the pilots from doing that thing they do when you're flying across the country and they say, if you look out the left side of your window, you'll get a marvelous view of the Grand Canyon.
If you look out the right side of the cabin, you'll get a wonderful view of Niagara Falls.
If you look through the rearview mirror, you can see Catalina Island.
They're not allowed to do that anymore.
They've banned that because the terrorist will say, oh, the pilot has just announced we're over the Grand Canyon.
I must get into the men's room and light up my trousers and destroy the great Satan's Grand Canyon.
So we now have, why don't they just cut to the chase and board up the windows?
Why don't they black it?
Why don't they, why don't, actually, why don't they just really cut to the chase, put us in a box and ship us freight?
And as I said, the important thing to remember is these are all failed plots.
The shoe bomber failed.
The London plot failed.
Now Mr. Hot Pants, the knickerbomber, he failed.
With failures like that, who needs victories?
They have imposed massive inconveniences, massive encroachments upon our time, massive wastes of money through not doing anything, not blowing up anything.
With failures like that, who needs any victories?
What we're doing this going down this stupid, ludicrous route of not allowing the pilot to announce that you're flying over the Great Lakes.
What we're doing is actually allowing the terrorists to set the terms.
We're allowing the terrorists to, in effect, determine the rules under which we fly.
Remember that thing they used to say back in the days after 911?
Oh, if we do this, the terrorists will have won.
If we do that, the terrorists will have won.
If every time we respond to one of these failures, incompetent failures, by saying, oh, no, no, no, we're getting serious now.
We're banning snow globes.
And you can't have a paperback book within 18 inches of your crotch in the final hour of the flight.
Every time we do that, the terrorists have won.
We're handing them another victory.
These guys, they light up the pants and the thing goes off like a damp squib.
But every time we respond in this way, we hand them a victory.
This reactive approach to Homeland Security will be a disaster.
So we will get into the Panty Bomber and the Secretary of Homeland Security's reaction to the Panty Bomber in the course of the show today.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Mark Davis will be with you on Wednesday and then a new year treat for New Year's Eve.
The great Walter Williams will be here.
But I'm glad to be with you this happy Christmas bank holiday Monday or happy Christmas non-bank non-holiday Monday in the United States.
I see Charlie Sheen got into a spot of difficulty and regarding some little domestic interaction, but apparently he's out of jail now and all the rest of it.
Now, Charlie Sheen was one of these 9-11 truthers, you know, who thinks that 9-11 was an inside job.
And when you've got that kind of analytic insight into the real story, and you begin to understand that what you see on the news isn't really what's out there, then you're not trying to tell me that when a man like Charlie Sheen has the guts to stand up and tell the truth about what really happened on September 11th,
and then suddenly, suddenly, some no-name sheriff frames him in some cockamame domestic incident, spousal domestic incident.
You're not telling me that's the whole story, are you?
The man, the one man who had the guts to tell us the truth about what happened on 9-11 and suddenly gets framed in some spousal domestic incident.
I don't think I'm going to be falling for that one.
1-800-282-2882, this Panty Bomber.
You know, this guy.
The system worked.
The system worked, according to the Secretary for Homeland Security.
This guy, he turns up at the airport.
He pays for his flight one-way ticket in cash.
This is supposed to be supposed to be the red flag thing now.
I don't like buying one-way tickets anymore because ever since 9-11, if you buy a one-way ticket, you risk winding up on the no-fly, on the no-fly list.
You know, if I decide, hey, I'm going to fly down to New York and guest host on the Rush Limbaugh show, but maybe I'll take Amtrak back.
So I just buy a one-way ticket.
Oh, that sets off all kinds of red flags.
But this guy, this guy turning up and buying a one-way ticket with cash, that doesn't set off any red flags.
The fact that he is on a list of people of interest, persons of interest, doesn't set off any red flags.
The fact that he has been banned from the United Kingdom doesn't set off any red flags.
The fact that his father reported him to the intelligence services of several foreign nations doesn't set off any red flags.
He's allowed to board the plane.
What's the point of the list then?
What's the point of the list?
You know, the interesting thing, Robert Gibbs was on TV and he goes, Well, you know, this list isn't the same as the no-fly list.
It may not even be compatible with the no-fly list.
For all we know, it might be like these FBI and CIA databases, and one doesn't match the other.
So they've got this other list.
And the official explanation as to why people on this, they didn't spot him.
For a start, there's 500,000 people on this list.
And so why would they be expected, just because you turn up on there, to be able to pluck it, recognize the name instantly and plug it in.
Have you ever tried buying a book?
Here, Mr. Press Secretary, have you ever tried buying a book at Amazon.com?
