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RUSH: This is Jason in New Braunfels, Texas. You\u2019re next, sir. I appreciate your patience. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Happy New Year to you.<\/line>RUSH: Same to you, sir.<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019ve always thought something. I wanted to ask you this question. You were talking about toughness in the first hour, and I knew when people didn\u2019t flock out to see the movie about United 93 that we were going to lose the election in November, for many of the same reasons you outlined, just the general, overall loss of toughness, and I wanted to ask you if you think it would have been better if the Americans had defeated the Russians militarily versus politically in the Cold War? Because I think a lot of this Oprah-fication of America began when we didn\u2019t have to go mano-a-mano with the Russians back in the day.<\/line>RUSH: You know, I hadn\u2019t thought of that, and rather than just give a knee-jerk answer that would appear on liberal websites, I would like to think about that, because it is an interesting point. It\u2019s dangerous to play the “if” game. We don\u2019t live in a TiVo world. We can\u2019t rewind it back then and change the outcome. It is what it is, but it does give thought… I always love explaining motivations, or understanding them so I can explain them. It\u2019s one thing to tell people that John Kerry and Algore are actually not interested in preserving the institutions and traditions that made this country great. They would as soon turn over our national defense to the United Nations. People don\u2019t want to believe that! <\/line><\/a>They don\u2019t want to deal with it, don\u2019t understand it, don\u2019t want to try to get their arms around it, because their question is: “Why would they do that?” Most Americans cannot understand why any American would want to destroy the fabric that keeps this country a sovereign nation. They just can\u2019t understand it. They wouldn\u2019t. Most people don\u2019t want to consider it, and so in trying to explain why I think that people on the left are elitist and have this desire to be “globalists” and so forth, I have to come up with a motivation for people like Gore and Kerry and whoever else.<\/line>CALLER: Well, like that other guy that called earlier, about “winning the peace.” You know, I can describe that guy for the audience perfectly. He couldn\u2019t even handle being asked how old he was! He probably drives a Subarau Legacy, has all of his presets on FM to NPR, and now no longer Air America, he sips white wine, and puts his kids in time-out versus spanking them!<\/line>RUSH: (laughing) Here\u2019s the thing about all this, is that something made this guy this way and something\u2019s kept him this way. He\u2019s 45 years old. So we can come up with all the humorous explanations for what he is, but how do you explain how it happened? Well, you can say, “Okay, he got caught up in conflict resolution class somewhere along the line in school, had a bunch of passive professors, could be his parents,” who knows? But if that guy hadn\u2019t called and hadn\u2019t said the things he said, had I just tried to explain to people there are people like that out there, most people would say, “Oh, come on, Rush! They\u2019re not that way. I can\u2019t believe it. You\u2019re exaggerating a little bit.”<\/line>CALLER: No, you\u2019re not.<\/line>RUSH: No. Of course we\u2019re not. So to try to explain why the American people, to get back to your original point, why the American people to me have become a nation of pacifists: I think there\u2019s so many factors that it would be difficult to go back and say, “You know, if we had really achieved a big time military win over the Soviets, then we\u2019d be a little tougher than we are today,” and I know what your point is, that we won the Cold War without firing a shot, and we did it with words and doctors and nurses and clean water, but we didn\u2019t. We did it with deterrence and we did it with a robust and strong military and a president who everybody feared had the will to use it. This is still a world governed by the aggressive use of force, and it always will be. <\/line>But we have a country, God love it, that is so affluent, with so much opportunity for prosperity every day, that people who don\u2019t want to realize and deal with the fact that we face an enemy that would like to wipe us out, don\u2019t have to. They\u2019re not needed to win it, and if they don\u2019t think they\u2019re needed, it may as well not be that big, it might as well not be that large a matter. But I think it\u2019s a cumulative thing that has been creeping up on us for years and years and years, and I think as Shelby Steele<\/a> has written, one of the things that\u2019s happened — and it has been a slowly creeping thing, too, ever since even prior to civil rights movement. But the multicultural curricula in all the schools today has successfully imposed a bunch of guilt on the American people.<\/line><\/p>\n

We are guilty because we\u2019re a majority. We\u2019re guilty because we\u2019re the biggest. We\u2019re guilty because we\u2019re the most powerful; we\u2019re guilty because we\u2019re the richest, because what did we do to become all that? “Well, the first thing we did was kick the Indians off their own land! Why, they were at one with nature, and then we imported racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia and we destroyed the environment! We\u2019re destroying the planet with global warming. We deserve a comeuppance! We deserve to lose in Iraq! We deserve to lose everywhere else! We need to get ourselves cut down to size!” All of this guilt is what allows illegal immigration to go unchallenged by a whole lot of people, just a number of things. So to cite one example as the primary cause would be a difficult thing to do, but I appreciate the call. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>John in Washington, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/line>CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/line> RUSH: Couldn\u2019t be better, sir.<\/line>CALLER: You were pretty good for two hours, the last time I saw you on November 16th down at the Warner Theatre. (audio, transcript)<\/a><\/line>RUSH: That was fun. That was a lot of fun. Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, I was the white guy in the front row showing you that I received the Limbaugh Letter that day and you grabbed it out of my hands and autographed it for me, and I didn\u2019t expect that, but I appreciate it, thank you very much.<\/line>RUSH: You\u2019re more than welcome, sir. I\u2019m a nice guy. Spread the word.<\/line>CALLER: I want to get back to this fellow from Ohio, I guess, he mentioned Parma, Ohio, and you “have to give peace a chance.” <\/line>RUSH: You know, it\u2019s not just Parma. You\u2019re going to run into the same thing anywhere. You\u2019ll run to people from Defiance, Ohio. It\u2019s something in the water or something. There are a lot of people like this.<\/line>CALLER: Well, with the last election, I can understand where he\u2019s coming from because there are a lot of people that felt the way he did. They\u2019re sick of the war, but his idea that you can just establish peace because it\u2019s the right thing to do isn\u2019t born out by history, and I\u2019m looking at yesterday\u2019s Washington Post, and there\u2019s an article in there by Stephanie McCrummen about Somalia, and apparently the only reason they got peace there after all these years is the Ethiopian forces drove out the Islamic terrorists!<\/line>RUSH: Exactly right. Exactly right. Here is the story<\/a>. “Defeated Somali Islamists fled their last stronghold and headed toward the Kenyan border Monday on what looked like the end of nearly two weeks of war with the Ethiopian-backed government.” The lesson here is you win over terrorists with force! The Ethiopian government was not going to take an Islamic regime in Somalia, and they went in there and they wiped these guys out as they were in the beginning throes of establishing their terrorist haven or whatever. It took two weeks, and they ran \u2019em out. There is a lesson there, and it did bring peace — well, in their world terms — to Somalia. But pacifists and peace, they never understood what peace is. Peace to them is surrender, basically. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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