Did America Learn The Wrong Lessons From 9/11?

0:00Well, ladies and gentlemen, is the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. And what we're going to do today is we're obviously going to remember the people that died. We're going to honor the people that lost their lives trying to save others. But we're going to spend the bulk of the time today talking about the lessons that were learned because 9.11 set this country on a particular trajectory. And I know it changed my life. I was in the 25th Infantry Division at the time. I thought I was going to do, you know, one more reenlistment and then get out of the military. And when 9.11 took place, I remember coming out of the field. We were on a training exercise in a Wahoo. And I looked at my wife and I said, well, I know what I'm doing for the next 10 years. And shortly after that, I joined Special Forces and did a couple of tours over in Iraq in 2006 and 2008. And many other people did multiple tours, like for the rest of their young adult lives.

1:01That's what they were doing is they were going to Iraq or Afghanistan. And a number of other places too that we don't realize that we were fighting like Philippines. I lost two friends to terrorist group and men and now, Philippines. So it changed a lot of things for a lot of people that remember that time and grew up. And even ones that were born afterwards, all of my kids were born after 9.11. And they were too young to understand exactly why daddy was leaving for months at a time. Many kids were too young to understand why their parent never came home. And a lot of it stems from this. And so it's important that we understand what happened, why it happened. And do a re-evaluation because we're facing a different kind of threat right now in this country and some of it ties back directly to this. And we need, we need to understand it. So the first thing that we're going to do is I just want to talk about what actually happened on that day. So if you look at the deaths by sight at the World Trade Center in New York,

2:03there was 2,753 people killed. At the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia had 184. And in Pennsylvania with Flight 93, the one that the crew members came in and took down the plane, you had 40 deaths. As far as first responders, police and military, you had 343 New York firefighters, single greatest agency laws in US fire services tree. 23 NYPD police officers, 37 port authority police department officers, additional New York law enforcement from other agencies, concepted about 71. You had 441 first responders total at the World Trade Center site in many memorial tallies. That's including firefighters, police, EMTs, paramedics and other agencies. The large majority of the 2,977 victims were civilians, office workers, visitors, airline passengers and crew.

3:05The overall damage the twin towers were destroyed. Seven World Trade Center collapsed later that day, other buildings in the complex and nearby were heavily damaged. The West Side of the Pentagon was heavily damaged. Early property law estimates were somewhere in the order of about 20 billion. Later on as they looked at more of it, it rose all the way to 59 billion. The New York City Comptroller estimates from the early 2000s put the city's economic hit at a total of 83 to 95 billion range for the first few years. This was devastating in terms of not just the people that died on that day, but there was, there were people whose marriages did it survive this because of PTSD. There were children that were forever impacted and affected because mommy or daddy or maybe both of them didn't come home. There's been a lot of reviews lately, appropriately, so of the various phone calls that people were making.

4:12Either telling their family they weren't sure exactly what was happening. We'll always remember the call from Beamer where he closes it with saying we're going to do something. Let's go. So the anger and the fury as a result of this was absolutely righteous. It was completely justified. And to this day, the righteous anger that I think many of us feel over this, I think is totally and completely justified. We're not going to review whether or not that was okay. It was. We are going to talk about what were some of the statements that were made immediately following. What was evidence or indicators that should acute ascend to what this fight was really about. And have we learned that even today? Have we learned that lesson? Or are we still, are we still too afraid to call it for what it is?

5:13And what are the implications of that, by the way? Because my frustration is with the people that died on that day, the people whose lives were ruined in one way, shaped former and other, the people that ended up deploying to two different wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other parts of the world as well for 20 years after the fact. And the fact that today, we would actually have politicians from major political party allying themselves with people that believe we deserve 9-11, people that think we had it coming. People that still think we have it coming. There's something about that that is deeply insulting to the people that died, to the people that ran in and tried to rescue them, to the people that fought. And the fact, that any of their concerns, when they bring them up, can immediately be dismissed with just a couple of accusations. Is something that on this 25-year anniversary of 9-11,

6:13I think should just end forever. End forever. I'm going to give you specific examples of what I'm talking about. Believe me, we're going to bring up a lot of receipts today. We have clip after clip after clip report after report after report. We're going to bring it all up. And we're going to talk about what actually happened, what it means for this country today. Not just then, not just the past 25 years. What does it mean today and going forward? Because if we, if we're not honest with ourselves, we're going to face consequences in the future, even worse than that day. And we're going to let it happen to ourselves. And I think that's unacceptable. So as we kind of jump into the first lessons here, one of the things I want to talk about is what do we know? And this is like right off the bat in this very first post we're going to show you. You're probably going to be furious, but you're probably also going to say, yeah, that

7:16makes sense, especially if you were an adult around this time. I'm 47. So let's go ahead and look at this, this first piece that we want to bring up as part of our lessons learned today. And this has to do with this part, which came out of the 9-11 report. So this voice one that says reading about 9-11, I'd never heard this part of the story. What the hell? Muhammad Ata, the ringleader of the attacks and fellow hijacker Abdulaziz Alamari arrived at Portland International Jetport in Maine at 0541 Eastern Daylight Time on September 11th, 2001. At the Portland ticket counter, Mike Tuahee asked the hijackers for the driving licenses. Ata threw his on the counter while Al Amari simply held his under his chin and smiled. Tuahee became suspicious of Ata's demeanor and considered that he might be a terrorist, but let it go out of concern that he was racially profiling Ata. Now, where would he have got this idea that it would

