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Jan. 5, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 5, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, don't worry, don't worry.
You're 24 hours away from the return of America's Anchorman.
He'll be back behind the golden EIB microphone tomorrow.
And until then, this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in and happy to be here.
My father reported me to the CIA as a dangerous extremist in 1977.
And they fast-tracked my file to Homeland Security, who put me on the standby list for the no-fly list.
So here I am.
I'm still getting emails about Rush's health.
So for the umpteenth time, look, he's fine.
He's at a hospital.
He's been given the all-clear.
Everything is ship-shaped and Bristol fashion.
I don't think that expression exists in the United States, but look it up.
You know, everything's good.
You can see the video of his press conference at rushlinborg.com, and he's radiating good health.
He's eager to get back on air.
He was supposed to return to the airwaves, I think, on Thursday, but he's so panting to get back to doing what he does that he's coming back tomorrow, Wednesday.
So he will be displacing the pre-booked guest host.
That's how eager he is.
Rush is so eager to get back to the show that he'll be guest hosting for the guest host tomorrow.
And he's not taking a day off until 2047 when the last liberal in America throws in the towel.
We've been getting more news, more dots.
I love these clichés.
Connecting the dots.
The pandy bomber has basically the polka-dotted panty bomber.
He's got dots all over those panties, but nobody could connect them.
But nobody could connect them.
So instead, the new thing now is they're going to fast track.
The TSA is going to fast track the introduction of these full body scanners.
You know, these boy, you can imagine how they were whooping it up, whatever company made the full body scanners at the New Year party.
They're fast-tracking them into service at U.S. airports now.
Don't worry, it photographs you naked, but it makes your face all blurry and also all your naughty bits all blurry.
So you don't have to worry about the TSA uploading your distinguishing characteristics to the internet or anything like that.
Your face is all blurry like on those TV shows where they interview someone who's entered the witness protection program.
You know, your face is blurry, but your body is naked, as if the witness protection program has relocated you to a nude beach somewhere.
I don't understand this.
If it blurs your private parts, how does that help with the panty bomber who had his explosives in his crotch?
They still haven't found, by the way, this guy who bust into the secure area at Newark on Sunday.
And I don't know why that is.
They still, it's now, what is it, two days?
And they still have no idea who this guy is.
Yeah, he left.
He went into the secure area and then he left 20 minutes later.
They've no idea where he is, who he is.
I don't know whether that's the full body scanner, whether they're looking for a guy with a blurry face and they can't get a match in it.
They pull 10 guys with blurry faces into a police lineup, but none of them match the blurry face guy that they're looking for.
But he's, I don't know.
But if you're wandering around the greater Newark area and you see a guy of about 5'10 with a pixelated face, be sure to contact the TSA immediately.
I see they now call, by the way, I didn't know this.
They now call the secure area the sterile area.
And I don't know whether that's a side effect of the full body scatter or not.
But if your private parts start feeling a bit blurry, you'll know who to blame.
But anyway, the new security measures have already gone into effect.
Joan Rivers was prevented from boarding a continental flight to Newark.
I know I feel safer already.
This happened because her passport reads, quote, Joan Rosenberg, aka Joan Rivers, unquote.
Rosenberg was her late husband's last name.
So because of this, because her passport says Joan Rosenberg, aka Joan Rivers, the Continental Gate Agent banned her from boarding the plane because aka Aka is apparently a common Muslim surname.
So you know what it is, Alahu Akaba.
So having seen Joan Rosenberg, aka Joan Rivers, and not wanting her to suddenly stand up in the middle of the flight and shout Joan Rivers, Allahu Akaba, Joan Rivers, they banned her from getting on the flight.
So Joan Rivers, we're safer already.
Joan Rivers, say what you like about Continental, but you're not going to be sitting next to Joan Rivers on the flight.
By the way, I'd be impressed if the full body scatter manages to make Joan's face blurry when she goes through it.
That would be quite an accomplishment these days.
Joan Rivers, so Joan Rivers isn't boarding the plane.
John Kerry, the Iranians are getting serious.
They refused to issue a visa to John Kerry.
So they're cracking down on airline security, too.
The Secret Service has confirmed now there was a third gate crasher at the White House state dinner.
And this is, I was saying to HR just before the show, I don't want to give the plot away, but I think it's like that Agatha Christie murder on the Orient Express, where it turns out they all did it.
