9/11, 25 Years Later -- Did We Learn Anything? | Yaron Brook Show

0:00The radical fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is the Iran Brook Show. 25 years ago this morning, 19 men murdered nearly 3,000 people on American soil in about an hour. 25 years later, American forces stole trading fire out with the region and the regime that produced these monsters. Oil is above 100. The state of home oil is still mostly blocked.

1:02Americans are being killed and wounded in a war with Iran that Washington can summarize in a single sentence because Washington still, after 25 years, cannot say what victory means. And Washington still cannot see the connection between 9 and 11 and the common war because it never named the actual enemy. You know, the failure of 9 and 11, the intelligence failure, the consequence of that and the procrastination and the evasion that led to 9 and 11. And nothing is compared to the failures since the failures we fail every single year since 9 and 11. You know, we learned how to stop a particular attack and you know, blow up particular targets and we've learned how to how to take off our shoes and take off out of liquid,

2:03stick out of liquids and pass the computers through the machine to make sure that our planes don't blow up. But we never learned to identify the enemy, to fight for one survival without apology or to end a war on our terms. 25 years roughly 7,000 American dead in the wars that followed trillions of dollars spent and the enemy still sets the terms of how we live, how we fly, how we fight. So after 20 years, have we learned anything, have we learned anything? I mean, we've learned to defend ourselves against the consequences somewhat, no major terrorist attack against the United States since 9 and 11. But we have not learned to remove the cause and we have done little if anything to remove

3:08the cause. I mean, I remember watching the planes going to the Twin Tower, at least the second plane, I was in bad, I was in bad, it was in California. So still early in the morning, my wife was actually meeting up with Amy Peacoff to go somewhere. I can't remember exactly what they were planning to do. So Amy had driven out to our home in California and she was, you know, my wife went out to see her and she said, turn on the television, turn on the television. So I still in bad, turned on the television in time to watch the second plane go into the tower. I mean, it was horrific, shocking. I never expected, I never expected to see, I never thought the Islamists were competent

4:09enough to pull anything like this off. I always knew they had the intent. I always believed that the United States was competent enough to stop such an attempt. But David was the second plane going in, obviously now a terrorist attack and not some kind of freak accident. Of course, I only have later the first tower falls and then the second tower falls and, you know, the plane hit the Pentagon and the plane hits the field in Pennsylvania. And you know, everybody's panicked and nobody quite knows exactly what's going on and why it's happened. I mean, and I remember driving to the institution because, you know, to try to get everybody together and start working on what we're going to do, what the plan is, how will you know, respond.

5:10It was obvious that a respond was needed. And on the way, Leonard Peacoff called me and said, why are you driving? You know, the LA might be the next targets. I had a drive through very close to LA X, the airport and the fear was that LA X would be a target. Anyway, we, we, we, we huddled together and figured out what the plan was. And ultimately, ultimately, we, we put out the full page ad, Leonard Peacoff wrote full page essay in the New York Times and Washington Post, which you can read on the, on an institute's website. And you should read it because it's as relevant today as a what was back then. And of course, it was incredibly, you know, it, it, it, it, it identified the enemy. You know, Islamism and the Islamic movement being led by Iran. Iran is the essential enemy.

6:13I mean, the ceremony is going on right now. There'll be ceremonies all day in New York, Mamdani and EOC are at the ceremony. If that makes you feel better about the world, having a good time by the videos I've seen of them. And you know, people will say, never forgets and they will read all the names. But the one thing that the victims of 9-11 deserve, they will not get. I mean, the one that, the, the essential thing that the starting point of what they deserve is to know who killed them and why they were killed. Nobody would dare say they won't kill by a weather event. They won't murder by any specific individuals.

7:17In the name of, they won't kill by specific individuals at some random shooting. They were murdered by specific man, acting on a specific ideology for specific reasons. And at the very least, to honor the people who died on that day and died horrific deaths, just think of the people at the top of these towers in the, in the, in the upper floors of these towers. Unable to escape one tower, all four of the stayways were blocked by fire, smoke, debris. Unable to escape knowing they were dead. I mean, you've seen the pictures of people basically falling out of the windows because they had nowhere else to go because their flow was being consumed by fire and smoke. And one of the towers, one staircase was open. So some people managed to escape. But imagine being on those top floors for an hour and a half.

8:22And yet, nobody's willing to tell them the reason they died. Nobody's willing to tell them who actually committed this horror. And certainly nobody can tell them, nobody can tell them that the people who did this would be defeated because they have not. So the reality is that America has learned very little and refuses to accept, understand, to grapple with what really happened on 9-11, who the real enemy is and what needs to be done. I mean, 9-11, we have to understand 9-11 was not a intelligence failure.

9:23If by intelligence we mean we didn't have the data, we didn't have information. I mean, God, we had a whole set of data. It wasn't a problem of FBI and the CIA didn't talk. Anybody could see this coming in a sense. You didn't need to talk, although the fact that the talking hopefully post 9-11 is a good thing. But the reality is that a patent could be observed. And indeed, it was observed by many people. Lena Peacoff being one important example of that. Lena was claiming throughout the 90s that we should expect a horrific terrorist attack on US soil that this was going to be really bad. And how did he know that? And by the way, I remember, I remember actually this was in 1998, I believe,

10:27I was sitting with Lena Peacoff at a restaurant in in Santorini, Greece, beautiful, just gorgeous view, arguing about exactly those. He said there was going to be a big terrorist attack and I said they wouldn't because I thought the enemy was too incompetent to pull one off. Guess who was right about that one, not for the only time. And Lena was absolutely right. And how did he know this? What he could see? The patent. 1979. Islamists, part of the Iranian revolution, take the American embassy and start 4444 days of a hostage crisis. A Theocracy. But not just any Theocracy. Any Islamist Theocracy. In 1983, Islamists at the behest of the Iranians and members of what would become

11:33Kizmullah blow up them, read parrots in Beirut 241, Americans dead. Now I'm just listening to some of the main ones. There's a whole list of these, right? I mean, which is much more detailed in 1989. The Islamist Aya Tula in Iran puts out a fatwa against Rushdie, a man who wrote a book that the Aya Tula found offensive to Islam. A regime. An Islamist regime. A Theocracy claims the authority to sentence a novelist to death, even though he's living on another continent. No matter where he lives. And we know that that fatwa was acted on. And ultimately just recently, a few years ago, Rushdie lost his eye and lost some of the movement in his arm. In 1996, Iranian, Islamist operatives, again, Kizmullah,

12:35working with Kizmullah, blew up the Kuba towers, killing marines in 1988. Hundreds of people, I think it was hundreds of people, killed in the East African embassies. There was Kenyan tens and a year. And in 2000, the US has colds attacked by Islamists, known to patent. And throughout the late 90s and early in 2000, be loud and issues written the closures of war against the United States. He tells you exactly what he intends. And we do nothing. We do nothing. We did nothing. 79 other than a failed attempt at a rescue, which was never really a real attempt. Some lobbying, some bombs that landed in the middle of nowhere in 1983, in the same in 2000, no response, really in 1996, no response to the fatwa, other than to apologize that any writer in the West,

13:38ridicules Islam. Shouldn't do that. Shouldn't ridicule Islam. And every one of these was treated, some isolated crime, without drawing any lessons from it, without identifying the threat. There were Islamists out there who want us dead. And they told us this, and they explained their reasons. We were the infidels. We were secular. We were successful. Allah had given the world to Islam, to Muslims, to faith for Muslims, to Muslims who were willing to fight a war in his name, a jihad. They were in heaven to earth. And they believe it. They believed it. They believe it. And just give them enough time. They believe the world will be this.