8:18have been wrong to racially profile? Well, at this point, there hadn't been a 9-11 attack. Right? Now, there had been plenty of terrorist attacks, religiously motivated terrorist attacks that had taken place all over the world. Many of them actually directed at US citizens and we're actually going to get to what those numbers look like. But it shouldn't be hard to see why this guy would have had that kind of mindset because after all, immediately following 9-11, this is October 11th, 2000. George Bush says it's racist. It's a racist idea to flag Arabs as flight risks. This profiling could have prevented 9-11. Now, again, that's something that we're very uncomfortable with as Americans because it just seems like something that we shouldn't be doing, right? We shouldn't be judging people based off of their skin color. And I think in many ways, that makes absolute sense. The question is, is that, well, can we profile or can we make judgment calls

9:21with respect to people's ideologies? I would certainly hope we could, but apparently, we're not allowed to do that either. I don't know if you guys remember this, but shortly after 9-11, US President Vitz and his visits and Islamic Center, and he had this to say. These acts and violence against innocence violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. Okay, so they violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith, the acts of violence against innocence. Okay, he goes on to say this. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. Okay, so you have two truth claims that have been made here. And this is a point to understand, because this happens quite a bit, right? Where we say things in America that are kind of designed to be comforting, or they're designed to make people feel maybe welcome, or that they're not being personally attacked. And there's a general sentiment there that I think is appropriate,

10:23and that makes sense. But these are truth claims that these violate the basic tenets of Islam and that Islam is peace. Okay, well, well, let's see if that's true. Let's see if that's true. So I'm going to go over here, and I just looked up a list of various suras, and I understand that suras or verses can be taken out of context. And so I try to make sure that these were ones that were taken in context, or certain nine five, then when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them and take them captive and deceive them and prepare for them, each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor do, then leave their way free. So again, if you either convert to Islam or you agree to pay additional taxes because you're not Islamic, then then you can be free. So are nine 29, fight those who believe not in Allah, nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden, which have been forbidden by Allah and His messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of truth, even if they are the people of the book, until they pay the jizah and with willing submission and feel themselves subdued. So again, you're allowed to survive as

11:29a Christian, as a Jew, as somebody else that's not a Muslim, right? But only if you're subdued, only if you're willing to pay additional taxes. Surah 47 from Muhammad 47.4. So when you meet those who disbelieve in battle, strike their necks until when you have inflicted slaughter upon them, then secure their bonds and either confer favor afterwards or ransom until the war lays down its burdens. Surah 8, Al-A'Fah 812. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, so strike them upon the necks and strike them, strike from them every fingertip, 839, and fight them until there is no fitna and until the religion of all, the religion of all of it is for Allah. 867. It is not for a prophet to have captives until he inflicts a massacre in the land, Surah 2, Al-Bakara, and slay them wherever you catch them and turn them out from where they have turned you out for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter. 2193. And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression and they're prevailed justice in faith in Allah. Surah 4, Al-Nisa 49. If they turn back,

12:31seize them and slay them wherever you find them, 424 married women are forbidden except those whom your right hand possesses. The right hand possesses has to do with the idea of capturing them as part of the spoils of war. It goes on. It goes on other verses. Those who your right hand possesses, this has to deal with captives, slaves taking a war, including sexual access. 23, 5 through 6, 70, 29, through 34, 3, 4, 25, 16, 71, 24, 33, 30, 28. Okay. So it's a religion of peace. No, it isn't. No, it isn't. What's another way we know? I don't know. Let's take a look at this. September 12, 2001 at 1045 AM on NBC News, they ran video of the Palestinians and Gaza celebrating the nearly 3,000 lives that were murdered on 9-11. Yeah, they just look real broken up about it, don't they? It's religion of peace, man. How do you know what's a religion of peace? Well, George Bush says so. George Bush says so. And to say otherwise, to say otherwise is to be mean. And we're not allowed to be

13:37mean because after all, many Hassan will get sad, right? They'll get mad at us. You see, you see little things, you see little things like this coming from many Hassan, which I just had to respond to the other day because I'm just sick of it. We're again, on coming up on the anniversary of Charlie Kirk last month, he said, I'm tired of this BS, Charlie Kirk hated Muslims and mocked the deaths of Muslims. No, we didn't. His murder was inexcusable and horrific, obviously, but he was undeniably a hate-filled bigot. To which I had to respond, gosh, poor islamas, you really have been treated so badly. In fact, my greatest fear is whenever islamas run planes into buildings, array tens of thousands of poor British girls, is that a single Muslim might feel slightly uncomfortable at the rest of us being upset by it. Feel free to go live in whatever islamas country you would feel safer and many. And like, I can't take complete credit for thinking about this way. It was the great, late great normal Donald that said, what terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear

14:40device and kill 50 million Americans, imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims because this is what we were told from the very beginning that our primary concern had to be to make sure that no Muslims in America felt like we were angry with them. Now, to some degree, to some degree, I can understand this. I can understand that when emotions run high, people can target people by association in inappropriate ways. I understand that. I understand the motivation to prevent that from happening. For instance, I would have understand the president saying, we will not tolerate you going out and attacking innocent people because of an ethnic association or even because of a religious association. We're not going to tolerate you attacking innocent people. But he didn't do that. He got up and told us over and over and over again, like over a dozen times within the year of 9-11. Islam is a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of peace. Islam is

15:42a religion of peace. No, it isn't. From its very inception, it has not been a religion of peace. It has always been a religion of conquest and subjugation. There's something like 51, majority Muslim countries in the world. I'm sorry. Was that peaceful conversion? Not a single one of them. All of it, all of it, included conquest by the sword. In the name of Islam, by the way, all of it. So spare me. That was a lie from the very beginning we were given a lie. Why? Because you wanted to protect innocent people. Okay. Go protect innocent people by telling the truth. Ladies and gentlemen, live action is reaching millions of people with some of the most effective pro-life content out there, putting it in front of people at the exact moment it actually matters. One of the biggest fights right now is with Planned Parenthood, exposing what tax dollars actually fund and pushing lawmakers to finally end that funding. Defunding alone doesn't change

