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Feb. 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 19, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, the righteous indignation.
The I can't believe he said it.
We've got to stop talking about each other this way.
We cannot continue to challenge and question each other's patriotism this way.
We must never ever speak this way.
If you ever say, I know I probably shouldn't say this, it's probably a horrible thing to say, then stop.
Don't say it.
Just a summary of the reaction of Rudy Giuliani today, who said, I know it's a horrible thing to say, but I I don't believe the president loves America.
And we've got uh a bunch of people reacting to that uh as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
And I just wanted to acknowledge, I'm not gonna go to that first, but I wanted to acknowledge, I know about it, and we're gonna get to it, but it's not the lead thing.
I wanna get some other things out there first that will then put Giuliani's comments, maybe in a little bit better perspective.
Uh, folks, it's great to have your Rush Limbaugh once again, three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead, the telephone numbers 800-282-2882, and email address L Rushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
Well, the um the president wrapped up the three-day seminar on uh don't call them terrorists and don't call it Islam uh and and let's get them jobs summit uh that took place actually over where is it,
the State Department, Defense Department, somewhere it wasn't at the White House, it's called a White House Summit, and we got audio soundbites of the president's remarks and of course some in-depth exclusive, only can you get it here, analysis of what the uh of what the president said.
But there are other things that are percolating and effervescing out there as well, and I'm not gonna give them short shrifts.
Let me just run through some of the things that it's it takes all three hours to get to this today.
So I want to run through some of the things coming up on the program today, because it's just impossible to get to all of it in the first segment.
And if I don't get to something in the first segment, invariably I check the email, aren't you gonna talk about X?
Yeah, I'm gonna talk about it, but I can't get to everything in the first segment.
Well, look at I understand it.
Everybody wants to know what I think about their pet issue.
And I understand that, and I'm sensitive to it, and I am very responsive to that.
It's just I can't get to every subject, certainly not in the detail that I am known for and that I want to get into things with in the first segment.
But just to give you an example of some things out there.
We have a New York Times toy can't believe it, they're apoplectic.
A bid for guns on campuses to deter rape.
A gun rights advocates push to legalize guns on college camp eye is taking shape.
And it is delectable.
It's delicious.
You see, once again, we're down to what could be term dynamic versus static scoring.
The way the left looks at things.
Okay, so they've got this war on women meme.
It's an umbrella under which much of their political agenda is advanced every day.
And one of the subsets under the umbrella is that our colleges have become cultures of rape.
That rape's everywhere out there, even at Rolling Stone Store.
Might not have been right about the University of Virginia, but it didn't matter.
Because it's still true in so many parts of the country.
Okay, well, if there's a culture of rape out there, and if men are raping women left and right, and it's in an unprecedented levels, we gotta do something about it.
And so a gun rights group says, okay, let's arm women.
And the left says, What are you talking about?
You can't do that.
Well, you just said that they're great risk of being raped left and right.
And in fact, the sponsor of the bill in Nevada is an assembly woman named Michelle Fiore.
And she said in a telephone interview, quote, if these young, hot little girls on campus have a gun, I wonder how many men will want to assault them.
The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.
Well, all of that's true.
None of that's even arguable.
But the New York Times and other leftist outlets are in shock.
They're apoplectic in reporting it.
Bjorn Larnborne.
You remember him, Sterley, Bjorn Londbor, he's an environmentalist.
He we used to be an environmentalist wacko, and then he he he left the environmentalist wacko fringe and became one of us.
And we interviewed him for the limball letter shortly back in the 90s.
After he had made the transition from wackoism to truthful mainstream.
And during that interview, he automatically on the spot reassumed wackoism, and I had to cancel the interview.
The whole pretext for having Bjorn Lonborg on was that he was a former WACA who had seen the light and was going and was.
He was out there exposing the well, the falsehoods and the mechanisms and the and the way that the wackos were attempting to spread their agenda.
And for some reason, they had gotten to him right before the interview, and he just caved.
Well, he's gone back and forth, and now he's back to this position, and he's been there quite a while now, so I think he's kind of glued to it, which is good.
He's now in this position of explaining how the global warming and the entire environmentalist wacko movement is indeed wackos.
