To Chicago. Bob, Hello and welcome to the E I B Network. Hello, welcome, Thank you. Yes, Um, I was just wondering Russia, if you were president, what would you be doing right now? In Afghanistan? What do you think we should be doing? Do you think we should be doing more anti insurgency or anti terrorism? More or less troops, different troops, that sort of thing. Well, I'm not a commanding officer. I would listen to those who are. It's very simple. We win, they lose. But did you see
the interview at sixty minutes this weekend with the General. Yeah, he said he's only talked to the commander in chief one time in seventy days, right, and he was talking about, you know, being more careful in our bombing and stuff. And I know that's something that's driven you crazy when the Democrats have said that the past, and it is it is a dichotomy when the when the cowards to our enemy bury themselves in homes and neighborhoods with women
and children wearing the burkas. Uh, it is difficult for us to go out and get the guys because the we are we are limited Beard by our compassion for not causing collateral damage until you would just take the gloves off. No, I've listened to what the general say. But the bottom line is, you want what I do in Afghanistan, I'd win and we're here. Obama has spoken up again. It's it's not hard, you know, in a war. The operating philosophy is, you know, well, what's the end game?
When do you get out? After we win? We win, they lose. Here's Obama at the White House after he met with U n Secretary General Anders Folk Rasmus. They give a new secretary General. I think the Secretary General is banking Moon from from one of the Korea's anywhere. Here's Obama. He said this about their by the way he is, he's ignoring Richard Cohen's warning and Howard Feynman's warning, uh, stay off TV. Obama on TV again, saying after well
he you listen. Here's what he said. We talked about obviously the most important NATO mission right now, and that is Afghanistan. And we both agree that it is absolutely critical that we are successful in dismantling, disrupting, destroying the Alqaeda network, and that we are effectively working with the Afghan government by the security necessary for that country. This is not an American battle. This is a NATO mission as well, and we are working actively and diligently to
consult with NATO at every step of the way. He's the NATO general of this uh this uh Ander's fall grass muscles, the NATO general, not the UN Secretary general. Anyway, Obama, I know this is not an American battle. He said that, you heard him. It's not an American battles of NATO mission. Who's NATO? We are we in the Brits or NATO? Well, yeah, the Australians, you know, the people from oz cool. But but we're we're it's not an American battle. Why I thought?
I just think we remembered all during the Iraq War that Afghanistan is where we should have been, as what Obama was saying, where we should have been. We should go out there and capture Bin Laden. Now it's not an American battle, the NATO mission. We gotta do what we can out there to succeed in dismantling, disrupting, just drawing the all kind of net where it's not our it's not our battle. Therefore, what this means is when we lose, it's not his fault. It's Natos. This is
Chris from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Welcome, sir, It's an honor to have you on the program. Hello, thanks taking my call, Rush. I just wanted to call in weighing on Afghanistan and the troop increase issue. You're talking about a country roughly beside of Texas. Now we've had twenty some thousand troops are there. From the majority of the time we were waging an unconventural war against smallpox, totalvan targeting leaders. Well, the talibanis has adapted to our tactics.
They have grown stronger and they have a larger footprint in the country. Now we need more troops over there. The first thing that needs to be done is we need to secure the borders. We have an abundance of fighters continually following in from Pakistan into Afghanistan causing the problems over there. You've been there, I trust I've been there four times, yes, sir, your U S Military you
served there four times, yes, sir. So you know the idea of not giving the commanders what they're requesting over there is uh. It seems to me like it's it's it's politically driven and Uh, if we're going to make a decisive decision decision to go and win this war, then we need to support the commanders. Well, of course it's politically driven because Obama doesn't want to anger his friends lunatic base who are anti military or anti war,
anti victory. He needs them supporting his healthcare agenda and so forth. You understand the concept of the concept of victory is not in fact. Did you hear Obama say today that those are not an American war? There's a NATO war. Did you hear him saying that it is? But who's been taking to lead the entire US funded It is our responsibility. We were over there for one reason,
one reason only two. Uh. Secure that country so that Talibani surgeons cannot set up a stronghold neck country have very range of launch attacks to the rest of the world. Chris here is exactly right. Uh. Stateless nations are exactly the kind of places that the as Obama was, the Taliban and I'll tie to target. That's why they went to Afghanistan in the first place. It was a stateless place. I could take it over that Taliban did. That's why Somalia was attractive to him. I got a note. This
is funny. I got a note from my good friend Andy McCarthy, who is a National Review online. Rush I, I gotta respectfully disagree with you here. I think it's great Obama saying this is not America's war. That's the best chance we have a winning Stop and thinking about this now, Andy, we've had him on the program. Andy was in the prosecutorial team that put the blind Shake omar abdel Raman behind bars. Uh. He has spent his
life studying these people. And Jesus, Rush, I gotta disagree with you with Obama saying it's not America's war, it's the first chance we might have really have here to win it. Since America can't be victorious but NATO can. All these international list is Andy's point, all these international institution at gold points to YEA, let them win. That's great. Bad what America doesn't making a little point