 Welcome to a discussion of radical fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, laissez-faire capitalism, and individual rights. The Yaron Brooks Show starts now. So imagine walking down a street with hundreds of other people and, you know, you're just with your family and your kids and your wife and boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever, hundreds of people around, shops and everything, you know, moseying around, sitting at coffee shops and whatever. And suddenly a car comes speeding down, zigzagging to try to hit as many people as possible. Body's spewing all over the place, blood everywhere, people screaming, screeching, yelling. Well that's what you would have experienced if you were in Barcelona on the main avenue, the main tourist avenue of Barcelona last week when a jihadi, a rented van, drove down the street, killing, I think the latest numbers, 14, but it's still growing because some of the injured are really injured. Wounding over 100, and you know, this was nothing as compared to what they actually planned. It turns out that these Islamists, these jihadis, were building bombs, had hundreds of gas canisters that they were hoping to explode and to kill many, many more people, hundreds, maybe thousands of people. They like, fortunately for us, most terrorists, they were pathetic at what they were trying to do and turned out to be unsuccessful and landed up blowing themselves up in the process. So the night before this van, you know, creamed through the street, the apartment in which these, or the house in which these terrorists were building their bombs blew up, probably because of them as handling of the explosives. So luckily for us, and this is something I've learned firsthand. Especially for us, terrorists, bad guys, but particularly terrorists, particularly jihadis, are just almost always incompetent and stupid and idiots. Indeed, even 9-11 could have been easily stopped if behind CIA had been more alert. That is, it is not the genius of the terrorists that made 9-11 possible, but in some sense as the incompetence of those whose job it is to catch them and to stop them. But in this case, what really stopped them from killing many, many more people was the fact that the house blew up because they mishandled explosives. And then because they were still committed to active terrorism, they figured on taking a low-tech device, a van, and plowing through people and trying to kill as many people. And that was in Barcelona. And then the following morning, as my understanding, or maybe later that night, the same thing was tried in a different town south of Barcelona and where a bunch of the terrorists, five of the terrorists, I think, were killed trying to do the same thing, run through people because they bombed, they'd exploded. One other element that I think is connected and I think will find is connected, although the evidence is still not clear on this or there's no proof of it, is that in Finland, a Moroccan man who was seeking asylum in Finland, by the way, all the assailants in the Spanish attack, in Barcelona attack, were all Moroccan migrants into Spain. Some of them might have been born in Spain, but they were all originally from Morocco. The guy in Finland was from Morocco, which leads me to believe and I think many other believe that there was a connection. You know, they probably all were part of the same, probably all cousins or friends or whatever, and had decided to attack the guy in Finland less sophisticated maybe than the people in Barcelona decided to use a knife, went on a knifing rampage in Western Finland, killed two people, wounded five, just horrible. Just imagine a man running at you with a knife trying to stab you. And this attacker attacked only women. There's a cowardly thing for you. I mean, attacked only women and stabbed indeed the two deaths of two women, one young, one old, they don't discriminate by age, but he certainly didn't want to go up against a man, I guess. Women are more offensive in the Western countries because of how they dress and how they behave. God forbid it's better just to kill them. It's just horrible. It's just the horror of it, of just just being in the street and suddenly somebody just lunging at you with a knife or suddenly lunging at you with an automobile. Just just try to place yourself in that context. Because there were some Americans in Barcelona among among the dead, I think at this point to one young child and one one man on his on his honeymoon on his, I guess, one year anniversary, delayed honeymoon. And he was killed when he was separated. He was going to the bathroom. His wife stayed stayed near a souvenir shop and he was killed. She luckily, you know, was pushed into the souvenir shop and survived. Now, you know, all this I have to admit kind of brings me back to to my childhood because as bad as things are today in Europe and in in, you know, to some extent in the US, so though terrorism is not a big threat in the US right now, as bad as things are in Europe, things were much worse in the 1970s. It's just it's an interesting statistic. In the 1970s, there were many, many more terrorist attacks in Europe. Many more people died as a consequence of terrorist attacks in Europe. There were there were a number of different factions committing those terrorist attacks. There was there was the PLO. So the Palestinians secular in those days, secular Palestinians, not in the name of Allah, but in the name of Palestinian nationalism. There was the IRA, the Irish Republican Army that was committed a huge number of bombings and killings in all over in England and in Ireland, but also in other places. And then in Europe, people forget this. But in Europe, there were there was the Biden. If I get this right and I don't have a wooden in front of me, so this is out of memory, but in mine half, I think was the group. And many, many other the Red Brigade and many, many other Marxist groups that were basically slaughtering people all over Europe, you know, bombings, attacks, kidnapings in Germany and France. Italy was a big, big location for this. And if you look at just sure numbers, numbers of terrorist attacks and numbers of casualties, far greater, far greater than anything we experienced today, even in Western Europe, as a consequence. So, you know, just just horrific. The 1970s, in many, many, many respects, we could go on a horrific times, really, really dark times for the West and for the United States. And it looked like the world was really going to end. And, you know, Marxism was on the rise. These Marxist organizations got support politically. They were Communist parties, like in Italy, who almost won elections. And it was everywhere. So one, I think it's important for us to put in perspective what's going on today with what was going on back then. And back then, by the way, these terrorist organizations were gaining government