RUSH: Look, I don\u2019t care how you slice it, folks. The number one takeaway in all of this is that the United States government is kowtowing to regimes who are either dictator thugs or who hold America to blame, responsible for their plight and the plight of poor people the world over. This is inarguable. I mean, Obama is propping up Cuba. Obama, look who he chooses to side with in the Middle East: Everybody but our ally.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think this is even arguable. I think it\u2019s clear that Barack Obama, with all of his apologies that he\u2019s made to countries around the world, clearly believes — \u2019cause he\u2019s been raised this way; it\u2019s the way he was educated — the United States has been the problem, for whatever reason. Our prosperity was ill-gotten, our racist heritage stole Mexico, stole land from the Native Americans. Well, this is how these people are educated.<\/p>\n
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\nIt\u2019s been two generations of people now that have been educated in this way of thinking, and they\u2019re old enough now to run for office, to be elected to positions of great power and high authority. So they are now in positions of implementing these convoluted, perverted beliefs. They\u2019re turning on more and more of them at American institutions of so-called higher learning, but there can be no other characterization here.<\/p>\n
In relaxing our economic “blockade” (to use Castro\u2019s word) on Cuba, we are propping up a dictatorship in the Caribbean. We are propping up a communist Regime. Now, some people want to say, “Well, Rush, this just proves that 53 years of sanctions didn\u2019t work.” Okay, then let\u2019s take the sanctions off of Iran, okay? Let\u2019s lift \u2019em. They don\u2019t work. Let\u2019s get the sanctions off. Who else are we sanctioning? We sanction Russia.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s get the sanctions off. Let\u2019s lift \u2019em. They don\u2019t work. Let\u2019s take what we\u2019ve learned here: If sanctions gave us 53 years of failure in Cuba, then what are we messing around with in Iran for? Well, I mean, let\u2019s at least be intellectually consistent if sanctions don\u2019t work, if the embargo doesn\u2019t work. By the way, how do you define “working”? What was the purpose of the embargo? It had, I think, multiple intentions, but more than anything else it was a statement of American values.<\/p>\n
If you want to claim that one of the objectives of the embargo was to harm Cuba economically, then, well, go for it. Whether that\u2019s a factor or not, the US embargo did not cause the Castro brothers to change their behavior toward their people. They, in fact, used the embargo as an excuse. They told their people, “Well, things would be different here, but the evil Satan to the north is denying us equal freedom.” Whatever he tells his people. It was our fault.<\/p>\n
But the purpose of it was not to harm the Cuban people. It was to limit the power and reach of the Cuban Regime. There are any number of ways of determining whether or not it worked, but as a statement of American values: We are not going to openly trade with a nation that, by the way, was about to accept delivery of nuclear missiles that would be aimed at us. It was a Soviet Union client state.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of things about this that people of a certain age simply don\u2019t know. You think Cuban Missile Crisis…? How do you think the Cuban Missile Crisis is taught in schools today? It would be interesting to know how the Cuban Missile Crisis… (interruption) We bullied Russia, bullied Cuba or whatever, or it\u2019s probably our fault because you know one of the things that\u2019s taught about Castro and Cuba is that it was almost a bidding process.<\/p>\n
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\nBack in 1955, \u201956, \u201957, Castro was deciding which way he wanted to go. He was either gonna align with America and be a capitalist country or he was gonna align with the Soviets and be a communist country. He would come to the United Nations, and I remember this. I\u2019m seven or eight years old. I remember this like it was yesterday. I remember watching Castro on TV, and I can remember the news had Douglas Edwards at CBS News, and Walter Cronkite.<\/p>\n
I remember them hoping and praying Castro would choose us, even back then. Hoping and praying. They were all convinced that he wasn\u2019t, but Castro left it open. It was a possibility he was gonna choose to align with us, and then when he aligned with the Soviet Union, oh, it was a letdown. It was a terrible disappointment, and it was portrayed as Castro spurning the US. Of course, even back then Castro was justified in spurning us because Castro was smart enough to know that we really wanted to seek really overthrow him.<\/p>\n
