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July 15, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Buck Sexton here in today on the EIB for Rush, 800-282882.
Open line Friday commences everyone.
Thank you very much for being here.
Thanks for listening.
As you hear as you heard in the intro there, I'm a former CIA analyst to spend some time in Iraq, Afghanistan, and some other places.
And what's happened in the last twenty-four hours obviously brings you back to many of the sorts of cases, uh incidents, events that I've worked in the past in that professional capacity, not as a media person, but as an intelligence analyst.
But now I see that there are really two simultaneous conversations going on in this country about all of this.
On the one hand, there are people who really want to focus on how would you stop this kind of thing from happening?
What's effective counterterrorism policy?
What does it mean in 2016 to face up to the fact that we have jihadist enemies all over the world, including here at home, including active plots, individuals who may be still trying to either gather together the logistics materiel and planning for an attack, or maybe perhaps trying to infiltrate into this country one way or another foreign attack.
We know that the rate of these mass casualty attacks has been accelerating in 2016.
We're getting close to an average of about one a month now against a NATO allied country and or here or a NATO allied country and here when you have them together.
And people are asking questions about how to stop this.
That's one part of the discussion that I do want to spend some time with you on this, as I do have some professional background in it.
Um have some very deep thoughts on or very uh very you know thoughts on this that I want to share with you all because it certainly brings back uh memories.
Somebody who comes from the 911 generation, which I know many of us in the Intel community and certainly many in the military signed up because in 911 we see these incidents and these attacks and have an understanding that this is the world we're now in.
We now face a global jihadist enemy, an insurgency that is all over the world, including as I said, here at home.
That's one part of the conversation.
But what you saw last night, I'm sure if you were on social media and perhaps on some of the various channels that cover news events, that there's another conversation happening.
And it's one that has gotten louder and more consistent, and I would offer it to you all more pernicious, more damaging.
And that is that somehow, no matter what the attack is, no matter what occurs, how many uh how many times we see a similar pattern.
And in this attack in Nice in Southern France, you have eighty-four currently confirmed dead, over two hundred injured, fifty-two in critical condition, estimate or are thought to be clinging to life.
And in the immediate aftermath of this, w within hours, you see a politicization of this occurring, whereby there are many people, whether it's politicians, scholars, talking heads, celebrities, you can go out and find them,
not hard at all, who seem to take the position that no matter what happens, no matter how obvious the perpetrators' motives may be, no matter how united you would think we should all be in our opposition to this, no matter what the facts of the case are, no matter what analysis you can offer forward, it's our fault somehow.
This is maddening.
You see this across many of the different media outlets.
You see this across many of the top politicians of the Democratic Party.
They will say things about how well, you know, the r this is really let's talk about Donald Trump's rhetoric.
There's just a huge terrorist attack.
Might be a hundred people dead by the end of today.
And we all are supposed to talk about Donald Trump's rhetoric about what to do.
Not even his policies, mind you, and he's not yet the president of the United States, so this is just all what a person in a political campaign is saying.
But there's so much of a focus placed on this.
Or if you want to deal with some of the fancier types out there who like to discuss either their you know, years studying abroad or how many trips to European capitals they've had in the past or something, they will tell you stories, very, very sad stories about how assimilation, the failure of assimilation is somehow responsible for mass casualty terrorist attacks like this perpetrated by jihadists.
So it's really the fault of the society that this happens in, they will tell you.
And they say this with a straight face.
It's really the fault of people who want to speak openly and honestly about the threat of radical jihadism.
They're the ones.
They instigate this hatred, they will tell you.
Maybe we need to spend more money on schools.
Maybe we need to do more for the cult of multiculturalism, the diversity obsessed left, never has enough of this, never can get enough.
It's always a question of just give me a little bit more.
Just bend the knee a bit more, and maybe they will stop coming after us.
Now us is an important word here.
I'll give you more of that in a few minutes.
