{"id":8380,"date":"2014-09-16T16:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:52:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-16T16:52:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:52:29","slug":"the_world_still_looks_to_america_in_times_of_crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/09\/16\/the_world_still_looks_to_america_in_times_of_crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Still Looks to America in Times of Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, it\u2019s official. I\u2019ve got the audio sound bites coming up, but I wanted to tell you the secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, told a House hearing this morning that we are gonna bomb ISIS safe havens in Syria<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Now, those of you who are old enough, you might remember all the grief Richard Nixon got for bombing the North Vietnamese safe havens in Cambodia and for bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Now, I can\u2019t wait to see the media\u2019s outrage over this. I\u2019m kidding. There won\u2019t be any outrage over it. <\/p>\n

Chuck Hagel told a House hearing that we\u2019re gonna bomb ISIS safe havens in Syria. We have told Syria, “Hey, don\u2019t shoot down our airplanes.” We are also gonna put, what is it, 3,000 boots on the ground in West Africa. We\u2019re sending 3,000 soldiers to fight Ebola. We are sending more soldiers to fight Ebola than we are sending to fight ISIS or other Muslim terrorists. Snerdley, I didn\u2019t know you could shoot a virus. Did you? This the first I\u2019ve heard that that is possible. <\/p>\n

Now, apparently we\u2019re also told, don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s no risk of any of these 3,000 soldiers contracting Ebola, and there is no risk of any of them bringing the virus back to the US with them. Otherwise, Obama surely wouldn\u2019t be sending them over there, if there were any risk at all. So now, in addition to the world\u2019s policeman, we are the world\u2019s doctor. After we\u2019ve apologized, how many times by President Obama in the last six years, where does the world still turn for solutions to crisis-proportion problems? Where does the world still turn for help and solutions in disasters? <\/line><\/p>\n

I ran across a stunning statistic the other day. I think I knew it. I just had never thought of it in these terms. Talk about American exceptionalism. Do you realize the United States of America is responsible for 50% of the world\u2019s wealth? And I don\u2019t mean rich people. I\u2019m talking about we are responsible for 50% of the world\u2019s wealth. That\u2019s how economically superior our system has been to any other ever devised. In other words, half of the world\u2019s wealth is the United States of America. <\/p>\n

Now, granted, it\u2019s under assault, and this is a great point, because the current Regime resents that number. It\u2019s exactly the point. The current Regime resents that the United States is that big, that powerful, that successful. In their view — and I\u2019m speaking of Obama — that isn\u2019t fair. That can\u2019t be legit. I mean, there\u2019s no way, particularly under capitalism? Capitalism itself is inherently unfair and biased and prejudiced. It can\u2019t possibly be true. We\u2019ve had to steal it from people. We\u2019ve had to purloin it. We\u2019ve had to cheat people. There\u2019s no way, in their worldview, that that can be legitimate. But it is. <\/p>\n

Now, I said yesterday toward the end of the program, you would think that a community organizer — and Obama was a great one by his estimation and by those who know the work of community organizers. Obama was said to be one of the greatest community organizers ever. And thus, you would expect a great community organizer to at least be able to organize a coalition of nations against ISIS. But he apparently can\u2019t do it. He doesn\u2019t even seem to be able to organize a coalition against Ebola, much less ISIS. <\/line><\/p>\n

How\u2019s China helping to fight Ebola? How\u2019s China helping to fight ISIS or any other nation? Saudi Arabia? Are they involved in any of this? Why is it always us that has to all the heavy lifting? And the answer is we are pretty much it. We are pretty much the only ones who can. That fact is why so many of you, and me, so many of us are cringing over what\u2019s happening to this country. It\u2019s it, in a nutshell. The attack on the US economy, economic system, the attack on the American institutions and traditions which have created this greatness, the assault is unending. <\/p>\n

We are the only ones who can do anything that really matters for lots and lots of people around the world. And yet how many Americans look at this country with disgust and blame this country and suggest that America is the problem in the world and not the solution? <\/p>\n

Back to Iraq for just a moment, Chuck Hagel told that same House hearing that US troops could reach a total of 1,600 under Obama\u2019s plan. Then General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of chief joints of staff said he may well recommend we send in ground troops if the air strikes don\u2019t defeat ISIS, which they won\u2019t. And that\u2019s not to put down air strikes. It\u2019s just a fact of military warfare. It is ground operations that secure, unless you\u2019re gonna drop nukes, which we are not gonna do. That would win it, in a manner of speaking. So we are gonna be sending in ground troops. The take away is that we\u2019re gonna be sending in ground troops once the Obama plan is shown to be ineffective and doesn\u2019t work. <\/p>\n

Now, both Dempsey and Hagel asked Congress for authorization to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels to fight ISIS. Okay? Fine and dandy. But didn\u2019t we train the Iraq army for 10 years? We gave \u2019em the best military equipment money could buy, and they still couldn\u2019t beat ISIS. <\/p>\n

What makes anybody think a bunch of moderate Syrian civilians are gonna be able to win a two-front war against ISIS and perhaps Assad if they have to? But anything so that Obama can say, “We\u2019re not going back to Iraq.” Anything, so Obama can say, “Oh, no, no, we\u2019re not sending troops back. Oh, no, no, we\u2019re not going back to war.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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