And fraudulent and hoax.
And he has a column in the USA Today, electric car benefits.
Nope, just myths.
And I can't wait.
I can't wait to give you the details of this.
Because you know, the electric car, it's one of the left's favorite projects to save the planet and signify modernity and an advanced forward progressive kind of thinking.
And here comes a former environmentalist wacko exposing the whole project as nothing but a series of myths.
The judge, the Texas judge, it uh we touched on this a little bit yesterday, who issued the injunction on Obama's executive amnesty.
It looks more and more like, and uh you know, knock on Formica here.
Well, this is granted, actually, from Icon My Rear isn't granite.
But it looks like uh it's gonna be really difficult for the regime to uh get this reversed.
It looks like this judge pulled a really brilliant maneuver, and so it's going to be left to Obama to just ignore him and go ahead and implement executive amnesty anyway.
And then there's the story about how ICE is losing track of illegal immigrants in the country.
Just losing it.
We don't even know who they are, sort of like we can't keep track of the Americans who uh are joining ISIS overseas.
Some economic news.
Uh that is not true either.
The economy is roaring back.
We've got a great recovery happening out there.
Man, it's unprecedented.
Except one thing.
Wages are falling.
That's in the news story.
And they're a little bit perplexed.
The economy, well, it's so great, man.
It's coming back, it's roaring back to life, it's really growing up.
But wages are falling.
And they said, well, just give the wages time to catch it.
No, if wages are falling, there is no economic recovery going on.
11 and a half million Obamacare signups, investors business daily with an editorial on the continuing disaster.
That is Obamacare, Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and very much opposed to net neutrality, has just come out, both barrels firing, saying that net neutrality will F everything up.
And it will.
It puts the government in charge of the internet.
I'm amazed.
I read my little tech blogs, and all of these little tech bloggers who hate the NSA.
They despise the NSA.
They think the NSA is spying on them and read them, reading everything that they write.
But man, when Obama comes along and his FCC comes along and wants to totally control the internet, these little tech bloggers are all for it because you know why?
They think what the government's going to do is penalize Comcast and ATT and T-Mobile and the other providers, because they think the other providers Screw them by overcharging them and not giving them fast enough speeds.
So they're all for the government coming in and punishing corporate interests that provide access to the internet under the guise of net neutrality.
But on the other hand, here's a government that they hate spying on them.
It just goes to show that the inconsistency and the dichotomy of these young people.
On the one hand, good government, great.
On the other hand, good government, we can't trust it.
They're spying on us left.
It's the same government.
Justice Department could sue Ferguson, Missouri for racial discrimination.
Predicted this to you.
This is going to be a see I told you so when we get to it.
And the New York Post has a story today asking why are Islamic jihadists so obsessed with porn?
And not they just make the assertion or they ask the question, they assert that they are.
And they talk about all the porn that SEAL Team 6 recovered during the Kilbin Laden operation.
And indeed, it turns out that Islamic jihadists do have a fascination with porn.
It obviously is because they can't find jobs.
It's obviously because they can't get work.
And this is something else that we need to tackle, along with finding them jobs.
And by the way, we know from this summit that Obama and his speech today, we now know that Marie Harf, whether she believes it or not, was ordered to go out and say two days in a row that we can't win the war militarily, that we can't kill our way out of the war.
We're going to have to find them jobs.
So that's some of the stuff that's coming up, and in addition to Giuliani, and I'm venture to say that vast majority of Americans, whether they would admit it or not, agree with Giuliani.
And I think that's one of the reasons why the drive-by media is so apoplectic and outraged.
Okay, brief time out.
We'll come back and we'll um dig deeper into the president's remarks today and other aspects, other people's comments, about the war on terror and how it's not a war on Islam.
Islam's got nothing to do with what we're fighting.
And you better learn it fast.
You better learn it now, and you better never forget it.
Nothing to do with Islam.
We're not at war with Islam.
We're never going to be at war with Islam.
This terrorism is not Islam.
It has nothing to do with it, and you'd better learn it fast.
Meanwhile, keep a sharp eye out on Christians, crusades, you know, the violence they can commit, keep a sharp eye on them.
But this isn't about Islam.