What do I mean by us?
Everybody who is not a jihadist, this should be a united front.
United States, our European allies, our allies all over the world, our Muslim allies, everyone against the jihadists, and there should be no question about this whatsoever.
We should also understand that this is an enemy that is dedicated to killing us, irrespective of whatever policy decisions we may make.
There is no way to placate an enemy that seeks global domination that has an imperialist and sadistic venture, bent on our destruction or our subjugation.
Those are the choices.
There's not a third choice where we hug them and say it's all gonna be okay.
Let's be friends.
Let's forget about the past.
That is not an avenue that is open to us.
It's not a route that we can pursue.
And when you start to see more and more of this now, because it's becoming so obvious that we face this international terrorist threat, and we don't know exactly where because in a sense it's everywhere.
As it becomes more clear that there is a pattern that we can see how these incidents unfold over time, we know what they're trying to accomplish.
They tell us, they publish it, they tweet about it, they put it on Facebook.
They run their own propaganda channels.
And they're very specific about the intention here.
The intention is to either destroy us or to control us.
And what we have to deal with is not just the complexities, and it is incredibly complex complex.
Don't believe when you hear people like Hillary Clinton up there just saying, well, you know, let's work with our allies and build stronger allegiances.
That's some brilliant stuff from the former Secretary of State, I heard her saying last night.
I mean, is she a seventh grade social studies teacher?
No offense to seventh grade social studies teachers.
But she's supposed to be the former Secretary of State.
You would think that she might have more wisdom to offer than just let's work with our allies and create coalitions.
We've had now almost eight years of Obama as commander in chief, four of them with Hillary as Secretary of State.
You would think that this coalition building to deal with the jihadist menace, such as it is, would have, oh, I don't know, begun to turn the tide, and yet what we see is this all going in the opposite direction.
It's getting worse.
I know many of you listening understand jihad up close and personal.
You know, many of you listening have walked the streets of Fallujah, you've been in convoys in Baghdad, you've gone down dangerous highways that you knew were littered with IEDs around Kandahar.
Many of you listening understand the menace we face and how depraved and evil they are.
But if we don't even have the will as a people to understand the scope and scale of the threat that we face and to be willing to join together and face it as a united front, how can we ever win an ideological war?
How can we beat an idea when every time that idea, jihadism, comes after us and tries to hurt as many of us, to kill as many of us as possible.
You have so called experts in this country telling us that, well, it's because the Europeans aren't nice enough to certain minority groups.
It's because of hate crimes in America.
It's because of guns.
Well, this was a truck.
Oh, but he had guns in the truck.
But did he actually kill anybody with the guns?
No, it doesn't look like he did.
He killed a lot of people with a truck.
What are we going to do now?
We're not going to control trucks.
You would think that perhaps this would be a moment where they were changed the thinking at some level about how to face up against this enemy.
That tinkering around the edges of gun laws or trying to make some sort of a public proclamation about how we stand against unspecified hate crimes, that's not going to be enough.
That's not going to frighten them away.
How we speak about terrorism matters.
How we understand and see the enemy matters.
It matters on our side because we need to have the political will to make the sorts of decisions that can lead to action that can actually take the fight to the enemy.
And it also sends a message to the other side.
When they see us, when the jihadists of the Islamic State of Al Qaeda, of countless assorted other Islamic extremist groups, see the squabbling in this country.
And see that it seems like a large percentage of at least one political party can always find either a rationalization for this kind of violence, an excuse, or some kind of a distraction.
Oh, it's something else.
Let's wait till all the facts are in.
We're still trying to figure out apparently what the real motivation in Orlando was.
Not yet clear to some of the senior government officials in this country why somebody would shoot up a military recruiting center in Chattanooga.
A party in San Bernardino during the holidays, shot up by a couple of committed jihadists.
Do we know what the what do we know what the motivation was there?
You do, I do, does our own government?
They'll get back to you.
