June 10, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Bucks Exton here in for Rush on the EIB. | |
| We got Open Line Friday going on, of course. | |
| Thank you so much for giving me some of your time today. | |
| It is always an honor and a pleasure to get to hang out with you here on the E.I. to the B. There's a story the I have the hat tip of Daily Caller here for bringing this to our attention. | |
| Let me let me take a step back for a second. | |
| Earlier in the week, there was quite a quite a brouhaha. | |
| I think that's that's a term that would apply here. | |
| A dust up, if you will. | |
| Yeah, dust up, we like that one too. | |
| Uh there was uh a melee. | |
| We I could I can go, I can go all day, sir. | |
| Uh there yes, there was a kerfuffle. | |
| Um there was all kinds of stuff happening because of Donald Trump's comment about uh Judge Curio. | |
| And every you know, and you had Paul Ryan say you had Paul Ryan with the whole like you know, it's racist. | |
| I mean, I stole I stole him gonna back Trump, but it was a racist thing to say. | |
| I was like, whoa, okay. | |
| So that happened. | |
| Uh and of course the the underlying premise there was that Trump wa uh said uh and then there was of course these sort of insinuations around it, but that a judge of of Mexican heritage could not be uh trusted on an uh to be fair to somebody who's so well known and uh you know and right now is a candidate for the presidency and has a pretty much a fifty-fifty shot of of well, | |
| I'm not saying statistically, but it's you know it's him or it's Hillary, uh can't be trusted to rule on cases invol uh a case involving Trump because of his view of uh building a wall on immigration and because of this judges, associations and whatever. | |
| Say what say about that what you will. | |
| I don't even have to get try to relitigate that or walk down that path again. | |
| Um that is not a place where I particularly want to take us right now. | |
| I do want to point something out, though, and this this is again, as I said, comes courtesy of the uh of the Daily Caller. | |
| Because we were we've been told that this was all we needed of just what a complete racist Donald Trump is. | |
| And as I said to you earlier in the week, and and I think has been apparent for quite some time, doesn't matter what Trump says. | |
| I mean, Trump could just walk around offering everybody free hugs and saying that he wants to pass out, you know can candy canes and Hershey's kisses and just w just loves America, and they're still gonna call him a racist and a sexist and say he's the worst and that we're ready for Hillary. | |
| Um doesn't matter what he says. | |
| They'll find a way to call him a racist. | |
| So let's all just start from that start from that premise whenever you hear going forward more about how Donald Trump is a racist and everything else. | |
| Um with that said, it's so interesting to me that if you look at this issue and you say, well, has the Obama well, how does the Obama administration uh act on this? | |
| And has there ever been a a case in recent history? | |
| Forget about even for a moment that the racial makeup of juries is a constant issue for uh for for back and forth in a courtroom and and you know, that's everyone know it, and that people have said that uh, you know, a an all white jury can't be trusted to give justice to a minority and and you know, and you can switch around uh how this works and just you mix and match and you decide, you know, whether you think that this is fair or not. | |
| This is what's been happening across the country for some time, right? | |
| People have been fighting over this issue to see, you know, what is justice, and it's a good discussion, a good debate for everyone to be having. | |
| The Obama administration took a very interesting position on this, though. | |
| Um and this is NPR reporting pointed that uh that that uh the Daily Callers pointed out here, that there was a case of an immigration judge, Judge uh Ashley Tabador, who had been here hearing immigration cases for quite a while, and she met with a she met with some uh immigration judges. | |
| I'm sorry, she met with some uh Iranian leaders uh at the or what what was the I'm trying to make sure Iranian American community leaders, pardon me. | |
| Iranian American community leaders, and uh she was told that she could do this, but then she would have to recuse herself from any future immigration cases dealing with Iranians. | |
| And she turned around and said that this was discriminatory. | |
| The j the uh dOJ's Position on this at the time was that she had to recuse herself because of this. | |