support. They got government support from the Soviet Union. So they're all the leftist terrorists. And for those who think that leftists are not terrorists or have not been terrorists, the 1970s are proof to the extent to which they are. Never mind the Antifa and other terrorists left as terrorists that exist today in the United States. But but those are, you know, real, in quotes, terrorist organizations, the sense that we're really bombing and killing and kidnapping and really, you know, causing havoc in much of Western Europe. And it's important to put in perspective that this was much worse back then. It was state funded. The Soviet Union was funding it all. By the way, the Soviet Union was also funding the IRA. And it wasn't just the Soviet Union. Turns out that Muslim countries like Libya's Gaddafi was funding the IRA. And indeed, there were training camps in Libya and in other Arab countries where both the PLO and the IRA were training together. And some of these Marxist groups are all training together. The PLO, by the way, was a leftist terrorist organization. It was secular with clearly Marxist agenda. And the more radical among the Palestinians who are more violent even than the PLO were even more Marxist and more leftist. In those days, the primary source of terrorist activities in the Western world, at least, was was not Islam. It was a Marxism. It was leftist ideology. All right, we're going to take a short break here when we get back. Tell you a little bit about my personal experiences with terrorism. I grew up really in an environment where terrorism was all around. So I want to tell you a little bit about that. A little bit about how to put this in perspective. Then I want to talk about how we beat terrorists and how how we can defeat terrorism. All right, you're listening to Iran Brookshow on the Blaze Radio Network. We will be back after this break. Listen to the Iran Brookshow on the Blaze Radio Network. All right, so we're talking terrorism today and we're talking about what happened in Spain last week, obviously, put it a little bit in perspective in terms of where we've been in the history of terrorism. Terrorism, of course, goes back in the West in the Western world way back to the 19th century even. You know, I want to talk a little bit about what it was like growing up in Israel surrounded by terrorism as well. But then I want to talk about I really want to get into why we tolerate at least this round of terrorism, which I think is solvable and addressable. And I think in potentiality, much more dangerous, much more dangerous than previous rounds of terrorism because primarily of our weakness, what should be done, how it could be done, how we win, what it would take to win and why, why we're not doing any of it. I don't think there's any doubt that people know how to win this war, how to reduce terrorism. Maybe you can't eliminate it completely, but you certainly can reduce it. And yet we're not doing what's necessary. So, you know, we'll talk about that. Also put it in perspective in terms of pre-911, post-911 and what's happened. You definitely seen an increase in terrorism since 2011, since for the last five years. So, but again, relative to the 1970s, if you particularly if you take out 911, if you take out just the sheer number of casualties in 911, you can see a dramatic down path in terms of in terms of the the number of terrorists. Now, if you want to get in on a conversation, you can call in 888-900-3393-888-900-3393. Look, I go up, I go up in Israel. Many of you know this. Some of you don't probably. I was born in the early 1960s in Israel and spent 60s, 70s and 80s in Israel. And particularly, I'd say in the 70s, this was a period of intense terrorist activity in Israel constantly, not as bad as what it was in the early 2000s, but certainly horrific, you know, where there was, you know, so I remember. I remember, first of all, as a kid, growing up, you were taught, told things like don't pick up pens or anything from the street, from because the terrorists would put little explosives in them and you would pick them up and they would blow your hand off and things like that. So you just avoided that when you were riding your bicycle. You didn't ride over obstacles like I don't know if there was a cardboard on the on the pavement or stuff like that. You didn't ride over it because you didn't know what was under it. It could be an explosive and it could be something that was dangerous. So you just avoided doing that. So little things like that. And yet, you know, we kind of grew up. It didn't prevent us from riding our bicycles. It didn't prevent us from living. It didn't prevent us from playing. Indeed, I spend more time outside than than my kids probably certainly did. And the most kids do today, we weren't we weren't afraid, in a sense. It was kind of unfortunately, unfortunately, it was part of the world we lived with. We just lived with it. I remember, 1972, sitting by the radio, listening as the commentators describe what was happening during the Munich Olympics when Palestinian terrorists took the hostages, the Israeli athletes and ultimately butchered them all. I remember sitting by the radio listening. In those days, television was very limited. We had one channel in Israel and it was only in the evenings and he didn't he didn't have 24 hours on use. So you you listen to radio sitting by the radio listening to reports of kids about my age, having been taken hostage by Palestinians and later on killed, slaughtered by them in northern Israel while hiking. The outcome of that was when we went hiking, we took weapons with us. Now, the weapons we took would have not been. I don't think we would have been able to face up to any any Palestinian terrorists. We were 16, 17 year olds with old, you know, rifles. But hey, it didn't stop us from hiking. It didn't stop us from living. It didn't stop us from going out and doing stuff. But it made us very aware. It made us very aware of the risks. It made us very aware of the value of human life. It made us very aware that life was precious. And we grew up fast. We grew up fast. You had no choice but because it was everywhere. You were constantly under threat. I used to go hiking in places that were, you know, terrorist had been. You didn't stop doing that. You you just you you lived with it. And you counted on, unfortunately, counting on your your political leaders to protect you, you counted on the police and the military and everybody else to do what was necessary to defend you. And I'd say in those days, as well, was a lot tougher in terrorism than it is today and did a better job. I don't know if you guys remember all the Israeli raids on different places and assassinating terrorists all over the world, killing them, invading Lebanon in order to rid Lebanon of Palestinian terrorists. Unfortunately, you know, screw that up later on. But initially crushed them, destroyed them, killed many of them and brought about, you know, relatively safety to its citizens. And, you know, but since then, Israel has been weakened dramatically. Israel doesn't do what is necessary to defend its own citizens anymore. And certainly the US doesn't do what it's necessary in European countries. Don't have a clue. But why is that, you know, why is it that we can't defend ourselves? We're going to take another break in a couple of minutes and talk about that. But but think about it, look, we've got we've got terrorism in Europe and the US. Terrorism certainly in Europe is is going up, not dramatically, but it's going up the number of casualties is going up. It has been since 2011. And I would argue why 2011? 