I bet you by the time the Secret Service is really on top of this story, it'll turn out there wasn't a single person at that state dinner who wasn't.
They were all gate crashers.
Just you wait and see.
But Sally Quinn, the doyen of the Washington social scene, has written in the Washington Post that this time Obama has crossed the line.
You know, because Sally Quinn goes to all the A-list parties, and she doesn't want to be mixing with these Z-list gate crashers when she goes to her party.
She doesn't want to find herself sitting next to some, you know, next to some no-name loser just off the plane from Yemen who just happens to have wandered into the White House.
So she's furious, furious with Obama.
The whole social scene has gone to hell in Washington.
Everywhere you go now, there's just these like party crashers who are getting in everywhere, getting into all the A-list parties.
It was enough of a shock, she writes, that Tariq and how do you pronounce her name?
Mikhail Michaela?
Michaela Salahi had crashed, but a third?
A third?
The president could have been assassinated.
And had that happened, the office of the White House Social Secretary would have been as culpable as the Secret Service.
Yeah, why do we have an office of the White House Social Secretary?
I think we need to reform that into a Department of Social Affairs with an unlimited budget and with perhaps a socializing czar.
I think a socializing czar who wouldn't require Senate confirmation and could really get on top of all these breaches of White House parties.
But Sally Quinn goes on about this.
She's calling for people to be fired.
You can blow up American airliners.
That's fine.
Don't worry about that.
You can go on TV as the Secretary of Homeland Security and say the system works.
That's fine.
Sally Quinn's okay with that.
But seat her next to some Z-list loser at a White House social event and she wants heads to roll.
So she's demanding firings about this.
In fairness to Sally Quinn, she does actually mention the panty bomber about 12 paragraphs into the story.
So she's got her priorities, right?
It's okay for people in coach to be blown up.
But when you're the doyen of the White House social scene, then somebody crashing your party is far worse.
So we'll look into, I mean, that is the reality of this situation, though.
I remember covering the impeachment trial in Washington.
I've never seen anything.
I was used to higher levels of security.
And I remember going to the Senate for the first day of the impeachment trial there.
And I get to the Senate and I ask the guy at the front door where I go to get credentials for the impeachment trial.
And he goes, oh, you see that yellow police tape saying do not cross?
I go, yeah.
He goes, just step over that and go around the side of the building and go into the – I've never seen anywhere with any legislature with as lax security, by the way, as the US Capitol in those days.
And I get there, I go in through the side door, and the police guy says, hey, wait a minute, didn't you say the police line, see the tape saying police line do not cross?
And I say, yeah, but your colleague told me I had to come around here to get credentials to cover the impeachment trial.
He goes, oh, I don't know anything about that.
He turns to his pal, he goes, do you know anything about that?
And he goes, the other guy goes, no, I think you take the elevator down to sub-basement level five and you walk along the corridor and you come to room 327 and you do that.
And so I do what they say and I go down to sub-basement level five and I go to room 327 and I can't find it and I'm wandering around the building.
And then at that point I think to myself, well, why do I need credentials to get into the building?
I'm in the building.
I've got the run of it.
I'm doing what I like.
And like five minutes later, I was standing in the men's room next to Strom Thurmond.
And at that point, and eventually I ran into the Senate press secretary who goes, well, this is all highly irregular.
You haven't come and got your badge or whatever.
And I go, well, nobody's asked me for a badge.
I'm wondering I'm in the men's room with Strom Thurmond.
And she goes, well, it's not going to be like this tomorrow because it's the State of the Union.
So there'll be a whole security lockdown here because the President of the United States will be here.
I walked into the United States Senate exactly the same way I did without the credentials when the President of the United States was there.
But anyway, this third gate crasher in the White House, my bet is that there won't be a single person there who was really invited.
They'll all turn out to be gate crashers.
Maureen Dowd.
I don't often agree with Maureen Dowd.
But good heavens, this does sum up Homeland Security.
Quote, if we can't catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn't check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al-Qaeda Sanctuary, Yemen, whose name was on a counter-terrorism watch list, who can we catch?
Unquote.
That's Maureen Dowd hammering Homeland Security.
And that's the point.
This guy isn't one of those.
When they say there was no smoking gun, this buffoon Brennan, who's the counter-terrorism guy, who was on TV and said there was no smoking gun.