| So you hear you have a judge who meets with uh people who are Iranian American uh Iranian American leaders at the White House, and of course, as you know, Iranian American leaders in this country tend to be very anti-Iranian regime and and uh opposed to the mullahs and uh and all the rest of it. | |
| But she met with these these leaders, and then she was told by the Department of Justice that uh in fact she should have to recuse herself because she couldn't be uh she couldn't be trusted, or I shouldn't say she couldn't be trusted, but there was a an appearance of possible impropriety based upon her ethnic uh her ethnicity and connection to a group that is specifically advocating the interests of that ethnic group. | |
| Right? | |
| That's that was the Department of Justice's position. | |
| And as I look at this, I just say to myself, um, so okay, this was something that happened before, and I I will point out the the DOJ did end up settling. | |
| Uh and I think they gave her what what do we have here? | |
| Tabators attorneys announced the uh Department of Justice agreed to, and this was just back in 2015, everybody. | |
| This is and this is NPR reporting. | |
| I'm not I'm not going through the file cabinets of you know the the the right wing express over here or something. | |
| I'm not I'm not looking around the basement of some blogger trying to find uh trying to find forged documents about Hillary from the right wing conspiracy. | |
| This is from NPR. | |
| That back in 2015, Judge Tabador was uh the Justice Department lifted its order. | |
| They forcibly told her you can't hear these you can't hear these cases. | |
| She thought it was going to be up to her to recuse herself. | |
| Uh they had to review their recusal policies and pay her 200,000 dollars. | |
| Now, you might say to me, well, Bach, doesn't this prove that that that's that you shouldn't take somebody off a case just because of a member? | |
| It's a combination. | |
| It's not just somebody's ethnicity we're talking about in this case or their uh their national origin. | |
| I know people go, oh, it's not ethnicity, it's it's race, or it's not race, it's ethnicity, or it's nationality, or okay, whatever. | |
| Uh someone's background in one way or another that she did win this case, and essentially DOJ admitted fault in all of this. | |
| But the whole point here earlier the week was that just the mere suggestion that Trump, in his capacity actually as a private citizen going through the Trump University lawsuit would have some problem with a judge, was viewed as just beyond the pale. | |
| I mean, look, you had leadership of the GOP saying this is outrageous racism, and like the way he said it wasn't it was as I said, it wasn't a good way to say it. | |
| But the DOJ says if you're an Iranian American Oh, sorry, it was the I I skipped a point here. | |
| So if it's your background ethnicity and activism tied to that, right? | |
| That's sort of another step in addition to. | |
| So as I, as I was saying, you know, if you it's one thing to say you're uh you're a Polish American, so let's say you're a Polish American who's part of the Polish American advancement front or something, and and then you're sitting on cases about whether we're going to increase Polish American or Polish immigration into America, right? | |
| Um that's that's a sort of similar that's a uh a similar way to or a similar storyline here, I think. | |
| Um and the Department of Justice, uh and my understanding is this is was under the Obama administration as well. | |
| It doesn't even matter, though. | |
| I mean, the fact that Department of Justice under any administration took this position, the DOJ, okay, our our um highest legal authority well, other than the Supreme Court, but you know what I mean, the the court system and then the the DOJ, they decided um that they would uh they would recuse this lawyer, I mean this uh judge based on her background and her connection to a an ethnic uh ethnic interest group of some kind or another, or having met with an ethnic interest group. | |
| That's it. | |
| So is it really the most racist thing anyone's ever heard? | |
| Because this was the deal i i is it really just because well she's a she was Iranian and you know, in the sort of in the hierarchy of uh ethnic victimology in this country, Iranians are very low on this scale, and so we don't care as much. | |
| What's what's the principle here that separates the two? | |
| Why is it that the DOJ could make look, I know they said there was fault in it, But is there is the DOJ just you know a year ago the DOJ was wildly racist? | |