It's this thing they've got on the internet now.
The kids are crazy about it.
You go on Amazon.com and you buy a book.
They've got like millions of customers all over the planet.
And you go on Amazon.com and you buy a book.
And seven years later, you go back to buy another book and you click on Amazon.com.
They say, well, given that you enjoyed suicide bombing for dummies in 2002, maybe you'd be interested in 101 ways to really pleasure your 72 virgins when you get to paradise.
Amazon.com, without trying to, does better data mining than the so-called United States Homeland Security high alert terrorist list does.
Robert Gibbs, the representative of the supposedly most powerful man in the world, says, oh, we can't be expected just to know instantly about pluck one name out of 500,000.
You slide your credit card into a bank machine anywhere on the planet.
They know instantly whether you've got the money in your account before they give it to you.
But this list, whatever this list is, they can't tell you.
They can't make a determination about that list whether they should let the guy on the plane.
And then they say the other explanation is, well, you know, he's not really, he doesn't really belong to the extremist fringe if he's on this list.
He's just on the fringe of the fringe.
It's like getting a good table in a restaurant.
Yes, your undocumented anchorman sitting in for America's anchorman today.
I evaded security by secreting copies of the Limbaugh letter in my underwear.
It's fully loaded and ready to blow.
President Obama is going to make a statement on the terror bombing plot.
He's been silent.
This happened Christmas Day.
He's been silent now for 72 hours.
It's amazing.
This is the longest he's been on TV, off TV, since January the 20th.
You can't keep him off normally.
He's on there.
He's on everything.
He's doing the Jay Leno thing.
He's doing the interminable speech for the Nobel Prize.
He's doing the doomed speech for the Olympics.
He's doing Dancing with the Stars.
He's doing everything.
He's on everything.
He's on TV all the time.
And then suddenly we get this terrorist thing, and he goes away for 72 hours.
He's not on the TV, but he's going to come back and make a statement.
The Homeland Security Secretary has now revised her statement that the system worked.
She says remarks were now taken out of context, and in fact, the system failed miserably.
That is her update on the situation.
Delete the word the system, quote, worked, unquote.
That was a typing error.
I don't know how that got into my statement.
I'm going to fire whichever girl in the stenographic pool was foolish enough to put that in there because, in fact, the system, quote, failed miserably, unquote.
This terror watch list is what this guy was on.
The terror watch list has 550,000 names on it.
This guy's name, his father, his father had reported him to the United States Embassy in Nigeria.
And the information had been shared with the FBI, the State Department, the Justice Department, and the Homeland Security Department.
But he turns up to pay cash on a one-way ticket into the United States, and everybody says, sure, why not?
Come on down.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
We narrowly avoided a terrible Christmas Day tragedy in which 300 people would have lost their lives because of incompetence and failure by this so-called $50 billion security system.
It isn't really a laughing matter.
We owe those lives only to this guy's incompetence and the bravery of this rogue Dutchman who leapt out of his seat and got the guy in a chokehold.
Now, he won't be allowed to do that because now, for the last hour of the flight, you'll have to sit with your hands visible.
This is like, you can't even do this in a grade school in America.
If you tried to do this in a grade school, public grade school, anywhere in the United States, there would be a class action lawsuit.
If you said to the pupils, you've got to sit there with your hands on your knees for an hour, that principal would be dismissed.
That school board would fire him.
They'd all be tossed out at the next school board election.
But you can tell people flying to the United States, you've got to sit with your hands on your knees for the last hour of the flight.
And so what this Dutch guy did when he leapt out of his seat and clobbered the jihadist would be illegal under Janet Ncompitano's new rules.
Let's go to Willie in Commerce, Michigan.
Who knew there was any commerce in Michigan?
You certainly don't get that impression.
Willie in Commerce, Michigan, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
It's great to be talking to you, Mark.
I just simply thoroughly enjoy when you sit in for Rush.
Well, I love being here.
It's a great honor.
This is a terrific land where a penniless immigrant can just wash up on these shores and end up behind the golden EIB microphone.
It's a great honor.
Good to have you with us, Willie.
My comment today is what Robert Gibbs said twice yesterday, once live on Face the Nation and in a pre-recorded or taped delay on Meet the Press, almost simultaneously referred to the incident from Amsterdam to Detroit as a potential terrorist attack.
Potential.
Like we thwarted it before it ever got off the ground.
The guy got past security.
He got on the plane.
He ignited his device.
Sure, it didn't do its intended deed, but he refers to it as a potential terrorist attack.
Now, when you say the guy got past security, got on the plane, ignited his device, you should actually be saying the alleged guy.