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17:49word around 98% of the terrorist attacks that are religiously motivated. It's somewhere like 96 to 98% of religiously motivated terrorist attacks are Islamic in nature. But we're not supposed to notice that. We're not allowed to notice that. Why? Well, because I know this one person who's a really, really nice Muslim. Yes, so do I. I have people I know who claim the Islamic faith who have fought for the United States, who have defended the United States, who have suffered for the United States. Does that mean that the ideology that they've associated themselves with is good or compatible with the United States? No, it doesn't. But I can differentiate between individuals I know versus an ideology that's very explicit in what it believes. George Bush, who again, I have several problems with, but I also think there's other

18:52things that he did where he was trying to do the right thing. I can acknowledge that. But this is one of the lingering things that he did that I have the hardest time with. Because it was this idea from the very get go that we were not allowed to ask basic questions about the motivations of the people that came here. They were supposed to be immediately separated from everybody else. But then when you actually look, pulled the Islamic world and you found out that a significant percentage of Muslims thought it was justified. No, we're not allowed to add, no, no, they're all wrong. They're all wrong. That's right. The people that live in Islamic countries that claim the faith. The moms that have studied for their entire lives that make up a significant portion of the Islamic community weren't, nope, they're just separate. They just all got it wrong. You know who got to write George Bush? I'm not buying it. I'm just not buying it. Let me tell you another reason why I'm not buying it is because I look at things like like this, right? Hassan Piker, American

19:56citizen. Let's see what he has to say about 9-11. America deserved 9-11, dude. I'm saying it. Well, there you go. He was a contributor with young Turks, you know, Anacasparian, Kinsparian, you know, Chinkwiger, those guys, right? More guys that tell us that any time you bring up anything they don't like, what that actually means is your Islamaphobic, your profiling. Okay. Yeah. Okay. We know what maybe it's just Hassan Piker. Maybe it's just a couple of podcasters like Chinkwiger and Anacasparian. It's not like prominent elected members of the United States government are hanging out with this. Oh, wait a second. Here's Zoran Mamdani hanging out with Hassan Piker. By the way, it's after Hassan Piker said all these things. It's after Hassan Piker talk about capitalist blood running through the streets. It's after him saying that he wipes his, you know what, with the constitution. It's after him saying, yeah, we're going to import a bunch

21:00of people to F your daughters. Here's another one, but that's just that's just Zoran Mamdani, Nick. We all know that he's kind of a, he's just kind of new on this stage. Yeah, he's, he got elected to be mayor of the most powerful city in America, but yeah, yeah, he's just a new comer. How about these guys? Are they new comers? There's Bernie Sanders and AOC chatting with Hassan Piker. By the way, this is the same time where you actually had prominent left wing magazines suggesting that Hassan Piker was, he was going to be the equivalent of Joe Rogan, but for the left. The left finally had his Joe Rogan because Hassan Piker has actually seen the inside of a gym. So that's what it was going to be. That's what it was going to be. Bernie Sanders, AOC, how about now? How about now? How about this guy? Oh, who's this? This is Abdul Al-Sahee, the Democrat candidate, force senate in Michigan. He's now trying to distance himself from Hassan Piker.

22:01How much distance do you see right here? Christian, do you see a lot of distance between Saeed and Hassan Piker? I don't see a lot of distance. I mean, it's worth noting that Saeed went on Piker's podcast, or not podcast, right? He was streaming. I mean, this is the same guy who hung up behind him, framed copy of, I think it was the New York Times the day after 9-11. Like, just over his shoulder, like he put it in a very prominent position. So it was always going to be shown. After he went out there and said that thing that you played on the clip, right, where he said that America deserved this. So I mean, that just tells me everything I really need to know about this guy, about Al-Sahee. Like, the fact that you would sit there in the same room with somebody like that. Tell, you know what it tells me? It tells me you either agree with what he said, or you didn't care enough to not show off. Yeah, what are you? One of the other ignorant. I mean, but look, we got elected members of

23:02Congress. I mean, how did exactly did Ilhan Omar describe it? Ilhan Omar described it as some people did something. Oh, some people did something. Okay, every time Ilhan Omar now complains about anything white guys do or anything Christians do, I'm just going to say, some people did something. But by the way, Ilhan Omar's dad was a colonel. He was a lieutenant colonel in the regime, in the Somali regime, that committed genocide. Yeah, and then somehow he got over to the United States, but wait a second, Christian. Wait a second. U.S. immigration law says that if you actually participated in war crimes, unless I'm tech actual genocide, not the fake kind that the gossips complaint about, but actual genocide right is supposed to bar you from immigration in the United States. And yet this man immigrated in the United States from Somalia, got his citizenship and then brought over her. And then she waited all the way up until she was right right before she turned

24:04to 18, because if she had waited till after 18, she would have to gone through a separate process. So 17, she becomes an American citizen. And then the evidence seems to suggest that she may have committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother in order to get her brother over to the United States as well, because he had actually gone to the UK. But again, you can tell that the deep abiding love she has for the country that let in her family in order to avoid the problems that were going on in Somalia. But of course, she sees herself as more of a representative of the Somali people, not the American people. Why would she? She hates this country. She hates this country. So I guess at some point we have to ask the question, did we ever learn our lesson from 9-11? Or did we learn the right lessons from 9-11? So here's something I'd like to bring up. Center for Immigration Studies, since 9-11, the number of immigrants from the Muslim world has grown by 1.8 million. 1.8 million. And then if we actually look at this report right here,