You can't catch this guy, what are we paying all this money for?
What are we paying all this money for all this security theater for?
The British have now, very unusually, revealed that MI5 explicitly passed this guy's name along to the United States, so that in fact, whether or not there was a smoking gun, and that's not a good expression because the smoking gun is only smoking because the gun's gone off.
If you can't stop this guy boarding the plane, who can you stop?
So we'll talk about that in the hours ahead and lots more too.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein, in for rush.
Don't forget, rush back tomorrow.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
Don't forget, Rush returns tomorrow, right here at the Golden EIB microphone.
The problem with the United States government over the last 10 days is it has spent those 10 days making itself a laughingstock to the planet.
And all of President Obama's cool doesn't translate to the world that way when you've got guys like John Brennan, the counter-terrorism guy, going on Meet the Press and essentially responding to a question about the downside of putting this guy in the criminal justice system, the panty bomber, putting him in the criminal justice system,
by saying that there are no upsides or downsides to any particular case.
There is clearly a downside to this particular case.
John Brennan on Meet the Press, not Meet the Press, it was actually on Fox News Sunday, I think, on Fox News Sunday, in effect offered this guy a plea bargain.
This panty bomber tried to blow 300 people out of the sky over an American city.
And who knows how many people he'd have killed on the ground.
If you remember the bomb over Lockerbie in Scotland, Lockerbie is a tiny town compared to Detroit, but people were still killed on the ground when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie 20 years ago.
So even in Detroit, there's a sporting chance that if you blow up a plane over the decrepit, dying industrial wasteland of Detroit, by the time it comes down to Earth, you'll manage to hit one of the two or three still-inhabited city blocks within the greater Detroit metropolitan area.
So this guy tried to kill hundreds and possibly many hundreds more people.
And John Brennan, who's supposed to be the tough guy, Mr. Counter-terrorism guy, Mr. Career CIA guy, goes on TV and offers him a plea bargain.
He's asked, you know, why, isn't it true the guy is lawyered up and he's not talking?
And he said, well, you know, we'll be confident he's talking once he understands the kind of deal we might offer him.
Why are we unnecessarily offering plea bargains to persons who perpetrate an act of war on the United States, who are enemy combatants in any reasonable understanding of that phrase?
Because for this president, the whole war on terror is something that he has consigned to the Bush era.
There's some unfinished business.
For him, the priority is Guantanamo, which became the great left-wing cause.
So the priority for him is closing Gitma, which he is supposed to do this month sometime.
But you never know, that might be just another one of his broken promises.
But in the meantime, what he's doing is he's taken us back to the 1990s to a reactive criminal law enforcement view of the war on terror.
Now, this guy should never have had a multi-entry visa for the United States in the first place, given everything that's known about him.
But the idea that a guy who is a Nigerian, he goes to Yemen, he boards a flight in the Netherlands, he's not a resident of the United States, he's not a citizen of the United States, he tries to kill hundreds of people, and when he gets off the plane, they decide to give him all the constitutional rights of a United States citizen.
This guy was actively trained back in Yemen.
He met people back in Yemen.
He knew other people who were being trained in Yemen.
He has information to yield.
And the idea that you'll get any percentage of that information out of him by putting him in the criminal justice system is preposterous.
So doing it this way makes Americans less safe.
Doing it this way makes Americans less safe.
This is a disgrace.
This is a disgrace.
The idea that the United States Constitution, in effect now, extends to anybody on the planet.
Extends to anybody anywhere on the planet.
There are no enemy combatants.
There are no enemy combatants.
There are just potential defendants we haven't yet assigned a lawyer to.
That's the Obama view of the war on terror, as articulated by John Brennan on the Sunday talk shows.
Nothing good can come of this.
Nothing good can come of this.
And it makes the United States a laughing stock to the rest of the world.
In fact, what Brennan said in some ways was even worse than what Janet Ncompaterno said when she said the system worked.
There's a real problem here, because what you're trying to defeat here is the ideology.
And the ideology has a certain appeal to a lot of young men throughout the Muslim world.
And the one advantage you have on that is that they may not know what they're getting in for if they get caught by the United States.
Thanks to everything that's happened now since the left began waging war on Guantanamo and the detainees held at Guantanamo.