| We just didn't know about it, I guess. | |
| No, that was their official ruling in this in this instance. | |
| And yes, it was overturned. | |
| But to pretend like it's just so outside the pale and the most crazy thing ever said. | |
| Okay, well, all of a sudden you make it about Iranians and Iranian American, and not only is it something that's discussed, but our Department of Justice takes the basically the Trump line that you know you can have some associations with an uh ethnic or uh national origin advancement group or whatever, and that can affect your ability to give a fair ruling. | |
| I mean, I I what what am I missing? | |
| I think this is I think this should at least factor into our perception as to how much of a vile transgression it was, uh, what Trump said earlier on in the week. | |
| And look, he walked it back a little bit. | |
| I saw the state. | |
| Well, I mean, it's a Trump version of a walk back, which is really more of a I don't know, it's kind of a Trump sort of, it's more of a moonwalk. | |
| Yeah, it's like not really, you know, he's still Trump even when he's walking backwards. | |
| So it's a little different. | |
| But nonetheless, I just think that this is an important case to give context to the kinds of discussions we can have over uh justices and uh judges and and the legal system. | |
| Um instead of just accepting that look, it's gonna be a really long election cycle if everyone's just pointing fingers all the time and saying, Oh my gosh, so everything is so racist, everything's so racist. | |
| In fact, part of what I think really gets uh a lot of Trump supporters uh fired up is somebody who doesn't go into the corner and cry every time there's an accusation of racism made against him because it is just the cheapest, most obvious trick the Democrats pull over and over again nonstop, and we're all sick of it. | |
| And it's it's not just if you're a politician, it's filtered down into the broader society, nothing's allowed to be funny anymore, everyone's afraid of losing their job, everyone's afraid of being called a bigot, whether it's for being uh racist or transphobic or any number of things. | |
| It's just there's a a revulsion now. | |
| There's a revolt against the tyrannical regime of political correctness that has gone to a unforese unforeseen levels, uh unforeseeable levels now, even from five or ten years ago. | |
| It's more pervasive now, it's more vindictive now. | |
| You know, it's it's not enough to make someone apologize. | |
| Now they apologize and still get fired and are still unhirable afterwards. | |
| Because they really want to make examples of people. | |
| So look, you know, if every time the media hear something they don't like and they scream racism, everyone goes, oh gosh, oh, I'm I'm I'm so terrified. | |
| I don't want to be associated with that. | |
| Well, they're gonna get their way, and it's just gonna get worse, and that's gonna continue on. | |
| And the incoherence of the left on a whole host of issues is going to get even crazier and crazier and have government power behind it as well. | |
| 800-282-2882, Buck Sexton here in for Rush, Facebook.com slash Buck Sexton. | |
| If you can't call but want to let me know what you think, back in a few. | |
| Buck Sexton here in for rush, 800-282-2882. | |
| They have unleashed uh many of the surrogates, uh surrogates of the Clinton campaign to go after uh Trump, of course, now. | |
| And Elizabeth Warren uh decided that she was gonna really get a little bit nasty. | |
| Play what she uh play what she had to say about Mr. Trump. | |
| What kind of a man is Donald Trump? | |
| Donald Trump says Judge Curiel should be ashamed of himself. | |
| No, Donald, you should be ashamed of yourself. | |
| Shame for using the megaphone of a presidential campaign to attack a judge's character and integrity simply because you think you have some God given right to steal people's money and get away with it. | |
| You shame yourself and you shame this great country. | |
| Elizabeth Warren pulling out the rhetorical tomahawk there, really getting kind of getting kind of rough with the Donald. | |
| Um the good news for those of you who want Trump to win is that both Hillary and Warren Uh have all the warmth and charm of a Siberian prison guard. | |
| So it's not really going to get them very far, I think, on at least on a charisma and and personality uh basis, they're not going to be able to do all that much, but the machinery is fully behind them. | |
| Um that's what's going on there. | |
| Let's take uh let's take a few calls. | |