2011 is when Syria and then Iraq descended into complete anarchy. 2011 is is when, you know, is a country of the exact date. But that around the time that Libya as well, because of stupid interventions and because of no strategy and because of going in and disrupting places and and and kind of leaving without clearly winning. We basically created these places in Libya, in Syria, one minute. And certainly in Iraq, where terrorists were allowed to train, you know, to people from all over the world went there to train to be terrorists. And we just let it happen. We had no strategy around it. We had no and this is under Obama. All these places were allowed to become havens of terrorist activity. We saw the rise of ISIS as a consequence of all of that going back. And this is this. I don't just blame Obama for this is Bush. You know, no strategy, no, no focus on how to win. No focus on what it would take to actually establish 20 peace. So, you know, that's how we got here. We'll talk more about that and we'll talk more about what Bush and Obama did after this break and what we should do and why we're not doing it. You're listening to your own book show on the blaze radio network. You're on broke about the horrific events in Barcelona and in Finland and, you know, continuing these events that started the kind of terrorism, this this idea of driving cars and killing people has been around for a few years now. I think it started with Palestinians in Israel and has been has been escalating in in Europe, in France and in England, obviously, and on a bridge in London and now in Barcelona. And, you know, while I think the terrorism, as I said earlier, while the numbers are what they are, the numbers are the terrorism is declined from the 1970s and that the real danger here, in my view, is that if we don't do what's necessary when this enemy is as pathetic as it is, the jihadi enemy of the jihadi enemy that we face today, then what is going to happen? What how are we going to handle when this jihadi enemy has real weapons like like potentially a nuclear bomb? What happens when Iran develops a nuclear bomb? Or when whether North Korea sells one to, you know, Akita or ISIS or somebody? What happens when they get real weapons? How do we how do we deal with that then? Look at what's happening right now in North Korea suggests that once they actually get the nukes, there's very little we're willing or able to do. We can talk about what you can and cannot do with North Korea if you would like. And by the way, you can call in if you have anything on your mind, 888-900-3393. And when they killed 3,000 Americans in 9-11, we did almost nothing. And what we did as a consequence, in my view, has made things much worse, not better. Instead of actually identifying the enemy instead of crushing the actual enemy, we destabilized the region in an unhealthy way in a way that only appeased the enemy in a way that only provided more recruits than me in a way that only provided more training ground to the enemy. And thus we have the disaster that is today. And we'll get to what I would have done after 9-11 in a little while. But clearly what we have done in Afghanistan, what we've done in Iraq, what we did in Libya and what we haven't done with what I consider the real enemies, is partially the reason for why we're seeing these spikes and this increased intensity. And, you know, I think we should be afraid. I mean, again, I think you have to put it in context and you have to remember the context and you have to. And we also should, but we should be afraid because these people are committed to dying and they're committed to killing. They're committed to destroying and they have no fear of using whatever weapon they can find in Barcelona. They were willing to blow stuff up. Luckily, they blew themselves up first. Luckily, they're idiots, incompetent idiots. But one of these days they will be. They'll get lucky and they'll kill a lot of people. And one of these days, if we're not defending ourselves, they'll get even bigger weapons and worse weapons and kill more people. So I'm not suggesting complacency. I'm not suggesting just accepting it. I'm saying, hey, we got to deal with it. We got to crush the enemy. I'll suggest how we do it in a minute. But also put it in perspective. The end of the world is not here in spite of the eclipse tomorrow. The end of the world is not here. And we can overcome this. We will overcome this in spite of our weakness. We will overcome this. It would be much better, much, much better. If we actually overcame it in a way that prevented them, that stopped it now. And I think one way to think about how do you do it, how you can win, is if you think about how the previous bouts of terrorism really were ended or slowed down. With regard to the leftist terrorism, it was really ended when the Soviet Union started opening up under Gorbachev, funding to some extent at least started drying up because they didn't have the money to fund it all. And ultimately, the Bolin Wall came down and the funding disappeared completely. So a big part of my conclusion, I think by the way, this is part of what happened with the IRA and why they were willing to compromise and deal with the British is because they're training and funding and support from Soviet sources or from Libyan sources or from other sources just dried up. And they couldn't raise enough money, I guess, from American rich Irish people to support their terrorist activity. And so they they landed up cutting a deal. But with regard to all these leftist groups, they all collapsed with the wall. They were ready and collapsed because the funding was already gone. So I think the question to ask ourselves is, who funds these terrorists? What would happen if we somehow stopped that funding? And that that's question number one. Question number two is, ideologically, who sustains these terrorists? Because the Soviet Union was the model of communist success. It was an empire. It ruled over the big chunk of the world. It was it was expansionary. It was a model for the success of Stalinism. And that inspired. But in mine half and many of these other, you