And we better figure it out right now and don't forget it.
We'll be back.
You know what I did?
I went and checked the unemployment rate in Nazi Germany during World War II.
You know what I found?
I found that the Nazis had plenty of jobs.
It wasn't because of unemployment that the Nazis became Nazis.
It wasn't the Nazis didn't become job, Nazis because they couldn't find jobs.
There were jobs all over the place.
But yet Obama tells us, and Marie Harf tells us that the terrorists have become terrorists because there's no jobs.
We have destroyed their economy.
They have destroyed their economy.
They have not built up an economy.
We have not helped them build an economy.
We've not done this, we've not done that.
And I also want you, as we go through these sound bites, I want you to keep, I want you to listen for a word.
You'll hear Obama use it frequently.
Grievance.
And it was I, L. Rushbo, last week or the week before, I spent a lot of time in one of my famous monologues explaining liberalism to people.
I had a caller who asked a specific question, and my answer involved the fact that liberals think that everybody in this country other than conservative Republicans has a grievance, a legitimate grievance.
Hispanics have a grievance, African Americans have a grievance, there's a whole grievance industry, and I sought to explain it, and you will hear Obama use that word in these sound bites.
So I checked the unemployment during Nazi Germany, and it was it was nothing to spend, but it was a heavy industrialized country.
It wasn't the explanation for why so many people became Nazis.
By the same token.
Trying to remember here, during the Cold War, Ladies and gentlemen, when we were fighting Soviet communism.
Did anybody say that we weren't really fighting communism?
We were just fighting people who had perverted the concept of communism.
You might think this is a facetious question.
Now, the answer is, yeah, there were people on the left in this country who stood up for the concept of communism, and they still do.
And the way they do is basically to say when you accuse communism of having failed every time it's been tried, their retort is, well, not yet.
We still haven't tried it with the right people.
Obama was to be the right people, and it wasn't communism, it was socialism.
But regard, it's never worked.
Anywhere in the world, it has never worked.
It has never fulfilled its promise.
Now it may work for the leadership.
Socialism, communism is great for the Politburo.
It's uh it's great for people in the leadership of the state, but in terms of average ordinary citizens in the state, it's an abject failure.
It's never worked.
And a point that I made yesterday, I want to reiterate.
We basically have been in this country on the march towards socialism in a concentrated fashion since the early 60s, LBJ, the Great Society, and the war on poverty.
Now, I know you could predate it.
You go back to FDR if you wanted to, but I've I chose 1964 because it's it's a year that's recent enough that most everybody, whether they were alive then or not, can relate to it at least.
It's close enough.
It's not ancient history to a lot of people.
And my point is we've we've had maybe twelve years, maybe definitely only eight, arguably twelve years, where we put the brakes on this march toward socialism.
The two terms of Reagan, we put the brakes on.
We've never really had the chance to fully stop the march towards socialism and then take the country in the other way.
We got as close as we've ever come in our lifetimes to the two terms of Reagan, and in some sense with tax rates, and so we did make a an actual positive move toward conservatism.
But my point with all this is since 1964, let's just say eight years, all but eight years we have been on this march toward socialism.
And the last six years, we've been on steroids.
And my question is where's all the happiness?
Where's all the satisfaction?
Not only is there not happiness, there isn't a general content even.
You don't even find a contentment.
Everybody's miserable, especially people on the left.
They're miserable, they're angry, they're unhappy, and yet we've been heading in the direction they want to go since 1964, all but for eight years.
And they were angry during those eight years, too.
My point is, socialism promises this utopia, it promises equality and fairness and justice and all of these other things, and yet all of the beneficiaries, all of the beneficiaries of socialism, they're the angriest.
They're the most unhappy.
The people government is paying special attention to, the victims of this unfair, unjust, and immoral country.
The people on federal largesse, 92 and a half million Americans not working, throughout this entire period, the group in our country, the segment of population that arguably is the happiest, and it's a relative scale, are the people working.
The people trying to stop this march to socialism, ironically, are having the most enjoyable lives.
And it goes to the fact they're working, they're being productive.
Many of them have careers.
