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he's trying to get you know, brother to brother. You know what I'm saying, like hook me up with this warranty for like, you know, free, but but Romany's character was like kind of feeling himself and was just like, you're not gonna come up here and tell me what to do, you know what I'm saying what I'm saying, And he's starting to get crazy, and he do what all of us do. You just start naming niggas from the hood to try to be like you you hard.

He was like you rolling the twenties nigked, which is all the ways he's like rolling twenties nig poo poo insane, you know what I'm saying. So we just naming all these dudes, and you know, uh, Kevin Hart kind of like whosthing niked like hey, so, uh, Kevin is trying to play it cool, but he's like you you you you say and all these big words and I don't know what you're saying, so I'm just gonna take this is disrespectful, Nigi, cook me up, you know what I'm saying.

And in so now they all in their face, and then Steve Carrell's character walks over who is the virgin and he's just like trying to figure out because he's now the new floor manager, you know, how to stop this altercation? And they yelling what nil who whoop? Like they're doing. It's it's a scene that like if you're from l A, it's super familiar. But Kevin looks over his shoulder at Kevin's character looks over his shoulder at Steve Grell's character. He was like, is this your boy?

You with him? And then he goes and then Romadi's character goes, yeah, we were here, we wrapped the same smart tech. He was like, you just got yourself clapped. When I come back, I'm clapping both of y'all nicks, click click clicklick both of y'all, right, and then he storms out in the in the funniest Kevin hard way. And then as Steve Carrell is like, what did I do? He go, they don't matter just because you connected you,

your homeboys, your grandmama, your great grandmama, your cousins. Everybody's getting clapped. Oh, y'all, let's talk about how the War on Terror got put together. Hood politics. So I first want to give all respect to and calibrate any conversation from now on whenever we're talking with her politics, whenever we're talking about actual wars, full respect to the men and women of our armed forces who went out there and just did their job. You know, your job wasn't easy.

The ship is difficult, it's complicated. You're you were some of y'all were very conflicted, but you did it. You know, y'all got dad homies out there that you you lost in these fields. I just want you to know I'll respect y'all. I love y'all. Thank you for your service. Damn this ship is hard, you know what I'm saying, So calibrate every conversation with that anytime again. I'm gonna say this every time we talk about this. I'm not

talking about y'all ever unless you think it's deserved. But most of the time, for the most part, I'm talking about the military industrial complex, not soldiers. All right, respect, my Daddy's a vet, let's go. So we just crossed the twenty year anniversary of nine eleven, so many years later, we're finally quote unquote leaving Afghanistan and it's like, well, Asama bin laden it. So I'm saying, you know, which was a whole other war and just we've just been

in this forever war just shooting that whatever moves. Do you ever ask yourself if you if you step back and say, well, Osama was the head of al Qaeda, how we end up fighting the Taliban for so long? How y'all get involved? We was dropping drone strikes and Somalia like it was just like we were just bombing everywhere, and we called it the War on Terror. And what was so interesting about the War on Terror is like you don't have to name a location because the name

is so it's so vague. It's like we're just getting our get back. How did we get to that? Would you ever confuse? I know, I when you know, I was a young land when it happened, and I was like, wait, I thought we were talking to these people. What is we doing in the wreck? What that got to do with? I don't how are you this draw strike? Serious? Like y'all all over the play. So allow me to elaborate

in terms that hood folks will understand. You gotta imagine that a situation where the disrespect, the dishonoring, the the attack, if you will, was so egregious, so crazy and you that it got you so out of pocket that you was like, I don't know where you are and I don't know how any of your homies let you think you could do this. But I'm coming for you and everybody around you, because they should have told you and

then you. It's almost like you let the streets know if anybody I'm I'm, i'm, i'm, I'm gonna speak pretty harshly if anybody works with them, if anybody messing with them, anybody that works with y'all, like y'all now are officially ops. I'm letting the streets know. If you homies were him, you are OP. If you are homies, homies, homies, y'all are ops. Everybody somehow connected to this nigga is an OP. Period. I don't want to hear nothing about it. If we

see you, we dump it. That's just it was like, this is what happens. So if you civilian a cousin of a cousin of a cousin, all of a sudden you are op. You understand him saying to a situation wasn't even there for right? Or you know you folk hood's over all a sudden somebody start coming through here, shooting through your hood, and you like, what the like,

