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RUSH: Our previous caller made a point responding here also to David Bell\u2019s piece in the LA Times Sunday<\/a>, ?Was 9\/11 Really That bad?? The caller says we could have lost 45,000 if those planes had hit at a later time of day, if those towers had been more populated, had they not been able to extricate as many people from the second tower and the first after the first hit. The death toll could have been much, much higher. Then the Pentagon, had that plane hit in a different location, different angle, the Pentagon could have been a lot more death and damage there than was done, and we don\u2019t know what else was in the works because air traffic control grounded every airplane shortly after the second attack, and it didn\u2019t take them very long to get every airplane in US airspace down, every airplane coming from a foreign destination was diverted, and we shut down the air traffic system for four or five days. <\/line> Now, his point here is that Mr. Bell, 3,000, and 6500 total, no big deal. That damage was wrought by probably less than a hundred people that planned it, and it took no soldiers. It took 19 hijackers. Now, the cynical reaction to this would be to say to the caller, ?But, sir, you\u2019re missing Mr. Bell\u2019s point. You are looking at what could have happened. We are looking at what did happen, and we are overreacting to it. You can\u2019t say this could have happened or that could have happened, just like we can\u2019t respond to what they say they want to do to us. We have to respond to what they actually can do to us.? And his point is they don\u2019t have the ability to set off a nuke in this country yet, they don\u2019t have the ability to wipe us out. Of course, to me, that is the ultimate sophistry, and we have, if you remember earlier this month, mimicking the hijackers who executed the 9\/11 attacks, insurgents in Iraq reportedly tied to Al-Qaeda there considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the US to orchestrate similar but new attacks on American soil. <\/line>The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency testified to this because he captured documents, coalition forces captured documents during a raid of a safe house believed to house Iraqi members. So you\u2019ve got the American left now building up the notion that we\u2019re not a threat, we\u2019re not really at great risk, let\u2019s put it that way, we\u2019re not at great risk. Yeah, a lot of people are threatening us and saying they want to wipe us out, but they can\u2019t really do it, so we\u2019re just really overreacting here. So the conclusion, we have to wait until they can pull it off to deal with them? You know, ladies and gentlemen, I was having a conversation over the weekend with a friend of mine about all this, and this friend of mine is really gung-ho. This friend wants to just deal with the enemy right now, not waste any time, thinks that we\u2019re just really botching this in Iraq with the strategy, and by leaving Syria and Iran alone, that we are just totally blowing things sky high. I said to him, ?The theory is that we would have to obliterate too many countries to wipe the militant Islamists off the face of the earth because they\u2019re everywhere. They\u2019re all over the place, and we can\u2019t wipe out every country.? <\/line><\/p>\n

He came back and said, ?Well, would FDR and Truman have thought that way during World War II? Why did they call it a world war? If we aren\u2019t on offense, we\u2019re on defense, and this enemy will not stop.? And I said, ?Yeah, but for all the talk about World War II, there were basically three countries: Japan, Germany, and Italy. Now we\u2019re talking about the whole of the Middle East, Indonesia, parts of the Philippines, Chechnya, Bosnia, Turkey, they\u2019re all over the place.? <\/line>He said, ?Okay, so I hear what you\u2019re saying.? He knew I was playing devil\u2019s advocate. ?I hear what you\u2019re saying and that unfortunately is our strategy.? We can\u2019t use our overwhelming firepower. We can\u2019t take out Iraq. We can\u2019t kill civilians. We would have lost World War II had we tied our hands the way we\u2019re tying our hands now. <\/line>He says, ?By the way, I\u2019m not saying attack all the countries where Muslims are or even where radical Muslims are. Iran and Syria are regimes that are giving safe haven to the enemy and attacking us, and, by the way, it wasn\u2019t just three countries in World War II. It was scores of countries. I\u2019m not aware of anybody saying that we should attack Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Yemen, all that\u2019s baloney, but we can cut the heart out of the militant Islamist movement as it\u2019s aimed at us by dealing with Iran now rather than waiting.? <\/line> The theory is that if we take Mr. Bell\u2019s approach, too: Just wait! Just wait until they are a threat or wait until they are powerful enough to deal with the threat, and then we\u2019ll have to deal with it. And his point is: Why wait \u2019til then? <\/emphasize>We know what they\u2019re committed to. Would FDR and Truman have sat around and waited? So they\u2019re continuing to be raging arguments over the way we\u2019re prosecuting this and whether or not we\u2019re deadly serious. The left, of course, is doing everything in its power to tame us and to prevent us from being able to protect ourselves in a preemptive fashion. All they\u2019re doing, as they succeed, all they\u2019re doing is delaying the day of reckoning. There will be one. It\u2019s going to be much, much worse then, whenever it is, than if we dealt with it now. We\u2019re not dealing with it now in a blunt-force manner that is similar to the ways in which we have in the past. Steve in Canton, Ohio, welcome to the EIB Network hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hello, Rush.<\/line>RUSH: Yes.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, I want to let you know this war is a complete and utter disaster, and I don\u2019t know why you keep pushing — the troops, there\u2019s over 3,000 died, and the Iraqi people are really suffering and losing their lives, too, for these neocon shills that is just absolutely ridiculous, they don\u2019t understand that this is no big deal that these people lost their lives?<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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