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March 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Hour number three of our one day dance together.
Hi, Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, Texas.
And Russia's back tomorrow.
All righty, let's uh let's talk some nukes.
Let's talk some Japan.
Let me lay that down before heading back to your calls, the majority of which are about the wisdom or ill wisdom of American or in many ways anybody's intervention in Libya.
The latest on Japan is as follows.
You know, there's some buildings I just don't want to see smoke.
You know, maybe the Vatican is the only building I want to see smoke coming out of where they're trying to figure out the next pope.
Other than that, smoke coming out of the building, not really that great unless it's a pleasant fire on a frosty New England morning.
Anyway, gray smoke rose from two reactor units today, temporarily stalling critical work to reconnect power lines and restore cooling systems to stabilize Japan's radiation leaking nuclear complex.
Boy, that's a word you never want to see in a news story.
Radiation leaking nuclear complex.
Workers are racing to bring the nuclear plant under control, but the process is proceeding in fits and starts, stalled by incidents like the smoke and by the need to work methodically to make sure wiring, pumps, and other machinery can be uh safely switched on.
This is from an AP story this morning.
Um I'll share another paragraph or two because it's it's some chilling stuff and some daunting stuff.
And I want to ask you if this uh what effect this has on your desire for more nuclear power in America.
Um this will illicit laughter in some corners.
I always try to be reasonable.
I really do.
I mean, we all we're all driven by our politics, we're driven by our ideology, we have our our our compasses, we have our barometers.
But uh no matter left, right, whatever, we should try to be reasonable.
Now, what in the world does that mean?
Here's what I'm talking about here.
It does does my belief in the additional use of nuclear power is that part of my conservatism?
You know, I've never really thought so.
Um I like domestically produced energy.
Faced with the notion of running our country on energy from sources in countries that want to kill us, there's some things I want to do in my own country.
I want to drill for more American oil.
I want to use more natural gas and drill for it at reasonable distances from people's houses.
Uh and I want to explore absolutely explore the additional use of nuclear power to keep America humming along.
I and I don't that doesn't strike me as a subset of my conservatism.
My desire for lower taxes, my desire for less government, my desire for a strong military, my desire to uh you know have the Constitution obeyed, my desire for uh more uh uh privatization of many things the federal government does, uh uh uh my my pro-life stance, my belief in the uh in the the the status of marriage, I mean that that's my social conservatism and fiscal conservatism.
I can identify those for you all day long.
Uh I tend to want to explore more nuclear power.
Okay, that I don't think that speaks to a certain political ilk.
And here's what's interesting.
The left has had an interesting time with nuclear power.
Because forever and a day, and this is part of why we haven't had uh a new license of a nuclear plant since 1978, is because environmental extremism, which is absolutely a subset of the left, has shut that down because of scare tactics that it's somehow unsafe and somehow terrible.
Uh and it's not.
Well, wait a minute, Mark, look at what's happening in Japan.
Yeah, uh earthquakes are unsafe.
Tsunamis are hazardous.
Nuclear power is not.
Does it uh can is it fraught with hazards if if the fault lines uh begin to do the shimmy shimmy shake uh off your coastline?
Yeah.
And maybe that means that there are places in America where it's maybe not the greatest idea to have a nuclear plant.
But just here in Texas, where uh where I'm joining you from I don't we're we're not sitting on a fault line.
And I don't think that we're gonna see tsunamis coming off of Lake Granberry south of Fort Worth.
So I I that's what I mean by reasonable.
A rational assessment of real risk.
So as all of this is unfolded in Japan, I I'm interested in your thought on whether this is there is there you or anybody in your family, anybody in your circle of friends has gone, well, I used to be okay with nukes, but oh dude, not anymore.
Because that just strikes me as horribly short-sighted.
So So Governor Yuhe Sato of Fukushima Prefecture says, his quote, our crisis is still going on.
Our crisis was with the nuclear plants.
We're doing everything we can to bring this to an end.
Don't give up.
We know you are suffering, he told more than a thousand people moved away from the plant into a gymnasium.
Nobody knows what caused the smoke to come off of this thing.
But still in the days since the March eleventh earthquake in tsunami, both those reactors have overheated and seen explosions.
Problems set off by these disasters have ranged far beyond the devastated Northeast Coast and the wrecked nuclear plant.
Handing the government what it's called Japan's worst crisis since World War II.
That's one way of putting it.
Rebuilding the ruined Northeast Coast may cost as much as two hundred thirty five billion dollars.
I got an email today.