Remember this, Willie.
Because one day this guy, the alleged potential attacker will one day be in a court of law.
And you don't want to prejudge him here, Willie.
Well, you know, I'm just outside of Detroit in Commerce, Michigan, and now he has his attorney.
So in our neighborhood, we're getting a lot of news on this all day because it was such a local event.
And now his court-appointed attorney wants to stop them from getting any DNA evidence, you know, and of course the University of Michigan Hospital is glad to get him out of their hands, although his attorney is now worried about that he may need some skin grafts.
Really?
My heart bleeds.
He needs, you big, he may need some skin grafts because he badly burned his particulars.
I think that's the.
Which actually by itself is interesting because these guys think about that an awful lot because they're heading for the 72 Virgins and they want to make sure that everything's in working order.
They want to make sure that that equipment doesn't fail, yeah.
Yeah, that's when you get to the 72 Virgins, you want the system to work, as Janet Napolitano would say.
No, but you're right.
I mean, when we can't even discuss this honestly, and this is the problem, these guys must be laughing at us.
The fellows in Yemen who supposedly were behind this plot and put this guy up to the plot, they must be laughing at us.
What happened was he got on the plane, he ignited the material.
Well, lucky everybody isn't dead.
And yet Robert Gibbs cannot, doesn't even have, can't even call it what it is.
Call it what it is.
So we have to use this eunuch language like potential attack because we live under an administration that prides itself on its eunuch language now.
The host of Meet the Press couldn't even get it right, too, because he referred to the incident as using the plane, using the aircraft as a weapon.
No, the guy wasn't flying the plane.
He was trying to blow it up.
No, no, no.
And the funny thing is that if you're a radical cleric in Yemen, like this guy who advised the Panty Bomber and both Major Hassan at Fort Hood, same radical cleric, apparently, you must be laughing at what this tells you about the society you're trying to overthrow, because it tells them they cannot, even in their language, never mind anything else, but even in their language, they cannot confront the enemy.
They cannot even find the words to acknowledge.
In fact, they cannot even find the words to say the word enemy.
I mean, that is a concept that is wholly alien to the liberal mind.
There are no enemies.
There are just friends we haven't yet thrown enough money and made enough apologies to.
And that is the whole liberal mindset and proves so disastrous on this because these things matter.
It matters when you have something like this, where you got lucky, where he ignited the thing, but it was a damn squib, because maybe he's incompetent.
I mean, everyone thinks these guys are incompetent, and they're always incompetent until it works.
If you'd been in the lap dance club with the Mohammed Atta and Co. in the days before September 11th, when the girls were making jokes about these guys because they were such lousy tippers, you'd have thought they were jokes too.
They were.
They were pathetic, feeble, ludicrous jokes until they pulled it off.
And one day one of these joke jihadists will pull it off, and it won't seem so funny anymore.
And that's why it's important to understand If the best that the world superpower can say about it is that, oh, it may be a potential attack, you're self-neutering the political discourse that is absolutely necessary to winning any war.
Thank you very much for your call, Willie.
Willie in Commerce, Michigan.
It's a local story there.
Incidentally, why do you think there are so many flights from Amsterdam to Detroit?
It doesn't seem like an obvious flight route, does it?
It's Amsterdam to Detroit.
It seems like a fairly minor route between two Western cities.
In fact, Detroit is near Dearborn, Michigan, which has the biggest Muslim population in the United States.
And Amsterdam is a city on the brink of majority Muslim status.
So that in fact, what you're seeing here, what may look like a flight between two Western cities from one perspective to another perspective, is a flight between two fast-growing outposts of the Dar al-Islam.
So again, it all depends on how you look at it.
1-800-282-2882, talking about the Christmas Day Pandy Bomber and lots more on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Stein sitting in on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
You know, I flew down from Boston for the show today.
Normally, I fly from Burlington, Vermont, but there were no flights out of Vermont.
Vermont airspace was closed.
A very curious phrase.
I don't know what it means.
It's due to excess levels of bovine flatulence or something.
It's not safe to take off in that stuff.
So I had to fly from Boston, and my computer laptop bag was subject to double screening.
They went through it twice because it had given off the whiff of something sinister.
And the interesting approach of Homeland Security, the TSA guys, was that I'd done something wrong.
And I said, look, I have the advantage on you guys.
I know there's nothing in the bag.
So you think the fact that my bag set off your alarms is a reflection on me.
I know there's nothing in the bag.
So the fact that it set off your alarms is a reflection on you.
And that's the point to remember about this Homeland Security business.
You think that if they're subjecting 300 million Americans to exactly the same procedures, that that shows how serious they are.