| We have Bill in Georgia. | |
| You're on the Rush Limbaugh show, sir. | |
| You're speaking to Buck. | |
| Hi, Buck. | |
| Uh, nice to chat with you. | |
| Okay. | |
| Yeah, we I can hear you okay, yes, sir. | |
| Great. | |
| Uh the initial reason for my call was I I just don't understand why everybody's so against Trump. | |
| They call him a fascist. | |
| They call him all these names on what uh evidence. | |
| Uh but beyond that, uh what also bothers me is why does everybody call walk around calling uh Democrat party members Democrats. | |
| They're obviously not democratic. | |
| They're authoritarian. | |
| That's can be proved by the the uh uh super delegate thing. | |
| Yeah, well look, Trump is Trump is not a fa I mean Trump is well I I do not believe at all that when these people start talking about Trump being a fascist. | |
| I mean, I have otherwise uh otherwise seemingly rational and and uh and sensible people asking me if I'm really afraid that Trump is is going to turn into like an American Hitler, and I look at them like re really? | |
| I mean r you know, you're you're you really asking me that? | |
| I mean, this is a businessman from New York. | |
| I just I don't I don't get it. | |
| I mean I agree that the venom I can understand people that think that he's a phony that he's a fraud and that he's not going to do the things he says he's going to do. | |
| I I understand the case that those people make, uh those who make that, and they have a lot of evidence that they can point to. | |
| However, there's a difference between that and he's just going to like nuke countries like some sort of psychopath and become a fascist and shut down a free press and you know put people uh uh you know mass incarceration. | |
| I I don't know, whatever. | |
| I mean, that the stuff that people say about Trump has kind of gone well beyond the pale. | |
| And I forgot what was the second part you said uh about was it about Clinton's I forget now. | |
| Oh, the Democrats. | |
| Oh, all the Democrats. | |
| Yeah, they're authoritarians, but that's that's the way that uh that's the way that they are. | |
| I mean I mean, look, you know, there there was there was an American Communist Party, there was a socialist movement in this country for many decades, and people go, Oh, it just uh if you read the history books, it just disappeared. | |
| No, it actually just merged into the Democrat Party. | |
| So it's not surprising that it has sort of reemerged now or sort of popped up on the surface with Bernie Sanders as a Democrat socialist getting uh getting a lot of uh support from Democrats and make m giving Hillary a real a real run for her money. | |
| And we know how much Hillary likes money, so yeah. | |
| So, you know, that's she's she she's running fast. | |
| All right, Bill, thanks for uh thanks for calling in. | |
| Good to talk to you. | |
| Uh yeah, I I just I don't know. | |
| Do we have time for uh no, we don't I got I can't get to a call right now, but I'll get into some stuff. | |
| I kind of want to talk about Hillary's uh well, actually forget my Hillary, but uh the Obama administration of which Hillary was a part and the mistakes that they've made on the on the world stage, more specifically Afghanistan and what's going on there now. | |
| There's some news out today about that that I wanted to hit, but we'll have to put a pin in that for a moment. | |
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| Um that's one thing I wanted to get out there while I still could. | |
| And I just realized now we actually could have gone to a caller because we had another minute, which I math is not my math is not my strong suit. | |
| Um, I I want to talk about Afghanistan a little bit, so if that's something that interests you, uh you might want to get in on the lines now. | |
| We've got a space for one or two. | |
| Uh they're going to be opening up the rules of engagement a little bit because, well, that war is not we're still at war there, despite what the Democrats seem to want us all to believe, and despite the way that the Obama administration seems to spend more time trying to define the parameters of that mission than to Define what the objective of that mission is actually. | |
| So we'll get into that a little bit. | |
| A bit of a national security deep dive coming up your way. | |
| And also want to talk to you a bit more about immigration. | |
| If I have the time, we might even discuss a uh valedictorian from Texas who was talking about how she's in illegal, heading to Yale and gave a speech that got a lot of attention. | |
| So basically a whole bunch of topics coming your way. | |