This matters because it affects how we react, and it also affects how the enemy sees us.
And every time one of these terrorist attacks occurs, and we all have this giant echo chamber of people standing around saying, Well, maybe it was something we did.
Let's not jump to conclusions.
You know, the real problem are those mean Republicans and the things they say about the jihadist terrorists.
I know that there are people in ISIS and Al Qaeda and elsewhere who are smiling because they realize if we don't get this in order, we can never beat them.
Buck Sexton here in for Rush 800-282-2882 Back in a few.
Buck Sexton here in for Rush today on the EIB.
I'm a Blaze host, also a CNN contributor and former CIA analyst.
Just a quick heads up.
We're going to be hitting everything going on at the RNC coming up here in just a few minutes.
Talking about the fallout that may or may not have occurred with the Never Trump movement.
We'll also be joined later on by Kimberly Strassel about all things government overreach and government targeting based on politics.
She's got a new book out.
So we have a packed show today.
Plus, of course, it's open line Friday, so 800-282-2882.
Anything is fair game.
Let up those lines.
So I was speaking to you about the way that many on the left react when there's a huge terrorist attack and how it drives me insane.
I I want to scream and I kind of want to throw things sometimes because they're so dedicated to the notion that if they just ignore or even shout down those who are willing to state the obvious, things will get better.
I was on a panel last night at CNN where they are kind to have me on as a contributor, and And before I went uh was able to say anything, it was made clear to me that we were going to be focusing based on the other analysts, and they're allowed to see this as they see fit, and I'm allowed to disagree.
The focus was, sure enough, on poor assimilation in Europe and Trump statements and and Republican rhetoric and the foreign policy of the GOP.
That's what we're going to talk about after a huge mass casualty attack that killed two Americans, along with over 80 others in Southern France.
This sort of thing Actually truly bothers me.
It is untrue, it is deceitful, and it is damaging.
I want to play for you some of the exchange from last night.
Go.
Because the fact is, and I'll say this to you Buck directly, the vast majority of ISIS's victims are Muslim, not us.
I mean, no, no, no.
They're coming after us.
They're not coming after us more than they're coming to the United States.
I was referring to the Islamic State, which very clearly through his external operations arm, which has been at work, by the way, for a number of years now, along with Al-Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula, which until recently was considered the most virulent and deadly of the jihadist terrorist organizations for this kind of external plotting, they are continuing to do this.
Of course they're killing Muslims, they're killing Muslims in Turkey and Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Uh I've actually I've actually seen some of the handiwork of what they've done in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the people who are doing it, they can consider themselves Muslim as well.
I don't really understand this.
I still don't understand that question.
I'm trying to just focus on the counterterrorism.
She's saying that the people who are it's being perpetrated against are Muslim, but the attackers can be Muslim as well, right?
But I have to say I don't understand why.
By no means that I say that wasn't the case or it wasn't true, so I don't understand why that's being directed at me.
I'm merely saying you said they're coming after us.
They are coming after us.
They are in fact coming after us.
They're going after she's not a good idea.
I'm referring to America and Europe and the West and all peaceful Muslims and everywhere around the world who doesn't believe that strapping a suicide vest on because you're disaffected, because you have some belief that somehow this will take you to a place of paradise and virgins, whatever the case may be, everybody who isn't on that team is on my team.
This notion you have in your head that when I say us, I'm referring to what?
R Republican Americans?
I was in the counter-terrorism side of the CIA.
I was working with foreign allies all over the world to try and stop these kinds of attacks.
You're making an implication that's preposterous.
And I have to be honest with you, after this sort of an attack happens, there is this knee-jerk reaction that we see from people who are center to left of center, constantly trying to sort of wrap all this around the bad rhetoric of people who want to speak openly and honestly about terrorism.
We're just trying to empower the moderates from within Muslim societies, we're trying to empower our allies in countries that we do work with in the Muslim world and outside the Muslim world to stop people from getting mowed down at a celebration of a national holiday.
