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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever coming to you live from the Granite State of New Hampshire.
	Great uh to be with you.
	But if you're missing Rush, you can go to Rushlimbore.com, and uh there's all kinds of good material there.
	Even if you're not a uh Rush 24-7 subscriber, uh you can get lots of little fun bits of uh audio and transcripts and uh pictorial illustrations and club gitmo type gear.
	And if you're a Rush 24-7 subscribe, uh there's even more good stuff waiting for you there at uh Rush Limbaugh.com.
	Rush will be back tomorrow, and he will be talking to Talking to former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, uh Secretary Rumsfeld has a new book uh out.
	I think it's called what's it called?
	Known and unknown, I think it is, and it's the launch day tomorrow, and so he naturally he's launching it on America's number one uh radio show.
	So he'll be talking to Rush uh about that uh uh uh tomorrow.
	Uh known and unknown.
	I'm a big fan of uh Secretary Rumsfeld.
	He uh he was a uh he had a great strategic clarity.
	He said something back in I think this was back in uh twenty years ago, uh, in a speech.
	He he said something uh like weakness is a provocation.
	I put it in the uh foreword of my book.
	Uh and I think he's right that uh when uh when you uh when you project weakness, it is a provocation.
	And uh we've seen a lot of that in the last couple of years.
	When you look at the way uh Vladimir Putin's Russia ta uh treats the United States with open contempt, when you see the way the Chinese treat uh the United States with open contempt, when you see the way Iran treats the United States with open contempt, uh Rumsfeld's right.
	Weakness is a provocation.
	Um I um I'm a so as I said I'm a big fan of his, so I'll be interested to see what he has to say to Rush tomorrow.
	I had lunch with him uh a year or two, a couple of years ago, just uh after he'd uh he'd left uh the uh the uh Pentagon and uh I had lunch with him at his uh favorite restaurant, and it was uh interesting as I sort of sat down and slid into the seat.
	He demanded to see my green card, and I thought, wow, this is pretty serious.
	He's the th this is this was before the Arizona law uh came in, so I couldn't respond.
	That's racist.
	Uh he He uh he wanted to see he wanted to see my uh Green Guard, and uh I was kind of nervous.
	I was thinking, oh dear, I wonder, did I remember to renew it?
	Is it uh is it up to date?
	Did I have uh whatever it was the guy at the border said to me the other day, uh did you have your have you had your LPR validated?
	Is that what he said to me, uh Tiffany?
	Yeah.
	He asked me he asked me whether I'd had my we were crossing the border, and he said, Have you had your LPR?
	The border guard said, have you had your LPR validated?
	And uh, you know, um uh uh my attitude was I said to him, uh, you know, uh if I knew what that meant, I'd have made a career in immigration enforcement, wouldn't I?
	I mean, who who talks like this?
	But anyway, uh Secretary Rumsfeld wanted to know whether I'd had my LPR validated, and he uh so I produced my green card, and it just turned out that I think uh he'd sponsored someone for U.S. immigration back in the early fifties or whatever it was, and he wanted to see whether they'd redesigned the green card and what it looked like uh these days.
	Uh so we had a very that's what he's yeah, that's what he that's what he told me.
	Now it's true I hear a strange click every time I pick up the phone to call anybody since then.
	But uh but he he did uh he did just tell me that it was uh because he wanted to see the new design of the green car.
	Anyway, the end of the lunch, we stroll back.
	There was something he wanted to give me that was back at his office.
	So uh we strolled back to the office, uh uh y which is like three or four blocks away in the middle of Washington.
	It was a very interesting experience.
	I assume it's like this for him at lunch every day, because we we're we're standing at Ward Intersection, and there's these code pink uh female protesters.
	I'm not sure whether they were of the sapphic or heterosexual persuasion, but they were these fairly fearsome looking code pink female protesters, uh, and they were, you know, Rumsfeld warmonger, demanding he he be arrested immediately and uh and put on trial uh and it and uh and executed uh for all his crimes against humanity.
	And uh and then uh as they were shouting, you know, Rumsfeld warmonger, a uh uh van of plumbers came by and swung round the intersection, and they wound down the uh inter uh and they ran down the window and were going, hey, go, Rummy, go.
	So I guess one way or another it all evens out.
	But um but that uh I gather that's a fairly typical stroll back from his favorite restaurant to uh to his office after lunch for Secretary Rumsfeld every day.