what the hell did we do? I don't understand. And then if you start tracking back as to what happened, if you you're sitting there, and I mean, I mean, the rules are very simple. If we if we're still talking gangsh it, the rule is pretty simple. It's like, well, look man, listen, that ship you had with homeboy, that ain't had nothing to do with us. Yeah that's my dog or whatever, but that ain't had nothing to do with us. But now you've made it have something to

do with us. You didn't brought me in, you didn't dragged us in. We have it to do with this, but now think it. What's upthing? But if you don't want blasting, you were so out of pocket that now you didn't cause yourself to have to spread yourself then across so many different wars. You got ops everywhere. Now and if you got ops everywhere, then there's no you just you just you gotta constantly shoot. You gotta constantly everywhere you go. Everything's a opts. So it's just it's

super out of pocket. But let's let's let's take this a little a little further. If you're not careful, if this, if you heard, hey, that's just out here shooting at everybody, because because the stuff was so egregious, if you don't do your homework, you may find out you're blasting at somebody who actually really ain't get along with the people you was originally mad at. I mean, it's it's not

a hood seeker. You ain't gonna be like a gang banger to know that sixties and eight trades, which are two crip was you have to be a gangbanger to know that they don't get along. I knew they didn't get along. They're not the same. And I know if you're not out here as in Los Angeles, maybe you didn't know that. If you never listened to rap music, you wouldn't you know what I'm saying, like, you wouldn't know.

But if you just are you say, oh Blue, I'm shooting, it's like, well you, I mean, you don't created a bigger problem for yourself. Right, listen, give me another example. The Bay isn't Los Angeles. I'm sure we're both from California, but it's it's not the same E forty and too short that it is not ice cube and Dr Dre like they we're. Los Angeles is not long Beach like these are, which is not confident. These are different places. You know, you can just assume that this network of

a connection all thinks the same. But if you announce a war on terror, you're just shooting at anything that you think looks like the people you're looking for. I mean, I could go on and on. You know, Samoans aren't tonguings and funny story were not so funny story. But I tell you what, where I was originally from the area I'm originally from had a pretty decent Samoan population. Now where I moved to go to high school, they were tonguings. This is and listen, I'm I'm gonna keep

real with you. They look the same to me, ginormous Polynesians that clearly are afraid of nothing and don't feel pain. That's what I mean. That was my perception, right, But let me tell you what. You better not mix them up. Don't you confuse no tongue in for no samoa. That's a This is an offense, and it's not my place to understand why that's so offensive. That's look, that's their culture. It's it's different. They two different people, and you should

respect that. I can just walk in here and be like, oh, willy nilly, like you need to do your homework, then you you creating more problems in your ability to try to fix them. Wan Terrice, what's kind of like this? M So today, I want to get into the weeds as to what happened septem right when we finally declared war.

I'm gonna talk about Senator Barbara Belle Black, the lone black woman that voted against it right good for her history has proven she was on the right side, and sort of how in the hell we went from al Qaeda the Taliban to isis to just just all these different places that if you're not paying attention, you may not understand how in the hell this became so convoluted and how we got away with it. I think that's the most interesting part ahead did we get away with this?

So first, let me back up and say this as a sort of ethnic studies, sociology history, you know, someone who just enjoys culture. Let me put that hat on first. I think it's important to understand that this swath of earth Swanna. That's what I learned from the homies on ethnically ambiguous, which is Southwest Asian, North African. Right. So this area that some would call the Middle East, which is would mean that you're centering Europe. If it's the

Middle East anyway. If you don't center Europe, then it's not the Middle anything. It's just where they are, right anyway, This region is as ethnically and religiously diverse as any other region in the world. When I think about just the country of Cameroon in Africa, like, which is not this region, but the country of Cameroon in Africa. I remember they said, y'all's two h fifty languages spoken in the capital city. So in the or in the country, I mean it's two fift just just in that country

is two or fifty different languages. Well, what's the language of of Cameroon French? Nick, No, like this, the colonizes language. You have to remember this region wasn't always Muslim. There was plenty of tribal practices. There's there are religions that existed way before the prophet Muhammad, and there are villages and people who practice a lot of these, you know, sort of tribal traditions that really ain't got nothing to do with anything that you and I would identify as Arab.

Matter of fact, they don't even speak Arabic. Let me really blow your mind. The Taliban that's pastuned just from a whole other region. They're just that's a whole other tribal ethnicity, their past tune. Like I know, yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure you never thought of that. But unless well, I don't know if you haven't thought of that. But let me remind you they're pastuned. You I'm saying, like, it's a whole it's a whole other ship. You feel me, So if you're not. And look, they don't get long issis,

they never had. They don't even practice the same type Islam like it's there. They're remarkably different, you know, I mean, it's sixes, they trades. I guess all I'm trying to tell you is this place has such a long, deep and rich and diverse history that if you just coming. You just let America tell it, You just let our history books tell it. It's just all these the all these just the same people roam in the same desert.

