{"id":388127,"date":"2021-03-22T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=388127"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:44:30","slug":"rush-explains-his-love-for-americas-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/22\/rush-explains-his-love-for-americas-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Explains His Love for America\u2019s Troops After Visiting Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

JASON: I want to get to a clip that Rush played on the military and keeping the country safe. Secretary Lloyd Austin went to Afghanistan to talk about the May 1st deadline to get those troops home. We need to be channeling Eisenhower on whether we deploy troops abroad. More on that, but I want to listen to Rush on his reverence for the troops right now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are special people. It was an honor to be able to talk to them and convey what I think to be the majority sentiments of the people in this country. But I want to tell you, when we were at Kandahar? Kandahar is the place where there still are skirmishes going on. There was mortar fire the night we were there — nowhere near us but at the base. The base is huge. One of the things that I noticed when I had that troop event is that these people would all tell me what an “honor it was” to meet me, and I thank them, but I\u2019m honest here, folks: I can\u2019t tell you how small I felt compared to these people, the age range was anywhere from 18 to 30 and even older. I mean, some of the command officers over there, career military, have been around for a long time, and I mean I\u2019ll be honest.<\/p>\n

\"\"When I got there, second day I was looking forward to leaving. I mean, this was not a pleasant experience in terms of just living. It was not anything an American is accustomed to, and I had it better than the troops did in the accommodations that I had, and they were nothing to write home about. I\u2019m not complaining with it; it\u2019s just the way it is and I\u2019m glad I saw it and I knew it was going to be that way when I went, but like anybody else, I was looking forward to the end of the week when it was time to come home, and I met a couple guys in Kandahar, a couple 19-year-olds. The day I did my troop event was their first day, and I said, “How long you scheduled to be here?”<\/p>\n

“A year, sir.” They both had copies of my books, and they didn\u2019t know — because they just got there that day, they didn\u2019t know — that I had an event scheduled there. They showed up, both of them. One of them had one of the books; the other one had the other copy, the other book, and asked me to sign \u2019em. And just to show you, they were excited to be there. They signed up for it. They were glad they were there. They were glad they were training was over and they had finally gotten to go, and I\u2019ll tell you what I told them at Kandahar in this group toward the end of my one-hour, wasn\u2019t a speech.<\/p>\n

Well, I guess you call it a speech, but I want to tell you guys, “I feel very small standing here in front of you, compared to what you\u2019re doing, what I\u2019m doing seems insignificant, and I don\u2019t mind admitting this to you.” I said, “As I get older I have more and more respect for all of you who do what you do, and I think one of the reasons is that when I was your age, I had the chance and didn\u2019t do what you\u2019re doing. It was Vietnam and it was the beginning of the time when the country was turning against that war and so forth, and I had a lottery number that was pretty safe, so I didn\u2019t worry about it. But I didn\u2019t join. You guys have all joined, and as I get older and continue to mature, and I have a greater appreciation for what people like you throughout our country\u2019s history have done and what you\u2019ve meant, I\u2019m literally in awe of you. You\u2019re better people than I am.”<\/p>\n

You know, and I told them the story of the trip I took to Miami to the Versace mansion. I may not have mentioned this to you folks. It was about, oh, nine months ago, and I was down in Miami with some friends, and they said, let\u2019s get to the Versace mansion. I said, “I don\u2019t want to go to Versace mansion; my house is nicer than that.”<\/p>\n

“No you\u2019ve got to see this.” So we went in there, and I found what I thought, just a bunch of young people trying to pair up and go to the clubs, 20, 21 years old.” I\u2019m telling this story to the troops and I said, “Little women are there wearing these little mini-skirts that barely cover anything,” and a guy in the front row said, “What\u2019s wrong with that?” And I said, “Nothing\u2019s wrong with that. That\u2019s the point. I\u2019m not criticizing.<\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019m saying this country is so magnificent that we can have people who couldn\u2019t care less about whatever threats we face. They\u2019re just out there having a good time — and yet here you are, same age, I\u2019m in awe of what you do. You could be the same kind of people.” I\u2019m not being critical, but you\u2019re here, and I just wanted to tell them how much I personally appreciated them and then wanted to convey how much all of you do, too — and that was the real reason I went over there, and I got that done.<\/p>\n