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| And you can let me know what you think about today's show, or just let me know what you think in general at Facebook.com slash Bucks X. And I want to talk to you about Afghanistan a little bit. | |
| It is in the news today because uh, well, one, we are still at war there, and we still have uh our uh our soldiers, we still have our military in in harm's way, and the media seems to have lost a lot of interest in these things uh under the Obama presidency, or at least they've they've reframed the discussion about these things under an Obama presidency. | |
| And the uh the latest here is that Obama has decided to roll back the restrictions that he uh he began last year on U.S. support to what we call the ANSF, Afghan National Security Forces, uh, that he rolled back support to them uh in the form of air strikes, right? | |
| That they were going to be sort of in the lead doing the fighting. | |
| Now this has been going on for fifteen years. | |
| Uh we've been trying to build durable Afghan institutions, uh, specifically an Afghan military that can actually defeat the Taliban on its own and or at least hold them at bay. | |
| And that effort, well, it hasn't it hasn't been successful yet. | |
| And the Obama administration, I think uh you can give it credit for at least learning one lesson over its uh now eight years, and that is after the disastrous withdrawal from Iraq, which then led to uh the Islamic state uh taking over parts of Syria, parts of Iraq, the largest jihadist army consolidated and on the march in the post 911 era, really in the post-Taliban era, uh, you could say, or post uh Taliban 911 era. | |
| And there is a uh there's a sense that, well, at least they were able to figure out that if they withdrew U.S. troops wholesale from Afghanistan, which was the Obama administration's policy, keep it in mind, or that was their promise, I should say. | |
| A promise they even made at the very outset of the surge. | |
| And the promise was that U.S. troops would all come home. | |
| Obama was going to end wars. | |
| It is something that I think will be inescapable for his uh presidential legacy. | |
| They'll have to there'll be interesting ways they try to write the histories to make this seem like less of a uh less of a failure than it is, because I know many will take that option. | |
| But he's ended wars in neither country. | |
| Uh we have troops, uh, we have U.S. military in in Iraq, we have U.S. military in Afghanistan, um, and those uh both of those countries are in worse shape now than they were when Obama uh took office. | |
| Both of them, I think it's certainly Iraq. | |
| I mean, unquestionably, and I would make the case as well in Afghanistan. | |
| So Obama's decided to allow for more air strikes. | |
| Um if it can give a there's sort of some lawyerly language in the actual uh in the actual if it can give a strategic gain is the quote on the battlefield against the Taliban, according to the Wall Street Journal here, um, then they can call in for an air strike. | |
| This is because the Taliban is uh taking back more ground. | |
| We're in the midst of the fighting season there. | |
| There was a a brief moment a few weeks ago, some of you will recall when Mullah Mansoor, who was the individual who took over the tele uh leadership of the Taliban after Mula Omar died, Mullah Omar died two years ago, and there was not a whole lot of uh difference in Taliban operations and activity as a result of that. | |
| We didn't even at least it wasn't publicly known for two years that Mullah Omar uh had had died of of other of of non combat causes. | |
| Uh and then Mullah Mansor took over, and then the Obama administration announced that they had fired a uh missile into his car, killing him and another another occupant, another Taliban guy. | |
| And their official press release, this was just a few weeks ago. | |
| The official press release for twenty four hours was now we think we have a and then now we think this is a milestone and this is an opening for peace talks. | |
| And I remember I was over I was actually over at CNN when this happened, and I I I had to take a moment to just take a beat to think about are they really this is really what the administration puts out there now to try to uh what? | |
| Uh create the perception that they actually know what what they're doing and they have a plan, that you blow a guy up in his car who's the leader of a of a terrorist organization, and and you think that the guy who takes over is going to be more willing to negotiate. | |