No.
It shows how incompetent they are, that they cannot establish in a timely manner that you're not a terrorist or a smuggler or an illegal alien or anything else.
And every minute they spend on you is a minute they're not spending on guys like the Knickerbomber.
Let's go to Victoria in Palm Beach, Florida, which is kind of Rush Central.
Victoria, it's great to have you with us on the show.
Thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I just want to make a comment that I don't understand why commentators are discussing the inconvenience that is being imposed on travelers.
Personally, I would rather be inconvenienced four hours, five hours, whatever, than to get blown up in the air.
Well, you know what the salient statistic there, Victoria, is?
Four hours, five hours, whatever.
Because put a number on whatever and then think about it.
And think about what it does to the economic viability of the airline industry, of American tourism, of the American economy in general.
Because it can never be enough.
What we're saying, the reason some of us are annoyed about this, is because we're saying you can never win if you play the game this way.
Because they'll do something else.
This guy got the stuff through in his underwear.
Let's say now you manage to, let's say they find some, a jihadist finds his child bride from Pakistan and he gets her to have breast implants and he puts explosives in the breast implants and they manage and then think of the delays you're going to be subjected to at the airport.
You can never do, all you're doing every time you retrospectively react to this with longer delays is handing them victories and saying, you said the terms of the debate.
Do something else.
Do something else.
And we'll add another hour, 90 minutes onto the weight people have to time people have to spend at the airports.
And in the end, it won't prevent you being blown up.
Because as in the IRA's famous words to Mrs. Thatcher, you have to be, after they tried to blow her up in Brighton years ago, you have to be lucky every day.
We only have to be lucky once.
And if you, the object of terror is to terrorize, if you respond by, in effect, panicking and instituting stupid new rules and regulations after the stable door, after the horse has bolted, what you'll do then is eventually you'll direct their attention to softer and softer targets.
Maybe one day they'll say, oh yeah, it's all getting a bit complicated airplanes now.
Maybe we should blow up a train.
Maybe we should blow up buses.
Eventually, they'll always find someone to kill.
But in the meantime, terrorists win by terrorizing.
And they terrorize you into changing your behavior.
And that's what they've succeeded in doing just over this last weekend.
1-800-282-2882.
Let's go to Mike in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Mike, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yes, sir.
You're exactly right.
This Department of Homeland Security and all is actually putting a strain on the economy right now.
We need to get away from all these computer-programmed database, you know, try to catch them cookie-cutter, one size-fits all, and get back to the realism of handling this problem like they did.
My dad worked for the government.
He was in three wars, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and then even in his 50s was doing work with the government back in the 80s under Reagan, and they had top-secret military.
Let the military guys handle it.
They had them all throughout the United States doing the job like red cell-type programs back in the early 90s and 80s.
And they handled it in a more realist-type fashion where they were actually instead of waiting back and waiting for something to happen, they were on the offensive instead of the defensive, which we're on now.
You're absolutely right about that point, Michael, going on the offensive.
And the thing is, it was less money.
The military was handling it, and they were very effective, and people got to retain their constitutional rights.
Right now, we're doing a 180, and we're doing it exactly the opposite.
We're not letting those guys handle it in a real terrorist-type fashion and going after these guys in a realism-type environment.
We're sitting back and playing this game of, you know, we're punishing the victim.
We're saying every time one guy does something, 300 million Americans and anyone coming to America on business or tourism or whatever is going to have to pay the price for that.
We're punishing the victim.
We'll talk more about this straight ahead.
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Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Just want to pick up on one thing that Mike was saying.
You know, I wish it was as easy as it was, that you could just go to foreign countries and kill people.
But the great problem is that a lot of these people causing trouble are in fact within our borders.
John McCain said during his presidential campaign, he said, In this struggle, scholarships will be far more important than smart bombs.
Most of these terrorists have got scholarships.
They're the most westernized of the Muslims.
They're the ones who spend most time in Western education.
They're middle class.
They're privileged.
They're not poor goatherds in the caves of Waziristan.
Osama bin Laden had summer school at Oxford.
Mohamed Atta was a Hamburg University urban planning student.
The guy who beheaded Daniel Pearl was a London School of Economics graduate.
And now we have this guy whose dad's house in London is worth 2.5 million pounds.
Now, I forget at the moment whether the pound's collapsing faster than the dollar, because they're in a race to the bottom, these two currencies.
But I think that's about like $4 million.
So, in other words, we've got a poor, impoverished, ignorant, poor wee simpleton jihadist whose dad has a $4 million second home.
There is a challenge here.
The most privileged, westernized Muslims are the ones behind a lot of these attacks.
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