14:39So we saw this. We saw the whole thing. And it was just a question of time. I mean, I skipped the fact that in the early 1990s, there was a bombing attempt by Islamist on the World Trade Center. You know, luckily failed. The bomb didn't do as much damage as they expected. They placed it in the wrong location. But they tried to bring down the World Trade Center before that anybody learned anything from this. Islam is motivation. You know what they're going after. Who they want to kill? No. I mean, even after 2011, what was the conclusion? What was the war that we were now engaged in? I mean, this is so disgusting. It's hard to comprehend. We declared a war on terror. A war on the tactics, the enemy deployed. The terrorism is not an enemy and being an enemy.

15:39That's ridiculous. It's a method. It's like ambushing or a bombing run or a kamikaze pilot. You know, declare war on a kamikaze pilots. You identified the enemy. You identified the source. You identified who did this to you. And the US refused and refuses to this day to do exactly that. Is it was what we called at the time of the Institute, Islamic totalitarianism, Islamists, Islamic ideologues who believed in imposing Islam on the entire world and believed that Islam when imposed affected every aspect of our lives. Totalitarian. And they believed that they could and would bring it about through jihad. And they still do. Again, they still do. They're still out there.

16:40Have we learned that they are the enemy? No, of course not. Don't name the enemy. Put your head deep, deep, deep in the sand and pretend they don't exist. Go after terrorists. And of course, as a consequence of that, we never identified the states who sponsored, inspired, made possible these attacks where there was Saudi Arabia, who was an ally of the US and really friends with George W. Bush. So, hmm, going after them was never an option. Or where there was Iran. And going after them for some reason was never an option. Instead, we went after the Taliban. And then, we went after Iran. Barely insignificant in the world of Islamist ideology and terrorism and militancy. And we went after Iraq.

17:41The one secular dictator in the region. So, yes. Unless you identify the ideology, the most people, unless you identify the sources of those that ideology, unless you fight it intellectually and fight the source militarily, you cannot win. You cannot win. And the fact that you're afraid to name it is such a sign of weakness in only emboldens the other side. And here's the thing about the Islamists. Here's the unbelievable thing about the Islamists that we can see in this current war with Iran. Unbelievably weak militarily, materially. They cannot stand up to a fight against the United States. They would crumble immediately.

18:41Now, it's true, there are a billion Muslims and a significant number of them sadly are attracted to this version of Islam. But once it is viewed as a losing ideology, as a defeated ideology, once it's bastions like Iran, like Saudi Arabia, a defeated. In one way or another, not you don't have to defeat the militarily, I think Saudi Arabia, whatever, and ultimately did in some sense, fold without war. But once they see that, nobody wants to die for losing ideology. Nobody is going to strap on a bunch of bombs and go blow yourself up for something that they know is a losing strategy. Winning, watching the West Cower, watching the West fear, that inspires, that inspires.

19:42So, instead, we were told to buy the president of the United States of America. We were told that Islam was a religion of peace, hijacked by extremists. But of course, that's just a dodge. Islam is no religion of peace. No religion is a religion of peace. And this particular enemy, who was inspired by Islam, like Iranah? I mean, some might just get to be Islam, and to tell you what it's the right to to take the interpretation, and the wrong interpretation. So, there are millions and millions of Muslims around the world who don't believe, don't agree, would be in lot of interpretation of Islam. Good. Hopefully, they too will rise up to defeat the Islamists and at the very least, the condemnation. Many of them stayed silent.

20:44But, you know, Islamism is a totalitarian conviction that every part of human life, law, speech, sex, thought, dress, must be forced under religious rule. It's totalitarian. Well, as I say, I call it Islamism. It's a political, or philosophical, it's religion applied to politics, in a particular way. And there are lots of them. There are lots of variations, put it that way. There are Sunni branches, and Shiite branches. And they like to slaughter each other. Good. And there are Sunni ones that hate each other. Remember, Wakkaida and ISIS fighting one another. Good. I mean, the more fragmented they are, the better off for us. But it doesn't change the fact that they all share the same premise.

21:46Total submission to Sharia. And that's true of Wakkaida, of ISIS, of Hamas, of Qizmullah, of Islam Jihad, of the Muslim Brotherhood, and importantly of the Iranian regime. We can also have the Wahhabis who, at least June 9, 11, and right after 9, 11, we're still held, you know, tight control over much of Saudi Arabia. At least ideology, religiously. It's all one ideology. And that ideology needed to be destroyed. It did destroy it. Wakkaida, ISIS, Hamas, Qizmullah, Iran, the Saudi Wahhabis, the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Jihad, and there's probably, you know, if you go to the Philippines, in Indonesia, Malaysia, and India, and Bangladesh, and Pakistan, there are lots and lots of variations of this. The Taliban, those entities needed to be destroyed.

22:48They were the enemy. So yes, we needed to feed it in the realm of ideas. But of course, they had to feed it in the realm of ideas. You first have to name it, and then argue against it. And a lot of that work should be done by Muslims who claim not to agree with it. Where are they? Why are they so few? Why importantly, are they so silent? But they represent it. The people who put on the bombs, the people who fund them, the bombs, they make the bombs possible. They need to be materially defeated. I mean, he has to think. 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi, Naduakis, not Afghans, Saudis.

23:51And that's not just an accident of some kind of geography. They were inspired by the Saudi ideology of Wahhabism, which was merged and integrated with Muslim Brotherhood ideology in the 60s, 70s, 80s for decades. Saudi Arabia exported this Wahhabi ideology all over the Middle East. But it started in Saudi Arabia, in its schools, in its universities, in its mandrassas, religious schools. Wahhabism is a reason hating, individual hating, west hating, strain of Islam, and yet the Saudis, Finans, Masks, textbooks, religious schools across the globe. And to Luzkstan, in Pakistan, and then Afghanistan. Many of the Saudis, educating Saudi Arabia, who wanted to go live this life of Islamism

24:58as Wahhabism called for, went to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, and helped defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan and joined the Taliban in turning Afghanistan into a hellhole. The Islamist movement globally could have not existed, could have not have grown to the place that it grew, certainly by 9-11, later on with ISIS, without Saudi money, and without the Saudi doctrines, in which, you know, which educated bin Laden and the rest of Akhira, Mabud. Saudi Arabia was at least a financial engine and to Luzkstan's ideological engine of Sunni jihadism. Now you are on another hand. Now remember we talked about this the other day,

26:02right? We talked about this yesterday, they before, about the new evidence that's coming out in a new BBC documentary that, you know, there's footage showing a Saudi national who's connected to Saudi intelligence in one way or the other, you know, hanging out with al-Walaki, a senior Akhira and it, you know, he was also the same guy, but he was the same guy who met up with the hijackers in San Diego when they were going to flight school, helped them get apartments and helped them out there, they helped them find an apartment, to get driver's license and flight flight school. He was drawing about a $90,000 salary from companies tied to Saudi defense ministry for a job that he never showed up to, was he getting paid for? He was living in San Diego, hanging out with hijackers,

27:05was he ever arrested, ever really questioned, was the Saudi connection ever ever, no, of course not, of course not. Wasbo Yumi coordinating with the Saudi government when he assisted the hijackers, was he a long wolf, we don't know, were the elements within Saudi regime doing this, others opposed it, we don't know. You know, if we had never showed the 9-11 commission, most of the information in this documentary, the plane diagram that was found, the him hanging around with al-Walaki, the, you know, jihadist writings that were found in this place, commission never saw them, but there was a reason for that, nobody wanted to find a link to the Saudis, nobody wanted to go there, they, and why was it buried? Why didn't she, the Saudi relationship? Well, well, American bases,

28:16arms deals, oh, it's run by a moderate king and it was an ally of ours, we needed all those stories to be true, but the reality is, naming Saudi Arabia, Saudi complicity, or even suspected Saudi complicit. Would have, you know, would have meant that somebody we called a friend, might not be a friend, we might actually have to face reality, we would not defend our own interests against an ally, for 25 years we chose a relationship with the Saudis over the 3000 dead, over the truth. Now, again, I don't know if there's a link, but nobody, nobody in our government has really gone looking, but it wasn't just Saudi, is of course, would really inspired the Muslims to,

29:21soon he's enthused, to really, you know, delve into the Islamist ideology and dedicate the lives to fighting, to jihad, was indeed the success of the Iranian Revolution. Iran, this massive country with 90 million people in a long history, a long history of civilization, this massive country that had been secularized and turned to the west under the Shah. In 1979, became any Islamist country dedicated to Sharia, imposing totalitarianism on its own population, and then it succeeded, and it had killed Americans, it had killed Westerners, and nobody had done anything about it. It was all powerful, it became themal, it inspired. This is, if Iran can do this, why can't we? If the Shiaids can do this, why can't the Sunnis?