| He's going to be the more peaceable uh the or the more peacefully inclined one. | |
| I said that that seemed like very faulty logic at the time, and it and since then, by the way, all reports from the Taliban are in support of that the new guy is in fact uh in some ways more of a hardliner uh than the old one. | |
| Uh, you know, there's the new boss, same as the old boss. | |
| This boss actually might be uh might be worse. | |
| And while we've been told that the administration has been making gains on this front and they have some idea of of what it is that they're going to uh what they're gonna do. | |
| Akanzada, by the way, is the name of the new Taliban leader. | |
| Mullah Hibatullah Akanzada. | |
| He was a sharia judge known for being particularly strict, by the way. | |
| Under Taliban rule. | |
| So we're already talking about Taliban rule where people are being executed and having uh one of the ways they would do stoning was actually to knock over an old wall on top of somebody and all these horrible uh horrific punishments, amputations, executions. | |
| If you were known as like a particularly scary guy as a sharia judge uh and a military tribunal judge, then you must be one crazy dude. | |
| And uh Akunzada seems to certainly fall into that category. | |
| He's the new leader. | |
| I tell you all this because the Obama administration is slow to expand on these U.S. military air strikes in Afghanistan because they don't want to upset the peace process. | |
| And you might take him and say, well, what's the peace process supposed to be? | |
| The negotiations that we've been hoping will bear fruit between the Afghan national government based in Kabul and the Taliban. | |
| We think there's going to be a peaceful negotiated settlement here. | |
| What it really is is the hope, which is in vain, certainly for this administration, it's not going to happen by the end of this uh by the end of this year, so it won't happen while Obama's still in office. | |
| But what the Democrats had been hoping was that they could get a negotiated peace of some kind. | |
| They're still hoping this with the Taliban, and then we can sort of pull out and just say, All right, we're out of here, and then whatever happens isn't our fault because we achieved peace and we're all done. | |
| Um the notion that the Taliban would keep its word and would adhere to any agreement, uh if it wasn't a matter, you know, you you would have a hard time keeping a straight face with it if it wasn't a matter of of life and death and and war. | |
| Uh it's absolutely preposterous. | |
| You know, there are a few there are a few phrases that everybody knows very well from the conflict in Afghanistan. | |
| But among the best known is the Taliban uh quote, which I believe is actually attributed to Mullah Omar, although I could be uh I think it might be one of those that might be an apocryphal attribution. | |
| It could just be something that's said over there. | |
| But the Taliban says that we have all the clocks, but they have all the time. | |
| They recognize that the longer they wait this whole thing out, the longer they uh try to wear us down and wear down the Afghan government, which is incapable of providing the security and the services necessary to win over the people in a counterinsurgency situation, | |
| the more likely it is at some point that they'll be able to once again go from being shadow governors to just straight up governors to establishing statelets or sort of mini emirates in provinces like Helmond and Kandahar and elsewhere in Afghanistan, and from there consolidate and with you know Pashtun uh Pashtun tribal elders and such joining because they don't you know it's it's join or die. | |
| So people will join who hadn't even necessarily been Taliban beforehand, they will march on Kabul and we'll be right back where we were in the nineties. | |
| And oh, by the way, the new Taliban that will come to power in this uh future that I'm talking about now, which I think is maybe uh couple of years away, uh maybe sooner, maybe a little longer. | |
| But the new Taliban will also play host to Al Qaeda, all sorts of jihadist elements because that's just you know, once you understand the nature of a thing, you have a very good idea of what it's capable of and what it's going to do. | |
| And the Taliban, of course, hasn't changed its ideology one bit. | |
| We often refer to it as a uh it's referred to as a as a nationalist insurgency to separate it out from Al Qaeda, which is a sort of global jihadist terrorist entity, but they were symbiotic organisms pre-9 eleven. | |
| Um they worked together hand in hand, as you know. | |