	So uh he will be joining Rush tomorrow live when Rush returns to take you through another week of excellence in broadcasting.
	Now let me just uh uh add one final thing on Rumsfeld.
	He had a famous line he spoke, which is where his book title comes from.
	He spoke of the quote, known knowns.
	There are things we know we know.
	We also know there are known unknowns.
	That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know.
	But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know, we don't know, unquote.
	And a lot of people mocked him.
	I think some guys uh they gave him uh somewhere in London or something, they gave him a British Commonwealth Award for Mumbo Jumbo or something like that uh for that remark.
	But in fact, uh Rumsfeld's words are actually uh very relevant, and they have an appropriate humility in a complicated world, because it helps to know that you don't know everything.
	Unlike some, you know, presidents and commanders in chief we could mention.
	It helps not to blunder around uh like Secretary Clinton, a tourist in Arabia uh demanding that Mubarak should be gone by now.
	You know, w what was that?
	She just uh she just checked the uh either of the above, both of the above box, then no one knows what this administration's policy on Egypt is, because they're tourists in a very dangerous place when it comes to American foreign policy.
	And Rumsfeld's line that it's important to know the th it's important to know what you don't know, and it's important to be aware that you don't know everything you don't know is uh is absolutely critical when you're looking at something like Egypt.
	And you when you when you look at uh the fatuous things that, for example, President Obama said in his pathetic speech to the Muslim world in 2009.
	It's only two years, and it was hailed as a big landmark keynote address in Cairo to the Muslim world, and everything in it is pathetic and cowardly and evasive.
	Uh he stood up, for example, he stood up uh for the right of women to go covered in the United States.
	But he didn't say a word, for example, about the women who don't want to go covered, Muslim women who don't want to go covered, who are forced into that garb by Muslim men.
	He didn't say anything about the Muslim women who get honor killed, not just, you know, in Yemen and Jordan and Pakistan, but in Germany and in Scandinavia and in the United Kingdom and in Canada and the United States of America, victims of honor killing, right here in the United States of America.
	He didn't have a e but he congratulated himself uh uh uh doing what he always does, where he confuses narcissism for courage uh and integrity uh integrity, he congratulated himself on standing up for the right of women to wear head covering.
	They don't need to hear that in Egypt.
	So nothing the President of the United States, the leader of the global superpower said in Cairo is the least bit relevant two years later.
	It was a pathetic, forgotten, useless speech.
	And so he finds suddenly he wakes up one morning and there seems to be some kind of revolution happening in Egypt.
	And so he thinks, well, wait a minute, what's our policy on this?
	Nobody knows.
	The Vice President, the Secretary of State, his special envoy, everybody's saying different things on here.
	And the c and the question now about Egypt is Egypt going to fall into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.
	That would be as big an event in the transformation of American interests in that region as the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
	Uh Egypt regards itself as the most important country in the Arab world.
	It's traditionally been a uh uh a fairly secular pluralist country.
	This regime's been there for half a century, and before that they had the uh playboy King Farook, if you remember uh King Farook, uh the Egyptian monarchy.
	I think the Egypti i i uh I I'd uh if there's any Egyptian scholars listening, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Egyptian Bodarchy actually came from Albania at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
	I'm uh I'm it's a kind of hazy corner of my old history lessons I'm going on here, but uh I think they uh settle into e th they basically been governing uh Egypt for about a hundred and fifty years before uh King Farouk fell.
	And he was like a playboy.
	He was a celebrated playboy in the West uh because he basically cruised up and down the Riviera with various blonde hotties.
	Uh and in fact he died.
	Uh memory serves, he died in Italy uh with a uh a blonde hottie alongside him.
	Uh but when they toppled the Egyptian monarchy, uh this dictatorship was supposed to represent secular pan-Arabism uh of the kind that was going to dominate the post-war era in the modern world.
	What's happened, what's happened in the thirty years that we've been giving two billion dollars a year to the Mubarak regime is that Egypt has utterly transformed, utterly transformed, so that now there are the only uh the the viable alternative to the Mubarak regime,
	in other words, the force in the country that is perhaps capable of holding that that nation together uh is not some nascent democracy movement, but the Muslim Brotherhood, uh which has the support of an ever more uh an ever more fiercely Islamic population.
	Uh one way to look at this is to uh look at the photos, which are out there on the internet, and they're worth taking a look at.