30:32There is no Islamist movement in the world, one that is successful and is confident as it is today, without Iran, even on the Sunni side of the legend. And there's plenty of evidence to suggest that Iran helped al-Qaeda in various ways, even though the Sunnis, they don't actually object, they don't actually object to them fighting the West, go for it, kill out of mutual enemies. So, Iran was never on the target list. You walk secular? Now, part of this is, part of this is, part of the reason not to name Islam, Islamism, Shiaidism. I think there was a week, like three times the George Bush called them

31:37Islamol fascists, and then he stopped. Remember the operation? The first bombing of Afghanistan, when the bombers were hitting there, the name of the operation was Operation Infinite Justice, Infinite Justice. And what happened? When the Saudis heard that the United States started Operation Infinite Justice, the Saudis and other Muslim countries, they called the White House immediately and said, you can't do this. Infinite Justice, only Allah can do Infinite Justice. You can't, you can't call this Operation Infinite Justice. You're not doing this in the name of Allah, in the name of God. And the White Justice, oh, whoops, sorry, we apart, this is weeks after 3000 Americans are murdered. And the United States is teaching the name of the operation to appease

32:37the enemy. Was it called Operation Enduring Freedom? Who is freedom exactly? Are we going to, anyway? So you couldn't name the enemy because it was associated with the religion that a lot of people who, I guess, the Bush administration liked, didn't want you to name. You also couldn't name the enemy because once you named a religion, even if it's just a part of a religion, an application of the religion, then what about your own religion? Because then all religions are by faith and faith ultimately leads to force. And no religion, no religion is a religion, peace, all religions have their fanatics who are engaging in violence, look at the settlers in the West Bank, look at what Christianity has done over its history. In terms of killing other

33:41Christians and killing non-Christians, slaughter left and right. So Bush, a born-again Christian, found it difficult, difficult to say it lightly, put it lightly, to name a religion as the enemy. And he went out of his way, out of his way that it wasn't had nothing to do with Islam, religion, a peace, Ramadan was celebrated in the White House in October 2001, a month after 9-11. It still sends shivers just thinking about it. It still makes me feel sick just thinking about that, the appeasement. But here's the thing, the ultimate reason you couldn't name the enemy is moral. Today, the enemy and destroy it, America would have had to act ruthlessly and

34:41unapologetically in its own self-interest. To say without flinching, we are doing this to protect American lives. And that is enough. That would be too selfish. That would be too self-interested. Instead, our farm policy, our lives, but particularly our farm policy, our farm policy is where this really, you can see it in concrete terms in a way that's hard to sometimes see in domestic policy. Is guided by altruism, not kindness, not generosity, not helping an old woman across the street. It's about sacrifice, self-sacrifice, as being the measure of virtue. An action is only moral, if it's done for other people, not for yourself.

35:44And pursuing your own self-interest is always suspect. A best modeling neutral, and it was damn shameful. Imah, a vice. We all know this. We know this because we know that calling somebody selfish is not a compliment. I mean, here's the thing. We couldn't actually go out there and announce after 9-11. At least George Bush couldn't go out there and announce after 9-11. We're going to destroy the enemy. We're going to do it in American interests. This is what American interests require. This is what that safety of Americans requires now. At West Point in 2002, George Bush said, quote, our nation's cause has always been larger than our nation's defense.

36:51Our nation's cause has always been larger than our nation's defense. We're not in this. Defend us in this is something bigger. Change the world. Bring democracy to the world. Make the world a better place. Make it safe for, I don't know. It's not just our national defense. We need to aspire to more noble goals. That's the altruism. That's the defeat. That's the inability to win. You can't actually win when it's not victory is not the purpose. I mean, the defense of Americans is treated as too small of a purpose to fight for. It has to be dressed up as something bigger. We need to free the Iraqis. We need to bring democracy

37:52to Afghanistan. We need to serve foreign populations. That's noble. That's good. By the way, all of that is consistent with our self-defense. They tell you. Now, as soon as you do that, as soon as you declare the defending Americans as insufficient, the war has no boundary, has no victory possible, and has no finish line. No finish line. To win was a serious matter. You're sending people to die, fights and die. You have to have a clear agenda, a clear goal, a clear purpose. It has to be definitive, and it has to be a clear point in which it ends. We can't do that. Look at our war with Iran right now. We just can't do it. But the goals of the Bush administration were to...

38:55So much of America bought into this. We were going to uplift them at least. Why? For what purpose? To make ourselves feel good. To appease our moral sentiments. A country that doesn't treat its own defense as sufficient. As a sufficient moral purpose. Can never win. Can never define victory. It's quietly declared its own survival to be not worth winning for. That's what drives failure. That's what's driven the last 25 years. Autism in a form policy through and through. Every strategic failure. Everyone of Afghanistan and Iraq and now Iran. It's altruism at the core. I mean, think about it. I mean, the actual war, however you wanted to find that,

39:59like the shooting. I mean, we won both Afghanistan and Iraq in weeks. We are the mightiest superpower in all of human history. It's not even close. We, the United States removed the Taliban after it sheltered Al-Qaeda. It removed them. Now, it didn't do it in the quickest way. It endured with overwhelming force. You know, watch out for civilian casualties. We had to fight the war proportionality. The proportionality was important. I mean, we didn't even kill being loaded when we had a chance because we were worried about collateral damage. I mean, seriously, here's the way to boar, boar, and we wouldn't bomb the confoer because civilians would die. And then he was in boar, boar, boar in the caves in boar, boar, boar. And we didn't send Marines together. We didn't send potential forces together.

41:02We sent the Iraq, the Afghans who kind of deal and ultimately he managed to sneak out into Pakistan. I mean, the history of our failure to capture, be loaded, or to kill, be loaded, has not yet been written sadly. It shouldn't be done in the first few days of the war, but we were so uptight. Maybe civilians would die at the same time. Again, I'm willingness to defend ourselves. In spite of that, in spite of all their handcuffs, in spite of all the limitations we placed on ourselves on the walls of engagement, in spite of all of that. We still managed to get rid of the Taliban in a few weeks, at least in terms of holding power and got a kind of runaway. And then the mission changed. It wasn't just about eliminating the threat. Getting rid of al-Qaeda. It was now about building a liberal democracy in Afghanistan.

42:06Now you're going to do that. There's no cultural or philosophical foundations for that. Much of Afghanistan were still Islamist at the core of its ideology. You can't just install individual rights in a population. It doesn't have any clue what that means and doesn't value those rights. I mean, just think about what we did in Afghanistan. It's just it should terrify you. Hava, hava, hava, hava, hava. 20 years. A couple of trillions of dollars. Thousands of American troops killed and named. Thousands of Americans traumatized by war in Afghanistan. 20 years. Trillions of dollars. Thousands of casualties. And in 2021, the Taliban walked back into Kabul and took it over.

