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Nov. 19, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
Absolutely no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Rush will return on Monday and take you through to Thanksgiving.
But right now it is the end of the week and you know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
Yes, that means you can talk about absolutely anything you want to talk about.
1-800-282-2882, we are live in New York.
It's always a gamble for me because as I mentioned when I was here a few weeks ago, I received an official notice from the New York State Bureau of Compliance informing me that I was in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance.
So uh at any moment, a New York State SWAT team could kick the door down and drag me out of here, because I am in total noncompliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
But until they kick the door down and drag me out of here, then my bullet riddled body is dragged away in a cloud of tear gas.
1-800-282-2882.
Actually, if you're a New York state trooper, if you're in the SWAT team and you're just like uh climbing up the walls of the building with the suction caps, give us a call there live before you before you smash the windows and take me out.
I'd love to I'd love to uh I'd love to hear that.
1-800-282-2882.
Talk about anything you want, anything you want to talk about.
The President is in uh Portugal for um what summit is this now?
It's the uh NATO summit, I think.
He was uh it was G twenty.
It's uh what was it?
G twenty last week, NATO summit uh this week, so there's a whole different bunch of countries uh that will be mocking and jeering uh uh him uh today.
Uh it's uh not just James Carville, international global leaders make jokes about this uh uh this president uh uh too.
Uh and we we can talk about uh we can talk about that.
We can talk about the terrific state of the economy.
White House, this is from Reuters, White House says stimulus package exceeds jobs goal.
Uh because uh this is the what what whatever it's called, the m the the American uh recovery and redistribution act or whatever it's called, said uh specifically by some measures it's exceeded the original goal of creating or saving creating or saving three point five million jobs by the by the end of uh twenty ten.
I don't know if you if you got a job created by the stimulus, give us a call.
1-800-282-2882.
I'd particularly like to know if you're in the booming sign manufacturing sector uh of the United States.
Uh the um the sign making industry has received enormous benefits from the stimulus uh package.
Uh those signs that say the uh the American uh redistribution act, putting America back to work by putting up putting America back to work signs every two hundred yards across the uh the land.
And at 300 bucks a pop, uh the signage alone uh should be enough to to launch an era of unparalleled economic growth and prosperity.
Uh assuming that America's vast new class of gilded sign magnets uh don't all spend their their newfound wealth on uh on vacation properties in the Dominican Republic like Charlie Wrangell uh does.
Uh but so if you've received a job from the stimulus, which they're now saying has it's it's stimulating, has exceeded all expectations.
It's turned out to be more stimulating than anyone ever imagined.
It's more stimulating than the special two TSA agent Pat Down you can get at LaGuardia on a Friday afternoon.
Uh so if you if you have been if you have received a job, one of the millions and millions and millions of jobs that has been created by this stimulus package.
Give us a call, 1-800-282-2882.
The Senate agrees to delay.
Huge cut in Medicare payments to doctors.
Um the the uh a 23% fee cut uh was supposed to kick in uh any day now.
But the Senate has agreed to postpone it for a month.
This is what I was talking about, you know, the lack of certainty in the economy.
You think of uh you think of the way it is in health care with Medicare reimbursements, where in a month's time they were supposed to get a twent doctors were supposed to get a twenty-three percent cut in reimbursements.
But they've now postponed that for a month.
So they've got a little bit more certainty for another thirty days.
By the way, this is the only way government controls cost in health care, which is by denying the reality of those costs.
So for example, uh it simply it simply says, well, we will lower costs in Medicare by declining to reimburse doctors by whatever the rate is.
Uh so since 1997, there's supposed to be this sliding scale to control Medicare spending uh by reducing reimbursements to doctors.
But of course, you know, politics being politics, they've never implemented it the cuts on the scale.
So every time they defer a cut, then the next cut has got to be cumulative and to and be even more drastic, so that now they're looking for a 23% fee cut.
This is the only way that government can control costs in uh in health care spending is by denying the reality of those costs.
And all you're gonna do uh with that is drive doctors out of business.
Who wants to be a doctor uh doing performing work for Medicare when you're getting reimbursed nothing like the cost of uh of of what it costs to fix up the guy's uh, you know, broken leg or whatever it is.
And that's that's why health care is a disaster in the United States, because it's uh it's a classic third party transaction.