| Um there's no reason to believe that that wouldn't happen again in the future. | |
| Especially under the premise of what are we get where what are we going to do? | |
| We're going to invade again. | |
| So it's just a question of of time for them. | |
| And the administration thinks that by uh loosening up some of the rules of engagement they will just forestall collapse. | |
| Uh they will first all, for example, the seizure of a major city in Afghanistan, which happened earlier or happened last year, uh a matter of months ago when they took uh uh Kunduz in the north. | |
| And usually northern Afghanistan is thought of as being i i it is traditionally uh safer because it's not Pashtun uh ethnic majority Pashtun territory, and so it tends to be a place where you have uh a less robust Taliban presence. | |
| So when you seize a major city in northern Afghanistan like that, if you're the Taliban, it sends quite a message. | |
| Um and then we had and there was a series of reports that came out about what went on there with uh U.S. military special forces as they were trying to help the uh Afghans, uh Afghan military, Afghan national police take back that city, and in each phase it was kind of just, well, do do what you gotta do to take it back. | |
| And they're saying, well, what is that? | |
| Does that so are we and and sure enough, U.S. troops were taking it. | |
| We're the ones doing the fighting and and on the at the tip of the spear trying to take it back. | |
| Um but no no, we're uh uh if you listen to the official press releases, uh we're in an advise and assist capacity there. | |
| Our our role in Afghanistan is to just sort of be there to train and uh cheer on the Afghans to defeat the Taliban. | |
| Even the Obama administration knows that's not gonna work. | |
| That's not gonna fly. | |
| And so we're gonna be flying more air strikes and uh just give it some time. | |
| We're also gonna have more uh special forces and others who already are on the are are on the front lines much more than is reported, but there'll be in ground ground combat operations uh in cr in increasing numbers because this whole thing is this whole thing's going south on us, everybody, in a big way. | |
| Media doesn't want to talk about it because, oh, that's right. | |
| The Obama administration, national security, who was a part of that whole thing? | |
| Oh, that's right, Hillary Clinton. | |
| She was Secretary of State, wasn't she working with our partners in countries like this and wasn't that a whole Libya thing? | |
| Oh, there's a lot we could talk about. | |
| Maybe we'll get into more of that later. | |
| 800 two eight two two eight eight two Buck Sexton here in for Rush Limbaugh. | |
| Much more common. | |
| You're right back. | |
| Buck Sexton here in for Rush Limbaugh. | |
| 800, 282-2882, having a good time here on the EIB as always. | |
| Um let's take a call from Susan in Ohio. | |
| Susan, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| You are speaking to Buck. | |
| Hi, Buck. | |
| Thanks so much for taking my call. | |
| Question for you, as you are an expert or seem to be on Afghanistan and our policies there. | |
| I've always thought it uh very strange coincidence that so much of the world heroin is produced in Afghanistan and right now, especially during the Obama administration, we've had quite an upsurge in heroin consumption acts absolutely an epidemic where I live, um, and throughout the U.S. I wondered if that was um anything short of coincidence or if there's any uh relationships there. | |
| Also so much of heroin seems to be shipped out of Chicago, which is um uh our dearest leaders uh starting point. | |
| Okay, um yeah, so you're you're asking about heroin. | |
| Uh there have been times um when I've read I've read estimates, you know, in in the press and and else uh uh in you know different reports about how um ninety percent of opium uh cultivation in the world occurs in in South Asia, specifically Afghanistan, southern Afghanistan along the Pakistan border uh and and into Pakistan as well. | |
| Um but as you're much of that, and that has been a major source of funding for the Taliban now for a number a number of years. | |
| Correct. | |
| Um much of that uh and this was uh I mean, during my time in Afghanistan, this was a huge concern because you have on the one hand, you know, U.S. sort of federal law and and federal policy is eradicate poppy. | |
| On the other hand, okay, but that's how farmers in areas that we're hoping will be pacified and will come over to our side, make a living for their families, and if you destroy, if you do sort of, you know, crop uh crop spraying and such or or burn down the fields. | |