That's it.
Which include other Muslims.
I've said that four or five times already.
Okay.
We're getting off track here.
We are getting off track.
Thank you.
Spurious accusation.
I just wanted to get into the spurious accusation at the end there.
This is how crazy people have gotten, everyone.
People in this country, so-called quote unquote experts.
If you say ISIS is coming after us, I don't know, you're a racist, you're Islamophobic.
You can't say that.
I mean, this is it's reached a stage of parity now, except it's deeply unfunny.
They can't even see the nose that is on their, I mean, you know, the the nose in front of their face.
They have absolutely no ability whatsoever to just look at the obvious and say, yeah, of course they're coming after us.
And we can expand us to mean any number of things.
That's completely legitimate.
Americans, Western civilization, the entire non-Jihadist world.
I mean, this is just one of the distraction techniques you see.
The building of these sorts of straw men, oh, well, you know, it's the the violence against us is nothing compared to the violence between Muslims uh in their own countries.
What does that have to do with anything?
They're both really bad.
And jihadists that are killing other innocent people in those countries or killing people in our country or in allied countries, we have to fight them, we have to stop them.
What is with the squabbling among Americans on this issue?
W why is it that after this sort of thing happens, people can tweet out idiocy about, well, you can thank the NRA for this one.
This is the sort of stupidity that leads to the downfall of entire societies.
I mean, you really get the sense that all the Soviets really had to do during the Cold War was convince America that criticism of communism was racist or Islam or communophobic or something, and they could have won.
They say that words don't matter and yet they constantly avoid using certain words.
They say that they're willing to sort of work with allies on this issue and they're going to take it very seriously, and then when anyone says, okay, well, what are we going to do?
They say, hey, hold on a second.
Are you suggesting that there's a connection with Islam here?
But what no, I'm saying, what are we are we going to actually do something?
Or is it just platitudes?
Is it Hillary who, when she speaks about these issues, sounds like somebody whose biggest concern, Barnon, is she doesn't want to give offense.
And what I love of too, not just give offense to peaceful Muslims all over the world who shouldn't take any offense when we're talking about jihadists and all the ones that I know don't.
But won't give offense to the leftists that think that they're somehow the champions of Islam, despite not having any connection to it themselves.
And despite the fact that if we don't decide that we're going to speak openly and honestly about this, we might as well just quit.
Because the other side is playing a long game and they will not give up.
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Buck Sexton in for Rush.
Open line Friday.
Politics up next.
you Buck Sexton here in for uh Rush today.
Thank you very much for joining on the EIB.
We're going to get into a whole bunch of politics are coming up.
But if you want to call and talk about the terrorist attack or uh the Never Trump movement and what's going on in the RNC, anything at all.
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We're now joined by Katrina Pearson.
She is the national spokesperson for the Trump campaign.
Katrina, thank you for calling in.
Thanks, but great to talk to you.
Okay, so Katrina, I see on uh on uh Mr. Trump's Twitter account here that he has said I am pleased to announce that I've chosen Governor Mike Pence as my vice presidential running mate.
What where where are we on this?
Well, that is the announcement.
There'll be a press conference tomorrow.
Uh Mr. Trump definitely wanted to uh make sure everyone heard it directly from him.
We are very excited to have a ticket.
I think it's a a good balanced ticket, and I think a lot of people are really excited.
Okay.
Um now there's uh we there's a a whole bunch of uh reporting going on about what happened at the uh the rules committee at the RNC.
It looks like anybody who is hoping for there to be a change to uh to make sure all delegates are on bound will be quite disappointed.
Can you give us some updates?
What what's happening right now over at the R and C with regard to the binding or unbinding of delegates?
Well, you know, we've been saying from the very beginning that the convention was not going to be a problem, although there were a handful of individuals that they the Never Trump movement who wanted to, for some strange reason derail a candidate who had record turnout in the GOP primary, garnered up more than 10 million votes, and they actually thought that they might have been in the my in the majority, but they're not.