know, the Red Brigade. I don't know if you remember, there was even a Japanese terror group fighting in the name of Marxism. It was a famous terrorist attack where they were the Japanese who I think it was in Israel, who, you know, brought guns and just just killed people. Right. So if you think about you have to have all these bouts of terrorism, or most of them, unless it's a very localized, like the IRA, or even to some extent, the PLO, though, as I said, the more violent strengths of the PLO were definitely hyper, very much motivated by Marxism. There's usually a driving ideology driven from external force and as a funder who is external. There's almost no cases of large scale terrorism that is not driven by those two factors. Money, money, weapons, training, all of that from an external force, a government of some sort, somewhere. And second, an inspirational ideology that is manifest in some political entity like the Soviet Union. Or so the question I would ask if I were trying to deal with jihadism, if I were trying to deal with Islamic terrorism is those two questions. Where does the money come from? And who provides that inspiration? Who provides the driving ideological force that drives these terrorists? If you can stop the money and if you can crush the inspiration, the ideological inspiration, you can defeat terrorism, you can defeat this force, you can defeat violent Islamism, you can defeat these jihadists and so on. All right, I'm going to talk about where that where that inspiration comes from, where the money comes from and how we defeat this threat after this break, you are listening to your own book show on the blaze radio network is very veteran and radical for capitalism. It's the Iran book show on the blaze radio network. Reform this with Zudi Jasser. Yeah, Karen, the Muslim Brotherhood are very good at revising history, declaring what is and what is not Islamic, what is and what is not permitted, what is and what is not free speech to them because to them ideas have rights. Ideas can be good and bad, but they can be prevented according to care. Reform this on demand. Download episodes at theblaze.com slash radio SoundCloud, iTunes and Google Play music. 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I hope you are too. All right, before I get to my strategy for winning, and I know I'm dragging this out and you're just gonna have to be patient with me today, I wanna make clear that I do not believe the U.S. has any strategy to winning. Nothing. We have been in Afghanistan for almost 16 years and we don't know what we're doing. And I would argue we didn't know what we were doing when we went there. And there hasn't been a day since then that we've known what we're doing. George W. Bush had this theory that if the United States just invaded these countries, beat up some bad guys and told them to become democratic, then that spirit of freedom that is in everybody's hearts, as he told us, that would shine through when they would ultimately bring about these wonderful democratic havens. Didn't happen, surprise, surprise. Same thing in New York. What was the strategy? We took them over, we killed Saddam Hussein and then the Iraqis would rise up in joy and establish a Western-like pro-individual rights democracy in Iraq. No, we should have known that going in. So at least, I'd say this, at least Bush had a strategy, a bad strategy, a stupid strategy, any rational strategy if you understand history. And you have any sense of ideas and what it takes to get to the point civilizationally from a civilization perspective of freedom, of individual rights, of modern Western democracies, which are far better than an alternative although flawed in and of themselves. But he had no clue. But at least he had an idea. He had a strategy. Since then, Obama had no strategy other than to lead from behind, which means disengage, but not really. Leave, but not really. So attack Libya again with no strategy, no idea what we're gonna do afterwards. Nothing and of course not lead the effort against Libya. I think we should have just left Libya alone. Kind of wasn't sure about what to do with Syria. Mostly left it alone, probably a good thing. Iraq left, then went back in with a little bit of not too much, no stride. And then Afghanistan was a complete disaster. Surge, decline, surge, decline. No strategy, anywhere in our so-called war on terror. No identification of the ideology, at least Trump, and Trump has no strategy. I mean, we'll see in the next few days he's gonna announce his new Afghanistan strategy. I will predict it will be not strategic. It will be completely tactical. It will be meaningless. It will lead to nothing. That is my prediction. Everybody says there's a strategy. General Mathis says there's a strategy. But there's no strategy. And there will be no strategy because these people are clueless when it comes to they don't have what it takes to define a proper strategy and then execute on it. So there is no strategy. None of these presidents, none of these generals have had a strategy since 9-11 or before that, since the 80s, since this threat of jihadism rose up really November 4th, 1979 when our embassy in Tehran was taken, which was the initial shot in this war between modern jihadis and in the United States of America and the rest of the West. This is what a strategy has to do and what they won't do, but this is what they have to do. One, identify the enemy. Call it by name. Now, Trump has made strides in that direction. I'll give him credit for that. Completely emotionalistically, never really explains it and nothing he has done suggests that he understands what it means. But he at least is willing to name them. He at least is willing to say, right? It's affiliated with religion. It's affiliated with Islam, right? So he calls them Islamic, whatever, right? So first name them, Islamic totalitarians or jihadis. Start with that. Then ask the question. Where does their funding come from? One minute. Who gives them the money? Second question or third question. Who are the regimes that both best represent this ideology? That people who want to believe in this ideology look up to and say, oh, we want to be like them. They were already successful at this. We can be, we can do it. We can win. What are those regimes? And then go to war with the funders and with the spiritual supporters, the people who make these terrorist organizations possible. That's how you win. That's the only strategy that can work. Now we're going to take a break through the top of the hour when we get back. We're going to put some names to this. We're going to talk about what exactly needs to be done and how it should be done and why we would actually win. Welcome to a discussion of radical fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and how to laser their capitalism and individual rights. The Iran Brook show starts now. All right, so