43:14Right? Did you came back? Same regime. They did the same thing they did in the past. It turns to supporting terrorism against the United States. Of course, who doubted? One thing they know. They can outglass America. Because America won't fight. Because America wants to build schools and cultivate the population. And America won't actually defeat its enemies. It's not committed. We'll take Iraq. A monster, I said I was saying. But not a monster who attacked us. Not a monster who was relevant to the case of Islamism. To the American government, be out there hunting down every foreign monster, killing every foreign leader who treats their people, horribly. No. You walk in nothing to do with 9-11. And of course, the Bush administration knew that,

44:15that it come up with weapons of mass destruction. But other countries that had weapons of mass destruction, we know for example, that Syria had weapons of mass destruction and had a brutal dictator running in our south. And yet, we didn't go off to Syria. I mean, I never understood the weapons of mass destruction. Yeah, they have it. We know that. They used chemical weapons on the coast. Why did we hit? Okay. Now they're attacking the United States. And then it was UN resolutions and then it was being democracy to the Middle East, which was, I think, the Neal country really believed it. Talk about altruism. Operation infinite justice turns into operation in during freedom. Now that our freedom, their freedom, bring them freedom. I mean, the operation in Iraq, they didn't even try to come up with a name like like infinite justice. They immediately called it operation,

45:18Iraqi freedom. Altruism through and through. And of course, we all know elections on our freedom. And remember, they were going to bring freedom to the time at least. They were going to mean elections the whole time at least. They did. So the Egyptians voted after the Arab Spring and who they voted in. The Muslim Brotherhood didn't last very long. But they voted in the Islamists. And the Palestinians voted. Because the Americans insisted in 2007, in 2005, that the Palestinians vote. And then Israel said, okay, but Hamas can't run because they were a party dedicated to violence and dedicated to destruction of Israel. And Bush said, no, no, no, it's democracy. Everybody can run. Even somebody who's dedicated to killing you can run. So Israel will answer Hamas ran and Hamas won. And as they say, the rest of history, October 7th is history.

46:27I mean, it's, I mean, this just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, the reality is that everybody in these worst knew they were adding up to nothing that was favorable to America and yet they continued them. I mean, we got all the mission accomplished for Bush, Cheney. Cheney's last throws. It's almost there. But then a few years ago, the Washington Post published the Afghanistan papers. And these were interviews with government officials about what was really going on and have gone to stop during those years. And it turns up. It turns up. Then while they were telling us that we were winning and everything was great and all the troops they were necessary. And this is this is vital for security.

47:28And don't worry, we're winning. While telling us all of us, all of that. In private, they all knew that it was BS. They all knew that we were losing the war in Afghanistan. They all knew that the soldiers dying, they were dying for nothing. I mean, this was institutional dishonesty. On a scale, the change is a nation. And I think it changed America. I mean, and we're not talking about just minor government officials. We're talking about everybody from President Bush and Obama and Trump to the generals, the chiefs of the different branches of the military. To, you know, politicians and both parties. Two intelligence officers, they knew.

48:33They knew that this was a failure. They knew it wouldn't succeed. They knew it was all for not. And yet they continued. And they continued to tell us lies. I mean, if you haven't read the Afghanistan papers, I mean, you shouldn't, although it will really depress you. Really depress you. I mean, this institutional dishonesty created a vacuum. And what rushed to fill the vacuum? We'll conspiracy theories. No end to conspiracy theories. When the government won't tell you the truth about why it's failing, people invent their own explanations. You get the right, recoiling into so-called exhalationism, that it misleaves self-interest. America first is exhalationism. And the left, who's a flex of the hatred of America, turns it into a cheerleader for any movement that would kill the values that we stand for. Just think October 7th and his aftermath.

49:36And then there's the human cost. And I mean, this, yeah, I mean, I know most people don't seem to, this really doesn't seem to really land. But maybe because I come from Israel, a small country, where when a soldier dies, it's a big deal. Because it's your neighbor, it's your cousin, it's somebody you know. The human cost here is really unbelievable. Roughly 7,000 American service members, kids, somebody's sons, husbands. Died in this war. 7,000 in the post-911 wars. Ends of thousands more had suffered catastrophic or physical and psychological wounds.

50:38The cost of war project estimates the post-911 military and veteran suicides ran into the tens of thousands. Several times the combat debt toll. Why? Why did they die? What justify sending an American to die? Only one thing to protect his country, to protect his freedom, to protect his family and friends. Not to build somebody else's democracy. Not to build them schools, sewer systems, whatever. That's not what you fight for. Fighting should be for self-interested reasons, for your values, your life. Risking your life,

51:43for these altruist egregious is the ultimate self-satisfaction. And that our politicians demand that of our young men and women. Do we expect that of them? Is beyond disgust. Beyond the parliament. It's a moral crime. And look, we're seeing the same thing right now, anyone. Great. We can beat their military easily. Easily. And they deserve to be defeated, given how many Americans they've killed over many, many years, and how many others they've inspired to kill Americans. And yet, we can't win it. Or we seem not to be willing to win it. We bomb, but we bomb tentatively. We don't bomb strategic targets.

52:45We don't make this a war of self-defense. We don't define what victory looks like. We don't insist on regime change. You know, you want to end up to be a paper tiger? Really did. But we turned out to be a big-a-peer tiger. Not because we don't have the weapons. The forces, the capacity to open the state of hormones that are bomb every military target or non-military target, any one. No, because we're not willing to use the weapons that we have. And we can't think strategically about it. And we don't define it. We don't think about it. So the nuclear problem, the buildings and tunnels were destroyed. Or some of them. But they enrich material, the scientific knowledge, the personnel, and above all, the intent still survive. As of today, nobody knows what actually happened in those strike sites

53:48and where that material is. We know the personnel, some of the leading scientists to be killed, but most of them are still alive. And we know that they still intend to build it. And we know that they still intend to build it. Why wouldn't they? More than ever, probably. And yet, what are we doing about it? Nothing. I mean, Trump seems to have lost interest in the nuclear problem. The regime itself. We can kill leaders who are just replaced. What about the machine that creates these leaders that makes them possible? What about the theocracy, the entire administration, the bureaucracy, the entire mechanism of this regime? Can't touch it. Well, you know, I argued for bombing the murder of Sussan Holmes. Holmes is the spoochor heart of Iran. That's what needed to go. The ideology needed to be decapitated, not just the name on the name plate.

54:55And in the state of hormones, I already talked about this endlessly, right? Couldn't even think even though you know that they're going to block it. Couldn't have a strategy to prevent it. Could never strategy to open it. Couldn't have. I mean, just just amateurs running the show with no clear goals. Now, it could be that we still win somehow, anyway. Because the Iranian regime ultimately collapses from within. But that would be more luck than brains. I mean, what we need, what we needed in Afghanistan, what we need in Iran and what we needed in Iran in the past, was to be ruthless, was to do what was necessary quickly, thoroughly on a massive scale to destroy the capabilities of our enemies, the ever-inflicted pain in the United States, and then come home.

55:57Not to build the democracies, not to fix their societies, but to make it clear to them, unequivocally, and to anybody who wanted to emulate them. The price that they would pay. Instead, you know, as I wrote in Just War Theory, and you know, find the article online, just switch my name and Just War Theory to come up, we played by altruistic rules of engagement, proportionality, and, you know, and so, you know, you can only, you can only bomb, you can only use weapons, it proportions to your aims and goals. What are the aims and goals? I mean, think about what was done in World War II. I mean, imagine what would have happened in World War II, if we had not softened the French coast before D-Day.

56:58Now, let me explain to you what softening the French coast meant. And then bombing every town on the French coast, the Germans had a military presence, artillery, or troops. And overwhelming majority of the people who died in softening the French coast, before D-Day, were French, were actually our allies. Many of them were members of the resistance. And they knew they were going to die, but they knew this was the only way for the goals to be achieved, for freedom to be achieved. Now, imagine, if we said, no, he can't do that, can't bomb civilians. I mean, there would have been no D-Day. Oh, if they had been, there would be a lot more casualties than the American side, and maybe potentially we would have lost it.