Police estimate the death toll will surpass eighteen thousand.
eighteen thousand.
What the heck happened in Haiti?
You know, with a death toll many, many, many, many, many, many, many times more in a in not as densely populated a country.
Well, I'm sorry, there's really only one way to put this.
In Haiti, most of the buildings are built with cardboard and toothpicks and paper cubs.
In Japan, they have real buildings.
If if earthquakes hit fairly well developed parts of the world, fewer things are going to topple and fewer people are going to die.
Well now this was very interesting.
How much of this is necessary and how much of it is image making?
The good people of Nissan have come out and said we are going to be screening heavily every uh you know, we don't want you to not buy a pathfinder because you think uh it's gonna arrive glowing green in your garage.
Now I and I I'm intrigued about you know Nissan dealers, Toyota dealers, Honda dealers, because I'm guessing the production lines have been affected.
And as gas prices continue to go up, I wonder if you know if a Prius might be costing you a little more than it did a couple of months ago.
Marketplace is what it is.
So how much of this is real and how much of it is scare?
Here's some other sentences you some other words you never want to see in a sentence.
Radiation and vegetables.
Traces of radiation are tainting vegetables and some water supplies, though in amounts that the government and health experts say do not pose a risk to human health in the short term.
China it's kind of interesting.
Who is Japan's biggest trading partner?
It's not us, it's China.
Of course, isn't China everybody's biggest trading partner these days?
China, Japan's biggest trading partner, has ordered testing of Japanese food imports for radiation contamination.
Please do not overreact and act calmly, says Chief Cabinet Spokesman Yukio Edano in the government's latest appeal to ease public concerns.
Even Oh, this is good.
Even if you eat contaminated vegetables several times, it will not harm your health at all.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Thanks, Yukio.
Feeling much better.
And you know the thing is, though, he's right he's right, isn't he?
I mean, there's radiation and there's radiation.
You know, isn't the sausage biscuit I had this morning got some kind of isotopes in it Or something.
I mean, I isn't I don't know, I the our the FDA, there's a third talk show.
The the uh has limits on what can be in certain things, mostly like rodent hair in your peanut butter and stuff like that.
But uh in terms of radiation, isn't I I remember this from like fifth grade science class.
Everything is radioactive.
I felt like walking around with a Geiger counter, you know, in my house.
Scared the living daylights out of me.
But it's true.
There's a certain level of radiation in everything, right?
And where's that bar set?
At what point is there enough radiation in something where consuming it will harm you?
Now that's a question that would seem like it has an answer.
But here's where you get very heavily into trust in your government.
Ah my, there's a thick book here in the United States of America, isn't it?
But over in Japan, is there an instinct?
I mean, they're very big about honor in Japan and you know.
I don't want to get stereotypically or anything, but I I wonder if there is something in the Japanese personality that would be a an obstacle to a Japanese official lying like a dog to the public so that they don't get the bejabbers scared out of them by radioactive broccoli.
Because if a country steps forward and says, you know, um we've just had a near nuclear meltdown and there's a whole lot of radiation all over the place, our food may not be safe to eat.
Yikes Double yikes.
So in view of the disaster that would stem from that press release, there is a strong motivation.
Let's not make it Japan, let's not make it America.
Any country, there's a strong motivation for government officials to lie.
And say, let's just keep people calm and hope to God we don't uh, you know, have people dead in the streets from eating our carrots.
Roll the dice and see what happens.
What is the proper level of cautiousness for something like this?
Now, as for the whole nuclear industry picture in America, as I've said, there's not one thing that has happened in uh Japan that makes me less enthusiastic about American nuclear power.
We have one hundred and four nuclear power plants in the United States.
One hundred four.
I want more.
Still want them.
At least the ones that were built are are going to be a lot um uh safer in state of the art one would think than the ones that were, you know, built during the Carter administration or before.
So your thoughts on nuke power, please.
Oh, i just uh start but to finish a sentence that I started seemingly five minutes ago, uh the left is in a bit of a conundrum because they spent a long time telling us that nuclear power was the devil, but then fossil fuels became the new devil.
And when fossil fuels becomes the absolute evil enemy number one, then all of a sudden you you have an alternative energy source like nuclear that is that that doesn't belch smoke into the air.
Well, at least not ordinarily, uh then that that's a good, isn't it?
So and there absolutely are some on the left who have said, you know, after thirty years, you know, you know, pardon me, urinating all over nuclear power, I gotta tell you, it may be better than that coal-fired plant down the street, and we may need to start to smile on that a little bit.