| Now they go, okay, well, I can't feed my family, I'm gonna just go gonna join the Taliban and start planning IEDs. | |
| It's very complicated part of the counterinsurgency piece here, and um, and something that I I was uh dealing with and very aware of when I was in Afghanistan. | |
| Okay. | |
| Uh but actually the uh some of the heroin uh that we see in this country is or more of it, more and more of it is grown in Mexico. | |
| It's brought in by the cartels and grown in Mexico. | |
| Um that's that's been part of this as well. | |
| There are these sort of uh they've been growing uh gardens there. | |
| Um so Mexico has been increasing heroin production to feed demand in this country because it is it is quite a ways from Afghanistan to here. | |
| A lot of the heroin trade uh out of Afghan or you know, the poppy trade and then turned into heroin and moved in bricks and such out of Afghanistan tended to make its way sort of through former sort of the four former Soviet states routed and into Europe. | |
| And then from Europe, of course, it could make it into the U.S. And you look, it's it's all it's all a question of logistics and and how expensive and difficult they make it, but it's a lot easier to grow heroin in Mexico and take it across the border, and we're increasingly seeing that because of the demand here. | |
| And the cartels realize okay, there's high demand for heroin, let's just grow it and let's grow it ourselves, right? | |
| So that's something they've been doing. | |
| Thank you. | |
| All right. | |
| I was happ happy to uh happy to help. | |
| Um Mexico, this is from the LA Times. | |
| Mexico's attorney general's office said that authorities destroyed thirty thousand acres of poppy crops in the first half of let me see what year this was alone. | |
| Of twenty this is this is a little old, but I just pulled up a stat here. | |
| That was from 2014. | |
| That's a lot. | |
| 30,000 acres of of heroin or basically heroin fields, poppy fields, but that's how you make heroin. | |
| That's um that's happened right across the border, actually. | |
| Uh so perhaps this is also a decent point where I'll say that we will take a segue into in the next hour, we'll talk about some border issues. | |
| I think that would be an interesting place to go with this. | |
| Immigration, always a fun topic for uh open line Fridays, I am sure. | |
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| All right, Scott in Oklahoma. | |
| You are on the Rush Limbaugh show, you're speaking to Buck. | |
| Make it into those Buck. | |
| Yes, sir, you too. | |
| Let me get to my point. | |
| Uh, and you can tell me whether I'm wrong on this or not. | |
| You had a caller in the previous hour that said, well, at least Trump isn't a criminal, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| And what I was wondering is isn't Donald Trump like due for like a uh a pending fraud case for Trump University. | |
| Yeah, but that's a civil case, not a criminal case. | |
| So he's not a criminal. | |
| Even if you're if you were to get annihilated and lose that whole uh class action, it's not he wouldn't be a criminal, it'd just be somebody who lost a civil judgment. | |
| Well, still it's kind of a lapse in judgment, it's kind of a lapse in morality, don't you think? | |
| Uh I mean if you did if if if he's found guilty, I mean I I also will be honest with you, I I haven't really uh I I I don't care as much about the Trump University case, and and I'm not somebody who defends everything that Trump does and says, but I don't care as much as some other people seem to. | |
| Uh you know, the guy that they were selling a product, they use sales tactics, some people were happy with it, some people weren't. | |
| I mean, you know. | |
| If you buy a shamwow, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. | |
| I don't know what to tell you. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, understand, I'm I'm not a big fan of Hillary. | |
| Like I'm uh I've been like you, a conservative since I could spell the word. | |
| Uh but one of the things that I've got to think about. | |
| So we're gonna have to speed this up, unfortunately. | |
| We're innocent until proven guilty. | |
| Yeah, we are interested until proven guilty. | |
| That is true. | |
| But unfortunately, I'm fifty eight. | |
| I don't know, I gotta I gotta go. | |
| I gotta thank you for calling in, though. | |
| I'm out of time. | |
| But hour three is coming up, and it's gonna be awesome. |
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