The people who have thrown all that overboard, thrown that aside, and are waiting for the government to come along and fix whatever injustice has happened in the past, and maybe not even to them.
The people waiting for government to make it fair.
The people waiting for government to institute all this justice to make amends for all these transgressions that took place in the miserable.
They're miserable or unhappy, they're angry, and it's getting worse.
They're getting angrier.
They are getting more unhappy, and they are getting more miserable, and they want everybody to be miserable with them.
It's not just.
They are just not content to be miserable within their own little universe.
They want to spread the misery around.
And yet they are getting what they want.
Now, arguably, they can see that what they want doesn't work.
That would depress me too.
But they don't give up on that.
And they don't, I don't think make that conclusion.
They're still waiting for the right people to make it work.
So we have all of these people with all of these grievances, and Obama was gonna fix it, and now we've got this foreign policy totally out of control.
People are scared and angry and upset, and we'll let you hear how Obama is consoling them when we get back.
Just one more quick note before we start with the audio sound bite review is of Obama's uh speech today at the State Department on the White House summit on countering violent extremism.
But don't anybody say Islam, and don't anybody say Muslim, as that's got nothing to do with what we're talking about.
Just so everybody understands.
That's the name of the seminar.
Now, Rudy Giuliani's walk backing or walking back his comments just a bit.
Giuliani originally said, I don't believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I don't believe that the president loves America.
He doesn't love you, he doesn't love me.
He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up, and I was brought up through love of this country.
Now Rudy's dialed that back just a little bit.
On Fox and Friends today, he said, he wanted to make it clear he's not questioning whether Obama's a patriot.
He thinks he is.
He's just dismayed that, quote, I very rarely hear him say the things that I used to hear Ronald Reagan say or Bill Clinton say about how much he loves America.
I don't hear him say it.
So he's dialed it back a little bit.
Doesn't matter.
We still have the audio soundbite reaction to that.
That's coming up.
Just wanted to let you know.
Here we go.
First of some sound bites, President Obama at the White House summit at the State Department on countering violent extremism, but don't anybody call it Islam or Muslim.
There is a complicated history between the Middle East, the West, and none of us, I think, should be immune from criticism in terms of specific policies, but the notion that the West is at war with Islam is an ugly lie.
And all of us, regardless of our faith, have a responsibility to reject it.
This is a great lesson in straw man 101.
Can anybody search your memory banks for me?
Do you recall anybody ever saying that we were at war with Islam?
Is the war on terror a war on Islam?
Have you ever heard anybody say that?
I don't, I've never heard anybody say it.
I never heard anybody say the Bush administration.
In fact, the official position to U.S. government, even during Bush and into Clinton, they went overboard not to even call it terrorism.
And ever since 9-11 happened, there has been a palpable fear at the highest levels of our government in identifying Islam with what happened on 9-11.
I've never understood the fear.
I mean, I've had it explained to me a couple ways, two or three explanations, but it still doesn't make any sense to me.
We get we get creamed with the World Trade Center and we act, okay.
Well, we're not gonna we're not we're we're afraid they're gonna do it again.
We're afraid if we if we don't respond verbally in an honest way that they may not do it again.
I I it's just it's unprecedented to cower in fear, and that's how it comes across.
But the the regardless, and in spite of in spite of that, I can't think of anybody who has said that we're at war with Islam.
And yet here's Obama making it look like that's why we gotta have this summit.
That's why we gotta do this summit on countering violent extremism because there are too many people out there saying that we are at war with Islam and nobody is.
Nobody has said it.
There's a war on terror.
We've talked about Islamic jihad, we've talked about Islamist extremism, but nobody said we're at war with Islam.
Nobody in this country, anyway.
And yet there's Obama out offering it as the reason that we're doing this and his number one admonition.
So if you've wondered what is meant when people say Obama uses straw men, there you go.
He invents a belief that nobody has, nobody's articulated, acts like everybody is saying it, and that they're wrong.
He's also doubling down and going all in on Marie Harfism.
We must address the grievances that terrorists expect.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
Rick Hewitt, hear the word grievances.
Hear that word, grievance?
I'm telling you, it is in the forefront of the leftist mind.
That there are legitimate grievances against this country by foreigners.