And when the third party is government, it's even worse than if the third party is a private insurer.
All you care, no one can put a price, no one can put a price on any individual medical treatment anymore.
Because you can have three people with broken legs sitting in the doctor's waiters waiting room, and one guy with a broken leg is gonna get it reimbursed by Medicare, and the other guy with a broken leg is going to get it reimbursed by a private health insurer, and the third guy with the broken leg is like Rush did in Hawaii.
He's gonna get out a checkbook and pay for it uh and pay for it uh w in cash uh at the point uh, you know, and that's and and so all those people, the guy getting out his own check, writing a personal check, the guy billing it to an insurer, and the guy getting reimbursed by Medicare, they're all paying different amounts of money.
Nobody knows what the cost of a broken leg is in the United States anymore.
Because we've made it a classic third-party transaction.
You think about anything you like.
You think uh uh you imagine, say you want to see a movie tonight.
What's a movie cost in New York City now, kid?
Ten no ten dollars.
Thirteen thirteen dollars for a three D movie, three D movie, uh thirteen bucks.
Okay.
Now suppose you had no idea what it costs.
You went to the movie theater and you had to like show a card, and the card might uh entitle you to uh because you're on a government program to see the movie for free, or the card might entitle you the movie theater to bill it to your insurer, your entertainment insurer, and you'd receive it down the line, or you might be the old-fashioned type who just wants to pay the thirteen bucks out of it.
You'd so you wouldn't care whether the movie costs thirteen dollars or thirteen thousand dollars or a hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
When it's a third-party transaction, all you care is whether uh whether the third party will grant you access to the movie or the health procedure or whatever it is.
And that's what drives up costs in the American system.
And the most destabilizing uh third party in the American system is now government, which is why uh country like India, where eighty percent of health care is private, country like India is gonna be booming with health care tourism because you'll be able to jet off to India your your uh you need the hip replacements, you'll go into the hospital, and uh your wife can see the Taj Mahal that he she's wanted to see for all these years during which you weren't interested in taking her on a big time vacation to India.
So she'll see the Taj Mahal, you'll have your hip replacement uh and uh join her at the end at the Taj Mahal for a couple of days of photographs and then fly back to the United States for a fraction of what it would have cost to have the hip replacement here because third parties of which the government is the worst offender have so destabilized uh destabilized the normal market.
Uh if you look at, for example, that's what that's also what happened to the property market.
Uh the property market, which is most people's principal asset, uh we to we talk About all the uh cyberspace and the knowledge economy and all the other mumbo jumbo, but actually for most people, their principal asset is good old fashioned bricks and mortar.
The government destroyed the property market by uh uh intervening themselves as a third party through the Fanny and Freddie business.
Uh, Fanny and Freddie at the time of the big crash in the fall of 2008, had a piece of fifty percent of the mortgages in this country and came close to taking out the entire global economy.
And they, by the way, they they're like Charlie Wrangle.
They don't have to do basic audits.
You know, AIG, uh what what's uh what's uh what's Ken Lay's uh big uh big company, Enron, Enron.
Enron couldn't get away with uh filing uh the the uh the paperwork that Fanny and Freddie get away with.
Uh what's the point of having an SEC if it regulates Enron, but it doesn't regulate Fanny and Freddie when they've got a piece of fifty percent of the mortgages in the United States of America.
So Fanny and Freddie did such a great job uh on the property market.
They're now fanny Freddying the health care industry.
Uh basically uh just as they said in the property market, you, the lender, cannot make an objective valuation about the risk of this guy coming in, uh he's unemployed, he spends all his money on Coke and Hookers, but he wants to buy a two million dollar home.
You cannot, you cannot make an honest evaluation of risk on that.
They're now saying the same thing to the health insurers.
So there's they're basically taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and uh transferring that model to health care, and instead of Blue Cross Blue Shield, it's Fanny Cross, Freddie Shield, and that is gonna be the health care model uh for the you won't be able to make an objective analysis of risk.
So the absurd the absurd third party insanity of Medicare uh will now be transferred to what had hitherto been the less irrational uh third party uh factor of private health insurance.
This is uh this is gonna be an amazing uh this is gonna be amazing to watch how quickly this all unravels.
So it's uh open line Friday, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
We'll talk about that.