57:59Imagine, no, he was Shamanagasaki. Imagine the actual invasion of Japan. And the hollars that that would have entailed for American troops and the Japanese. Humane wars are damn right evil. They sacrifice your own troops to the sake of enemy civilians. They drag out the war. They allow the enemy and the people who support the enemy to continue to exist, to continue to fight. A real, a truly humane war is a war that ends fast. It's a war that destroys the enemy's ability and his will to fight. And therefore he stops. Because the futility of that fight becomes evident.

59:01And the cost of the fight becomes overwhelming. The cool wars, the restrained ones, the grinds on for 20 years, kills, people, and more people, and every side, and ultimately settles nothing. Evil raises up again. Just look at Afghanistan. Outruth and kills. It kills. You know, I'm going to get a better lesson than that. Then what we've learned is that what we've seen is our own lives. Hey, no, what did we learn from 9-11? We learned to hide and out of fences because we didn't defeat the enemy. We learned to have better intelligence. We learned all the technical lessons. We have the intelligence agency share more information.

1:00:05Given the competence of the terrorists, it's very difficult for them to pull off another 9-11. Because now we'll probably catch it. Cockpit doors are being reinforced. So when a pilot goes to the bathroom, there's an old procedure that has to go through them. Moving terrorists money got harder because now we have a pay-trade act and basically monopsies, all cash exchanges. And it makes it impossible for a lot of us to actually share that money without the banks wanting a gazillion amount of information about everything that we do. So yes, terrorists move money. It's harder for them. But it's also harder for me and you. Yes, we destroyed Al Qaeda-Campson leadership. A lot of plots have been disrupted. ISIS, territorial, caliphate, ultimately, after many years was destroyed. And our planes are pretty safe.

1:01:06We have the TSA. But at what cost? The cost is, you know, we try to bring them freedom at the cost of our own freedom. What the hell? The NSA has snowed and revealed. Spine on Americans. What the hell? We have secret courts in America, secret courts that issue wallets to listen in and to monitor American citizens, secret courts, phiza courts, the call. All as a consequence of 9-11. Ooh, we have the TSA. We have the TSA. You get to take your shoes off. Well, not anymore, I guess. In liquids, well, now they have more powerful machines and looking to your bags. You get to stand in line sometime for hours to get the privilege of somebody to patch you down

1:02:07to make sure you're not, I don't know, wrap the bomb around your body or something. I mean, do you remember when you could just walk into an airport and go to a gate and greet the people coming off a plane? Do you remember what freedom is like? And now, if you transaction you make. If you pass the deposit you make. Is monitored? The bank has a legal responsibility to let the government know of anything quote suspicions. I mean, the bank doesn't want to get caught not letting the government know of anything suspicious. So everything is suspicious. Do you guys remember what freedom is? When you can just transact, you can just move money around, you just deposit cash into a bank. I mean, with the Patriot Act,

1:03:10we have the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Yeah, we're learning what that feels like right now with ICE. The largest restructuring of American government. For what? To infringe on our rights as Americans, to limit us, to constrain us, to spy on us, instead of, about just defeating the enemy? Defeating the enemy? So we got a really good defense and a huge cost of freedom. Really good defense. So yes, there's been no major terrorist attack against America since 9-11 because of that. Call that a win if you want. Not much of a win in my book. So what do we need to do to win? It's 25 years later.

1:04:12We need to do what we didn't do back then. We need to name Islamic, to tell the Germanism, as the ideological enemy. And define it clearly, define the groups that belong to it, define from the Muslim Brotherhood, the Hamas, the Kizballat, and Islam, the Jihad, the whole gamut. Define the governments that support it. You are in Qatar, Qatar, which is like our main ally and investing more in Americans, universities than any other entity in the world. Qatar has more political influence, more money being spent on politics and education in America than anybody. Nobody cares. And yet, there are Islamists. They're the home of the Muslim Brotherhood. They're the only place that host the Muslim Brotherhood. Even the Saudis don't want them anymore.

1:05:13But Qatar will do it. And we don't care. Because we make fun of Taka for being Qatar Taka or whatever. It's a serious issue. Qatar's funding was funding ISIS when ISIS was around. So identify the enemy. And identify all who are part of that, all who belong in the category of enemy. And make the protection of American lives and freedom. This sole purpose of American military action. It really, the sole purpose of American foreign policy. Not the promotion of democracy, not nation building, not humanitarian reconstruction. Protecting American lives and freedom. Hold your shoes responsible for the proxies they fund. For the proxies they are trained and sheltered. So for example, Israel should hold Iran and Qatar responsible for the actions of Hamas.

1:06:14On October 7th, the actions of Hamas on October 7th justify the completed under destruction of the Iranian regime. And if America won't do it, let the Israelis do it. Hamas is an enemy of America. It falls under the Islamic decedentitarian category. And we should examine Saudi Arabia. It's all in 9-11. But what's it up to these days? Hot at all. Everybody seems so enamored with MBS, the Crown Prince, and his westernizing agenda is real. So we needed it today, what we needed to do back then. And was about to Iran specifically, we need regime change. We need to do whatever it takes. And at this point, it's hard to tell what it takes. I don't have the intelligence to know what's going on inside of Iran. But it takes a lot more bombing.

1:07:15It might take some boots on the ground, whether it be American or Kurds or somebody else. It needs an opposition. It needs domestic leadership. We need to be cultivating that. We need to be building for that. We need to be building for regime change. We need to open the Homo street. And we need a dismantle of the proxy network. We need to help Israel defeat Hamas. And Gisbal and Gisbalah. Gisbalah should be gone. Instead of negotiating cease-fire all the time, we should just tell Israel, go for it, destroy it, kill them all. The Lebanese will thank you when it's done. And if we need to help them, we should help them. It's good for us. We need to be very wary of the president of Syria, the former Akira Isis guy, who's supposedly being reformed. But still, Islamist still holds Jihadist ideas. Why are we his ally?

1:08:21More suicide. And at the same time, we need to liberate ourselves. Defend free speech and individual rights at home. Get rid of the permanent surveillance state that we are creating. We're turned to a pre-9-11 state at our airports. Stop living in fear. Because we know the enemy's defeated. But at the end of World War II, we weren't like, who the Nazis coming after us. The Nazis were gone. It was done. It was finished. Same thing has to happen with Islamism. Until then, the war is not over. Tanda, I want to tell you this story. I'm an extraordinary man. I didn't know this story until the last couple of days I read about this. It truly astounding. The name was Rick Riskola.

1:09:27Rick Riskola. Cornwall-born, decorated in Vietnam, head of security from Afghanistan in the South Tower on 9-11. It was called a war in the World Trade Center. It was vulnerable to a truck bomb in the basement. Before the 1993 bombing proved him right. Afterwards, he was certain they'd be back. He had Morgan Stanley's personnel drill evacuating the World Trade Center. Over and over again. Even though his bosses thought it was annoying, employees definitely thought it was annoying. And the building management did not approve. They did not like this. He'd have them two by two walking down the stairs. He knew the Islamists wouldn't be back.

1:10:29He wasn't afraid to face reality. On September 11th, when the first plane hit, the Port Authority told everyone in the South Tower to stay at their desks. Riskola ignored it. He got his people moving just as he had trained them down the stairs. About 2,700 of them. Nearly all of them survived. He went back up to the Staglers. He was last seen climbing towards the 10th floor. Riskola did not have perfect intelligence. Nobody does. He had the same facts. Everybody else had. Then if it says, he integrated those facts into a framework named the danger. Outlaw, an actor on it.