25:12also from Center for Immigration Studies, the Accelerating Immigration and Naturalization of Nation of the Muslim Majority Nations. Muslim Immigration has been the subject of discussion recently, below is a look at the statistics regarding annual immigration from Muslim Majority Countries, which are home to some 80% of the world's Muslim, the total foreign-born population from those countries that have become a naturalized American citizens. Look at this. So you already had a big jump from 1980 all the way up to 2000. And then what happens? Well, Muslim terrorists, then by the way, just so we're just so we're clear here, if we're wondering what was the what was the makeup of the hijackers here? 19 hijackers, 15 of them were Saudi, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was Egyptian, one was Lebanese. Okay. So again, Muslim Majority Nations, it's shot up after 9-11. Here's my question. Why? Why? We're we just, you know, total US

26:17census we were explains that the resident population counts include all people, citizens and non-citizens who are living in the United States at the time of the census in 2000. There were 1.8 million roughly foreign-born persons from Muslim Majority Countries residing the United States by 2024, the number increased to 4 million, 4.1 million, representing 128% increase. Why? Why would a bunch of people want to come to the United States from Muslim Majority Nations that many of which just claim to hate us in our way of life? Why? We're not allowed to ask. They just want a better life. Shut up, Nick. You're being xenophobic. I just want you to know xenophobia is an irrational fear or disdain for something. Pointing out, and again, I can make this separation, I know individual Muslims who I consider friends, who I would trust in a fight,

27:20but I also know a little something about the religion itself, the ideology, because it's an all-encompassing, it's a comprehensive religious system, which instructs us on how your legal systems are also supposed to be arranged. And guess what? They're not systems which allow for freedom of speech, not systems which allow for freedom of religion. They don't allow for the sort of general equality that we're accustomed to in the United States. And yet at a point, where we're not only did people of the Islamic faith commit terrorist attacks directed at the United States, and not only in time where we were fighting and we were sending Americans over there to fight these organizations, we were also allowing for the mass importation of people from Muslim majority countries. Why would you do that? I'm not saying you couldn't have allowed for any immigration from Muslim majority countries, but why would you actively pursue

28:24mass immigration on numbers we had never seen in US history? Why would you do that? What could possibly have been the motivation? Christian, you got any thoughts? Prove that we're not racist. Right? It's literally that simple. That's the reason. Here's what happened. We were attacked by Islamists and therefore in order to prove that we were not bigoted against Islam, we mass imported more Muslims into the country. It is basically the liberal progressive framework playing itself out fully, all the way to the end. You are not allowed to go down the path of Samuel Huntington in the 1990s and say that the 21st century is going to be defined by a clash of civilizations. If the 20th century was a clash of ideologies, the 21st century is going to be a clash of identities and civilizations. And the civilization that is

29:24represented largely by the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, and parts of South Asia, the Islamic world is antithetical to Western civilization. And we know this because those two civilizations fought a thousand year long uninterrupted war between the two of them from the 7th century to the 17th century, right? From the Islamic conquests of the Sassanid and Persian empires and the 600s, half of the Byzantine empire as well, right? From the Islamic conquests and the 600s AD all the way to the siege of Vienna, right? The second siege of Vienna, Turks did it twice. I mean, this isn't any surprise if you go back enough through history, but something changed in the 20th century that drove us to say, no, no, we're not allowed to say that. We can't say that Islamic civilization is antithetical to Western civilization. No, we have to demonstrate how

30:24open, intolerant, and accepting, and liberal we are because that's now how we've defined our civilization in the West and the way that we would manifest that is by importing people from the Islamic world into the US. By the millions, I mean, as you showed here, right? I mean, the population growth from the Muslim world in the US, what was it? 128 percent? I guarantee you the US's population hasn't grown 128 percent since 9-11. So that's where I'm at on this. I think that it's suicidal, but we did it basically to demonstrate how tolerant and open we were. Yeah. Well, and here's another chart for you to take a look at. Religiously motivated terrorism by ideology from 1979 to 2024. Anybody notice anything about this? Like, seek Jewish Hindu Buddhist Christian, not even really, you know, break a thousand. Yeah. How many people need to be going out there saying that Buddhism is a religion of peace?

31:25Nobody has to utter those words, right? It's not a, like, like the fact that you're having to say that tells you that there is something that has happened that is forcing you to defend it, right? We don't know. Nobody goes out there. You know what? You're not permitted to notice this Christian because not because not every single Muslim committed a terrorist attack. You're not allowed to notice that Islam is the primary motivation for all religiously motivated attacks. You're not allowed to notice that. You know what? You are allowed to notice. You are allowed to born. You are allowed to blame a straight white man born 20 years ago for the ills of all of human civilization. You are allowed to blame them. You're allowed to blame the West for anything and everything that is ever taken place. But the moment you notice this, the left will call you an Islamaphob, and then we all shut down, except we're not shutting down anymore. We're not shutting down. Why? Because this is ridiculous because we finally come to the realization. We have finally come to

32:26the realization that it's not a reasonable request. Here is a reasonable request. A reasonable request is you shouldn't blame every single individual for the sins of people that actually claim association with them either by ethnicity or religion or ideology. Okay. You shouldn't blame every minute. Sure. But am I allowed to make connections based off of ideology, which is something you choose? Right? I'm not sitting here saying that we should blame people for ethnic reasons. But if you choose an ideology, am I allowed to make some assumptions about what you might do and what you might be able to justify within that ideology when the overwhelming evidence suggests that it's perfectly reasonable for me to do so. And the answer from the left is no. Why? Well, because one thing we've learned about the red-green alliance is they both dislike the West. They both want to subjugate the West and turn it into something that it's not. They both, that's what has son Piker and and many his son and Islamist