Um Donald Trump is the candidate that the Republicans chose to represent them.
And what happened in the rules committee, um, there was a vote to unbind delegates to have them vote their conscience.
I know a lot of reporters are reporting it differently, but the vote was eighty-seven to twelve.
Um, just like in the primaries, uh, hands down, Donald Trump was successful.
Um I think now we need to move forward.
We have a wonderful ticket, the primary's over.
It's time to get on and go up against the Democrats and make sure Hillary Clinton does not become president.
Now, Katrina, I I've been never Hillary all along, so I'll go I I've been on record saying that, and I'm I'm still there.
Um, but but I as part of that want as much of a unified GOP as possible.
It seems like now the Never Trump movement, which I'm sure you're quite familiar with uh everybody who's a part of it, and or at least the sort of the more prominent figures who have been spearheading this movement for a while.
Uh we need unity in the party.
Uh what is Mr. Trump trying to do now to bring them all together?
I mean, do you have a plan in mind?
Because even though Never Trump may have been defeated as a function of procedure and what's going on with the RNC, we'd like Never Trump to actually come under the RNC tent here and actually vote Republicans.
So what are the plans there?
Well, you know, Mr. Trump committed early on, signing the loyalty pledge, uh, to bring the party together.
He's had multiple meetings on multiple occasions.
Some were reported on and some were not, of GOP leaders.
He's been in DC several times uh to meet with House members and senators to try to reconcile their differences to just to to come together for unity.
Um but at the end of the day, you're going to have those individuals.
A lot of these Never Trump people, they're not the grassroots folks on the ground, although there may be some, but a lot of them are the establishment type and the consultants who stand to actually lose by having a candidate potentially become the president of the United States, which means their contracts may not be renewed, their vendors may not get to be used.
And that's really what we're seeing here.
A lot of the animosity is coming because people are trying to protect their own livelihoods at the expense of the party.
Right to previous has been out there to bring party unity.
There are several other elected officials that have come out in support of Mr. Trump.
By the time the convention is over, for the most part, the party and the people of the party will be united, even though, as I talk to you today, Republicans are behind Donald Trump.
Can you give us some sense of what your expectations are with regard to Ted Cruz speaking, or is there anyone else that you think is going to have a particularly um uh important message when it comes to the ultimate goal, which is to defeat Hillary Clinton and put a Republican in the White House and the sort of ways that we can unify along the way?
Well, I think uh several of the speeches are going to be important.
Um as you know, this is not going to be your typical convention.
Uh, Mr. Trump has brought in individuals outside the political realm to come in and talk, and I think that resonates with a lot of people, particularly those who haven't really been engaged in politics a lot, but to see people that they know but didn't know essentially come out and talk about the reasons why they support Mr. Trump, why this election is so important.
So I think you're gonna see a number of speeches that are going to be crucial to understanding who Mr. Trump is, what he wants to do, and why so many support him, just like in the primary, whether it's independent, whether it's Democrats, whether it's brand new voters, believe it or not, there is a reason why so many people support Trump, and that reason will be unveiled next week.
What are your expectations and and what preparations uh do you think can can be made for the American people watching this, or what should we be ready for?
Uh, we're hearing a lot about how there's going to be some mayhem there.
Uh unsurprising that the sort of the sort of collective forces of the collectivist left are gonna throw a giant temper tantrum at the RNC.
Uh but do you think that the do you think that that may backfire more than they realize?
What would be your what's your uh your sense of of what's going to come out of this with regard to the the protests and the the promises to have a sort of day of rage uh when Republicans are just trying to have a uh you know a meeting of the R and C. I mean, it's a convention.
Well, look, there's no question that organized chaos is going to follow the Trump campaign.
You know, this is basic human psychology.