1:11:31On his own judgment. While every institution around him told him, he was being silly and to stop. That's the entire lesson on the last 25 years. Think, judge, act, the nation with all the facts. All the facts. And yet, without the judgment, without the dedication, without the commitment, it fails. Power without purpose. Winds battles, but loses the war. So did we learn anything from 9-11? Yeah, we learned to manage. To manage the danger. To harden targets. Watch the money. Share the intelligence. Kill individual terrorists. Now, these things are prevented, prevented attacks and saved lives.

1:12:35But they do not resolve the issue and they do not restore the freedom and the confidence that we had before that morning. They taught us to live around the enemy instead of living without the enemy. Power can't substitute for purpose. It can't be the refuses to name its enemy. Refuses to treat its own defense as morally sufficient. Refuses to define victory will turn even the most brilliant military operations into decades of inconclusive war. Which is exactly what we did. The 3000 who died that morning are owed more than a bell in a moment of silence. They're owed more than what they're getting right now in New York. They're owed more than Mamdani in OEC. Or Trump can give them. The order country that understands why they were killed that has the will to eliminate the threat

1:13:36and there's confident enough to live freely again. 25 years on, that country doesn't exist yet. I hope it doesn't take another 25 years to build it. All right. That is my 9, 11, 25 years later. Shpil. All right. It's a sad day. It's a sad day. It's a sad day for lots of reasons. Remembering what happened. Remembering the victims of all this. Remembering the soldiers who died. Since then, the failures. And also, you know, remembering you know, realizing the extent of which I told you so. If only they'd listen. All of them was predictable. All of it was predictable.

1:14:41And we predicted it. I managed to, we predicted it. You can go back and watch my talks. 9, 11, 1 year later, 9, 11, 2 years later, 9, 11, 10 years later. The date is cartoons. But everything we wrote, we, you know, winning them won them a war. We read that book. Everything that we wrote, we spoke, we put out there. All of it. Predicted the complete and utter pathetic nature of the response. Oh, there's a book on Rick Scholar. It's titled Heart of a Soldier. I mean, it's a great story. And I didn't know that story. It's a great story. It was hard to tell you the story without tearing up. So, I mean, it's just priming. They're real heroes out there. And, and you know, if you, if you know anything about our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, how many of them are real heroes? How many of them are real heroes? How many of them are believable things?

1:15:43And achieved unbelievable things. And how many of them died? Do you? And it all adds up to nothing. It adds up to nothing. All right. Let's see how we're doing. We're doing pretty well. Pretty well. About a hundred dollars short of a second hour goal. To put we attain a second hour goal. We're in our second hour. So support, you know, the 9-11 show, support all the, you know, your support today is particularly meaningful because it's support for everything, everything we've done, everything I've done since 9-11. It's 25 years of working on this stuff. Non-stop. Bromant says, Charlie Hebdo happened too. Yes. So did dozens of terrorist attacks in Europe that nobody cares about.

1:16:45Nobody talks about. I mean, there was the attack on the London subway. They were the, they were ramming attacks on the French coast. On, was it in Nice? They were the attacks in Germany. I mean, the number of terrorist attacks in Europe. And Europe is probably going to, I mean, this is the sad thing. Europe is probably going to, hey, for our mistakes after 9-11 more than we will. Again, America is far away from that part of the world. We have, we don't have that many Muslims in America. Not that many Muslims coming in. And it's hard to get here. It's hard to organize a 9-11. But Europe is easy. Europe is right there. And you've got a lot of people you can accrue in Europe because of all the Islamic immigration. So to the extent that we fail dealing with you on, to the extent we fail dealing with Islamism,

1:17:46and hey, we know we've got Turkey as well. It is Europe that will bear the brunt of the damage, the bulk of the damage. They will suffer the consequences. Because it's right there. It's right there. I mean, Turkey has a border with Europe. Is a member of NATO. Hard to fend it. It's another failure of diagnosing the cars. If we understood the Islamism as the enemy, then other than who is an Islamist, couldn't be a member of NATO. He's part of the enemy. And this is not just a failure of America. It's obviously failure of the entire West. Let's see. Oops. I moved to one file. I didn't mean to move that. Maybe get my chat questions in the way, please.

1:18:48Let's take a look at them. All right, Michael, does challenging altruism make people uncomfortable because they think they would be left to die in the street if something happened to them in a non-altruistic world? No, I don't think very many people think that. I think challenging altruism, I mean, why would you challenge altruism? What would motivate somebody to challenge altruism? I mean, the people who were made uncomfortable by challenging altruism, it's primarily because they can't imagine an alternative to it. The people who know what the alternative is to it, the alternative is to it, rational self-interest. Another uncomfortable challenge again. Or if they are uncomfortable challenging it, it's because they still have a remnant of altruism

1:19:48in their system, because they grew up with it and because they haven't completely extracted it from their life. But no, I don't think there's anybody out there who doesn't adopt objectivism or doesn't reject altruism because they think, who? What would happen to me if I become poor and nobody will help me? I don't think that's a motivation. I don't think that's real. So, I think that's a good example of how to challenge altruism. I think that's a good example of how to challenge altruism. So, yeah, no, I don't think that's the case at all. Michael says, investors were criticized for buying cheap property in Trebyekha after 9-11. This seems like pure altruism, upset people's so-and-economic opportunity to rebuild instead of only thinking about the victims of the attack.

1:20:49Well, it's that they did it for monetary gain. It's an attack on self-interest, right? It's they did it for monetary gain. They did it for their own well-being. They were doing it for their own benefit. And it's pure altruism to attack them absolutely. And what they're attacking is the self-interest that is inherit in that action. They saw financial opportunity for themselves. They made their own lives better when they should have been, I don't know, giving sacrifice. So, yes, anytime you see people benefiting themselves, particularly at times in emergency, at times of how up, then they are going to be attacked because altruism does not permit that. A situation like 9-11, demands you bring forward all of your altruistic sentiments, all of your altruism, right?

1:21:50People are suffering, people are hurting, people are dead, and you are trying to make money. How awful of you. That's altruism. Pure unadulterated. All right, Michael. When I've asked doctors about ezymptick or zepbound, they've told me, we don't know how it works, but it does. I've heard the same whenever I asked so-called expert about AI. They say, we don't know how it works, but it does. How can this be? The people who invented it did so by revelation. Is this philosophical mysticism, corrupting scientific explanation? No, I mean, it's- this is how science often works, right? We know gravity works, we can't explain it. But the reality is aspirin, aspirin, which has been around what 80 years,

1:22:52we don't know how it works, we don't know the mechanism by which it actually works to reduce fever, eliminate headaches. They don't know the biological mechanism, they've tried, they've looked at it, they've studied it, but they discovered. Because a lot of medicine is like this. Find different compounds that you think might be interesting, and you test them on human beings, or you test them on mice first, and you just come, oh, they do this stuff in mice, we don't exactly why, but it does it. Let's try it on humans. And if you think about GLP once, Zemtik and Zepound, they were- this is a compound derived from the poison of a lizard, right? I mean, I may be screwing this up, but I think this is true. The derived from a poison, the substance derived from the poison of a lizard. Now this lizard has a unique feature, and that is, I think it's something like, and again,

1:24:01this is from my memory. This lizard, like, eats four times a year, it eats very, very few times, and yet it manages its energy, it manages its ability to live, in spite of eating in very short windows. So in science, I discovered that they thought, oh, this is interesting, and they started studying this lizard, and they discovered a compound that they thought may explain the regulation of this. And it regulates its sugar, its blood sugar, really, really well. It's quite the effect that it eats so little, right? It needs the sugar as energy. So it's just hot. This chemical regulates sugar in the lizard. I wonder if we could figure out how it regulates sugar in mice. So they tested it, and yeah, turns out it regulates blood sugar in mice. And then, you know, with some affinements, some changes, and stuff, they ultimately tested on human beings. And it turns out, no, no, it regulates your good human beings. Okay?