33:31who throw homosexuals off of buildings in Gaza. That's what they all have in common. They don't like the West and they want to replace it with something. This is when Michael Foucault in 1979, right? The Godfather of postmodernism. This was a guy that used to like sign on to, you know, petitions trying to lower the age of consent. That's sort of guy. Big time lefty. He went to Tehran in 1979 to cheer on the Islamic Revolution. Why? Why? Well, because he saw it as a rejection of Western colonialism and capitalism. Because at one point in the revolution, it was primarily being led by students and union workers. They're fighting against the West. And the Islamists were very, very happy to have their support. And within about five to eight years, they didn't present an executed most of them. But that's the end. They're here and over there. And it's the reason why I appointed the Red Glorine Alliance, the thing, the reason why there's an alliance is because they most hate the West. The liberals are stupid and arrogant enough to believe that once they show the

34:35Islamists how nice and open and accepting and tolerant they are, the Islamists are going to be like, oh my gosh, I totally get rid of all of my histories and traditions dating back to the seventh century. How do I become trans? Yeah, they're not going to do that. They're not going to do that. So they're each using each other as useful idiots. The difference is Islam is right about the left. They are the useful idiots. Because I'll say this about Islam, they actually have a willingness to defend what it is that they claim to care about. And they're willing to engage in a whole lot more violence in order to achieve it. But no, no, we're not allowed to say that. Why? Well, because everybody George Bush told us it's a religion of peace. I noticed that George Bush didn't put on a uniform and go fight the religion of peace. He sent me to do that. To be fair, he sent you to nation build. That's right. To be fair, to be fair, he sent me over to Iraq in order to create a liberal Western democracy. And then when we got there and we realized, oh, it doesn't look like

35:38these people wanting Western liberal democracy. He had the brilliant question of, well, where's the Iraqi Thomas Jefferson? Well, George turns out, Islamic culture doesn't create Thomas Jefferson's. It turns out you need a different culture to create Thomas Jefferson's Islamic culture creates something else. And oh, by the way, before the French got involved in the American revolution, they already knew who the American Thomas Jefferson was. Maybe that would have been a good question to ask. Because here's the deal. I had no problem striking back at al-Qaeda, striking back at the Taliban, striking it back at any regime that was going to back tears. I don't have no problem with that. None. What I had a problem with is this idea that we were ever going to turn countries that had no desire to be like us into some facsimile of us. In fact, I got in trouble over it. I got in trouble over it. I don't know if you know this Christian. I'm a bit of a s'morn-ass. In 2009, I think it was 2009. I was a member of first special forces group in my ODA, my operational

36:41attachment alpha, SFA team. We, our group was moving out and another group was coming in. So now I have to take all the information and I have to give intel briefs and all that to the incoming team. And I'm doing this, right? But at the same time, I have to write sit reps. I have to write the intel report of our sit rep, our situation report, which goes up to special operations task force north. And my captain comes in one day. In that particular day, all we had done was pack bags because we're moving out of these guys are moving in. So that day, nothing going on, not really reading input. We're not meeting with sources. We're not doing any of that stuff. We are handing stuff over and we are packing things up. My captain says, Nick, you need to put more in the intel sit rep. I'm like, sir, we really don't have much to add. There's a really an ad today goes, Nick, we need more in the intel sit rep. I'm like, okay, not a problem. Now, my captain and I had had a little game that we played and the game was is sometimes Nick rigged smart ass stuff in the sit rep. And then the captain reads the sit rep and he takes the smart ass stuff out. He leaves the good stuff in the serious stuff in it. And then he sends it up to special operations task force north.

37:43Well, guess what? This day, the captain forgot to play. So he sent up the sit rep as I wrote it. Nick, what did you write in the sit rep? I wrote, I have a question for all you mucky mucks up there and special operations task force north. Why are we the only army from a constitutional world public with a generally free market system that invades foreign lands and over throws dictatorships in order to set up parliamentary democracies with essentially planned economies. This doesn't seem to be working well. So that went up and all of a sudden ring, ring, ring in the team room. And I forgot who picked up the phone. They're like, I want to speak to Sergeant first class, Fredis. I run over there very dutifully. Yes, sir, Fredis here. Sir first class, Fredis, I'm going to read something to you. So he reads it off for me. He goes, do you think that was appropriate to put in the sit rep to special operations task force north? And I explain to him, sir, you know, I had I said this over to the captain. It was something

38:44of a joke. And I had to expect that it's my it is entirely my fault. It's not his fault. So I apologize. But now that I got you on the phone, do you have an answer, buddy? Just click. But still to this day, that's my problem. My problem was not striking back that people that wanted to hurt the United States. My idea was is that you were going to take Western culture into a culture that obviously doesn't want it has been fighting it for a thousand years. And within a relatively short period of time, we're just going to turn them into what? An Islamic version of us? They don't want to be us. But this begs the question, if they don't want to be us, why do they keep coming? Ladies and gentlemen, there is a rising wave of Marxist thought in our country that attacks the very foundation of our freedoms. And it's already having very dangerous effects as we watch more and more of these candidates win elections. Alliance of Indian freedom is pushing back though. They are protecting your God-given rights in court rooms across America.