We will talk about we will talk about uh the uh don't touch my junk stuff.
That is that is President Obama's message.
Uh he's overseas in Portugal, and uh James Carville is mocking the presidential junk.
He's saying that if uh if Hillary uh were to were to give one of her quote Hillary if if if Hillary gave one of her balls to uh to President Obama, he would have two.
I think his math may be a bit off there, actually.
Maybe oh maybe he's overstating it, uh James Carvel.
Maybe he's understating it.
Uh we'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
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Open line Friday on the EIB network, Mark Stein Infor Rush.
Wesley Snipes.
Wesley Snipes, the actor has just been sentenced to jail uh for tax evasion.
He's gone to jail, I think uh for three years.
Why why doesn't he just why doesn't he just walk into the House of Representatives and go into the well of the house and well up with tears and just say he's he's em he's he apologizes for any embarrassment he's brought on the this lush, full beautiful body, the most beautiful body in the world.
Uh why doesn't he why doesn't he just do that and then maybe they could censor him and all his problems would go away?
Uh uh uh uh no Charlie Charlie Wrangle is uh actually a much better, much better actor than uh than uh uh than uh the than Wesley Slide.
I love Charlie Wrangle in The Godfather, he was terrific.
Uh uh much much better than uh much much better than Wesley Snipes.
Uh let us go to Ron in West Palm Beach.
Ron, uh you're in West Palm Beach.
That's not too far from uh Rush, is it?
That's the uh that's the other side of the tracks from Palm Beach Palm Beach, isn't it?
Isn't that how it works?
It's down it's down south from him.
But uh uh we bump into him once in a while.
How are you?
Thank you for your service.
All right.
Well, that's uh that's that's that's pretty good.
It's well, it's good to have you on on the show, Ron.
What's uh what's on your mind?
Just a quick question.
I'm wondering if all this money General Motors is paying back is gonna go to pay down the deficit.
Now this is you're talking about the IPO.
By the way, that's a phrase we used to hear a lot in America, IPO, and you don't like hearing anymore, do you?
It's strange.
Ever since they passed Sarbanes Oxley, uh private companies don't seem to have IPOs anymore.
I wonder whatever happened to all that.
But there's twenty six billion dollars, twenty six billion dollars here, I think, that was raised uh yesterday.
And you're saying is that going to pay down the deficit?
Right.
No, no, no.
I believe, I believe uh what's going to happen is because that of course was the taxpayers' money, that's the public's money.
So what I believe they're going to do is is divide that twenty-six billion dollars uh between all of us and actually send us uh send us a check.
I believe Timothy Geitner will be sending out the checks next week.
Uh right, you didn't fall you didn't fall for that for an instant roll.
You know, you know who's gonna get this the twenty-six billion.
That's gonna go in interest payments to the Chinese.
Yeah, right.
And and and if you look at the details of the uh IPO yesterday, the Chinese bought up eighteen percent of uh the uh the GM offering yesterday, right?
So now now uh now basically they'll be introdu I don't know how many what influence they're gonna be having over there, but I you know if if the next environmentally friendly vehicle after the Chevy Vault is the Chevy rickshaw, you'll know that the Chinese are really using their muscle uh over at GM.
But so basically that's it.
The uh we're taking the Chinese have bought eighteen percent of GM, and with the money that they're giving us for buying us that big chunk of GM, we're using it to pay back money to the Chinese.
Do you follow that?
We borrow money from the Chinese, and they then use our money to buy our car companies from us.
Do you d does that make sense to you, Ron?
Well, it's uh I'm sure that's the way it is.
I I just I guess it's better to have a US government owned GM than the Chinese government.
Absolutely.
Absolutely you can't trust the United States government to run a car company.
If we're gonna have government run car companies, at least it should be foreign governments who know how to do this stuff properly.
Excellent, excellent point, Ron.
Ron, poor old poor old naive Ron thought that that the twenty-six billion dollars raised yesterday was going to go to pay down the deficit.
Yeah, yeah.
We should we should all uh we should all uh live so long.
Now the it's it's a fascinating thing.
The Chinese because i this is the other business with the old uh the quantity of e the uh uh quantitative easing business uh going on at the Fed.
The Chinese are maxed out.
They've got all the U.S. treasuries they or anybody else needs.