Everybody now knows, any jihadist now knows, that he doesn't have anything to worry about when he gets captured by the Americans.
Torture is mainly psychological.
It's not what they're doing to you.
It's what you think they're going to be doing to you.
And every single jihadist anywhere on the planet now knows that if he gets captured in the United States, he's going to be OJ.
He's going to be provided with a lawyer and maybe one of those law firms who do pro bono work for terrorists all over New York, the big shot lawyers who haven't yet been given jobs in the Department of Justice, maybe he'll land one of those too and he'll have his own dream team.
This is a disgrace and it makes us less safe.
Yes, Rush returns tomorrow, 1-800-282-2882.
Talking about the Panty Bomber and the bewildering number of dots that the United States government failed to connect.
There are so many dots, it's like the pixelated face on the guy who went through into the secure area at Newark.
One aspect of this hasn't changed, which is that for President Obama, his main focus in the war as he sees it is closing Gitmo and returning all these people anyway.
He doesn't care where they are as long as they're not in Gitmo.
So most of them are going to be going to places where they're not going to be within the control of the United States or any controlling authority, as Al Gore would have said.
For example, if you return Gitmo inmates to Yemen, even if they put them in prison, and a lot of the time they don't, the guys bust out of the prison.
Actually, they don't really need to bust out.
A couple of guys are just kind of walked out of the prison because, oddly enough, the Yemeni criminal justice system is not that effective at holding prisoners.
But at least a dozen former Gitmo inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda in Yemen.
And another 70 or so are suspected or known to have returned to terrorist activity since their release.
Who's the commander of the Taliban, for example, in Helmand province?
That's a guy called Mullah Zakir.
He used to be at Gitmo, but we released him, and he's now the commander of the Taliban in one of the most dangerous provinces on that front.
Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi was released from Gitmo.
He killed six Iraqis in Mosul in 2008.
The high degree of recidivism.
And this isn't, by the way, an anti-Obama thing.
This was the folly of the Bush administration, too.
The Bush administration desperately wanted to unload as many of these Gitmo detainees as it could, and it returned them to Yemen and to other countries.
And these guys returned to the jihad.
We were talking last week about this pathetic joke by which Gitmo detainees are returned to Saudi Arabia and signed up for art therapy.
And I mentioned that, you know, the old policy was waterboarding, the new policy was watercoloring.
And the guys in the art school back in Saudi Arabia didn't like it.
You know, they thought it was like a sissy thing to do to be sitting around all day drawing pictures of planes flying into skyscrapers and destroying the Great Satan when you could be out there doing the real thing.
So they absconded and they went back to Yemen.
And two of the guys involved in this Christmas Day plot are believed to be absconders from the Saudi Arabian art therapy program.
This is not something you would want to bet the security of the United States on.
So we have this twin track.
We're releasing these people to Yemen where they go free or to Saudi Arabian art therapy where they go free.
And at the same time, we're imposing newer and tougher restrictions on Joan Rivers every time she tries to board a plane.
This is American homeland security in the eighth year, in the whatever it is now, the ninth year of this struggle.
Let's go to Ken in Detroit, which was targeted by the Panty Bomber.
But don't worry, Ken, because he's going to cop a plea and he'll soon be out wandering around the streets of Detroit.
Good to have you with us, Ken.
Yeah, glad to be here with you.
Yeah, a couple comments I wanted to make.
First of all, I think that President Obama's concern about what happened to us on Christmas Day is phony.
First of all, if he was really concerned, I think he might have considered cutting his vacation short instead of waiting a few days and then trying to decide what to do about it.
Well, no, no, that was part of a conscious strategy, though, Ken.
I mean, don't you remember in the first 24 to 48 hours in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing, you had all these lefty columnists arguing that it was that this thing was nothing and he wasn't going to indulge in, I think this was Mark Ambinder at the Atlantic who said he wasn't going to indulge in chest-thumping, which the discredited Bush would have done, but instead he would, quote, project his calm on the American people.
And I think that was a conscious choice of Obama.
He thought he could just cool this out.
He thought by being cool that that would demonstrate that he wasn't just this sort of chest-thumping, swaggering Texan.
It was a conscious choice that, Ken.
Well, when we in Detroit are targets, we take it very seriously out this way.
And there's a couple comments that I would like to share with you.