we're talking today about terrorism, the terrorist attack in Barcelona, but the general trend towards of Islamic terrorism on the rise. You know, most Islamic terrorism, if you look at the numbers in terms of casualties and in terms of events, actually happen in Muslim countries. Hundreds, thousands of people die every year in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Nigeria, in a variety of different, I forget, Somalia, you know, a variety of different countries all over the world, primarily Muslim versus Muslim kind of terrorist attacks. And luckily for us, because I think it's luck, I think to some extent, it's the ability of our security forces, particularly our intelligence agencies, but luckily for us, a number of actual terrorist attacks in the United States and in the Western world is relatively small and the number of casualties is relatively low. It's greater than zero, which is more than it should be, but it's relatively small. As I said, terrorism was much more of a problem in the 1970s with regard to number of events and the number of casualties. And it's still pretty rare. It's pretty freaky to be caught up in a terrorist act in anywhere in the Western world. Doesn't mean we should be complacent. Doesn't mean we should just leave it alone. And of course, it's not just terrorism. There is a, these Islamists have a political agenda in addition to a military, if you will, agenda, but it could be stopped. It could be primarily stopped. The terrorism could be stopped. So let's take the questions I left you with last time. What is the ideology we've named it? It's a totalitarian Islam or jihadists or Islamists. It has to have Islam in the name. It has to be related to Islam. Without lumping in all Muslims and the whole of the Islamic religion, because that does not help you when it comes to actually identifying your enemies and crushing them. Second, second, now Islam is a philosophical enemy, but political enemy, you have to identify political entities. Who is ruled by this ideology? Who funds this ideology? Who promotes this ideology? Who inspires this ideology? Really? There are only two countries in the world who do this. Now there are other small ones, but two significant ones that are big players in this space. One is Iran. Iran is the largest fund of terrorism in the world. It is the inspiration politically for most Islamic terrorist ideologies. It's revolution in 1979, the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini in the establishment of a Sharia law-based system, theocracy in Iran, inspired groups from Northern Africa to Indonesia and Malaysia. Inspired people everywhere. When you read the literature, the Islamist literature, what they write about themselves, 1979 plays a huge role because it proved to them that the West could be defeated. It proved to them that they could get rid of their secular dictators and replace them with Sharia-based law. It proved to them that nobody would stop them. And the continuous existence of Iran as a theocracy proves to them every day that this is possible. It's possible to have a Sharia-based government, a theocracy, and for it to be, quote, successful. And they aspire to bring that ideology everywhere. Now, Iran is Shiite, and we're not gonna get into the difference between Shiite and Sunni, look it up. Iran is Shiite, but they have never held back from supporting financially, ideologically, materially, spiritually, Sunni terrorist organizations, whether their support for Hamas, which is primarily Sunni, whether their support for al-Qaeda, which we know they were very supportive of, pre-911 and post-911, and right now, the latest stories I'm reading about Afghanistan is that Iran has become one of the main supporters of the Taliban in Afghanistan because they think that they can get along with the Taliban in the end of the day. They have the same basic ideology, Sharia, and the forcing of Sharia on the population rather than the regular, relatively, and this is very relatively, secular regime in Kabul today. They also prefer the Taliban to ISIS. So they're supportive of the Taliban and fighting ISIS. One of the best things is when they start fighting among each other, but it doesn't happen often enough and we don't support it vigorously enough. So they're supporting the Taliban, even though the Taliban, a Sunni. So the separation of Sunni-Shia, not as important as many might think, at least not in the grand scheme of things and some local levels like in Iraq, it's very important, but in the grand scheme, it doesn't matter. Iran is the inspiration, the funding, it's everything. As long as Iran is ruled as a theocracy, these terrorists will continue. So that's country number one. Country number two is Saudi Arabia. Yeah, a friend, Saudi Arabia. The country, a president just visited. A country in which a president just danced with the sheiks who are on the side funding much of this terrorist activity. Now maybe it's not the top of the war family, maybe it's only the middle of the war family, the war family is huge. Maybe it's just the charities, maybe it's not official government policy, but there's no question whatsoever that Saudi Arabia is funding radical mosques, radical schools, madrasas all over the world in Wahhabi ideology, the ideology of raising weapons and fighting the enemy in the West. Fighting America, fighting. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that the sheik, they who radicalized these young Moroccan men in Spain, and they were all radicalized by a particular sheik it appears, was funded ultimately by the Saudis or by some convoluted routes who was funded by the Saudis. That's, you know, they have no money. And they have a deal with the Wahhabis. You take care of the spiritual, leave us to rule. And now Wahhabis say, okay, we'll take care of the spiritual, we'll export it all over the world. And they do. So funding is everywhere. And of course, here's Saudi Arabia. Funding terrorism, there's no question elements within Saudi intelligence and Saudi war family with World 9-11. We know that from the redacted pages from the House committee meetings again. And yet, they're our best friends. So what does that tell Muslims all over the world? It tells them the West is pathetic. It tells them the West is afraid. It tells them that Saudi Arabia and Iran have control over the West, that the West won't challenge them. That it is, you can stand up to the West and survive and actually thrive and do well. It tells them they shouldn't be afraid of the West because the West is nothing. They are bold and by our weakness. We are a paper tiger. If you don't believe me, we read some of what Osama bin Laden was writing and he was writing about the West's weakness and how he thought if he could have defeated, if he defeated the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, defeating America and the West would be easy because we