1:25:04So it was these drugs were pitched as drugs to help with diabetes. But then they noticed, then not only does it help regulate sugar and help with diabetes. These drugs are also cause people to eat less and lose weight. We don't know why it causes them. I mean, we'll get to some theories. Why it causes them? But the reality is it does, and we do tests, and we do double blind tests. And we see that if you give these yellow p ones to people, beyond just the help in terms of diabetes, it also would you, they'd lose a lot of weight, and they keep it off. All right. And then we notice, huh? We've got a lot of people taking these drugs. So we run a lot of tests on these people. And we notice the one we run of aggressions, when we do that analytical analysis, even when we control for the weight loss, people seem to have improved cardiovascular symptoms,

1:26:13even when control for the weight loss, and for control for the sugar. How's that happening? Well, we don't know exactly, but it's doing something positive for cardiovascular. Cool. So let's give it a call to your cardiovascular. We'll try to figure out why it's working. So none of this is mysticism. It's just you discover something works, and then you're going to try to figure out the cause of relationship, but you discover something works. Then it works. The latest one is, I just was reading about this, cartilage. They discovered, again, that huge number of people taking these drugs, and what they discovered is people with arthritis in the knees were feeling better. Their arthritis was getting better. We didn't know Gop 1 had anything to do with joints. So they went and they studied this and they did, again, studies. People with the arthritis, some get Gop 1, some don't. What happens to joints? And it turns out

1:27:13that for some reason, Gop 1's called cause, the cartilage, in your joints, the regrow. Now, medicine has thought that that was literally an impossibility. And yet it's happening. So a good scientist looks at it and says, it's happening. I don't know why, but it's happening. Cool. Let me give Gop 1's to people with the arthritis. Now, I don't think it's being approved yet, but that's kind of where it's going. But I'm just giving you this as an illustration of how it works. Now, we know a lot more about why Gop 1's do what they do, just like we know a lot more about AI and how it works. You know, the Gop 1 receptors, you know, on cells in the stomach primarily. You know, Gop 1's cause, they're just into slow significantly. So you feel fuller for longer. But here's an interesting one. Gop 1's actually reduce, you know, your inclination, a gamble.

1:28:17If you're addicted to porn and things like that, they reduce those addictions. So-called addictions, right? So they have something in the brain that they're causing you to be less eager to seek particular simulations. What does it do exactly? We don't know. But let's figure it out. That's what scientists do. So no, this is completely consistent with the scientific method. And the same with AI. People build these algorithms that go out there and they look at correlations and relationship between words and sentences in existing books and existing knowledge. They train these algorithms with this. Train means, I mean, we do this in in in correlation analysis. You create a model based on past data and you expect it to predict the future. Well, here you

1:29:18train these models based on, you know, words and books, sentences in books, and you expect them to be able to form sentences. And it took a, it takes a huge amount. And these models have to be super powerful. But at some point, there's so many variables. They could be trillions of variables, I think. So many variables in models. And then algorithm is so complex that you as a scientist, lose sight of what exactly is going on. And you are amazed by some of the stuff that is produced by the algorithm, by the AI. Now, some apply kind of a mystical thing to AI. It's thinking. It's a mind. It's not. But it's not inconsistent to say we don't exactly know how it works. You build a very, very complex, complex system that is self learning in a sense that reinforces

1:30:23itself and gains in complexity. And you lose you lose the ability to be able to track the causal relationship between inputs and an output because it's too complex. So no, I think there's still all being scientists. All right, we're still, let's see, 78 dollars short of a second hour goal within our second hour. So it would be really good if we made it. Now, just maybe this all, maybe this all encouraged you in terms of your pocketbook. So far, it's all being Michael, who has done $200. Thank you, Michael. Really, really, really appreciate the support all year round all the time. There's no show tomorrow and there's no show Sunday, maybe Monday, but no show Saturday or Sunday. So, you know, no financial commitments to the one book show for

1:31:26Saturday or Sunday. And next two weeks, next three weeks, your one book shows are going to be spotting. It's going to be spotting. So if you got a monthly budget, anyway, Tom, Tom says, thanks, you're on. Aeroi has made visible the essential nature of this day since the beginning. Thank you, Tom. Really appreciate that. And yes, I think that's, I think that's right. I think we have, we've done a good job on this. Made a lot of enemies doing so, but we've done a good job on it. Or even to someone who knows how to state defend and articulate the proper means of freedom on a day like today. Thank you. Thanks, or even really appreciate that. Really appreciate it. I try. Frank says on Saturday and Sunday, we can catch up on all the shows. Yes, but

1:32:29it's not the same as doing a super chat and a or a sticker and supporting the show live and getting thanked. Oh, it didn't do it. Have I done the stickers? Have I thanked the sticker people? No. D'Aliin, thank you. Hinted on Amy. Thank you. These are stickers. Mary Alene, thank you. A Bonnie and again, Mary Alene. And let's see. There is Ryan. Thank you, Ryan and Enrig. And yeah, covered everybody. All right. Thank you. Stick up people. Really appreciate it. Thank you to all of you. NYK, did you eat what happened in Galen, Texas in response to the Hebdo attack? Amazing, not only that they refused to back down, but they actually got attacked by Islamic terrorists and one then lost the PR world. So, oh, god, I mean, this is way back. This is the

1:33:37cartoons. Is that right? So there was a cartoon competition. The cartoon competition in Galen, Texas. It was holding Galen, Texas. What's his name? The cartoonist was there. Was it the time of Fenermaine? Oh, why is his name slipping?

1:34:53I think it's the time of the movie. All right. I think Sound is back. Can you hear it? Yeah. So as I said, it was Bosch. Bosch, a foster, who was the cartoonist at this event, and at the time was a friend, and he told us all about it. But yes, it was attacked by Islamist. They were shot by the security guard. The cartoonist inside had to be locked in, and it was difficult to evacuate them, and it was a whole story, but they did win in the sense. But yeah, in the end, they were the bad guys for having drawn Muhammad. That somehow was the evil. Not the people trying to kill them. Not the Holy Islamist movement and whatever it represents. No.

1:35:56The guys who dare draw Muhammad. I mean, this is the last son of the Danish cartoons of Charlie Heptop and of Galen, Texas. Yes, Bosch did not turn out too good, sadly, but at the time, yeah, we were friends. All right. Let's see. Matt says, two parts. Did you look into the records they released about the A-Quality post 9-11? Seems like a government chose to cover a vital public healthy info to get back to business quicker. How would a proper government act in this situation and how do you defend capitalism against the associated attacks? What's not capitalism? It was the government, right? I think a proper government would have put out a warning that there were these poisons in the air and to be aware,

1:37:00and then let people do what they want to do. People can engage in risky behavior, but for the government to withhold that information is evil. For the government not to let people know what the risks involved are evil. But I mean, it's not like the government should have banned people engaging in business or anything like that. It's just that they should have just provided the information and it has nothing to do with capitalism. How is it says? How was Kamina Buruna? Also, could you review Stone Blesk by Feed Rate Command? Let me copy this. It tells a small snippet of a story that I'd be interested in hearing what you think. Not just the melody, but also the character being discussed. Let me find a file to put it into so that I can review it. Kamina Buruna was amazing. It was just a stunning, it was stunning. I mean, I don't know if Thomas

1:38:02is on here, Thomas Shibaram, if he's on here, he's a conductor. But the performance was of a, it was a youth, what do you call it? Orchestra. And a relatively small one, but the whole, the whole we heard it was pretty small, beautiful hall, beautiful, beautiful, palau de Muzikain in Barcelona. She definitely goes see it if you're here. And it was a Japanese chorus, plus a local Barcelona chorus. This is a choral piece with lots of singers. And it had this amazing conductor. She was phenomenal. She was so into the music. She was so expressive. Somebody described the review of her conducting. It's as if she sculpting the music while conducting, sculpting in there. I mean, just gorgeous. And Kamina Buruna is particularly the first section of it.