You have a power structure in place currently that's losing its power in just four and a half months, the entire system uh could be shaken up.
And so they're gonna do everything that they can to hold on to that power, including organized chaos.
However, I do think also in light of recent events, I don't think it's gonna be as bad as many people expect or anticipate.
But you just you never can tell.
I mean, you've got anarchists out there, uh, some of the Bernie Sanders supporters who are even more upset um that Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton.
We just don't know how people are going to behave, but what we do know is that we're gonna be prepared, we're gonna move forward, we're gonna continue to fight, and we're going to stop Hillary in November because at the end of the day, if we don't take a look around.
People do not want this to be the normal.
People don't want this to be the standard.
There are terrorist attacks nearly every other week now, and that madness has to stop.
Katrina, one last one for you before we let you go, and we thank you for making time today.
Uh what is your message to those uh out there in the Never Trump movement who are are willing to cross the line.
Oh, open arms, what's what's your what's your word?
Uh what are your words for them?
Oh, absolutely.
You know, we've said from the beginning, we welcome everyone to join the Trump train.
This is a bigger message that's happening, and Mr. Trump says the same thing.
It's not about him.
This is a movement.
This is an opportunity for even many of the Never Trump movement to recognize and understand that you know what?
Our plan isn't always God's plan.
But I can tell them that we now have a leader that we can depend on to do what's right and not what's politically expedient or in the special interest group.
Um we just need a man of the people.
And I think we have that in Mr. Trump, and I think as the next few months unfold, they'll begin to see that and we welcome them aboard.
All right, Katrina, all the best to you and good luck.
Katrina Pearson, uh spokesman for the Trump campaign.
Appreciate you calling in.
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Buck Sexton here in for Rush.
I'm a host on The Blaze, uh CNN contributor, former CIA analyst.
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800 28282 we got Tim in Colorado.
What's up Tim?
Good morning Buck I thought I would uh just give you three really quick points to your opening question how would we begin to uh what I call retard the progress or remove the Islamic jihadi terrorism it's based on the French combat example in Algeria and it touches on immigration, welfare, and deportation.
All examples learned by the French during a brutal experience, 54 to 62.
I think you know this as an analyst.
When they decided to address what would I call the welfare problem, they closed borders to the collection of francs in Algeria, which were being exported after being collected by the Algerian Muslim community to buy arms and explosives.
The deportation, which was initially started by taking them and putting them in prison, in prison camps did not work out as well because in prison you find that it's a better recruiting tool and indoctrination tool.
But the last thing that I wanted to offer everybody and especially to you the immigration infiltration problem was handled by an almost three hundred mile fence along the Tunisian border it was an incredible work.
It was electrified.
It was searchlighted.
It was bunkered.
It was covered by artillery fire.
It was a dramatic destruction of those bringing in the arms, the weapons, and the trained Mujahideen type, jihadi type.
And that is the type of work that will have to be done to remove this.
Today, maybe there are different examples by removing, if, say, a terrorist example would happen, then you remove all of the Muslim Mohammedan population from a city, a county, or even a state in the United States.
States but lastly because you're a good analyst and I would always give an Intel officer a document this is uh all the results of the most magnificent work on this war.
It's done by Alistair Horn in his book A Savage War of Peace and I'll bet you there are Frenchmen still alive today looking at this massacre in Nice and equating it with the massacre among other twenty six cities Philippeville in August of nineteen fifty five Tim are you former military?
Yes.
I had a feeling I can usually tell um yeah.
Well I I look at the it's the effort that your normally the entire intelligence department and your officers do to go ahead and make up a profile, sorry for the incorrect words, right?
Of knowing your enemy and what it's going to take.
It was a barbaric, brutal and enduring fight, and often it involved turning Moslem against Moslem, wherein the mountain tribes were more of the animist Moslem beliefs, and they became the tracker hunter interrogators in the pay of the French.