So uh and that's really what got me going on it's it's not conservatism that leads me to smile on the notion of exploring nuclear power.
It's just sensibility, man.
More American energy.
More American energy.
If we'd had 14 Chernobyls and 23 three mile islands, you know, and a half a dozen Fukushimas, you know, with or without earthquakes in America, I'd be saying, man, let's can we hold off on the uh can we hold off on the new plant, please?
I'm more than willing to be cautious.
Here in Texas and all over America, uh, you know, we've got a lot of Natural gas stuff going on.
I'm a huge fan of the natural gas industry.
I'm a huge fan of more domestic energy.
I'm a huge fan of finding more American sources of energy.
But if the question is, are there some possible health concerns about having a Saturn V gantry out in the back of your house to bring uh natural gas out of some underground rock formation?
Answer is yeah, there might be.
And can we look into that, please?
So I am not without caution.
What I am without is time.
Let me get this break in and come back and we'll uh put some more people on the radio.
On the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis filling in, back in a moment on the EIB network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Monday.
Rush is back tomorrow.
I'm here today.
Glad of both, let's just say.
And we've got about 36 minutes to take care of in today's Rush show, and he'll be back tomorrow doing a little charity golf action today.
Listen, just coming off the weekend, just I don't know how much or how little you've been paying attention to this, But uh how about Butler, Indianapolis, Indiana.
And you know something?
If we're talking about towns, if we're talking about towns, let's reach out to the good people of Richmond, Virginia.
Because first of all, the NCAA college basketball tournament, even as jacked up as it is now where they stick eight extra teams in there or whatever, uh like sixty-four is not enough, uh is the greatest championship in all of sports.
I don't mean the biggest deal, the Super Bowl's the biggest deal, but but starting with sixty-four, sixty-four teams, sixty-three games, boom, last team standing.
How do you not love that?
That's the marketplace at work.
It's tremendous.
And let's just reach into the Commonwealth of Virginia to the fine capital city there.
So all the Rush fans in the great city of Richmond, Virginia.
Right there, hard against Interstate 95.
Not just uh boy, uh talk about a uh a a wealth of uh of of blessings there.
We're not just the university that bears the city's name, the University of Richmond fighting spiders, which always made me chuckle, and I have no basis for which to chuckle because I am an alumnus of the University of Maryland.
The Diamondback Terrapin, a slow, nearly defenseless animal was my mascot.
So I can't chuckle at anybody else's mascot.
And Maryland ain't in the tournament either.
But Richmond is, and so is VCU, Virginia Commonwealth, the fighting Rams in there as well.
Listen, I you know Duker, Ohio State's gonna win this whole thing probably, right?
Aren't they probably?
But boy, how about a little uh maybe a little VCU butler at the other end of that final four bracket?
Uh it's really been a joy.
It it has been a joy.
Watching a little uh cottage basketball this past weekend.
All righty, one eight hundred uh two eight two two eight eight two.
We're in Newcastle PA, Joe.
Hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Very, very fine, thank you.
Uh I'll make this short and sweet.
Uh on Saturday morning uh uh uh w one of the radio stations uh here in Pittsburgh, which which uh sure is Quinn and Rose, of which you may be familiar, uh Glenn Meekham, and I'm sure that you can Google him and uh bring it up uh from his Saturday broadcast.
He had the uh the CEO of Westinghouse on, who has uh uh had a thirty-six year experience uh in nuclear design for Westinghouse uh actually specializing in nuclear accident.
And he explained that what ruined the plant was not the earthquake that the uh the the nuclear plants survived that, and that was with the uh G uh GE Marble reactor of boiling water from uh fifty years ago.
But what did it in was that they had a uh a tsunami wall that was about a foot and a half too short, and when the tsunami came in, it uh got into the plant, ruined the the infrastructure, and that knocked down all of their generators, which knocked out the pumps.
So it wasn't the nuclear reactors, it was the water that didn't mean.
And what can you expect, Joe?
Thank you.
What can you expect a nuclear reactor to withstand?
I I mean uh uh v extraordinary things happening in nature uh are are are going to occasionally ravage some very sensitive buildings.
And i if you have I mean it's like w what what's left?
Frogs dropping from the sky?
You had an earthquake and a tsunami?
Uh That's that's going to uh that's gonna ruffle the feathers of of some of the best defended structures against such phenomena.
So I I just I really will have no part of this notion that the uh the Japanese reactor dramas of the moment are somehow evidence that we need to wean ourselves from nuclear power in America.