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42:52which is far more in line with his political and ideological views than the United States? Why do he come? Why do he come back? Why do we have mass immigration? Ladies and gentlemen, I promise you. I promise you, let's see if we can look at the numbers again. If you were to look at the immigration patterns into Muslim majority nations, you would not see these numbers going up of a bunch of Westerners moving there. You are not going to find 3.4 million, even though we have much larger populations in the United States, at least than most, not all of them, Indonesia's a very popular country. It's the most populous Muslim country. You would not see 3.4 million Westerners moving to the Islamic world. Even if they did, you know what they wouldn't be? Citizens. Despite what Tucker Carlson would have you believe, you don't get to be a Christian citizen of Qatar. They build churches, Nick. They build churches in a small little enclave for the foreign workers that come in and do all the jobs that Emirates don't want or excuse them,

43:56the Qataris don't want to do because they got enough oil wealth to set up an elaborate welfare state. But yeah, no mass importation from the West going over there in a, you know, fervent desire to be citizens of Saudi Arabia or Iran. But yeah, we're not allowed to ask why George Bush told us this religion of peace. I had somebody once that they're like, well, Christianity is not a religion of peace. I said, you're correct. They were a little surprised by that. I said, no. Christianity is a religion that believes in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or believes in Lordship of Christ. It believes that we are sinful by nature and that we need a Savior and that Jesus Christ paid the price. He was the propitiation for our sins. And yes, God is a God of love, but God has also got of justice. So this idea is Christianity, a religion of peace. It's certainly one that desires peace, but it's a desire peace at the expense of the truth. You could not have

45:02picked a major world religion to define as peaceful and get it more wrong. And all the evidence was there long, long before 911. One of the first conflicts the United States ever had with a foreign power was the Barbary Pirates. Why? Because they were capturing our ships in the Mediterranean and they were selling our sailors into slavery. And for a while, the United States paid tribute. We paid them. Hey, can you please not steal our ships, cargo, and people and and sell them into slavery? And finally, by the time of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, we just got so sick of this, look, if you don't leave us alone, we're going to go over there and kick the hell out of you. For those of you who are familiar with the Marine Corps, the the ballot for the Marine Corps, from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. Yeah, that's where the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps went over there and told the Barbary Pirates in no uncertain terms that religion of peace, though you may be, and kick the living crap out of them. That's how we

46:09actually got the Barbary States to stop enslaving our sailors. Here's one of the things that you notice about the Islamic world throughout all of their history. Whenever they had sufficient power to engage in conquest, they were actively doing it. Well, Nick, the West has two, okay? But nobody's saying the West is an ideology of peace. And again, the West is not moving to the Islamic world. The Islamic look, Islam has an objective, and the objective is to ensure that the entire world falls under Islamic rule. Why? Because they believe that's the moral outcome. They believe that is the morally justifiable thing to do. Do they believe they can do it by force? Yes. They absolutely believe they can do it by force. And we just read off several suras

47:11justifying that they can use it by source. This idea that the core tenets of Islam say that you're not allowed to do, yeah, they do. You might have some Muslims that reject that interpretation or reading, but you don't get to tell me it's not a reasonable interpretation of Islam. It is. So when they have the military power to do it, what do they do? Well, they load up their armies and they invade. We know why? Because because the Islamic world used to be a post-instant part of the Arabian peninsula. And I don't know if you've noticed, it's a lot bigger now. They didn't do that through peaceful evangelism. So what do they do when they don't have sufficient economic and military power to do it? They find other ways. They're allowed to lie to you as well. They're allowed to lie to you about intentions. Why? Well, because the moral outcome that they seek is the global dominance of Islam. Hey, by the way, I want the global dominance of Christianity. I want every single

48:14person in the world to be a Christian. The difference is is that there is no moral justification within Christianity for me to use the sword to convert you or to subjugate you if you don't adopt my faith. The same is not true of Islam. So why in the world at the height of a combination of terrorist attacks? Because again, the reason why do you why does by the way? Do you know why countries engage in what we might call asymmetric warfare? Because terrorism is a form of asymmetric warfare. Terrorism is something you do when you don't have sufficient numbers to win maneuver warfare. When you don't have the possibility to launch significant attacks in order to control terrain and populations, you engage in asymmetric conflicts, asymmetric strategies. Terrorism is what they're using in part because they can't engage in maneuver warfare. The moment they attipped it, they get their asses kicked. So this is what they they have to resort to. This is the violent method of doing it.

49:21But another method of doing it is immigration. You will see people who peacefully immigrate to the United States to Canada, to the West and then you do the man on the street interview and they're like, yes, one day this will all be Islamic in Shilah. In Shilah this will all be Islamic one day. And then we will change it. We will change it. You will no longer have your constitution. We will have Sharia. Why? Because that is just again, they are faithfully living out what their profit and their holy book, Quran and the Hadith, tell them to do. And they've recognized that in representative governments, it's a numbers game. Okay, well let me see. Let me see liberal white woman. You have point three eight kids and we have six. In one generation, we don't have to worry about you anymore. All we have to do is up our numbers. The liberals keep going, oh no, no, come on, you don't like the West, come on in. Okay. This is the danger of treating it as just individuals at the end of the day.

50:24Like right, I mean, after 9-11, the response was a war with terror. How can you be a war with a tactic? Yeah. Right? Like you may as well just say, I'm at war with war. I'm at war with the West. I have a war with asymmetric military strategies. All right, well bad news. You're never going to win the war. You're going to lose like strategy. There's no enemy to defeat if that's the case, right? You have not identified a concrete enemy. What we should have said is war with al-Qaeda and war with, you know, Wahhabism. I can't remember the other ideologies. Islam, like many other religions, has branches and sex. Yeah, you have Sunni, the New York Times, sex with Nshian Sunni. Yeah. And individual schools and stuff like that. But, no, I mean, we should have been very explicitly clear that we were a war with al-Qaeda and anybody that harbored them. You could have included, yeah, you could have included obviously the Taliban in that.