are so weak. Now it turned out it wasn't so easy. But that's what drove him this belief and it's a belief that comes from our appeasement. It's a belief because we won't name the enemy. It's a belief because we pretend that our enemy is our friend, Saudi Arabia. So what would I do? What would I do to Iran and Saudi Arabia? Well, you'll have to wait until after the break. By the way, if you want to end the conversation, 888-900-3393-888-900-3393. When we come back, I'll tell you what I would do with Iran and Saudi Arabia. I would deal with them and how we could end this terrorist disaster that is plaguing the West. All right, you're listening to Iran Book Show on the Blaze Radio Network. We'll be right back. ["The Iran Book Show"] This is the Iran Book Show. All right, you're listening to Iran Book Show and if you're enjoying the show, I'm gonna be on this week for nine hours. I'm filling in for Mike Apelka on the Blaze Radio Network on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. So Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday on theblaze.com slash radio between nine to 12 Pacific time, 12 to three East Coast time. So I hope you'll join me. I hope you can handle nine hours of the Iran Book Show in one week plus the two hours today. That's 11 hours. That's crazy. All right, so we've identified the enemy. We found its financial source, fountain it. We know where its ideas, the inspiration comes from. They come from two places, Iran and Saudi Arabia. So what do you do? Well, you certainly don't cut deals with them. You certainly don't pretend that they're your friends. You identify them. You declare them as enemies. And in the case of Iran, you either, you either fund an internal revolution to overthrow the theocracy or you go in there and you crush them and you replace the regime there. And you don't pretend to bring them democracy. You know, if there is a pro-freedom real opposition there who will change Iran in fundamental ways, you hand it over to them. And if there isn't, I like to say you give them the infrastructure their philosophy deserves and you leave them alone. I don't believe in sticking around and building democracies and all of that. But as long as the regime, the theocracy in Iran exists, we will continue to have terrorist activities all over the world. And not only that, there's no question in my mind that they are seeking an atomic bomb. They're looking at North Korea and they're saying, look, the United States is crippled by these guys. We need to have what they have. We need to have what they have. And we need a bomb. And they're working on it. They're working on it, hush hush. While inspectors go and they look and they look in the wrong places. And one day, just like with North Korea, we'll wake up and they're testing a bomb. And they will say, whoops, how did that happen? I mean, we had great inspections and we had sanctions and how did that happen? It's gonna happen. And then what do you do? Then replacing the regime becomes impossible, or almost impossible. Now, so that's Iran. If you do that properly to Iran, all you have to do is turn around to Saudi Arabia and say, hey, Saudis, you want that to happen to you? Okay, here's what you have to do to avoid it, royal family of Saudi Arabia. You have to stop funding any advocacy of Wahhabism outside. There's no more funding of mosques, no more funding of madrasas. No money leaves Saudi Arabia in support of anything that looks even remotely like it might radicalize anybody. You just zero dollars out. You want to invest, you want to do this, fine. But you do not, do not fund the radicalization. You don't fund terrorist groups. And if you do, we can get a different royal family. The only reason the Saud family rules Saudi Arabia is because that was the family the British decided on after World War I. They can be replaced. And neither Iran nor the Saudi Arabia has even a fraction of a military capability to touch us. But we're doing the opposite, right? We're selling them weapons, 350 billion worth of weapons. And Obama just keeps, Obama, because there's no difference, right? Trump keeps selling them more and more and more weapons, right? So you got to identify the enemy and destroy them, crush them. Now, once you do that, it will be like that. The fall of the Berlin Wall, not quite. It'll be like the Soviet Union disappearing in terms of funding source and in terms of spiritual inspiration. They will be shown that A, the West will stand for what it believes in, that it will fight, that they have no chance of winning because we have the firepower to eviscerate them. They will be shown that their pathetic leadership has no chance, no chance of standing up against the West. They will dry up financially. Now, will there still be one off terrorist attacks here? And they're sure, but it will be nothing as compared to what is coming unless we do this. Nothing, you have to crush the enemy. You have to humiliate them. You have to make it clear to them unequivocally that they cannot be successful, will never be successful. There is no path towards a caliphate. There is no path toward victory. If they continue on the path that they aren't. I mean, look at ISIS. ISIS had territory. And what are we doing with chipping away at the territory slowly? Why didn't we just crush them? It should have taken a week. Why does Israel tolerate Hamas? Why does Israel tolerate Hezbollah? These organizations need to be crushed, eviscerated. And are they gonna be civilian casualties? Yes, yes, we have to accept that and move on. Because otherwise, we will have civilian casualties. And by the way, they will have them too. Do you know how many people have died in because of terrorist activities in the Muslim world? Hundreds of thousands. No attack the United States launched to actually crush these regimes would actually save lives because fewer lives would be lost even in the Muslim world from terrorism. So it is our own weakness. It is our willingness to identify the enemy and to crush it, destroy it. And I'm not talking about these little cells all over the place. These little cells don't exist without a spiritual guide who is funded by one of these countries without inspiration which they get from ISIS from a caliphate of Saudi Arabia from Iran. They don't exist without that. You have to understand the psychology of a terrorist. Terrorists do what they do because they think they will win because they believe their cause is a winning cause. Because they believe that they are gonna be rewarded because one day there will be a caliphate that dominates the world. Two minutes. Our job, our job is to prove to them that that will never, ever, ever happen. That all the terrorism will lead to is more death and destruction of their own people. And if you do that, terrorism will disappear and you will save more lives by doing it once and for all even in those countries, so-called