	The photos of the female graduating class at Cairo University in the 50s and the 70s, the nineties, and then from just a couple of years ago.
	And if you look at the one in the 50s, they look very little different from the female graduating class you would have seen at an uh East Coast uh Ivy League College.
	The women, it's a black and white photo, and the women look like Donna Reed and the Donna Reed Show 1957, uh, or uh or any other uh sitcom of the time, you know, whatever it was, Ozzy and Harriet, uh that that kind of they they look like the kind of women you'd you'd find from uh Westchester County going to college or whatever.
	You look at the 1970s, picture from 1978.
	Again, the female graduating class, they're all modern westernized women uncovered in Western dress.
	Then you look at the photograph from the 1990s, suddenly uh half the women are covered, and ha some of them still look like Westerners, half the women are covered.
	And then you look at the picture from 2005, and it is a sea of covered women.
	Uh Egypt, the the the Egypt of King Farouk, the Egypt of General Nasser, the Egypt of Anwar Sadat has gone.
	Gone.
	And what has happened is is that uh that society has changed, and it's changed in its view of Islam, and it's changed uh in respect of what it wants from a government.
	All the money we gave to uh Mubarak in the end can't hold up against big demographic cultural changes.
	In the end, foreign policy isn't about writing a check.
	It's not even about sending an unmanned drone over to bomb you once in a while.
	Uh foreign policy, uh foreign policy uh and the investment of the so-called realists in America in stability is always a waste of time, because there is no such thing as stability.
	And you can't just uh say we're investing in stability because we're sending Mubarak two billion dollars uh every year.
	It doesn't work like that.
	Unless you're in there moving things in your direction, they're gonna move in some other fellow's direction.
	And the way it's gone in Egypt over the last thirty years is it's uh moved in the Muslim Brotherhood's direction.
	Uh we're gonna talk about that.
	Uh we're gonna well I'll say a word as well about uh before we're done here today about the Reagan centenary.
	Because uh when I get depressed at the at what Republican leadership says about this and that as we face a huge crisis, one of the uh one of the cumbers c things that's comforting and dispiriting is to go back to what President Reagan was saying 30 years to find so much of it still stands up, uh, but that so few Republican leaders today would be willing to use those kind of lines.
	So we'll talk about the Reagan centenary and lots more still ahead.
	1800, 282, 2882.
	Mark Stein, in for rush on the uh EIB network.
	Um just uh let me just give you one statistic on uh on uh on Egypt.
	Just uh just to show you what you uh what we're dealing with here.
	Uh a couple of years ago, Mubarak, uh Mubarak's regime banned female genital mutilation, right?
	Because he's like the Mr. Secular.
	He was our secular dictator.
	Uh that's where he got the two billion dollars.
	Female genital mutilation.
	He banned it.
	And as a result of that spectacular ban, female genital mutilation rates in Egypt have fallen from ninety-seven percent to ninety one per cent.
	Uh in other words, uh Mubarak was a largely ineffectual leader.
	He banned uh political challenges to him, uh, but he he did nothing for the cultural transformation of uh of Egypt uh and and he was unable to do that.
	So in fact we were giving two billion dollars to a guy who wasn't really in control of the situation.
	And that whatever happens uh in uh in the next uh few months in Egypt, Egypt is likely to wind up with a a regime that is just as authoritarian uh but uh but is perhaps more reflective of the people's disposition on a lot of these things.
	And that's uh that's the reality of the world.
	In a uh democratic age, you can't buck demography.
	This is who the Egyptian people are.
	Now you think about it.
	You think about those pictures in the streets in Egypt, how few women there are there.
	You compare them, for example, to the demonstrations even in Lebanon a couple of years ago, where Lebanon was full of uh all these uh uh attractive looking women uh who would be underdressed, uh regarded as uh criminally underdressed in any other almost any other country in the Middle East.
	Uh or if you even look at the demonstrations in Tunisia uh just a few weeks ago, and then you compare them with what's happening on the streets of Egypt.
	It's uh it's a may it's a revolution of young men on the streets of Egypt.
	There's not a lot of women there because the women are all in the clitoridectomy clinic getting their uh getting their female genital mutilation topped up.
	Uh down from ninety-seven percent to ninety-one percent since bur uh since President Mubarak uh banned it.
	Hey, let's go from uh female genital mutilation back to the subject of Detroit, because uh that's the kind of smooth segue you expect from a professional broadcaster.