Like no, these people are very, very diverse. So I think it's important to remember that first, the views for which they see ways forward are just as diverse justice all over the place as ours are. You could, i mean, drop yourself into any place of America and be like, what's the best way to fix America? You ask ten people, gonna get ten different answers the same. It's like, we feel like, because of our lens that you can just paint them as one thing, and it's just not it's

just not true. We just call these groups who are in fact extreme, you know, we'll say that, you know, depend on who you ask, but we just call them all one thing. There's an academic term for that. It's called a pan ethnic term. Like Asian you mean, I mean countries are in Asia, you mean different types of humans are in Asia, African. You have a looked at, looked in the face of a Somali an Ethiopian, and put that person's face next to a Nigerian. They don't

look the same because it's the place is huge. Like I can't stress this enough. You gotta account for the diversity, right, So first let's back up there. This is a very diverse place, and everybody wasn't on board with everything, just like every neigga from South said within gang bang although those may have been our family, but we weren't all involved, right, and every crip gang don't get along just because they

all it's not this you it's not the same. Now back specifically to our situation, all of these different regions have maybe similar, but very different relations with the West and with America. Saudi Arabia is not Iran, which is not Iraq, which is not Pakistan, which is not Afghanistan, which is not Syria. Like it's not which is not Lebanon, which is not Palestine. You know what I'm saying, Which means which is not Hamas, which is not Like it's not the same, you know. So it may seem it,

but that's because nigga, we racist. Let me just keep let's just be real, like it's because we races. We ain't taking our time to understand that this is it's different, Like it's it's they're all different histories, right, So who specifically attacked America in nine eleven was al Qaeda. Well, Sama bin Laden was the head of al Qaeda. That's a very specific and particular group that had a very

particular goal. All right, but now we're leaving Afghanistan and we're dealing with ISIS and the Talibania I SIS wouldn't need outside back then. They was paying attention, but they wouldn't e outside back then. So how did we get here? Well, let's get into the weeds. So nine eleven happens. Oh my god, I don't know who. If you were old enough to remember it, most people know exactly where they

were when they went down. I remember I was getting up for I was uh working at a middle school out in the city called Diamond Bar in greater Los Angeles areas. I think it's one of the last cities in the l A County anyway, pretty affluent area, and I remember I was about to get up for work and my dad you know, runs into the room like I was living with my thoughts at the time, um, and he was like, have you turned on the TV? And I was like, no, no, you guys just woke up.

So I turned on the TV and I think like collectively. I saw the second plane, you know, fly into the twin towers, and obviously I've probably had the same reaction everybody else there where. I was like, yo, is this a movie? Is this a trailer? Like is this real? You know, so that first like this can't be real situation, and then it hits you like, oh my god, this is real. It actually happened, And I remember the eerie feeling of like for the next day or two, like

no planes in the sky. Now, if you live in l a. It's like since anywhere near l A X you hear planes all the time, you know what I'm saying, Like, so you you know, it's such a normal to where it's like it's white noise. So it was super eerie once that sound in sight of planes just not flying in the air was like I was crazy, But yeah, I was glued to the TV like everybody else, you know,

just like going crazy, you know what I'm saying. And the response of President Bush and everybody involved is one that anyone would expect to where it's like, oh, nigga, it's all like the name of your show, like all right, who did this? I'm coming for you, and all your homies. You know, they take one, we take five, like okay, nah homie. You know. And I've heard some military theory of having a unbalanced response to an attacked as a

way to guarantee you don't get attacked again. Now, me as a civilian who was affiliated and just in the city, you know what I'm saying, and then left my old hood to grow up in this like Latino hood where I was with all these like all these vatos that actually kind of resonated with me in the sense that I need to lose my mind. I think we talked about it in the other You Ain't Gonna Do episode where it was like, if it's about to go down, I need to seem so crazy. Yeah, just to make

y'all thing twice. You know what I'm saying, um to consider maybe not to do this. It's a deterrent. So you have to, like if this is the first time you fin a squad, first time you're finna get out, you need to like lose your mind on someone, just like something something wrong with you mentally, you have no regard for your own safety, go wild apes ship on somebody, and it's for the purpose of never having to do