1:39:07Super intense. She was like engaged in a kung fu fight on stage, conducting the orchestra in the super intense. So we said in the second verse, we were right there to see it. But I was, you know, I've heard Kamina Buruna in the past. Usually you just hear the first few sections of it. Here we heard the whole thing. I think I've heard it before in a symphony concert. I don't know why, but this time I was far more impressed with the composition. So now the composition is episodic. It doesn't have like a theme that runs throughout it. But the music is amazing. Melodic, dramatic, modern, and yet with roots in it, really kind of the middle ages when this, these poems were written and some of the music is originally from

1:40:08rhythmic, dynamic. Oh, super exciting. I really, really enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun. So if you have an opportunity to hear Kamina Buruna live and we'll just put a stream in and just sit back and it's about an hour long since it's an hour piece. I love choral pieces. I love the human voice. Even though I didn't understand a word, did not understand a word. It has solo singers. They were really good. Really good. I mean, again, this is a small production. It's not one of the big orchestras. Not one of the big, you know, places. It's really good performance. I really enjoyed it. So yeah. And I don't know, I'm going to have to find out more about this, this woman conductor figure out where she conducts. I'd love to see her again. She was just fun to watch. God, I've never been so entertained by a conductor as I was

1:41:10with a conductor's purpose. It's not to entertain the audience. She was entertaining. She entertained the audience. But I'm really curious. At some point, for Thomas, she might have to tell us what he thinks about Kamina Buruna. I really, really, really enjoyed it. Much more than expected. So it was great. Tomorrow we're going to the same theater. We're going to see a performance of Carmen. And again, it's a small stage. It's relatively small orchestra. No orchestra pet. So they minimalize it. They minimalize the whole staging of the opera. And we've seen, we saw Madame Butterfly in Lutcher Vyata on the same stage in the past. And they do a really, really good job. And it's really fun. And again, it's a small auditorium. So sound quality is great. It's loud. I like music. My music loud. It's really good. It's really good. Anyway, thank you. Have a and I've jotted down the new song to review. And I know I still owe you some reviews.

1:42:16Yehill, thank you for this sticker. Really appreciate it. Okay. Oive it says, thanks a lunch. Had a great time. I did too. It was fun. My wife and I had a good time. If you haven't tried it, I would recommend Conor Steakhouse for dinner. Conor not. They had very tasty food. Excellent. Thanks for the recommendation. I've got more food recommendations for Barcelona than days I'm here. So I'm my list now gets exported to next year. We'll be here again. But there's a whole bunch of places we haven't yet tried that I want to try. Barcelona, foodie heaven. Erika something. Erika something like that. Deer Iran. I'm developing a product for YBS. I think we'll introduce you and greatly improve experience. May I send you mail to schedule a meeting? Yep. Send an email. You're on at youronbookshow.com. Thank you. Roman, which are the

1:43:16best epistemological arguments against religion? Oh, God. I mean, I think the best argument against religion is that religion is arbitrary. I think it's the epistemological argument about the non-cognitive status of the arbitrary which Lannapycock makes. So religion makes arbitrary claims. Claims that are ungrounded in any fact of reality. That is the primary epistemological. The main thing that I think you know, destroys religion, destroys the arguments. Michael, as unpredictable and destructive as Trump is, has he militarily done what to destroy radical Islam than anyone else who would have become president? I don't know. I will see. It all depends on how Iran turns out. Trump has weakened America's standing in the world. He's weakened America's standing in the Middle East. He's emboldened the Saudis and the

1:44:19Pakistanis and the Turks who might be a new Islamist pivot in the Middle East. And he hasn't destroyed Iran yet and an injured animal is sometimes more dangerous than an unhinged one. So we will see what the consequence of this. I think it's way too soon to say anything about what he's done. It could be that a half war is worse than no war at all. Jason, I mean, actually, I take that back. There's no question the half war in Iran is worse than no war at all. I wish now he'd never done this. But it's still, we still could get lucky and something good could happen in Iran, but that will be luck, not Trump. Jason, after the first attack on World Trade Center, should US ban Islamic entry immigration into the United States countries without Muslims don't have Islamic terrorism?

1:45:25No, I don't think so. I think they could have banned, I think they should have banned Islamist immigration and entry into the United States. Anybody affiliated in any way with the Islamist ideology should be banned from entering the United States. I've been saying that for a long time and they could have done that after 1979. They had plenty of opportunities over the decades to ban Islamists from entering the United States and that's what they should have done. But no, I mean, under that, I am who's the elite couldn't have come into the United States. I mean, if you just ban Muslims, poor Muslims, even secular ones, even atheist ones, no, I would be against that. Now, it could mean that if you can't identify Islamists, you can't identify them relative to Muslims, then for a limited period of time while you're

1:46:29fighting in the war until you win, you can ban all Muslims, but you can't ban all Muslims indefinitely that is unbelievably unjust. Harrison, in 1786, Thomas Jefferson asked Bobby Rees states why they were robbing, killing and enslaving American merchants. They told him it was because the Quran said that infidels were the right for free. America's first war in the Middle East happened in 1786 because Islamists had been a problem since long before our country existed. Yes. And in those days, Jefferson sent the Marines and the Marines won a war and they stopped harassing American shipping in the Mediterranean after we won the war. So winning wars makes a difference. We never learned from Jefferson. More stuff we could learn from Jefferson. All right, Nate, how did Iran inspire the 9-11 attacks? It inspired the entire Islamist movement.

1:47:34It is the fountainhead of Islamist ideology. It inspired them and showed them that Sharia law in a country can exist, that the West cowards before them, that it is possible to achieve and to win to achieve Sharia to achieve success and to win against the West. And that it didn't inspire directly the specific attack. It inspired the whole movement that made the attack possible. But Iran should have been attacked not just because 9-11, but because it had killed Americans since 1979 and it would be in the state of war with America since 1979. Frank said, I love the Odyssey. In this war, Iran seems like Troy besieged by Greeks.

1:48:35What kind of Trojan horse can America use to finally put an entry on? It's called the B-2. You don't need a Trojan horse. You just need to crush him. You need to eviscerate the regime. You need to eviscerate the people's support the regime. You need to eviscerate the IRGC and all the soldiers that support the regime and crush the one people. B-2s, that's the Trojan horse. Harrison, Jesuit Charlie Hebdo. Well, you only Jesuit Charlie Hebdo if you're willing to draw cartoons in Muhammad and publish them. Matt says, peace has cost you strength. Victory has defeated you. Bain to Batman in Nolan's The Dark Knight Returns, who is a board allegory for jihadists.

1:49:42I can't remember that. I vaguely remember that line. But yeah, I like that trilogy. I like the Nolan Batman's. I think it's the best superhero movies that were made. Michelle and Kelle, can you say that Trump is a president of the United States that doesn't understand anything about the United States? Yes, I've been saying that for years. He can't be America first because he doesn't know what America is. He doesn't understand America. In any meaningful sense, he has no knowledge of America. How can he be America first when he doesn't know what America is? All right, guys. Yeah, 9-11, not an easy show to do. I will be back next week, maybe Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Not sure exactly what day is not sure exactly. You know, exactly how it's going to work. I'll be in London. But I will try to do some shows from London during next week. No shows Saturday and Sunday, this tomorrow,

1:50:48the day after. And then the week after that, I'll be in Georgia and to BLEASEY. We'll try to do shows from there. The time difference from there is really vast. But we will try. And yes, thanks, guys. Thanks for listening today. Thanks to all the superchairs. You were very generous. I will see you guys from London in a few days. Bye, everybody.