The point is that it\u2019s always been our fault. So the Cuban Missile Crisis is an outgrowth of that. “Castro was just trying to defend himself! I mean, for crying out loud…” (interruption) Yeah, it was… (interruption) Well, yeah, but see at the time it was Kennedy, and at the time it was Camelot, and at the time Kennedy was the hero. But it\u2019s popularly known by now that Kennedy nearly blew it in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the… (interruption)<\/p>\n
Well, maybe not, maybe not. Maybe I\u2019m a… (interruption) Well, the old movies do. But the Cuban Missile Crisis as it is taught today… Let\u2019s take it away. Let\u2019s stop talking about it in specific. What we\u2019re left with is that in the American education system, more often than not any conflict involving the United States is our fault to one degree or another, and therefore the behavior of the bad guys is justifiably explained by virtue of our overreach or whatever we\u2019re blamed for.<\/p>\n
My only point is that two generations of young people have been brought up and educated this way. (interruption) Now they\u2019re citing The Godfather to me, to prove my point. (laughing) See, this another thing that happens. We all like, “Yeah, you should see I\u2019m telling the truth because it was in The Godfather.” The Godfather was a movie! It was a script! Somebody wrote a script, even in… (interruption) Right. (interruption)<\/p>\n
Well, the Mafia did take over.<\/p>\n
The Mafia owned Cuba for a while, but Castro was portrayed as the good guy kicking \u2019em out “for the people.” (interruption) Well, yeah. There\u2019s all kinds of those. (sigh) So the takeaway is that we\u2019ve now elected somebody that\u2019s been educated to believe all this stuff, that the US is the problem in the world, and there are people — and I know them. There are people who are very happy because they think the lifting of the embargo is for humanitarian reasons.<\/p>\n
Because they believe it\u2019s our fault. They believe that the Cuban suffering is our fault, and they eagerly support lifting the embargo, or normalizing relations, because it allows them to continue this illusion that they are, too, are humanitarian; that they, too, are good people. They recognize suffering and they know who\u2019s responsibility for it. And here comes Obama: Saving the day for the suffering once again by realizing the US was out of place and wrong invoking the embargo in the first place.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just obviously not healthy for a growing percentage of the population to think its own country is the problem in the world, and I\u2019m not talking about being nationalistic to the point of forgiving and ignoring occasions when America makes mistakes, but these people don\u2019t forgive. There\u2019s no forgiven whatsoever. America must be perfect, and if it makes a mistake then it must pay the price in ways that are very punitive to America.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, you should have seen my e-mail after I raised the question, “How is the Cuban missile crisis taught in the public school system today?” I got e-mail after e-mail, “Come on, Rush, don\u2019t be silly. JFK\u2019s the biggest hero, he\u2019s still a god. The Cuban missile crisis, doesn\u2019t matter what it is. If it\u2019s JFK, he\u2019s brilliant, he\u2019s the best, he\u2019s great, it\u2019s Camelot.”<\/p>\n
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\nNot true anymore, folks. This is my point. I have it right here, the details in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It\u2019s a story from the New York Times from November 11th last year, 2013. “Textbooks Reassess Kennedy, Putting Camelot Under Siege … A 1975 high school text by Clarence Ver Steeg and Richard Hofstadter said that in his handling of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, ‘Kennedy?\u2019s true nature as a statesman became fully apparent.\u2019 In ‘A People and a Nation,\u2019 they said his 1963 limited nuclear test ban treaty ‘was the greatest single step toward peace since the beginning of the Cold War.'”<\/p>\n
Okay, that was, for all intents and purposes, the way Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis were portrayed as recently as 1975.<\/p>\n
“Using the same title in 1982, Mary Beth Norton and several others took a very different approach in a college textbook widely used today in Advanced Placement courses. They said he ‘pursued civil rights with a notable lack of vigor.\u2019 They blamed him for the missile crisis, saying Cuban-Soviet fears of invasion were stoked by the 1961 Bay of Pigs landing and other United States moves against Cuba. They said Kennedy?\u2019s real legacy was ‘a huge military expansion that helped goad the Russians into an accelerated arms race.'”<\/p>\n