But this is a uh brutal fight, and to have open borders in our country, open refugee, and open what you call carrying or transporting these uh people from different uh countries such as Syria trebles the problems that we have now going to go ahead inherit, inject, and then brew and intensify in our country.
Tim, I thank you, uh thank you.
You've given me a lot, a lot to go with there.
Um and I first thank you for your service and and uh and I also thank you for your call.
Uh a couple of thoughts on what Tim shared.
Uh, first of all, uh it's still to this day uh very good, very worthwhile film, although some of the sort of political angles and it may you may find find bothersome, but the Battle of Algiers, it's actually something that in sort of counterinsurgency 101 training people uh will watch because it it gives a very sort of good overview of he was talking about French counterinsurgency campaign in Algeria, which was uh vicious and and very bloody.
He also mentioned uh walls and fences, by the way, and this is always fascinating to me.
You know, when we get into the immigration debate in this country, you will hear people say time and again, well, walls don't work, fences don't work.
And then you can show them that in fact there are many places around the world where they do have fences.
They have walls, um, and others are trying to build them as feverishly as quickly as they possibly can.
There is obvious there's obviously a wall slash barrier, uh very well known in uh Israel separating Israel proper from uh West Bank and Gaza.
Uh there is a wall between well, there's uh really a whole area, uh the DMZ between North and South Korea.
There's a wall that's in the process of being completed uh between Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Uh there's a we we do have a wall in some places on our own southern border.
Uh there's a wall in the western Sahara uh separating out Morocco from Algeria.
You know, there are a lot of people in a lot of places building walls.
Good fences make good neighbors.
Uh this is not an unusual thing.
This is not a bizarre thing, and it's also not a racist or xenophobic thing to try to have control of of your own borders.
Uh so it's it's I think very instructive if you just do a quick sort of search, you can see yourself.
A lot of lot of people out of places building walls.
No one's calling them racist or fences, whatever.
Building some sort of a border barrier.
I mean, in some parts of of Iraq, it's really no more than a a s uh a berm, sometimes dirt, uh sand berm.
But people like to delineate what their boundaries are and if possible, enforce those boundaries.
And that's a smart thing when you're trying to prevent infiltration, mass casualty terrorist attacks, and also cultural attrition.
We talk about assimilation.
We don't talk any more in this country the way we should, I think, or at least we don't talk about it nearly enough, about how we're supposed to make everybody American, and it can take some time.
It can take some time.
Buck Sexton and for Rush here.
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Buck Sexton here in for Rush Limbaugh today.
We've got a whole lot coming up in the next hour.
I'm gonna be joined by my friend John Schindler, formerly of the NSA, currently a columnist for the Observer, Kimberly Strassell of the Wall Street Journal, going to talk about politics and sort of the deep state in this country and how it's been politicized uh and how that affects or should affect our perceptions of Hillary Clinton uh going forward.
Let's take uh Nathan in Virginia.
Nathan, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show, you're speaking to Buck.
Hey, Mr. Sexton, how are you doing?
Good sir.
Um I want to talk about the I I feel really bad about what happened to the victims in France, but their government uh is responsible for what happened.
Uh they have had an open immigration policy for twenty, thirty plus years and inviting all of North Africa up there and making them citizens and whatever.
Uh but that was a combination of having gun control i is the reason why this tragedy happened and why so many uh died um last night.
They the police couldn't respond fast enough to this crazy man who drove all around and killed all these people.
if it would have been in Israel that this happened I can promise you there would have been an IDS soldier nearby who would have shot this guy up and stopped him before Nathan I I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to make sure that we're precise on language.
It's not the French government's fault what happened last night.
The French government has had policies in place for a long time that have allowed for pockets of radicalization to grow for the sort of tumors of jihadism to get much larger and much more dangerous.
But that's a different thing than saying responsible for and well I think unfortunately I have to leave it there for now.
Perhaps we'll pick this up in the next hour.
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