And I get and to a lot of people's credit, I guess, haven't really heard a bunch of that.
I've heard some, but not an enormous amount of people making the thousand mile logical leap that tsunamis and earthquakes in a Japanese reactor mean that a new nuke plant in Middle America is somehow a bad idea.
Uh that just does not logically work.
All righty, uh half hour to go, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Stick around or on the EIB network.
All right, everybody, it's the home stretch, final half hour of the Monday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis with you from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth, Rush is back tomorrow.
All right, so we've got a heavy narrative of Libya talk going, and uh either the embracing or the rejection of American involvement there.
And we're also taking a look at the effect of the Japanese nuclear disaster well, the new nuclear disaster.
Let's not be too incendiary here.
The Japanese uh natural disaster, uh the earthquake and tsunami, the effect of that on their reactors, which I guess a potential disaster, certainly a crisis in progress, and whether that uh deserves to be a disaster for the promise of uh further uh American nuclear exploration.
I I really boil things down when I can to some basics.
And if there is anything that cries out from the realm of logic, it is we need more American energy.
If if there's there are relatively few sentences that can garner 90% agreement from the American people.
You know, I'll want lower taxes.
Well, maybe you'd get sixty forty on that.
You know, uh two plus two equals four.
You'd like to think you get relative unanimity on that.
Uh flat tax or sales tax, uh, abortion, good or bad.
I mean, uh we disagree about everything.
But I bet you walk into a room and say we get way too much energy from other countries, and you'll you'll get the big standing O from Republicans and Democrats.
Okay, what are you gonna do about that?
Now, obviously, uh what I was I'll tell you one thing we can do about it.
I was listening to Energy Secretary Stephen Chu on a couple of talk shows on Sunday.
And what this guy is all hyped up about is some good six dollar gas in the United States so that we all just run screaming out of our homes to go buy electric cars or ride our bikes to work.
Now, I have nothing against riding your bike to work, good for you.
I have absolutely nothing against electric cars.
The Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf and all of that uh work out great if the marketplace smiles on them, fantastic.
They work well, you don't find up wind up with people, you know, stranded ten miles from their house.
Great, great, great, great, good, good, good, good.
I want exactly those kinds of technologies that people are willing to embrace.
But I don't want them to be forced to embrace them because we have allowed the fossil fuels that we actually want as a nation to become wildly expensive because we have suppressed new exploration for them.
Now that's all about running our cars and oil, of course, is about heating your homes as well.
We love fossil fuels.
I I swear to God, if anybody ever comes up to you and refers to our addiction to oil, just stop them down in their tracks.
Stop that.
Stop it now.
We are not addicted to oil.
We like it.
We use it.
We need it.
Now, if at some point we decide to opt for something else, great, go right ahead.
We have a demand for oil because it works, it's effective, and it built this country.
Now if we change our minds about that and we just love them electric cars, good for us.
Start running our cars on other things, heating our homes with other things, like nuclear.
We got all kinds of natural gas vehicles too.
If that's all such an all fired great idea, okay, that's a way to reduce oil consumption.
Let us not have oil consumption reduced through fear tactics, brow beating, and needlessly high cost.
Speaking of natural gas uh vehicles, let's go to Chicago.
Martha, hi.
Mark Davis in for Rush, how are you?
Rooney.
What's up?
In ten years ago in Chicago, they converted all of the cabs to natural gas, propane.
So what did the state of Illinois do?
They increased the tax on natural gas, so the taxi cab companies gave up on it.
This costs about two hundred dollars to convert to natural gas.
Why don't we do that?
Now one of the things about it is it takes a little bit more technology in order to put the gas into the the gas can into the the automobile.
But supposing that happens, we'll have to have it put in by the attendants.
We'll have to pay a little bit more for that.
But it's all done in America.
We have more natural gas in America than there is in any other country in the world.
Well, but here's what I care about.
If we have people putting it in the tank, it means we will create jobs.
But what but what if I don't want those jobs?
The o Okay, please, do me a favor.
I I don't I I do not want jobs created for the sake of jobs created.
I don't need anybody to pump my gas, so I kind of like that better.
If at some point I want a car that runs on natural gas, I'll buy one.
And if millions of people buy cars run on natural gas, and so we need nineteen forty-eight Texaco Star Theater with the guys all coming out to pump the natural gas for us, great if that happens naturally.
But don't ever opt for an energy source because it will create jobs at the pumping station.
It's a bad piece of logic.