So in advanced placement courses in America universities from 1985 on, Kennedy is blamed for the missile crisis; Kennedy is blamed for the Soviet arms buildup because of his numerous efforts, starting with the Bay of Pigs, to invade Cuba. You know, my instincts, I never doubt my instincts. This is — (interruption) I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m gonna take the time to defend Kennedy, but my point is that it\u2019s changed. That everywhere it\u2019s America\u2019s fault, even to the point of having to blame JFK. If the textbook writers, if the educators, the curriculum determiners are so hell-bent on blaming America, they will even lump JFK in now, is the point. That\u2019s how pervasive the blame-America crowd is.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how deep their tentacles spread throughout education now. And you can\u2019t believe it. You sitting there, you can\u2019t believe that anywhere in America JFK would be blamed for anything, much less the Cuban missile crisis. And since 1985 and college advanced placement textbooks, according to a New York Times story last November, right here, that\u2019s the truth. And 1985, folks, we\u2019re talking 30 years ago. That\u2019s a generation of people coming out of college who believe the — I\u2019m telling you, the notion that America\u2019s the problem in the world is widespread among educated elites.<\/p>\n
Educated elites end up where? They end up in government bureaucracies. They run for office. They end up on Wall Street. They end up as CEOs. They end up in any number of influential places.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, you better start believing it, because it\u2019s not the only example. Snerdley just said to me that he can\u2019t believe that, for the last 30 years, advanced placement foreign policy education in American universities has been teaching the US was at fault for the Cuban missile crisis. I just read you the relevant passage from the textbook, 1985, JFK was blamed for goading the Soviets into arming Cuba because of the Bay of Pigs. And not just the Bay of Pigs, but, you know, JFK running around huffing and puffing and talking about US military might and so forth, goaded the Soviets. Once again, the bad guys of the world were only made bad guys by virtue of US policy or US action.<\/p>\n
This is my point. I\u2019m really doing a lousy job of making the point today, folks. I\u2019m weaving around it, and I haven\u2019t hit the bull\u2019s-eye. Well, I\u2019ve hit the bull\u2019s-eye but I haven\u2019t — the idea that it\u2019s the United States that\u2019s the problem in the world, and that\u2019s not just a casual thing. It\u2019s a formative, central part of people\u2019s education for the last 30 years in elite universities, and those people who graduate end up populating elite institutions and thus end up corrupting them. I\u2019m telling you, that\u2019s why I\u2019m not surprised when something like North Korea or whatever threatens this or that and hacks Sony and Sony kowtows.<\/p>\n
At the root of that is ultimately guilt, guilt and fear. Guilt that the North Koreans might be able to do something, guilt that maybe we\u2019re to blame for it, we shouldn\u2019t have done the movie. I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s pervasive. It\u2019s what\u2019s guiding immigration policy. It\u2019s what\u2019s guiding every foreign policy that this administration\u2019s in charge of. It\u2019s diminishing the United States.<\/p>\n
We are clearly a nation in decline and we\u2019re being told our best days are behind us. Obama\u2019s telling us this. It\u2019s being taught. Ninty-two million Americans are not working \u2019cause they don\u2019t think there\u2019s any reason to. Our best days are behind us. So we\u2019re a nation in decline, and the way you get your stuff now is different than the old days. In the old days you worked for your stuff. Now you game the system or become part of the system. But the nation is in decline because the nation deserves to be in decline because the nation has been fraught with injustice and immorality from the days of its founding.<\/p>\n
I know I say that, it rolls off my tongue like it\u2019s just natural syllables, but I\u2019m telling you, I mean it with every fiber of my being. This is what more and more young people have been taught. The women\u2019s studies courses go even further than that. Let me find those stories in the Stack. And, by the way, the only reason we\u2019re learning this is because there are some really gangbuster young people doing conservative blogging and website building that are monitoring what\u2019s going on in the, quote, unquote, academy.<\/p>\n
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