{"id":397377,"date":"2021-05-13T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=397377"},"modified":"2021-05-14T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T19:43:19","slug":"classic-rush-the-purpose-of-armies-is-to-kill-people-and-break-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/13\/classic-rush-the-purpose-of-armies-is-to-kill-people-and-break-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Rush: The Purpose of Armies Is to Kill People and Break Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODD: Well, we were just talking about this guy earlier in the week, this guy who\u2019s paid to pretend to be smart, Matt Yglesias. He\u2019s the guy. (laughing) Rush responded to this. You know, Rush\u2019s love of science. This guy\u2019s a writer and editor, &#8220;Slow Boring&#8221; blog, he\u2019s been at Vox, et cetera, Matt Yglesias. Listen to this bit of analysis. This is my Matt Yglesias voice. &#8220;Ah, the pipeline was &#8212; ah &#8212; Obama\u2019s Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If nobody died in Katrina, then everything was fine after two days of mild anxiety.&#8221; Man. Burning it up with some deep thinkin\u2019 there. Do you remember when the media just loved every single time a retired military person had something to say about President Trump? They dove on it. Do you remember&#8230;? I cannot recall this guy\u2019s name, and that makes me unbelievably happy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-397394\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APP-20201-051321-Rush-Military.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APP-20201-051321-Rush-Military.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APP-20201-051321-Rush-Military-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APP-20201-051321-Rush-Military-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I am so happy I cannot recall this guy\u2019s name. My friends who served in the military, particularly those who served in combat described him as a paper pusher-type senior leader, just paid to push paper, and he was made to be a great hero \u2019cause he went to the Hill before they installed the militarized fence, and he &#8220;spoke truth to power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The behind the scenes people who worked for the guy in the military were saying, &#8220;What? You what? That\u2019s a paper pusher!&#8221; But he was to be a hero. There are, according to the Epoch Times (which should change its name on radio to &#8220;e-poch&#8221; cause that\u2019s how it\u2019s spelled), &#8220;120 Retired U.S. Military Officers Warn of Conflict Between Marxism, &#8216;Constitutional Freedom,'&#8221; and among them are retired generals.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative media will report this, and it kinda goes back to what we just talked about in the last segment. The mockingbird media is in on this trip of, they\u2019ll treat some things, one way; another, quite the other &#8212; and it\u2019s not just bias, it\u2019s participation. It\u2019s not just bias, it\u2019s collusion. People are going to get to a point where they can\u2019t trust anything and it all falls apart, and the media is pushing them in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>Right? This is a dangerous thing that we have going on when now you have retired military saying (paraphrased), &#8220;We are about to fall into the grip of Marxism under Joe Biden\u2019s dementia and whoever is, in fact, running things in D.C.,&#8221; because none of believe it\u2019s Joe Biden. And here\u2019s Rush himself, right? Despite all the efforts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the things that Obama tried to turn the military into, into a Foreign Service organization, foreign aid or philanthropy, Joe Biden\u2019s dementia is attempting to turn them into a social justice organization. In some degrees, he\u2019s winning by hiring as generals &#8212; or rather, promoting as generals &#8212; people who will buy that nonsense, the social justice nonsense. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2015\/11\/19\/why_barack_obama_is_dangerous\/\">Here\u2019s the Maha himself reminding us of what the purpose of the military actually is.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The president of the United States is the number one law enforcer. He is the number one defender and protector of the country, its people, it\u2019s Constitution. And we just don\u2019t see&#8230; By virtue of behavior and policies implemented, we just don\u2019t see he recognizes that. Instead, we see a president who seems to believe he leads a country that has committed sin after sin after sin and must now pay a price for that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_609d85a22ec0710001096ab6\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/609d85a22ec0710001096ab6.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&amp;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What are we to think where we hear our own president say he doesn\u2019t believe in concepts like leadership and victory and winning? What are we supposed to think? We\u2019re not irrational. We hear a president say, I don\u2019t believe in that stuff. That\u2019s old-fashioned. I first heard him say it about Afghanistan in 2009 when he said (paraphrasing), &#8220;I don\u2019t like this concept of victory. When I think of victory, I think of poor Emperor Hirohito being marched to the battleship Missouri, forced to sign surrender papers. That\u2019s not who we are. That\u2019s not American values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is it not?