First of all, everything that Obama wants to do as far as airport security, none of it would have prevented this from happening because he was flying in from a foreign country.
So let's get that straight.
The other issue is that...
Yes, but wait a minute.
There is a lot...
There is a very basic rule in operation throughout the world now.
And this is different from the old days.
Before 9-11, if you could board a plane, anyone could board a plane, and if the United States didn't want to admit you and you didn't have valid papers to enter the United States, you found out when you arrived at Detroit or JFK or LAX or whatever.
Now, it's a requirement that before you board the plane, you have valid papers for entering the United States.
So in other words, if the State Department was doing its job, this guy wouldn't have a valid visa, and they'd know that when he showed up at the counter at Amsterdam or Paris or wherever he was.
Yes, that part's true.
What I'm looking at is that a lot of the things that they want to do as far as airplane security are things that will take place within the borders of America.
And what I have a feeling is going to happen is I think that the federal government is going to become over-protective, and I think that they are going to be damaging the airline industry.
Oh, I think that's undoubtedly true, because you can't say, well, the flight is 40 minutes, but you've got to get to the airport three hours beforehand, because then people will figure out, well, no, actually, it's quicker to drive.
It's already getting to the stage where what would have been a six-hour drive, which is the sort of thing you might, you know, you might not want to do, but it just might be a bit tiring.
But if the alternative is actually for the 40-minute flight, having hours of delay and chaos at the airport, then maybe it is easier to drive six hours, 10 hours, 12 hours.
And that does has implications for the airline industry.
But the other point, Ken, is it's not going to make any of us safer.
Well, Mark, the only thing that the government can do as far as making us safer, but they refuse to do it, profile it.
We have got to profile.
The Al-Qaeda terrorists, they're not Catholics, they're not Jews, they're not Buddhists.
They're Muslims.
But you know something?
You know something?
That is really the heart of the issue.
We all know that.
We all know that.
Everybody in the world knows that.
Everybody knows that there's something that the 9-11 guy and the guys and the shoe bomber and the heathrow plots and the pandey bomber all have in common.
But the government of the United States that is the principal target of these threats absolutely refuses to talk about it.
So because of that, 300 million people have to be inconvenienced.
And not just inconvenienced, but actually endangered, because if they're treating 300 million people as if they're all equally potentially terrorists, and we had all this stuff yesterday.
People who've got no HR's four-year-old who winds up on the no-fly list and all the other stuff.
The only way we're going to change that is if 300 million, eventually 300 million people wind up on the no-fly list, all 300 million Americans, and the thing collapses of its own weight.
And in effect, the no-fly list is used as a threat.
If you object to this stupid, boneheaded, time-wasting bureaucracy at the airports, you don't want to say anything because then you'll wind up on the no-fly list.
If you raise your voice to one of these people who's making you take your shoes off and all the rest of it, you'll wind up on the no-fly list.
You're not a threat to the country.
You don't want to blow up an airliner, but they'll put you on the no-fly list just because they're a big, punitive, vindictive bureaucracy.
And maybe people should embrace that.
And maybe we should say we should all volunteer to be on the no-fly list until they get smart about this.
Because right now, it's the same old thing.
They're profiling things rather than actually looking for the people, the individuals who are responsible for what we're facing.
Mark Stein, in for rush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein, in for rush.
In the Daily Voice, Black America's daily news source, Earl Ofari Hutchinson bemoans the decision to single out citizens from 14 countries of interest for extra profiling, for extra security, and goes, quote, are Muslim-only lines at airports next?
The thought is offensive, disgusting, and blatantly unconstitutional.
And he goes on to say that this would be a disgraceful thing if you were to have Muslim-only lines at airport.
But you know, the fact of the matter is that with the exception, with the strictly localized exception of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, suicide bombing is a 100% Islamic activity.
It doesn't mean that all Muslims are suicide bombers, but it means suicide bombers are Muslim.
And we have had now in a – we had the 9-11 guys, then we had the shoe bomber, then we had the London – after the 9-11 guys, you couldn't take a box cutter on a plane anymore.
Box cutters weren't illegal on planes on September the 10th.
After the shoe bomber, then you had to take your shoes off and do the shoeless shuffle.
After the Heathrow thing, that's when they banned snow globes and they limited liquids and you could only have a certain amount of shampoo and all the rest of it.