collateral damage will be smaller if you do it and just get it out of the way rather than puttsing around with no strategy, shooting a few people here, doing it a little bit there and emboldening these people to just grow their terrorism and increase their dominance. What's going on in Iraq and Syria is unbelievable. And we are doing one minute. Nothing. Nothing. Until you go after the Saudis and the Iranians, nothing will change. Nothing will change. And you have to go after them. And that would be probably enough. That would probably be enough. I mean, the Egyptian military can take care of their own problems. The philosophy, the ideology will become less popular just as it was less popular before 9-11, that's popular before 1979. All right, you're listening to our book show and we'll be back to talk about why we're so weak after this break. The Iran Group Show. All right, so we spent the last hour and a half defining the enemy, explaining why we don't have a strategy and giving an alternative. And I'll tell you, when I go on the road and I talk about these things, I often get standing ovations. I mean, people respond positively to the idea of crushing your enemy, of destroying them, of not just pinpricking them, of not just pretending, or not going into countries and beating them in democracy, but actually identifying the enemies, identifying the funders, identifying the inspiration and destroying them. So why doesn't it happen? And somebody in one of the chats said, well, we are bad leaders. No, it's not our leaders. Our leaders are always a reflection of us. Our leaders are a reflection of us. You don't get leaders you don't deserve. Germany in many respects deserved Hitler. We deserve the leaders we get. We vote them. We applaud them. We celebrate them, whether it's Bush, whether it's Obama, whether it's Trump. These are our leaders, because we chose them. So what is it? It's something cultural-wide. It's the fact that our culture is bought into a morality, an ethical code, secularized, both on a religious side and a secular side. A religious code that teaches self-sacrifice, teaches humility. Who are you to stand up for yourself? Who are you to make a decision about who is right and who is wrong, who is evil and who is good? Who are you to fight without any hesitation against what you decide? That's pretty selfish to define an enemy and to crush them. It is this morality of self-sacrifice, of humility, of altruism, a placing the world being of others above self. So we drop food packages as we're dropping bombs in Afghanistan. This is under Bush. We have lawyers with our troops, so God forbid not a single civilian might die. We don't practice war anymore. We practice social services. We go in with whole organizations of the army dedicated to bringing good life to the Iraqis, building them sewer systems and schools, but we can't kill anybody. We can't destroy anybody. We suddenly can't declare. We suddenly can't declare. Our values are superior. Our values is right for human life. Our values is right for successful human life. For anybody of any race, any ethnicity, any geography, any place on the planet, we need to be able to declare that, but that would be very selfish of you, Iran. How do you know it's good for other people? Well, history teaches us that. And reason teaches us that. If you just think, if you just look, if you just study, it's not that hard, but we are so meek, we are so weak, we are so, and I think because we are being so meek and weak, we, some people responded to Donald Trump's, you know, we're gonna crush them, we're gonna do this positively, even though it's completely shallow with no basis and he's not gonna act on any of it, right? But Americans responded against it because for so many decades, we have been taught that to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of the meek of the earth, the meek of the world, for the sake of the suffering in the world, and who are we to assert ourselves? And you saw that George W. Bush appeasing Islam immediately after 9-11. I thought he was weak from day one. He wouldn't name the enemy, he wouldn't call them who they were, and then he starts dropping food packages on them. Operation Iraqi Freedom was the name of the operation, the invasion of Iraq, not Operation Secure America, not Operation Save American Lives, Operation Iraqi Freedom, because we have to do something good for them. They're the standard, we're not the standard, that would be self-interested, they're the standard. Altruism, this idea that other people's well-being is what is important in life, is what animates you in life, and that you have no right to your own life and therefore have no right to stand for your own beliefs, to stand for your own life, to defend yourself properly. That is what is killing this country. We have no self-esteem, we have no courage, we're weak, we're pathetic, and our leaders reflect that. We're humble, humility is supposed to be a virtue. Why? I am proud to be an American. I am proud of the fact that I live in a free country. I am proud that I live in a place that the founding fathers created on the principle of individual liberty, the greatest political principle in human history. I'm not humble about any of that stuff. And if somebody wants to take my life, I'm not humble about my life. I'm gonna defend it, I'm gonna protect it. And many Americans I think respond positively to this, but we're so pounded by, from our preachers and our philosophers and the media, but how we're nothing special. And now even if we are special, we need to bring love and light to the world. And we can't assert ourselves. You can't assert ourselves as an individual, certainly as a country, you can't assert yourself. We must love our enemy. We must turn the other cheek. Again, whether in religious terms or in secular terms. No, it's time we discovered an alternative morality. Keep going back to the steam if you listen to the show. We've got to start respecting our own lives. We gotta start valuing our own lives. We gotta start having a steam for ourselves. We gotta stop being self-interested, not stupidly in a sense of just doing whatever your whims want or your emotions want and just acting out. No rationally pursuing as individuals and therefore because as individuals, as a government, as a state, we have got to start pursuing the interests, our own interests. What is good for ourselves? Now I'm all for America first in foreign policy. If I thought Donald Trump understood what they meant, I would, yeah, that would be huge, but he has no clue and neither do any of the people around him. And I'm not, I'm not gonna tell you why I think Donald Trump has no clue, but the people around him because intellectually, how do you justify America first? You have to understand what America represents. You have to understand why those ideas are superior to the other ideas. You have to be