JASON: You know, this is really fascinating, because government\u2019s first duty — first duty — is to keep the peace. The federal government handles external threats; the police powers of the state, primarily, handle internal threats or criminal acts. That\u2019s why it was so unconscionable and outrageous that in Minnesota, where we used to export Land of Lakes but that it\u2019s politically incorrect (you can\u2019t do that now, that\u2019s been canceled), now we export riots because we let the 3rd Precinct go to the rioters.<\/p>\n

The government failed in its first duty while locking up innocent people for violating covid restrictions. If we don\u2019t get our heads straight on what the first duty of government is… It\u2019s why we give government a monopoly on force to use it to repel illegitimate force, not to initiate illegitimate force. That\u2019s what Rush was talking about there.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

JASON: Let\u2019s go to Cory, first up this segment.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey!<\/p>\n

JASON: Cory, you\u2019re on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Jason, thanks for taking my call. Mega dittos from a 30-year listener, 21-year, three-war veteran. Yep.<\/p>\n

JASON: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

JASON: Well, congratulations to you too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I had the opportunity and pleasure to meet you up in Hockeytown USA when you were recently running.<\/p>\n

\"\"JASON: We did very well when I was running for the U.S. Senate last year in — well, all throughout — Greater Minnesota. It is, like so many states, the urban core that overwhelms so many states, whether it\u2019s New York or Colorado or Minnesota, and the urban core where, shall we put it diplomatically, vote early and vote often.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that was from James Oberstar, if I\u2019m correct on that (laughing), a longtime person up here.<\/p>\n

JASON: You know, I remember going into that last couple of weeks of the race here last year. I was down by one, according to a Channel 5 poll, and everywhere we went in northern Minnesota just massive turnouts for the president in Bemidji and my Senate candidacy, and then — like a microcosm for the country — something happened on Election Day, and a lot of, folks, are still trying to figure that out if you getting my drift.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I get your drift on there and thank you for doing a phenomenal. And thoughts and prayers out to Kathryn and the Limbaugh family.<\/p>\n

JASON: Wasn\u2019t that great to hear from her today?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, and the story from Rush when he was in Kandahar. Most people don\u2019t understand what it\u2019s like to be overseas and to serve over there and to, you know, be in the combat zone the whole time.<\/p>\n

JASON: Thank you for your service, Cory. It\u2019s so very, very important and that\u2019s a true patriot. But let me tell you, you know, what I used to tell people on the campaign trail, “The single biggest… We reformed the VA when I was in Congress, allowed them to fire bad employees. We made certain they could go to private clinics. We did all that.<\/p>\n

“But the single best thing I as a member of Congress could do for the trips was to give them my sacred pledge that I would never send them abroad for regimes change, with rules of engagement that didn\u2019t allow them to persevere and win, and for interests that weren\u2019t in the direct national security threat.”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what the John Kerrys of the world do. They\u2019re interventionists at home and they\u2019re interventionists abroad. This May 1st deadline in Afghanistan ought to be abided by. We ought to get out of there and focus on the real threat right now, which is China.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And we did not forget our oath when our enlistments ended. We are still defending this country.<\/p>\n

JASON: As you are, I know you are. You always will. Cory, thanks. It\u2019s good to hear your voice. Let\u2019s try Ocala, Florida. Randy, squeeze you in before the next Rush clip. You\u2019re on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Jason, listening to Rush reminds me of how pitiful our civics education is. I\u2019m extremely excited to tell America that one more great thing that Governor Ron DeSantis is doing is implementing a mandatory civics education program K through 12 back into the education in the state of Florida. And that\u2019s one more reason why he is one of the greatest governors in the United States at the moment.<\/p>\n

JASON: Yeah, I served with Ron in the 115th, and man, oh, man, has he stepped up. He\u2019s done a great job down there. It\u2019s a testament to federalism. People can see that example compared to New York and Minnesota and say, “Let\u2019s do what he\u2019s doing,” right? They\u2019ve handled it just perfectly, and they\u2019ve allowed people — and this is the thing, really.<\/p>\n

During the covid era, what people want is to be treated as adults. And you go back to viruses past, and the public health authorities give recommendations, not mandates. And then they let adults do what they want to do. Whether they want to distance or not, whether they want to wear a mask or not, whether they want to get a vaccine or not. Give recommendations and allow adults to behave as adults. That\u2019s gone by the wayside except for Texas and Florida and a few other places. And that\u2019s what\u2019s important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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