So they don't want to buy U.S. treasuries anymore.
They don't want to buy them at a higher rate.
They don't want to buy basically the Chinese and the Japanese are the biggest buyers of uh of US treasuries, and the Chinese figure they don't want to buy any more than they've uh that they're buying a little less than they were two years ago.
But that's no reason not to there's all kinds of other interesting things in America you can buy, like buying buying up uh American car companies, that's like a good idea.
Buying up resources, they're buying up resources all over the world from uh the Alberta oil sands to nickel mining in Australia to the Bauxite reserves of Jamaica.
You know, this is uh in return, I mean it the way to think about it is like this is like the um the the uh first settlers and the Indians, you know, uh the fur the first settlers uh uh sold uh the Indian Yeah, ma Manhattan was uh Manhattan was twenty-four bucks, I think.
That's uh that's where it worked out.
It was a great deal.
They uh the the Indians bought trinkets from the first settlers and gave them the land and gave them their resources.
And that's basically what we're doing.
We buy cheap Chinese made junk from uh China, and in return they buy up our resources and we say, who cares as long as they don't touch our junk.
It all works out it all works out great.
It's a perfect economic model.
So now the Chinese the Chinese bought eighteen percent g uh the Chinese bought eighteen percent of what was uh uh uh of the offering on uh uh uh on General Motors yesterday.
That that is great.
We're gonna get some real if you look at that if you look at the ingenuity the Chinese are putting into these new warships that they're building with uh American tax dollars for then for to challenge American naval supremacy in the in the Pacific.
Uh by the way, I think I agree with Obama that we certainly need to be more multicultural uh in our approach to the world.
And I think actually funding the Chinese military is uh is actually a great way of doing that.
It's uh it's a terrific way of just demonstrating, you know, that we're not we're not gonna be one of these petty nationalist uh uh little you know little rinky dink nation states anymore.
We're gonna go the transnational routes and fund our our enemies uh our enemies' navies.
I think that's I think that's terrific.
And in return, with because we borrow money uh from uh we borrow money from the Chinese, so they're sitting on all this cash, and they can't build a navy big enough for what we're borrowing from them, uh, because that's more ships than anybody needs.
So in return, they're just like buying up uh American car companies.
That's that's great.
When j when when when General Motors sneezes, the Chinese Politburo catches a cold.
That's that's the way it's gonna go from now on.
It's fascinating.
Yeah, what's what's good for GM is good for Beijing.
You can't improve on this uh this stuff.
Uh thank you very much for your uh call, Ron in West Palm Beach, uh near to Rush.
Rush will be back Monday uh to take you through till Thanksgiving.
Uh Mark Stein sitting in today, open line Friday.
Let's hear from you.
1800-282-2882.
Lots more still to come.
Yes, the uh the GM IBO was a terrific success if uh if you're the Chinese Politburo and you can and you could pick up GM shares cheap with uh money that the uh the United States government has given you as part of its interest repayments on the money you loan them by buying US treasuries.
You're following all this.
This is this is the historians The decline and fall of the Roman Empire is uh how many volumes is there?
That's like nine volumes, that book.
So you get the gist of it, that the decline and fall actually kind of lasts uh it must have lasted a pretty long time if if uh if if Gibbon needed uh all those volumes to write the whole story in.
But this one, this one, the gibbon of the uh twenty-first century, what a story he's gonna have to the Chi the We borrow money from the Chinese.
Uh the Chinese use that money to buy eighteen percent of uh of General uh General Motors.
Uh what was it, Dinah Shaw used to uh see the Shanghai Bay in your Chevrolet.
Oh, wonderful.
Uh and uh it it's uh nothing is more American than Chevrolet.
I mean, most uh I'd be interested to know how many guys in the power Politburo could even uh could even pronounce it.
But that's that's what's happening now.
Remember that guy who was the uh head honcho on the Politburo who liked to do the Elvis impressions?
He can now do the Dinah Shore impression.
See the USA in your Chevrolet.
Anyway, let's go to Doug in Great Falls, Montana.
Uh Doug, it's great to have you on the show.
What's uh what's what's on your mind?
Well, before I get to that, Mark, your opening monologue yesterday was better than anything Jerry Seinfeld ever dreamed of doing.