able to identify the ideology of the enemy. And then you have to be willing to act as if you're self-assured, self-esteem holding, rationally self-interested human being and defend yourself properly instead of cowering before your enemies, instead of appeasing them and negotiating them with diplomacy, which fails every single time. And yet we continue to pursue it. And you say, oh, that was Obama. Obama did it with Iran, but look at what's going on with North Korea. Put aside what are the military options? We can discuss those another time. But everybody in the administration continues to talk to all, you know, Trump says this stuff, what's really happening behind the scenes is that there's diplomacy going on, even though it's failed every single time it's been tried with the North Koreans. No self-esteem, no self-assurance, no confidence in oneself, no self-interest, no ideology of self-interest. That's what we need. We need to reject altruism and we need to start embracing the idea that individuals should pursue their own well-being rationally. And therefore it's a collection of individuals which is what the country is. The government's job, the only job of our government is to protect us and to do a damn good job protecting us. That is to go out there and fight on our behalf against what are our true enemies. And we, the people, must demand it, otherwise it will not happen. All right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we'll wrap this up and maybe talk about one or two other things. You're listening to your own book show on the Blaze Radio Network. The Line Threat. It is a strategy to defeat the Muslim threat, the Islamist threat, the terrorist threat. A strategy that crushes the enemy, crushes the funders, the inspirations behind these cells that are in Europe and in the United States. But to do that, because it ain't happening, what we really need in this country is an ideological shift. We need a revolution in this country. Have a revolution that rejects mysticism in all its various forms. Whether it's the mysticism of Islam or other religions, whether it's the mysticism of racism or the mysticism of the proletarian or the mysticism of emotionalism which is so dominant on the left. And in embrace of a principle, our funders understood that our decision should be based not on emotion, not on revelation, but our decision should be based on reason, to everything, bring before reason everything. We must look at the facts. We must examine the evidence, make decisions based on the evidence, based on our knowledge of history and the world around us. Not on wishes, not on whims, not on prayers, but on facts. And then we need a revolution that is about the individual. We need a revolution of individualism. We need a revolution that adopts a new moral code, a new revolutionary moral code that the author Ein Rand wrote about in Atlas Shrugged and in other books. The virtue of selfishness is a book you should all be reading. The virtue of selfishness. A revolution about how we think about our own lives. Our life is not here to be sacrificed. Our life here is not to serve others. The meaning of life is not to give and give and give. We should live to make our life as individuals the best that it could be. We should embrace who we are as human beings. And develop our own capabilities as individual human beings and focus our tension on how to make ourselves the best we can be and develop the self-esteem, the self-confidence that comes with that. And then elect leaders who will protect us because it's the only thing we need from our leaders. The only thing we need from our politicians is protection. And they're not doing a very good job at that. We need police. We need a military, a judiciary. But that's it, protection. And if those leaders have an ounce of the self-esteem we as individuals would gain, then they would crush our enemies without a second thought. They would do whatever was necessary to defend the lives and property of Americans. Whether it's in this war or any other war of the future. But today, altruism has led us to appease, to compromise. It has led us to have no confidence in ourselves to be weak, it has weakened us. Because that's what altruism does. It causes you to question yourself. You'll question your own value. It causes you to feel guilty about pursuing your own happiness when there's so many miserable people about the world. It causes you to feel guilty when you bomb your enemy out of self-defense. But you feel guilty about it because there are people who are suffering there. Altruism is the enemy. And the only solution is reason and egoism. And until we embrace those, we won't have capitalism as an economic system. And we won't have a foreign policy that stands up for ourselves. All right, I've got like two and a half minutes. Two quick things, good, well, what good news, one sad news. The good news is that Bannon is out of the White House. I am very cool with that. I'll talk about that next week. He was an economic nationalist. He was the worst kind of influence on Trump. Now, who knows what influences Trump, but I'm so glad Bannon is out. I was rooting for him to be fired and I'm glad he was fired. Hopefully, Trump could surround himself with Sena, Sena advisors who are less nationalistic and less focused on the evil of trade. Finally, you probably heard in the news that Jerry Lewis died. Now, you know, it should make you smile when you hear the name of Jerry Lewis. I grew up with Jerry Lewis movies when I was a little kid. I used to watch them, I guess in the 70s, they used to watch a lot of his old movies, him and Dean Martin. I thought in those days they were incredibly funny. I have to admit that I went as an adult and I look back at those movies. They seemed incredibly silly and I really disliked them, but I enjoyed them when I was a kid. He caused me to laugh a lot. I think he inspired people like Jim Carrey. I don't think Jim Carrey would be Jim Carrey if not for Jerry Lewis. You can see Jerry Lewis all over. One minute. Jim Carrey's acting. I think he inspired many of the comedians and make us laugh today. You know, again, enjoyed him less as an adult than as a kid, but I have fond memories of sitting in front of the television late at night watching one of his movies rolling around in laughter. And finally, I'll say this about Jerry Lewis, a fact you might not have known. Everywhere Jerry Lewis went, he carried in his briefcase a copy of the Fountainhead. He had the Fountainhead close to him at all times. He was a huge Fountainhead fan. And if you haven't read the Fountainhead out there, go read one of the greatest books ever written. 20. An inspiration, not just to Jerry Lewis, but to thousands, millions of people. All right, this is it for the Iran Book Show for today. Listen in during the week. I'm filling in for Apelka. We're on the Blaze radio network. Talk to you next week.