51:26But no, instead Bush declared war on a political tactic. That is what terrorism is, right? It is using violence to achieve a political end and an asymmetric capacity rather than, well, a connection war declared by sovereign states. Well, and specifically what terrorism is, it is using military means against non-combatants, right? Like, if you attack a strategic military target, that's not necessarily a terrorist attack. It can be, but it's not necessarily a terrorist attack. Terrorism is generally defined around this idea of I am purposefully attacking non-combatants or otherwise innocent parties. Purposefully, I'm targeting them. Why? Because it invokes terror, because I don't want you to feel safe, because I want you to know that nothing is safe if you don't give me what I want. Legitimate military targets, like, legitimate military targets, there can be a

52:27wide definition of that depending on circumstances. This is one of the things that I can't stand about Dave Smith. Dave Smith will say, I can't believe that these apartment buildings in Gaza were bombed, where people shooting at you from them. Okay, they're now a military target. The Dave Smith lives in this stupid, weird sect of libertarian wonderland where a 14-year-old child was killed, where they shooting at me with an AK-47? By the way, if I'm bombing the site that you are bombing me from, and you refuse to allow kids to evacuate, and I respond to that, or as a Hamas. Now, in Dave Smith's perfect world, you just get shot and bombed and killed, because you have to do it just the right way. In the moment, it doesn't yield the results that he wants. Well, now all of a sudden, you're the bad guy. That's really easy for someone like

53:28Dave Smith to say, because Dave Smith will never be in a situation where he actually has to fight to defend anything. Other people will do that for him. Nick, you know what's so interesting about this, is we were going through a list of Democrats and left-wing activists that had some questionable comments about 9-11, but there's one additional that we left earlier. I think it's actually really poignant because it gets back to the whole point that I was saying just a minute ago. If you remember during the New York primary that took place earlier this year, there was somebody who won a primary for the state legislature. So this isn't federal level, this is state level, they go into Albany. In New York City, DSA member, Muslim, named Abercawas, who also basically said that America deserved 9-11. So which one is it? Islam is not responsible for 9-11. This is a religion of peace. It was just terrorists that are perverting the teachings of Islam,

54:32that attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and would have attacked the Capitol, had the brave passengers on flight 93, not taking matters into their own hands, and helped crash the plane before it could actually strike the Capitol. No, instead, it's America deserves 9-11. Yeah. Well, again, it can't be one or the other, right? Either the US deserves 9-11, in which case, you're actually rooting for the people that did this, or, oh no, no, this has nothing to do with Muslims or Islam. In general, this is a fringe sect of individuals. We got to judge individuals by their actions. We can't judge groups by group behaviors. You can't do pattern recognition at all, right? You can only look at this. Have you noticed that they do this code switching all the time? Yep. Or it's like, depending on the circumstances, groups will be judged as groups if they're white men, if they're Christians, if it's the West, if it's America, and the abstract, then we will judge groups by groups. When it suits our left-wing purposes or Islamic purposes. But then when it's

55:38Muslims that do something, or Islamists in general that do something, or when it's a leftist that does something, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we got to judge individuals by individual actions. It's like the left will adopt this almost libertarian frame of reference where they will only look at things from an individualist perspective, but only when it suits them. The moment that it no longer suits them, they will immediately go back to a site like it's like every group in the world gets a positive identity label when it suits them. But again, if you're a straight white Christian man, you only get an identity label in the negative. And why is that? It's because it is also an asymmetric tactic. See, if this candidate had been running for office in Yemen, they would have come right out and said, well, of course, America deserves 9-11. But you can't say that in the United States. You can't say that in the United States, at least not in most places in the United States. Daughter of deported Jordania National. And we're elected to these people.

56:44Like we're electing these people to office in the city where the attacks took place. Well, and that's why I'm saying this is the reason why the reason why the left uses this tactic where all of a sudden it's, you know, I can judge by group identity if you're Christian, if you're straight, if you're white, if you're male, I can do that. Judge I did all the same. Pressure oppressed. That is the very, you know, that is as categorical, categorical. I am putting you into these categories based off of things like immutable characteristics. But then you're not allowed to do it in reverse. Why? Because it's an asymmetric tactic. It doesn't have to make sense. It only has to work. It doesn't have to be moral. It only has to work. And the problem is is that we've allowed, we have allowed our morality to be manipulated by people that have, Tina said it best when Tina said, you know, she goes, Democrats quote the Constitution, the way Atheist quote the Bible. It's never because they have any sort of genuine respect for scripture. It's because they know we have respect for it. And now it becomes a tool to hold us

57:49accountable. Now, let me make very clear about something. I am accountable to scripture regardless of who is referencing it. Scripture, scripture, truth is truth. But the problem is is that we we have no mechanism by which to hold them accountable. They don't accept accountability. Why? Because they're the good guys. They're the oppressed. We're the oppressors. Whatever they have to do in order to gain power is necessary. And they have to use asymmetric strategies. They have to lie on one side about what they really believe and what they really want. Right? Until they get power. And it's only when they get a sufficient amount of power that they can be honest. This is why Mamdani, when he's talking to his little buddies, is like, we need to seize the means of production. And then when he's talking to John Stewart, who should know better, he's like, well, socialism is just showing up to work hard for people. And John Stewart's like, oh my gosh, that sounds so great. You moron. You know better, John. But it doesn't matter. Why? Well, because John, there's one thing that John agrees with Mamdani on. And that's all of us are