I just have to tell you that.
Well it was awesome.
Uh that's this but y listen, you don't need a professional for that.
This pat down stuff, it's like sun subjects like uh what was that I'm talking about at the top of this quantitative easing.
You've got to have like a skilled a skilled professional to craft comedy material out of quantitative easing uh by the Federal Reserve.
But when it's when it's pat downs, you can that when it's uh when it's take your hands off my joke, when it's a government bureaucrat, a what do you call it?
A GS8 civil servant saying, I will now be touching your groin.
Uh that that is you don't need a professional for that.
That's comedy gold.
It's dropping off the trees into your lap.
You know, you are in the lushiest comedic orchard ever devised.
This this uh this this don't touch my junk stuff.
If you had said you remember George Orwell when he wrote n 1984, right?
George Orwell writes 1984.
And if you'd said to him back then in 1948 when he wrote the book, hey George, it's a great first draft, but you know what you really need in here?
You need a scene where the all-powerful totalitarian state has licensed bureaucrats who can reach into your pants at any time of their choosing and feel your genitalia.
George Orwell w would have said, get out of here.
You're just nobody's ever gonna believe that.
You're just gonna try and you're trying to make me a laughing stock.
I'm gonna put in something like that.
That's crazy, George.
That ain't that's never gonna happen.
But it did.
It's happened in the United States of America in the year 2010.
Uh that is the that is the world we uh w we live in, Doug.
So uh you you you have you had your enhanced pat down yet?
No, yeah.
I haven't had that pleasure yet.
Okay.
Well, they'll be doing it at the DMV soon.
So don't worry, that'll be next.
Because this is the thing.
If why once you've said that government, government can stick its hand in your briefs, the idea that that will be confined to the airport sterile area and won't won't, like everything government does, metastasize and spread and seep into the wider world.
it's only a matter of time before they're reaching into your pants at the DMV.
No question.
Yeah.
And they do and it will be during the eye chart when they get when they get to the uh when they get to the small uh small letters because could it uh it's see seriously throw you off at some of the more difficult vowels.
Uh what's what's what's what's your point, Doug?
Well well, Mark on this Galani thing, this uh trial that ended the other day.
I think we have to change some some titles to the I think Holder's the the defense attorney general and Obama's the public defender in chief, because these guys are way more concerned about the rights and and protection of terrorists and murderers than they are protecting our country.
To the point of if that guy had walked the other day, if he'd have gotten off on the one count they found him guilty on.
That's this is treasonist.
I mean, you know, throw that word around lightly, but this is treasonous.
Well, the stupidity here is that uh the the United States Constitution is supposed to apply to citizens of the United States and people who are legally present within the United States.
This guy, this guy, he's born in Zanzibar.
He's captured in a firefight in Pakistan.
He blows he's part of a plot to blow up embassies in uh Nairobi and Daris Salaam.
He has no connection with New York City.
He's never set foot in New York City.
He uh doesn't know anybody in New York City.
What is he doing in a New York courtroom?
Eric Holder chose to extend the protections of the United States Constitution to a guy who has absolutely no connection with the United States.
Uh that that's that's ridiculous.
And thereby put the people of the United States at risk, because if that guy walked out of that courtroom, we're at a much greater risk than we were.
Yeah, and we're we are at we're at risk we're at risk uh already, in effect, because uh the idea that these guys don't understand it.
You know, the Al Qaeda manual that they find in they found in the safe houses, I think they found one in Safe House in England in Manchester, says that whenever you're giv gives gives instructions to these guys on how to milk the legal system once they're captured uh by U.S. troops.
So in other words, once they're taken into U.S. custody, uh Al Qaeda in effect has its has its sort of equivalent of the Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson shakedown artists on the payroll who give you advice on how to demand uh legal rights that you actually have no uh by any previous understanding of uh lawful combatants and uh enemy detainees and all the rest of it, legal rights that have just been invented out of whole cloth by Eric Holder.
Uh and the Al-Qaeda and the the the Al-Qaeda shakedown artists, the equivalent of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton now advise uh advise these guys to start demanding their rights uh as soon as they're taken into U.S. custody.
Uh we're making ourselves look like a laughing stock around the world.