it again. Anybody like y'all been to the pen. You can talk to those who have where it's like, all right, you gotta I have to break someone's face with a plate. You know what I'm saying. We're just fighting. That's fighting is a part of It's a part of it, you know what I'm saying. So like, at least if you break somebody face, it will like buy you a few weeks,

see what I'm saying. The point is this, as a matter of fact, as a funny story, this was like this kind of theory, like I kind of sparked the whole idea of how I think about politics in the sense that I'm like, oh yeah, it kind of is just like what happened in um the bombing of Pearl Harbor. What it like, what did we do in response? Uhhiroshima? Because like you know what I'm saying, like, oh, you

do the atomic bombs. And some would argue maybe the wildness of that atomic bomb bought us sixty years of ain't nobody messing with us until nine eleven. That's just I don't know. That's a theory I've heard before. But I was like, damn, that should make sense, you know, what I'm saying, you gotta go crazy. You gotta let these people know. Look I am not the one, okay, like don't don't, don't bring up, don't bring that heat over here. Not the one. I'm dangerous. I eat your children.

That's Mike Tyson quote. So cool seeing how his evolution and how he's become just this like peaceful like guru of like it's like a delics and healing. I love it, dude, Mike Typson is so great. Shout out Future Roller. So not eleven happens our nation. It just tapped the collective testosterone in the mix of our grief. And and anybody who knows grief understands that, Like listen to dog like, don't make no decisions right now, like you just work

it out, you know, do your thing. And I think Radio Lab like that podcast has a really dope story on the on on this particular thing about Senator barb Really you know what I'm saying, who basically like she went to the memorial and she heard the words of the of one of the clergyman that was that was doing the memorial service, and he basically said, like let us be careful not to become the very thing we abhore.

And this is why she was like, yo, we can't do this because they were voting on the document I'm about to read to you. Yeah ready, okay, So the A U M F A you motherfucker. No, it's the Authorization for Use of Military Force. Is the document we use now to declare war. The last time we took the war up until that point was like World War Two.

So one of the lawyers who had to do this had to like basically take the document from World War two, drop it into a word doc, change up some things to make sure us there because as you should know by now, only Congress has the right to declare war, right, But it's not like you walk in like you know, Michael scott in um, you know, back to Steve Carrell, Michael Scott in uh in the office being like I declare bankruptcy just stands in the middle and it's like, no,

that's not what it means. But yeah, no, it's not like that, Like we have to officially because again, like we understand how dangerous we are and we need to have these safeguards because it's like we finished in our own people out here to do some shooting, right, So we need to have processes to make sure, like we really, is this really the move we want to make. You gotta be careful. You can't just be willy nearly out this mug. So here's where it gets ill. It's like,

I mean, it's a PDF, y'all. It's like, uh, I mean it's but I mean ya could google it, like it's just a regular PDF. And all of Congress had to agree or had to vote on it, and it was like unanimous minus one that we would do this, right. What was Senator barb Relies single objection to this And it was one section, just section two, and it reads in general. No, really, it says in general. I'm not paraphrasing.

He says in general that the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations and organizations or persons he determined planned, authorized, committed, or aided in the terrorist attacks occurred on September eleven two or harbord. Here's where it gets good or harbored such organizations or persons in order to prevent further attacks of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations, or persons.

I'm a hone in on the part that got us from al Qaeda to Taliban or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any further acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations, or persons. What does this mean? This means that we don't got to name nobody. This means we don't have to name a location. This means if we even think you connected, we dump it. This is Kevin Hart leaving the smart

Tech being like it don't fucking matter. I'm clapping everybody. If you with him, I'm clapping. This is also goes back to that theory I just said, which is to prevent any further acts and in the and in the and in the inner city terms, middle school, high school, prison yard, whatever the park held the woods. I think any toughest nails, you know, rust belt, Michigan steel worker, you get this in order to prevent any more aggressions towards me. I'm a wilder funk out like I'm a

while out. You won't see you won't see these hands. I'm gonna leave one of y'all limping like, trust me, you're gonna remember this now according to the records, which I mean you could pull up the audio because it's I mean, it's it's public record. Like so, then Senator Joe Biden, who did vote for this, don't let him say he didn't, he said, And it's because it's in the paperwork. Look, man, it has to do with who was connected to nine eleven. It's not like we're just