There are grievances against this country by American citizens, justifiable grievances.
We have an entire industry of grievance now.
The entire effort by the left to plug as many people into whatever halls of victims they can put them into is exactly what is meant by this grievance industry.
Everybody's a victim of something.
America's so rotten.
America's been so unjust, so immoral, so discriminatory, so this, so that, that there are all kinds of justifiable grievances against this country.
This is the kind of thing Rudy's actually talking about when he when he says, you know, that's not the president loves America.
What he really means is I've never heard a president criticize our own country any any anywhere near like Obama does.
That's what I think he means anyway.
Okay, here's the full bite again, and just notice the number of times you hear the word grievance in all of these sound bites.
We must address the grievances that terrorists exploit, including economic grievances.
When people, especially young people feel entirely trapped in impoverished communities, where there is no order and no path for advancement, where there are no educational opportunities, where there are no ways to support families, and no escape from injustice and the humiliations of corruption, that feeds instability and disorder and makes those communities ripe for extremist recruitment.
And we have seen that across the Middle East, and we've seen it across North Africa.
So if we're serious about countering violent extremism, we have to get serious about confronting these economic grievances.
Then why isn't everybody living in poverty this in this in this world a terrorist?
Why isn't everybody who's poor being sucked into some form of crime, some form of terrorism, not even Islamic or or uh jihad terrorism, but just abject crime.
I've heard this my whole life, that economic circumstance, economic depravity, poverty, that's why people go into crime.
And it's not the case.
Rich people are terrorists.
Many of the Islamic terror leaders are wealthy.
They come from positions of high status in the countries they lived in and in the cultures that they grew up in.
But if if the breeding ground for terrorism is poverty, then why isn't it everywhere?
And why doesn't it extend beyond Islam?
Because there's poverty in all parts of the world.
There's poverty in Asia, there's poverty.
I mean, you can't go any of the Russian satellite countries and find and not Find poverty in places, why aren't they all turning to terrorism if this is the primary cause?
And of course, what's the primary cause for the economic circumstances that these countries face?
It's us.
Yes, my friends, because we have more than our share of the world's resources and wealth.
That's not the reason for this terrorism.
The reason for this terrorism can be found where if you want to read it, it's it's it's in their book.
It is all about infidels.
It's their ideology.
It has nothing to do with poverty.
It has nothing to do with nothing, nothing to do all day.
It has nothing.
The recruitment starts at a very young age.
And it happens in the mosques, and it's irr irrespective, if that's even a word, of economic circumstances.
But they're going to the mat with this.
They're going to do everything they can to make everybody or as many people as they can believe that this is all related to poverty.
And the reason is that there's another, I think, uh clandestine, if you will, reason for this.
Because this requires a solution, does it not?
I mean, if poverty, if being poor, if the lack of jobs is leading to all of this horrible terrorism, then what must be the solution?
Why, jobs and an uplifted economy.
Well, who's got the money for that?
Guess what?
The United States.
Guess what this creates is an opportunity for people.
It must be our responsibility.
And who are they acting committing acts of terror against us?
Suppose actually it's Muslims, other Muslims are the targets as well, but nevertheless.
This is another disguised effort offering, presenting an opportunity for these people via the UN or whoever, to once again come and knock on our doors and fleece us.
We have a responsibility to pay up.
We have a responsibility to establish economies where we have created poverty, where we have created a lack of economic opportunity.
It's our responsibility, and that's how this will stop.
And this further grows the U.S. government, further shrinks the American economy, which is one of the ultimate objectives of Obama and the modern day Democrat Party anyway.
So it's a twofer.
Quick timeout.
We got more when we come back.
President Obama wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.
It was published a couple of days ago.
And it was entitled Our Fight Against Violent Extremism.
And let me just give you some pull quotes from this.
And once again, you will hear the whole belief system, his philosophy on grievance.
He goes so far as to say that the grievances that these terrorists have almost explains and justifies what they're doing.
And therefore it's up to us.
It's up to governments to address these grievances.
Now you might find that the rest that's crazy.
No, it's not.
It's very consistent.
Any any group in this country, any leftist group that's unhappy or angry and has a grievance, they're rewarded.