And now after this one, they're going to say you can't have a blanket on your lap, you can't have a paperback book on your lap.
So all of this is reactive.
And all of it is reactive to what is in fact a highly specialized phenomenon.
But it is a measure of how bone-crushingly stupid The Western world has become, and the United States in particular, has become in the wake of in the age of political correctness, that it is absolutely impossible to discuss the reality of it.
I mentioned earlier that I lived in Belfast and London.
It was a fact of life during the IRA's long campaign in the United Kingdom that certain that if you happen to have an Irish name and you turn up at an airport, you might be subject to longer delays simply because your name happened to be similar to a person of interest who was on the watch list.
It didn't mean that all Irish people were terrorists, but on the whole, if you were flying from Belfast to Glasgow or whatever, you accepted that if you had a particular surname or whatever, you might come under scrutiny.
We've now ruled that off limits.
We've basically said we cannot tell the truth.
The United States government has erected a vast security apparatus, not to make you more secure, but to obscure the truth and to delude you into thinking because you have to get to the airport ever earlier and go through ever more absurd procedures that you're safe.
You're not.
It's the opposite of safe.
It's the opposite of safe.
Because if they're screening 300 million people, they're not going to be screening the one guy that they need to screen.
And that goes back to Maureen Dowd's point on the Panty Bomber.
If they can't get this guy, who can they get?
Who can they get?
And I think that's a real question now of where this leads.
We were talking earlier about the problems for the airline industry.
Foreign airports, Heathrow, and other airports, don't want to go along with these latest TSA procedures.
They regard it as an American problem.
If the Americans cannot institute security procedures that I identify the relatively small number of people who are likely to blow up U.S. airliners, it's not their job to inconvenience all the millions of other people just traveling around the world for business and pleasure.
We are making ourselves a laughing stock to the world by going down this route.
And that is something that is very foolish for a global superpower to do.
You know, people think that this is about Yemen, that releasing Yemeni jihadists back to Yemen or to art therapy is about in Saudi Arabia, that it's about Yemen or it's about the war on terror.
It's not.
It's about everything.
It's about the credibility of the global superpower.
You think they don't look at Janet in Compaterno in Moscow and in Beijing and in Tehran and laugh their heads off?
You don't think they look at John Brennan going on TV and saying, we're going to offer a guy who attempted to commit an act of war against the United States of America and kill 300 people.
We're not just putting him in the criminal justice system, but we're going to offer him a plea bargain?
You don't think the rest of the world watches this and is roaring its head off at what it says about the state of the global hyperpower at the beginning of the 21st century.
Mark Stein in Farash, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in Farash.
Let's go to Robert in Long Beach, California.
Actually, they've just got some crisis going on at a California airport, Bakersfield.
They've shut Bakersfield down because of some substance that's turned up on some baggage.
Let's go to Robert in Long Beach.
Robert, you're alive on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, thank you, Mark.
I'd just like to keep things in perspective because I know most Americans have about a two-week attention span when they remember the news cycles.
But the previous Bush administration, he received 52 separate warnings from the FAA that there was going to be an attack, and then we still got attacked.
And not to mention that, and the shoebomber, and people aren't making a big deal about the shoe bomber in his military trial.
Yeah, but let's not rehash the arguments about the 9-11 warnings and the August memo and all that.
The point is, 9-11 happened.
9-11 happened.
And we erected this vast boondoggle called the Department of Homeland Security that was supposed to have systems in place.
And so this isn't just like something coming out of the blue.
This guy is exactly the guy that this big $50 billion department with an unlimited number of employees dedicated to just this kind of thing was supposed to prevent.
Well, I agree with you there.
Yeah, definitely, for sure.
I'm just saying we're doing better overall.
Just not with Bush, his whole administration.
People have forgotten that the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, was forced to resign because he was so incompetent.
I'd like to say we are doing better.
Well, I don't know whether we're doing better there, Robert.
The point is, Rumsfeld, whatever you feel about Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld is one of these guys who, if you look at his memos, show a strategic clarity about the nature of the threat and ways to deal with it and the scale of the threat.
And that's actually what's missing here, the idea of a strategy for rolling back the Islamic ideology and preventing it from penetrating our borders.
You cannot build a wall.
You can't build a wall around the United States.
You've got to have a strategy for hitting hard and rolling back the ideology.
And that's what's missing.
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