58:54far worse than him. All of us, we're the bigger threat. Donald Trump, you, me, we're the bigger threat. And again, useful idiots like John Stewart will discover far too late that we weren't the threat. Why? Because when we run things, John Stewart makes millions of dollars, trashing us. Good luck doing that John Stewart when you have enough Mamdani's running things. But again, you're not allowed to actually think this through. You're not allowed to have sufficient linear thinking and pattern recognition to recognize that the culture you're embracing hates you. And so you will realize all too late. The culture that we represent disagree with you, John. And yet we still provide you a platform. Their culture hates you. They are certainly willing to say nice things to you if you are dumb enough to give them a platform and convince other people that, oh, oh, see, this isn't so bad. This is just those mean conservatives, those mean

59:58right wingers. Here's the lesson. Here's the lesson, ladies and gentlemen, of 9-11. Islam is not a religion of peace. And Islam as a religion and as an all-encompassing ideology is not compatible with what we would call the West or Christendom. How do we know? Because when Islam had sufficient military and economic power, it made its mission in dating Europe, both from Spain and from the Balkans. The only thing that stopped them was force of arms. The winged as SARS from Poland, showing up at just the right moment to break the back of the Ottomans. Their high water mark in the West was tours. Their high water mark in Eastern Europe was Vienna. And then they got beaten back. And then the West rapidly industrialized and advanced technologically, economically, militarily to the point where they cannot compete in any sort of fight against us.

1:01:02We saw this where the Iraqi army, significantly outnumbered US forces who went over there and it took about 47 seconds to destroy them. We got an insight into it in the Six-Day War in 1967, again in 1973. They can't win through conquest. They simply can't. They would be destroyed. And so they have to resort to other strategies. One of the asymmetric strategies that they've chosen is terrorism. Another asymmetric strategy they've chosen is immigration. And we point this out in Hollywood like, oh look, look how xenophobic and ignorant these people are. No, no, you're the ignorant ones because you haven't read what they actually wrote. And you don't actually listen to them when they say it. Why? Because you are so arrogant on the left, visibly, well, they can't possibly mean that. Why not? Why can't they possibly mean that? The lesson of 9-11 that we should learn is this. It's not a question of going over and trying to

1:02:04do nation-building to where we can set up Western liberal democracies in the Middle East. The sort of system of government that we have is not just something that you impose. It's something that is recognized through hundreds of years of tradition. That's why we have it. That's why it works. It's like the air we breathe. We just assume this is the way the world operates. Until you go to a different part of the world and you realize that over there it operates very, very differently. And we can have discussions all day long about which we think is more efficient or effective or better for achieving certain in-states. But there's no question there's differences. And there's no question that if you don't change the underlying assumptions, then you don't get the end state you want. And you're not going to do that in 20 years of a successful bombing and ground campaign. But you know how you can do it? Well, you can do it if you have elements within your own country that are ignorant enough and arrogant enough to invite people in who don't

1:03:11want to assimilate, who don't want to be a part of your country, who want to fundamentally alter it, who believe that it is their sacred and religious duty to fundamentally alter it. And we'll be happy to use whatever restrictions that you place on yourself in order to allow them to get away with it. And then when they're in power, the same restrictions will not apply. But when they're in power, then we'll get to reference the First Amendment. Okay. Is that how you think it works? But when they're in power, we'll be able to reference the Constitution and they'll abide by it. Really? Like literally, how ignorant do you have to be to believe that that's the case? So what's the answer? Well, that's a complex one. But I would say the first step is don't mass import people from civilizations and societies would diametrically opposed world views. They don't permit us to mass import into their country. And the reason

1:04:13why is because they want to maintain what they have. They don't want it to be influenced by western culture. Well, that makes us no better than them. What do you mean no better than them? I thought you thought they were superior. I thought you thought they were equal. I thought you thought everything was great. No, here's the bottom line. We have an obligation to protect western civilization. It wasn't just America that was attacked on 9-11. It was western civilization. It was what they perceived to be as chrysanthemum. I wish it was still chrysanthemum. I think western civilization is the best we can get away with describing what we currently have. That's the attack. This is a continuation of a conflict that has been going on since the seventh century. That's the lesson we need to learn. And we need to wake up to it. Because if we don't, we will lose. If only one side recognizes that a fight is even going on. And the other side is allowed to get away with what they want to do. And we can't even in the midst

1:05:18of American citizens, men and women throwing themselves from burning buildings to escape the flames even in that moment. If we can't admit what we're at war with, well, then at some point we're either ignorant, arrogant, or we're just cowards. In the fact that a man like Medi Hassan or Hassan Piker or Abdul Al Sayed or Zohran Mamdani can shut down debate the moment they say you're just Islamophobic. Well, that's not ignorance and that's not arrogance. Ladies and gentlemen, that's cowardice. And the thing that I hope we'll learn at the 25th anniversary of 9-11 is that it's time to stop being ignorant. It's time to stop being arrogant. And it's definitely time to stop being cowards. All right, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much. Again, I'm very grateful to all the men and women that sacrifice a lot to try to save people on 9-11, heartbroken for the people who lost their

1:06:22lives for the families that were impacted. For all of the first responders, the servicemen that later fought the wars as a result of 9-11 for the lives that were lost there, but also grateful for their willing to sacrifice on behalf of their country. You know, it's one of the things that gets talked about a lot. It's like, oh, well, should we have done here? Should we have done that? Should we have done that? Should we have done that? Look, we can and should debate all day long what the appropriate strategy should have been following 9-11. But nothing takes away the personal sacrifice and courage of the men and women who wore the uniform to try to fight and defend our country against an ideology, which is truly evil. So let's do our best to remember them. Once again, thank you for joining us. We'll see you next episode.