	Let's go to Matthew in uh Midland, Texas.
	Uh it says here Midland and Odessa.
	Uh which which are you between the two, Matthew, or in one or the other?
	I actually live in Odessa.
	Okay.
	Nice to talk to you.
	Nice to talk to you too, Matthew.
	Well, um, if anybody really knows Detroit, they know that they've had uh one of the top ten symphony orchestras in the in the nation.
	Right.
	And uh that ad the other night or last night, um didn't even you know, didn't mention the symphony, even though that was quite a shining star of the city.
	They've been on strike for the past uh season, this whole season they've been on strike.
	So just uh management has basically run the symphony into uh I think five to seven million dollar deficit a year.
	And uh are unable to uh fulfill the contracts that were set and have required uh pay decrease from about thirty thousand dollars for starting pay.
	Now just just but just just so uh we underst uh understand this, Matthew.
	Let's just get this right.
	The Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony is on strike and has been for the entire season.
	That's right, is it?
	Yes, sir.
	That's uh that is amazing.
	Th the was there an intervening stage where there was like a kind of work to rule where they they weren't gonna play, you know, Beethoven's ninth symphony, but they'd give you a quick uh um minute and a half flight of the bumblebee, and then they were out of there, or did they just go straight from full performance to the strike?
	Um well the musicians themselves have formed their own organization and uh their their own just concerts and uh different venues, but uh uh it's it's a very situation and uh it's sad because it's it's been one of the greatest orchestras in the world.
	Yeah, no, no, no.
	I I I know.
	I wasn't aware they were uh on but that's uh that that is the way.
	And I guess it's a municipally funded symphony orchestra, isn't it?
	Well, the the vast majority of uh funding for don uh symphony orchestras comes from uh private donors, uh people who will leave endowments, and uh and it it's just funny how it mirrors the federal government that the that the management who are overpaid by so much anyways um would actually run the symphony into the ground like that and uh it's it's just it's funny how that mirrors Washington.
	Well, thank thanks for your call, Matthew.
	That's uh that right there is an amazing insight, uh by the way.
	The uh the symphony orchestra is on strike.
	I don't know, I f I don't know what theater that that M and M went into uh when he was doing his Super Bowl commercial uh paid for by taxpayers, but if he'd gone in there and he was expecting a full supporting orchestra and they all downed their instruments.
	They all downed bows and said, We're out of here, we're out of here.
	Uh they're not uh they're not fiddling along with uh uh M. Uh but that's uh that's the way it is in uh in uh Detroit.
	The Symphony Orchestra has been on strike for the entire season.
	Land without music.
	Uh Mark Stein in for Rush talking about uh what's happening uh domestically and foreignly, and we'll talk some more about Egypt uh when we come back.
	Don't forget Rush returns uh live tomorrow for another week in broadcasting, and he will be talking to uh former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about his new book.
	That's Rush Live Tomorrow.
	Yes, Rush returns tomorrow, but you can uh keep up with uh uh Rush at uh Rush Limbaugh.com uh which is always there.
	If you've got a computer, you just uh switch it on and go to Rush Limbaugh.com and it's like Rush Rush is still here.
	It's like he's never gone away.
	But he will return live to the airwaves tomorrow uh to take you through the end of the week for another week of uh excellence in broadcasting.
	Substitute host level excellence in broadcasting today.
	Let us go to Kumar in Houston, Texas.
	Kuma, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hey, Kuma, are you there?
	Wow, I thought he was gonna I th I th I thought he was gonna talk about uh about Egypt.
	But he's uh but he's g he's gone.
	Okay, we'll try and we'll try and uh get back.
	Not sure where he's uh he's gone to.
	Um uh we were talking about uh talking about Egypt and talking about the way things are likely to go there.
	There's a there's a kind of uh tragedy about uh dictators.
	Dictators are always impregnable until until the moment uh until the moment that they fall.
	Like the Tunisian guy.
	One minute he was uh secure, Ben Ali, one minute he was secure, next thing he's gone in nothing flat.
	And what was fascinating about that is that uh he had a uh it was like basically one twenty-six-year-old guy committing suicide that brought down his regime after all that time.
	And uh he was uh the the twenty-six-year-old guy had been expensively educated.
	There was no job for him when he came out.
	He tried to run a fruit and vegetable stand in the market.