Their grievance is taken seriously.
The people with whom they have the grievance are usually targeted and punished somehow, at least labeled as racists or bigots, or they discriminate or something.
My point is this whole grievance industry is a tactical, strategic effort on the part of the left to silence any opposition as they make their march leftward.
So here's how Obama brings uh begins his piece, his op-ed in the LA Times a couple days ago.
The United States has made significant gains against terrorism.
We've decimated the core Al Qaeda leadership, strengthened our homeland security, and we've worked to prevent another large-scale attack like 9-11.
Okay, so the strategy here is to begin an op-ed with a string of long since debunked lies.
Significant gains against terrorism, we won't even face it.
Significant gains against terrorism, we won't even identify it.
Significant gains against terrorism, we're not seriously trying to stop this latest incarnation of it.
We've decimated the core Al Qaeda leadership.
You see, that's another reason why Obama can't call it terrorism is because there isn't any anymore.
He defeated it when he killed Obama.
Don't think this doesn't matter.
Especially to his deranged, literally insane, lunatic Democrat base.
He's out there telling them that their terrorism has been defeated.
And don't forget the other fundamental aspect of this.
They created throughout the Iraq War, the left did, with their late night comedians and their mainstream media people.
They created this falsehood that Bush lied and got us into Iraq and that it was totally unjustified.
It was totally unnecessary, and that Bush lied and people died.
And what Bush lie about?
The Intel.
Saddam never had any weapons.
Saddam was never a problem.
Everybody knew Bush lied.
Never mind that Clinton produced the same intel in 1998 and the same Democrats running around saying Bush lied are the same Democrats that were going to give Bill Clinton a blank check to go in and stop Saddam.
And Clinton needed this distraction, because that was the time of Monica Lewinsky.
But the point is, we have not decimated the core Al Qaeda leadership.
ISIS is an offshoot.
But because thinks there was never any justification for going to Iraq because Bush lied.
Obama's base also believes that there was never any real justification for such a massive war on terror.
The late night comics and mainstream journalists succeeded in convincing a number of Americans that the whole war on terror was vastly overstated, vastly overrated, vastly unnecessary.
Iraq shouldn't even have happened.
So Obama's kind of caught.
Since he's vanquished terrorism and he's vanquished Al Qaeda, he has to continue to say that he got rid of it all, and that it was never that big a deal anyway, because Bush lied.
In the face of this challenge, writes Obama, because the threats evolved, he says, even though we've vanquished it.
Even though we've really decimated them, at the same time, the threat Obama says of terrorism has evolved.
And in the face of this challenge, we must stand united internationally and here at home.
We know that military force alone cannot solve this problem.
See?
There's no debate.
We know.
We just, everybody agrees we can't stop these people militarily.
Nor can we simply take out terrorists who kill innocent civilians.
Yeah, we can't even do that.
We can't take out people killing innocent people.
Our hands are tight, folks.
We can't do anything.
And we also have to confront the violent extremists who may not directly engage in terrorist acts themselves, but who radicalize, recruit, and incite others to do so.
Groups like Al Qaeda and ISIL promote a twisted interpretation of religion that's rejected by the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.
Not according to the polls, it isn't.
Groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIL exploit the anger that festers when people feel that injustice and corruption leave them with no chance of improving their lives.
The world has to offer today's youth something better.
Governments that deny human rights play into the hands of extremists who claim that violence is the only so you see.
According to Obama, it's governments and grievances.
It's somebody else that is to blame for this.
There is always for criminal behavior, as far as the leftist is concerned, be it terrorism or be it street crime, be it murder, there's always somebody to blame other than the actual perpetrator.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
You know, look at all of the explanations that we have gotten from the Democrat Party from the American left to explain terrorism.
The pictures from Abu Ghrab.
Yeah, that caused terrorism.
That made everybody in the Islamic world so mad.
It was a recruitment tool.
We were so bad to do that.
And then the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Why that was a great recruitment tool for terrorism.
And again, the United States was to blame.
Iraq, in and of itself, just going to Iraq made them mad and made them become terrorists.
And now it's jobs.
Lack of jobs, economic opportunity non existent is the reason why terrorists become terrorists.
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