gonna go out here shooting everywhere. It has to be who was connected to lem If you was connected to al Qaeda, like directly, then this is what this is about. Like, relax, We're not. It's not we're going to be in a war for another twenty years just shooting all over the place. H Uh, Yes, it is. Why because this thing is so vague, so broad, and so up to the interpreter that it just reminds me of when you're living in a neighborhood that just got green lit. They just shooting

because they think you connected, They think y'all involved. Dog, we dropped bombs in Somalia. We was doing drone strikes all over the damn place everywhere. Why because of this one passage right here by any such nations, organizations, or powers, if you aid it or harbored such organizations or persons nigga, we get to shoot if we think you were part of it, if you help them. But look, you know what's not defined is what do you mean by help? What do you mean by connected? Now? How did you

get to the Taliban? Well, we all know where we shouldn't know now that after nine eleven, that's where the Taliban gave Osama place to hide. He was hiding in Afghanistan. So they're okay, that's a direct connection. Like, oh, you're helping this nigga, All right, it's on right. You ever step back and say why are you helping him? Now? Y'all should do your real homework. As the difference between al Qaida and the Taliban, you should y'all should do

your homework. But I think here's what's interesting. I think it's something to be said about when you have such an aggressor like that that like, even if al Qaida and the Taliban really ain't get along, you've our aggression made them. Let's just say it was some ship that none of us even knew about. That's like just happening over there. We don't know what's going on over there.

And I'm going on record telling you right now because I noticed for a fact, you know that bombing that happened at that airport after you know of a few months ago, after after America left, I was isis isis don't get along with Taliban. You have to picture it like this, like if isis is isis is one hood, Taliban another hood. America was more like the cops where it was just like, well none of us like you. Yeah, we don't get along. But now that you're gone, why

the why the Taliban get to be up? We want to be up. We used to be up, y'all. Y'all when we was up, y'all came in here and destroyed us, just like they're destroying the Taliban. So I'm glad y'all gone. But this is our chance. We need to get our get back. I want to be up. Iis ain't even from Afghanistan. They from Syria and rock like, they're not even from there. That's their cousin's hood. Ices are here saying like they just that's another set. They're not even

from that region. It's like, look, this shit is complicated. You can't just go over there shooting everybody feel different about everything. You just we're just done because we're like look Muslim and it's like they get no like they got they got theological differences just like Christians do. It's like it's not the same, yo. But look this little paragraph right here. That's how we was able to shoot at whatever we thought. And here's what was so crazy

about this war. It was a war against an i idea. And you could say World War two was a war against an idea, right. You could say that World War two was a war against fascism, but we all know that was a I mean, that was Hitler, it was the Nazi regime. It was focused on in Germany, and you know what the alex you know what the access power was. In the same way as like, well, fuck you and your homies. If you're gonna click up, nigga,

then you are enemy too. Now you are out. And in that situation a little different Americas like, look, nigga, who was minding our own business. We was trying our best, not just we was trying our best to stay out of this. But nigga, what's up now? I mean, you're just gonna shoot at us all right now? I'm gonna man of this. We say that was a war of an idea, but that was a little easier. It's a little easier xy wars. We say that was a war of an idea like during the Cold War, you know, uh,

Korean War, Vietnam. Yeah, those those proxicy wards and talked about proxy wars before in this pod that they were more about who gets to be the Boston town, you know what I'm saying. But it was focused at a place like we it's in Vietnam. If you're just shooting at terrorism, who do you shoot at? You hadn't already got the guy? What you're still shooting at? Once you find the guy, ain't it done? No? Because we get to say, and your homies, I'm gonna wipe y'all all out.

And then maybe we had a little change of heart because we realized there's a lot of there's a lot of carnage, and you just shooting randomly at different hood it's thinking they connected. You don't burnt the whole city down, burntday, whole country down. It's like America was like, my bad, I ain't mean to knock down y'all. Hole, sit here. Let me help y'all build this thing up so that

ship don't happen again. Y'all can't keep messing. Don't be messing with these dudes, man, because if you're messing with them, we're coming back. Don't be messing with these foods. You don't know how to build no damn nation. They give y'all a little army like you don't. You don't know what you're doing. Y'all came over here just shooting. Do you feel like it don't don't work? Fam the the

idea of it don't work. But that's all because you know, every last one of our elected officials, except for Ms. Bobbar Lee say now cause you don't get to just shoot at everything, like hold long? Ain't you that? No time out? And he thinks this thing through and you know she's still a congressman. It ain't hurt her, It ain't her her at all. She's still in Congress. Ain't that dope? Black women saved the day again, y'all. This mug was recorded and edited by Me Propaganda right here

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