We have more natural gas than anybody else, and except for the tax that was on it by Illinois, the taxicab companies in Illinois ran for two years on natural gas.
Now that then at that point there's only one other in fact, there's really ultimately only one question I care about.
And did did you drive one that was natural gas powered?
No, I didn't drive it, but I drove in a hell of a lot of cabs.
Okay, gotcha.
And they were all using it.
Every single taxi cab in Chicago is using propane.
All right, here's here's what I would want to know from those drivers, and I asked the question locally here in Texas, and I got very mixed reviews.
And I didn't mean bad reviews, it means mixed reviews.
And that is if those natural gas vehicles work as well, as reliably, as efficiently, as pleasantly, as enjoyably as my internal combustion fossil fuel engine, then great.
I'm prepared to smile on that technology broadly widely and eternally.
Well, I think it would be a good idea if somebody would review it and find out what those results were.
Well, the marketplace reviews it every day.
Uh the a review is in progress as we speak.
I go to a lot of big cities and I see a lot of natural gas run buses, they seem to work.
And um, you know, I I I tend to believe that it's like a law of physics here in the marketplace.
If enough people I do think that that is ultimately our goal is to do that because we have so much natural, sure.
And I'm and that that that intrigues me at the very first turnstile, and you got a very good ally in that, a guy I like a lot, have spoken to a few times, Mr. T. Boone Pickens, that old Pickens plan thing's all about the natural gas.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
Appreciate the call from the Windy City.
Uh, you know, I listen, I've I've just introduced you to my complete logic on all green technology, on all alternative fuels.
Every single one I feel exactly the same way.
If it works, excellent.
If it doesn't, forget it.
And in my own life, if I find something that powers something, my car, my house, my weed eater, as well as the uh, you know, old school fuels that I have grown so fond of.
If I find something that works better or cheaper, or both, oh man, I I'm there.
But I will be damned if I will be have some alternative fuel forced down my esophagus that is of lesser value or more expensive or lesser efficiency or lesser convenience.
Just for the uh for the greater good.
There is no greater good than what people want.
And if that sounds like, oh, that just sounds like evil capitalism and uh uh rampant self-interest, uh well, guess what?
Exactly.
It is rampant self-interest.
It's not and it is capitalism, but it's not evil.
Look at what the open marketplace has given us.
Tons of people are buying, you know, are running their houses on solar panels.
Great.
Tons of people are driving hybrids.
Great.
Tons of people are riding their bikes to work.
Great.
We are a country that does want and naturally seeks out affordable and cleaner and greener energy.
We do it without a dime, not a thin dime of government subsidy.
That's another thing I better not hear one stinking word about.
Well, we need to spend 147 bazillion dollars uh so that we can determine whether natural gas will run it.
No.
Make natural gas cars.
Throw up some stations, see if people go.
Boom.
Just saved you all the money on the study.
Electric cars.
Chevy's making one.
Nissan's making one.
Put them in showrooms.
Boom.
They'll either bomb or be enormously popular.
Don't need a study.
Don't need a subsidy.
Hybrids didn't.
Gas goes to four bucks a gallon.
People are clawing their eyeballs out and buy a Prius.
Marketplace works, man.
Marketplace works.
Here's the commercial marketplace on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in, back in a moment on the EIB network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Monday, the waning moments.
We've got uh this break and uh this segment and then one more little one at the end, and then we are done.
And then Russia's back for tomorrow.
It's been a joy.
Mark Davis from down Texas Way at WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
Let us head next into let's some folks have been hanging on because we sort of went from Libya talk into some nuclear and some energy policy talk.
So there uh in in the the beautiful, beautiful uh scenery of Trigo, Montana, Daphne is there, and it is time to uh to relieve her of her plight.
Hi, Daphne Mark Davis, so you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
I'm fine, Mark.
How are you doing today?
Great.
Thanks for hanging on.
Yeah, I guess a little old, but okay.
Well, alrighty then.
I needed to be a big thing.
There's gratitude for you.
I'm kidding.
Go ahead.
I'm teasing.
Go ahead.
I said uh my question is, uh Libya being a sovereign nation, how can we actually justify going there without them doing a direct attack on us?
I mean, granted, yes there's you know people being killed in the streets, but you know, there was people being killed in the st in the streets in Iran, and we didn't go in there because it was a sovereign nation.
The first thing we well, okay, you've properly identified the multiple standard.
The first thing we need to do is lose this sovereign nation nonsense.
Number one, there are plenty of sovereign nations that need to be invaded and gone to war with.