	They kept hassling him for permits and regulations and all the rest of it, because apparently Tunisia is as bad as California or New York in terms of the burdens of the regulatory state.
	And eventually the the uh guard had enough of it and set himself alight.
	And he wound up bringing down this uh decades old uh dictatorship uh in Tunisia.
	And that's really what's going on that's really what's going on here.
	There's uh that there's nothing for uh a lot of these young people to do in these societies.
	And uh as a result, if you've got a lot of young guys sitting around with time on their hands, that's not a good recipe for social tranquility.
	There's a lesson there, by the way, uh, for the United States, too, because if you look at uh some of the unemployment rates uh in uh in uh the US and other Western countries, we're not gonna be immune from uh some of these Tunisian type scenes uh in the years ahead.
	Uh but uh but uh oh I gather we've got Kumar back now.
	Let's go to Kumar in uh Houston, Texas.
	Uh Houston, we had a problem, but Kumar we have solved the problem, and you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Oh well, thank you.
	Uh my points are uh just here is that if we're talking about calling an elected official in a country dictator, well, here at home in the US, we have a president elected, duly elected, and doesn't uh the uh Egyptians have the right to call our president a dictator.
	Well well you're you're uh you're you're referring to uh me calling him a dictator.
	Uh Vice President Biden uh says that uh he isn't a dictator.
	And you're right to the extent that they an election was held a few years ago and he won.
	Now now basically the way it works in Egypt is that uh is that parties uh and candidates are deeply restricted.
	For example, uh the Muslim Brotherhood is banned from standing as the Muslim Brotherhood, uh standing for Parliament as the Muslim Brotherhood.
	They can uh some of them uh a couple of elections ago manage to uh get elected to Parliament by uh finding uh flags of convenience to fly under.
	But they can't basically run as Muslim Brotherhood.
	It would be as if, you know, uh Sarah Palin wouldn't be allowed to run on the Republican ticket uh but but uh maybe she could sneak through if she if she called herself the liberal progressive fluffy bunny party they might let her that let her run then.
	So so uh you know, technically you're right uh that uh that an election was held.
	But you're not you're not surely disputing that uh that that pres you're not surely arguing that President Mubarak's uh last election victory reflected the will of the Egyptian people, are you?
	No, no, I am not.
	But uh for example, we had recently uh a head of state from China, also a very well defined dictator, but we gave him twenty-one gun salute, you know.
	Right.
	So where why if we are to lead the world in morality or or political morality or democratic morality, then don't you have to have the same title for each one of them?
	Well, I certainly agree with you that we shouldn't be giving twenty-one gun salutes to uh the dictator of China.
	Uh and as Rush himself said on on the show here, i th what what could be more pitiful uh than the uh the previous Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama, throwing a big banquet for the guy who's jailed uh the current Nobel Peace Prize winner.
	Obama Obama uh rev uh I hate to keep harping on his narcissism, but apparently the Nobel Peace Prize is only important when it's given to Barack Obama, and if the next guy who gets it happens to be tossed into a a Chinese jail, it's not going to stop Barack.
	Look at me, Obama, from h throwing a big gala banquet uh for for for f for uh the Nobel Peace Prize winners jailer.
	And I agree with you that I agree with you that uh uh the political realities mean we have to deal with dictators in in the modern world.
	You can't just say, well, I refuse to uh recognize uh the uh the government of China in part because they owe us.
	They own us, they're keeping us afloat.
	Uh, if it weren't for the government of J China, we'd we'd be sinking uh in in in the in the debt of our government proliferous prolificacy.
	I forget what word that started out as.
	But uh but you're but so you have to deal with reality.
	But you shouldn't throw you may there will be moments when you have to sit across the table from the dictator, but you don't throw in big gala banquets.
	Uh big gala banquets should be reserved for the freely chosen leaders uh of uh of uh uh America's uh allies.
	I think there's a big difference uh between throwing a gala banquet for the Prime Minister of New Zealand and throwing a gala banquet for the dictator of China, and you're absolutely right on that.
	And and the and and the other point is this that i when when someone like uh uh uh President Obama pushed to the Congress Obamacare without the opportunity for the elected official uh members uh to even read it, well didn't it go over and beyond the uh reach of the Constitution of the United States.
	So who is right to call for ouster of a a officially elected president of a country, no matter what kind of constitution they have.