And these uh and the idea that this will not have consequences, that next time round, when when something big blows up and a big bunch of people die, and it turns out to be some guy who got sprung from Gitmo, or some guy who was never captured because there would have been legal complications, or some guy who who who was let go uh because they decided to uh upgrade him to the full OJ and give him rights that he has absolutely no claim on.
Uh the next time that happens, remember what this administration did.
This administration uh decided to confer all the vagaries and all the legalisms of the civilian justice system on people who have absolutely no claim on it, Doug.
They're opening up to they're opening us up to death by ten thousand paper cuts.
Little bit after little bit after a little bit until that big injury finally comes.
Yeah, and let's uh let's let's hope it doesn't come to come to that any time soon.
Thank thanks, Doug, for your call.
Doug in Great Falls talking about this uh fiasco of a case Uh yesterday, where uh apparently uh there was one I think there was one juror there who wanted to this uh uh wanted an acquittal and was holding out, was doing the whole full twelve angry men routine uh and was wanting to actually p s stay there and persuade the eleven other jurors to let this guy go.
Let this guy go.
This this is uh as I said yesterday, this is a form of decadence.
This this is what is worrying about this is that the people who are in charge at the highest level within the United States government apparatus do not seem to have a survival instinct for the nation.
And uh they they're effectively telling the world that the United States does not have a survival instinct.
1-800-282-2882, open line Friday, whatever you want to talk about, it's a crapshoot today.
Go ahead, make my day.
Mark Stein infra rush.
I'm going nowhere.
Somebody help me, somebody help me.
There is a plea for our times.
Kevin in Scottsdale, Arizona, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you for waiting.
Hey, Mark, thanks a lot.
The point I want to bring up is I think if the American people really want to rid themselves of uh the encroachment of big government, you know, especially with the TSA debacles happening now, they need I think they really need to demand that we fight our war like a real war rather than some great covert operation characterized by drones, special ops and bribe bribery.
I think if you really want to win this war decisively and quickly, you've got to go against the center of gravity of state sponsors of terror, Iran.
And I think if we win after Iran, if we actually went with physical force, I think you would have two major impacts.
One, you would show the world that we're not at paper tiger, but we're actually willing to take all necessary measures to protect our people, even without the consent of Europe.
And two, goes to a point that Edward Gibbon made in uh the decline fall of the Roman Empire, is that once you do that, you're going to incentivize all the Middle Eastern neighbors, a potential uh state sponsors of terror, not to uh allow the activity in their area.
I think if we did that, we'd be safe.
But uh if not, I think issues in the more encroachment big government's gonna happen and to a greater, greater extent.
Well, we're not we're not gonna do that.
In fact, we're gonna do precisely the opposite.
It's uh it's fascinating to read all this stuff in US newspapers.
Will Israel, will Israel attack Iran?
You know, Israel is a tiny little country, barely at its narrowest point, it's barely wider than my township in New Hampshire.
And and the the will of the West has come to depend on this little tiny, tiny little sliver of a county-sized nation uh beached in the in the middle of the Middle East.
Uh and even if that were to happen, in other words, if Israel were to total the Iranian nuclear program uh in some way, the fact that not just not just uh Britain, France weren't along for the ride, but that the United States of America was not along for the ride uh would tell uh the rest of the world something very profound about the will of the West and the weakness uh of the West.
It wouldn't it not just the Iranians, uh not just uh the uh our other enemies in in the terror sponsoring states, but it would tell uh it would say something profound and eloquent about the United States that they would understand very well in Beijing and Moscow and Pyongyang and all over the world.
You're right, you're right.
Uh we've chosen not to we've we we're ch choosing to try and fight this war defensively by trying to put up a perimeter fence of which the don't touch my junk mentality uh is only is only the most uh absurd example.
So we're saying, no, no, no, we're not gonna go out and get the bad guys, but we're going we're going to try and and fight it on the domestic uh on the domestic front by by uh groping groping uh the pants of every law abiding American because the alternatives are too politically difficult.
And so we're not even talking here about something like uh the Pakistani nuclear program, which was done in secret.
The Iranians have done this in the eyes of the world.
And the uh the so-called superpower, the United States of America has sat there and let it happen.
And so you you are right.
You are right that if we were Interested in actually uh uh incentivizing, incentivizing and or di more to the point, disincentivizing terrorism, uh we would do something like this, but it's not gonna you don't seriously think that this president is going to hit Iran, Iran, do you, Kevin?