<\/p>\n<p>Long ago I reminded some people of some great works a former friend of mine and late friend, great Marine from Sacramento, California, B. T. Collins. He was a staunch Democrat but hated the anti-war movement, just despised it. And there was something going on at the time I lived in Sacramento, I forget what it was, he was inspired and motivated to write a letter to the editor in opposition to it.<\/p>\n<p>It was about leftists not realizing the purpose of the military and what its objectives were so he spelled it out in a letter to the editor. He said: &#8220;The purpose of armies, the purpose of war is to kill people and break things. That\u2019s what war is. You kill people and break things. And you keep going until your opponent surrenders and apologizes to you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if you\u2019re not committed to take it to that end, you don\u2019t start it. And if you don\u2019t understand the purpose of armies is to kill people and break things, then you don\u2019t have one and you don\u2019t use it. Because if you have an army and you send it to war and it starts killing people and breaking things and then you get upset and start pulling it back, you are irresponsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I think we\u2019ve reached a point time in American cultural evolution here, as evidenced by what we see on campus after campus after campus, there\u2019s the rampant ignorance of the purpose of war, the purpose of the military, the purpose of armies and how you define success in military involvement. You tell your average scared college child today that the purpose of armies is to kill people and break things and they\u2019ll ask for the nearest phone book or phone booth if they could find one to go hide.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we don\u2019t have a leader who accepts the idea that the purpose of armies is to kill people and break things and to eventually win to the point where the other side surrenders and apologizes for what they did to start the whole thing. Because our president seems to think we\u2019re responsible for starting these things, that we\u2019re responsible for the existence of all of this anti-American evil out there because of our past transgressions as an unjust and illegitimately founded whatever we are, country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-306788\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-042219-Rush-Constitution.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-042219-Rush-Constitution.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-042219-Rush-Constitution-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>So our president talks about not wanting to lead and not wanting to sloganeer and use terms like &#8220;leadership&#8221; and &#8220;winning&#8221; because that misses the point, that\u2019s not what we\u2019re all about, and we see that combined with other policies the president\u2019s implemented, and I\u2019m here to tell you being cared is the only common-sensical reaction. And wanting to do something in opposition to it, stop it and fix it and reverse it is also quite natural.<\/p>\n<p>So the opposition to the illegal immigrants is nothing about Mexicans. The illegal refugees is nothing about bias against Syrians or ethnic bias, racist bias. It\u2019s about love of country and a recognition that we are at risk in a dangerous world, and it doesn\u2019t seem like we have a leadership too interested in defending us against what we see are not maybe possible threats, but they are real, they are happening, they\u2019ve even happened on our own soil.<\/p>\n<p>TODD: And you take the purpose of armies. Who knows the purpose of armies? China is doing a worldwide effort to make men more manly, literally, like having him go out and get naked, rolling in snow and combat contests and teaching them the arts. Well, in this country, we are doing everything we can to turn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, men into women (if you think you can do that), and turn our military upside down into a literal social justice enterprise at the same time as we\u2019re buying windmills made in Communist China under the tutelage of the Chinese Communist Party &#8212; and those are made by prison camp slaves! And Rush was always paying rapt attention to that details like that, like in this article about the actual job of an army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODD: Here&#039;s the Maha himself reminding us of what the purpose of the military actually is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":397394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Classic Rush: The Purpose of Armies Is to Kill People and Break Things - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/13\/classic-rush-the-purpose-of-armies-is-to-kill-people-and-break-things\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Classic Rush: The Purpose of Armies Is to Kill People and Break Things - 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