	Well well, you know, you're right, uh you're right there to this extent that there is a I would say uh in this particular administration uh a contempt for for constitutionality.
	I mean, they don't care uh about uh the constitutionality of Obamacare.
	Uh Pete Stark, for example, uh he was asked a question about the constitutionality of Obamacare, and he said uh he said there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the Federal Government from uh doing anything that it wanted to to affect your your private life.
	And and uh and the the lady who asked him the question in California was stunned by this and said, uh so you're saying that the Federal Government can do anything.
	And he said, yes, the Federal Government can do anything it wants.
	And uh that's why it doesn't care really.
	It it figures that uh it figures that uh the judges it appoints to the Supreme Court will rule that the commerce clause of the Constitution can mean anything they want it to mean, uh, and that Obamacare is entirely constitutional, and the fact that, as you say, they hammered it down the throats of America in the teeth of public opinion is irrelevant.
	Uh as as Obama said uh in his cocky period two years ago, I won.
	That's that's his view of uh constitutional government and the balance of powers.
	I won.
	That was the way Mubarak thought of it too, by the way.
	Uh that that he won.
	He was the guy in the presidential palace, and he could do what he wanted, uh, and there was an element of of that with Obama too.
	I'm not quite ready.
	I know I compared Cairo to Detroit the other day.
	I'm not quite ready to compare the perilous state of uh liberty in Egypt with the way it is in the United States of America, but uh I take your point, Kubar.
	Thank you very much for your call.
	That's Kubar in Houston, Texas.
	Uh Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network 1 800 282 2882.
	Mark Stein uh InfoRush from the uh Daily Mail in London.
	One here's the headline.
	One legged Afghan Red Cross worker set to be hanged after converting to Christianity.
	This is Saeed Musa, who has uh is being held in a prison in Kabul, uh who was arrested uh uh last May as he attempted to seek asylum at the German embassy in Kabul following a crackdown on Christians within Afghanistan, right?
	Now we're often told about uh Afghanistan uh that uh it's a very uh decentralized country, so Hamid Kazai, the guy we put in power there, is really little more than the mayor of Kabul.
	So he can't be held accountable for stuff that's happening in Kandahar and uh other outlying parts of the country.
	But this is right actually in downtown Kabul.
	A guy is uh trying to seek asylum at the German embassy and he's captured because Afghanistan is cracking down on Christians.
	Now wait a minute.
	Hamid Karzai would be dead.
	He's protected by uh United States and other Western soldiers.
	Otherwise he would be dead.
	He would be hanging from a lamppost, like uh like predecessors of his as uh as uh president of Afghanistan.
	Uh 'cause uh uh uh Afghanistan is is uh n the Afghan presidency is not an office that one generally leaves in a breathing state.
	So Hamad Karzai is kept alive only by American troops, British troops, Canadian troops, other Western troops.
	That's all that's keeping him alive.
	And yet, he's apparently cracking down on Christians within Afghanistan, and in three days' time, February the tenth, Thursday, February the tenth, Saeed Musa, 45, an Afghan physiotherapist, is going to be executed for converting to Christianity.
	Now this is this is a very uh interesting example of uh the the pointlessness of nation building.
	What is the point of building a nation in Afghanistan if all you're doing is building a nation that hangs hangs forty-five-year-old guys who want to convert to Christianity?
	Why are we expending blood and treasure, blood and treasure, uh in in facilitating uh Hamid Karzai's erection of a regime that hangs you for for uh f f for converting to Christianity?
	It's one thing to be in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001 to kill bad guys, uh to topple Al Qaeda, to topple the Taliban, to teach uh to teach those uh the guys in those camps a lesson, that if you mess with America, you get a big bomb dropped on you and you're dead.
	And it ain't the seventy-two virgin kind of death where you you you you get to trim all your private parts and so you're all nice and fresh and moist and sweet smelling as you self-detonate and you uh you hit the express line for the seventy-two virgins, you're just all a mess and blown to pieces, and you're in lousy shape when you get to paradise, and none of the seventy-two virgins are gonna look at you.
	It's one thing to kill a bunch of bad guys in the fall of two thousand one when you do that.
	But ten years later, why are we protecting a regime uh that executes people who convert to Christianity?
	Why, in other words, are are Americans dying in Afghanistan to protect to protect a r regime that would kill those Americans uh if they attempted to practice their religion in the streets of uh Kabul or Kandahar.