Uh uh what's really amazing to me, uh I'm an ex-captain of the army and a war planner, and one of the fundamental points of military strategy is a rule by Karl von Klausewitz.
He was a uh you know the one of the West's most prominent thinkers of war.
Right.
And and the rule that he uh observed was that the longer the offense goes against uh an enemy and the enemy is still undefeated, the offense will become weaker and the the the enemy will become Absolutely, absolutely.
That's a classic there's classic rule, it's not just Klaus Fitz.
Uh Little Hart in his uh in his uh book on uh he was great um uh expert on tank warfare, but he understood that the point of war is not to destroy the enemy's tanks, but to destroy the enemy's will.
And you and you don't destroy the enemies.
What we're doing at the moment is destroying our will.
We're saying to we're saying to free peoples, free-born citizens, you are sheep.
Uh we're herding you through scanners.
We're looking at your most intimate body parts in every detail.
We're destroying our will, uh and when and and we are not waging any assault on the enemy's will at all.
And that that the implications of that down the road are absolutely devastating for where we're going to be after another five or six years of this kind of thing, Kevin.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, and uh and thank you thank you for bringing that up, but I do not think that plans to take out the Iranian nuclear program.
This guy Ahmadinejad, by the way, he's he's openly mocked, he's openly mocked the uh the superpower and uh and live to tell the tale.
He's been the uh he's he's he's he's been in so called we did all this the multilateral way.
It we it was the uh it was the uh French, the Germans, and the British who've been holding these European Union talks with Iran for how many years has it been going on now?
Uh six or seven years, something like that.
During which time they've built their nuclear their nuclear program is almost complete.
They won't have to bother pretending to hold the talks anymore.
Because they know, by the way, and this gets back to the will issue, uh they know that uh that that Western nations would rather talk than do anything else.
They don't care they don't care about anything else as long as you can sit down across the table.
This pointless NATO summit to talk about the Russian treaty, this time-wasting NATO summit to talk about a Russian treaty that might as well have been sounds like it was written in 1972, bears no relevance to the world we live in, that this uh this guy President Obama is uh spending his time with in Portugal today is a classic example of how uh Western nations would rather sit around talking uh than doing anything useful.
And the Iranians understand that.
So they know that as oh, as long as we can keep the talks going, doesn't matter whether we talk about anything useful, doesn't matter whether we openly mock the talks, doesn't matter whether we totally waste their time and make them a laughing stock, they'll do anything just to keep talking to no point whatsoever.
Thank you for your call, Kevin.
Mark Stein, Infrarush, Mordecam.
Hey, let's go to Valita in Ontario.
Uh where anywhere in Ontario in particular, Valita?
Uh all it says here is Ontario.
Yes, just in in winter, just across the street from Detroit.
Oh, right, right.
So you're in the little the the trivial pursuit question.
You're in the little bit of Canada that's south of the United States.
I know.
Yeah, that's uh so just across the bridge from Detroit in in Windsor.
Great to have you with us.
What a lovely name.
Valita.
Valita.
What what ethnic origin does that name mean?
No, I have no idea.
Oh, it's lovely.
It's delightful.
It should be in Russia's top ten favorite names.
I love it.
Uh thank you.
And uh what did you want to speak about today, really?
Um I recently, my brother flew from Detroit to Washington.
I am an American, by the way.
Very proud American.
And um I'm disabled and he's disabled.
Well, we both had to go through the patting downs and the the wanding and everything.
So my question is when Obama and his family go on trips, who pats them down?
Who and I think you know the people that are saying LAX Airport and uh Metro Airport?
They should be rotated so each one of them have a turn to pat them down.
Yeah, you might be right.
Who pats down who pats down the patter down in chief?
That that's that's an excellent point, Valita.
Reminds me of the old novelty song, Who Takes Care of the Caretaker's Daughter while the caretaker's busy taking care?
Who pats down the patter down in chief?
Uh and that's why these guys Janet Napolitano, when she's saying, Oh, there's nothing to be worried about govern highly skilled government bureaucrats negotiating every crevice in your nether regions.
Uh that's because she knows they're never gonna do it to her.
And come the revolution, folks, they should.
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