Germany and Japan were two of them that strike me from World War II.
There have been others.
So this notion that we can't do something because something is a sovereign nation is a shovel full.
Some sovereign nations need to be attacked.
Now, so have that having been said, you then ask to ask the question on a on a case-by-case basis.
Was Libya one of them?
Uh was Iraq one of them.
In the case of Iraq, I certainly say yes.
In the case of Libya, I'm prepared to conditionally say yes.
Uh anyone saying that Iran is the Obama administration offered that up as a defense against those who said, well, we've got horrible things happening in Iran.
You know, why not take bold military action against them?
And I'm guessing the words sovereign nation might have come out of someone in the administration's mouth.
Uh what they really mean by that is the likelihood of starting uh uh an enormous war uh uh uh uh th by taking that action.
Iran has an an intact uh evil government, but an intact government.
Uh it's easy to go into a country like Libya where Qaddafi is hanging by a thread.
Uh it's it's uh that With Egypt and Libya, you've seen um an interesting dynamic kick in that everybody wants to do something when those leaders are already toppling by their very, very last crumbling uh uh uh shred of um of of tenacity.
So that that's easy to go in there.
It would not be easy or or consequence free to take action in Iran.
That's true.
But we don't even know who these uh rebels are, and we do know that Al Qaeda seems to be backing them.
So why are we?
Some of 'em.
I mean, well, here's here's what we know.
I mean, this is I've I've used this model in just about every crowd you want in Cairo or Tripoli or everywhere in between.
Find me a hundred thousand people gathered in some big square.
Some of them are actual freedom-loving people hungering for democracy and self-determination.
Excellent.
How many?
I have no idea.
That's what makes it tricky.
Some of them just hate Qaddafi for whatever reason.
Maybe good reasons, maybe not.
Maybe some grudge.
All right.
Hard to know there.
Others are longing for a vacuum into which they can place some Al-Qaeda Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood style authoritarian leadership, and uh increase the likelihood of the spread of the new caliphate.
And and so in every crowd in all of these capitals across this part of the world is an enormous mixed bag of motivations that makes it very hard to know how to definitively feel about them.
Okay, I understand that.
But you know, if we completely eliminate the sovereign nation idea, then what is to stop, you know, okay, somebody doesn't like what's going on in the United States.
Say we start having riots like we did back in the sixties.
Right.
And and we instead of using rubber bullets, we actually retaliated and and changed things.
Right.
The government did.
Uh then somebody says, Oh, we don't like what you're doing there, so the whole bunch of Europeans or the whole bunch of Arab nations or China or something says, okay, we're gonna go in and we're gonna stop this, we're gonna topple the government, and we're gonna change everything.
What would be their what would be their reason?
What would be their reason for doing so?
Why would they why would they invade us?
What would what just using your hypothetical?
Well, why are we invading Libya?
Because Libya under Qaddafi, and with the instability that uh that a Libya taken over by God knows who or continuing under Qaddafi with regard to the oil market, with regard to terror, with regard to humanitarian reasons, of the of the bludgeoning and brutal murder of his own people.
There are plenty of of actual reasons to do this.
That's why I asked.
And Daphne Fence, I'm glad we got a s I got uh I got a scoot.
I'm glad we got you on.
Uh because here's the thing.
Uh not all uh invasions, not all military actions are are are morally equivalent.
If some country is about to go into some other country, you gotta ask why, and there got there's and there needs to be a good reason.
And that doesn't mean that every reason that America's used has been a hundred percent good in its entire history either.
But that's the first question you ask.
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Mark Davis in for us, back in a moment.
Well, we started out uh about three hours ago thinking it might be kind of interesting to see what everybody thought about weekend developments in Libya, and uh wanted to make sure before we were done, we took a look at what people were thinking about nuclear power for America in view of the various things that have happened in Japan.
And you know what?
Can we hang the mission accomplished banner?
I think we can.
Uh it's been a joy.
I want to thank uh the tender loving care of uh H.R. and Ed up at Mission Control, so thank that.
And thank you as always for listening.
And I know when the guest host shows up, it's like, oh, that's so disappointing.
So I hope it hadn't been too much of a whipping for you.
And uh thanks to Rush for letting me do this.
See you again next time, I'm sure.
In the meantime, the great news is Rush is back with you tomorrow.
Meanwhile, from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, I'm Mark Davis.
If you want to, follow me on Twitter, Mark Davis, all one word, M A R K D A V I S. I'll see you in there and back here soon.
Take care.
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