	And that is why that is why uh lazy, careless, uh sappy, multi culty nation building never gets you anywhere, never gets you anywhere, because it's not thought out enough.
	Uh and that's why the Afghanistan mission has got bogged down.
	And I'll be interested to see if this comes up uh when uh Rush talks to Sev Secretary Rumsfeld tomorrow.
	That's why the uh the Afghan mission has got bogged down because we no longer know what our war aims are, and we no longer recognize them as war aims.
	We think somehow we're there to uh, you know, rebuild health clinics or not.
	There's no point building health clinics if they're just gonna fill them uh up with uh Afghanistan's leading clitoridectomy practitioners.
	Uh let's go to Rooney in Rockville, Connecticut.
	Rooney, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Good to have you with us.
	Another high water mark uh in Talk Radio.
	The uh Your uh wit and wisdom is exceeded only by your preparedness for the airwaves.
	But I wanted to talk about another pathetic speech that you you mentioned as uh pathetic speech in oh nine by Obama to the Muslim world.
	Right.
	Last week there was a pathetic speech to a group of young people at Penn State University by the uh commander in chief, which was highly ironic and somewhat amusing uh under the circumstances that there was a professor at Penn State by the name of Michael Mann.
	Right.
	Who was uh implicated in the East Anglia University fraud over climate change and global warming.
	And uh that's that's right.
	The basically the the Pen Penn State and East Anglia peer reviewed each other back and forth supporting the whole global warming uh thesis.
	Well, it's uh it's a great university, uh, in my opinion.
	Right.
	But it is so large that it does have some uh gaping shortcomings, and one of them was him.
	But there's another thing in that speech that left the locals very disappointed.
	During his campaign for president and just before the election, which occurred when?
	In oh eight.
	That's right.
	Uh Obama went to Pennsylvania and referred to his uh support and the fondness for the Pennsylvania Nidley Lions.
	Uh NITTA L L Y, Nittily Lions.
	And uh those around the country who have uh grown to respect Coach Paterno and and the the young men he puts on the field know that they're the Nittany Lions.
	And everyone expected an apology from Obama at that speech on last Thursday, which was to uh the purpose of which was to promote energy conservation in commercial buildings, a a very riveting speech, you can imagine.
	But not only was there no apology for referring to the Great Netanya Lions as the Middle Alliance, with both Paterno and the President of the University in attendance, of course.
	The only thing he apologized for, again, was America and the Omer Americans who who uh need to conserve more and are wasteful people.
	And just uh we we're such a despicable group.
	He is he must be ashamed to be our president, uh, Mark.
	But uh that that he could do.
	Apologize for the uh what was it what was you talking?
	He was talking about global warming, uh, is it uh down there?
	The irony is that he goes to the belly of the beast where his whole scheme got implicated.
	And uh I think that's part of I mean, you know the genius that this man has.
	Oh no, and he he but he's not going to take on a guy, he's not going to actually take on a guy like my I mean this is this is a classic example, by the way, of of the of the of the pansy left.
	They will they are wedded to this.
	This latest thing is that Paul Krugman in the New York Times is blaming the uh uh situation in Egy Egypt on on climate change.
	What's tragic is when he speaks at Penn State, not only that he doesn't uh apologize for the mispronunciation I'm sympathetic to that as a sinister foreigner myself, you know.
	It's uh it's uh very easy for a guy like me to uh say it's hey, it's great to be with you in Dem One, and then discover that apparently the town isn't pronounced like that at all.
	But uh it's it's that the wedding, the way they're not prepared to give up, even with young people.
	There's no none of the people in this audience.
	Global warming went away.
	Global warming ceased in nineteen ninety-eight.
	I said that a couple of years ago.
	Uh and then uh and everyone I got attacked by all the climate change loons, and then in these East Anglian uh emails uh that were leaked, it turns out that those guys all admit that uh there hasn't been any global warming since nineteen ninety eight, but they don't want to announce it on TV.
	And in fact the head guy actually went ahead and announced it, uh conceded the point on Australian T V and admitted uh that they hadn't, uh that they didn't fully understand the models, and that's why they didn't want to bring it up in in public.
	Gotta run, gotta take time out for an EIB profit center, more to come on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	Dr. Phil Jones in East Anglia said uh the scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998, one of the leaked emails that the climate change crowd didn't want to tell you the truth on.

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