Glenn Beck: I don't know what the number is, but after all of that, hundreds of thousands of lives, $2 trillion, the best minds in the world trying to do it, it's about to fall apart. Terrorists of the most radical kind -- maybe the most radical we have witnessed since Nazis -- are now poised to overrun the capitol city. All of our effort, all our sacrifices, all of it is gone.
And so, to respond to that, you raise the white flag, both hands up, and demand that we all pull out and go home?
It's falling apart due to failure to capitalize on the straight cut victory that we handed over at the end of 2011. This is a repeat of Vietnam. Back then, the United States military defeated the Vietnamese in the battlefield. They handed a victory over to Washington D.C.
What did Washington D.C. do? They pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory and gave us a loss in the Vietnam War.
Do you honest to God think that those lives that we lost, prior to ISIS, would be thankful if you... and others like you... Throw up their hands and raise the white flag?
That kind of defeatist attitude risks us taking a course of action that would result in their lives being lost in vain.
You simply do not give up. Your opinion about the left being "right", quotation marks used strongly, amounts to you suggesting just that.
Instead of complaining over what happened, how about putting efforts into figuring out better ways to defeat this new enemy? The United States military can easily defeat ISIS. There has to be a will, among the American Electorate and political leadership, to defeat ISIS.
When the majority of the American public agrees with you... when it comes to thinking that the liberals were right... is when we know that the will of the United States to win the fight is over. When that point happens, we will know that it will be a matter time before we're dealing with intensely persistent radical terrorism on American soil.
Again, we fight, regardless of the setbacks on our part, or the momentum on the enemy's part. We don't simply put our hands up and say, "We should not have gone in, the left was 'right.'"
That makes you no different than the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot... All in favor of the war effort in the beginning. But, when the going gets tough, they try to slither back into society.
Glenn Beck: And yet, this is something I think that we can come together with, on the right and the left.
If you would've talked about that embassy by itself, as a stand-alone topic, without spending a lot of time waving the white flag, both sides could come together on the issue on that specific embassy.
However; abdicating the facts, and elevating an ignorant assumption... that liberals advanced about the Iraq war... to the same level as the factual narrative... will not bring either side together.
Do you honest to God believe, that by telling the people, that we have proven wrong over and over again since 2003, that they are "right," and suggesting that those of us with the facts are "wrong," that we would willingly come together with the left?
They are wrong. They were wrong during the Iraq war. They were wrong about the Vietnam War. In fact, they have been wrong since the 19th Century.
Those of us on the right, the conservatives, will not abandon the facts in order to come together with the side of the argument that does not know what it's talking about.
Glenn Beck: And it's this -- I have more of a chance of hacking off my loyal listeners and audience by saying this, but so be it:
You did not do anything remotely close to having a "revelation" that the other side was "right." You took the easy way out. The speech you made was you throwing your hands up in frustration and advocating that we give up.
You did nothing to see this from a strategic standpoint. This is war. The Iraq War was a part of that war. Yet you do not see this from a strategic outlook. Instead, you're pontificating to an audience as if you are sitting in an armchair, on the porch during the summer night, talking about how something should have happened.
We were right for going into Iraq. We did, in fact, argue that pulling out of Iraq, before the Iraqis were truly able to sustain what we trained them, would result in the enemy being able to create itself a new base of operation.
Where is your "revelation" to that fact?
In fact, George Bush warned about it. What he warned, what those of us on the right argued, ended up happening. We advanced an "if then" statement. The "if" was the desire of the left/liberals. The "then" was the consequences the conservatives said would happen if the liberals got what they wanted.
ISIS is that "then" of the "if then" statements we made against the desires that the liberals wanted.
Glenn Beck statements from GlennBeck.com; Enough is enough: bring them home, period., June 17, 2014.
And so, to respond to that, you raise the white flag, both hands up, and demand that we all pull out and go home?
It's falling apart due to failure to capitalize on the straight cut victory that we handed over at the end of 2011. This is a repeat of Vietnam. Back then, the United States military defeated the Vietnamese in the battlefield. They handed a victory over to Washington D.C.
What did Washington D.C. do? They pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory and gave us a loss in the Vietnam War.
Do you honest to God think that those lives that we lost, prior to ISIS, would be thankful if you... and others like you... Throw up their hands and raise the white flag?
That kind of defeatist attitude risks us taking a course of action that would result in their lives being lost in vain.
You simply do not give up. Your opinion about the left being "right", quotation marks used strongly, amounts to you suggesting just that.
Instead of complaining over what happened, how about putting efforts into figuring out better ways to defeat this new enemy? The United States military can easily defeat ISIS. There has to be a will, among the American Electorate and political leadership, to defeat ISIS.
When the majority of the American public agrees with you... when it comes to thinking that the liberals were right... is when we know that the will of the United States to win the fight is over. When that point happens, we will know that it will be a matter time before we're dealing with intensely persistent radical terrorism on American soil.
Again, we fight, regardless of the setbacks on our part, or the momentum on the enemy's part. We don't simply put our hands up and say, "We should not have gone in, the left was 'right.'"
That makes you no different than the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot... All in favor of the war effort in the beginning. But, when the going gets tough, they try to slither back into society.
Glenn Beck: And yet, this is something I think that we can come together with, on the right and the left.
If you would've talked about that embassy by itself, as a stand-alone topic, without spending a lot of time waving the white flag, both sides could come together on the issue on that specific embassy.
However; abdicating the facts, and elevating an ignorant assumption... that liberals advanced about the Iraq war... to the same level as the factual narrative... will not bring either side together.
Do you honest to God believe, that by telling the people, that we have proven wrong over and over again since 2003, that they are "right," and suggesting that those of us with the facts are "wrong," that we would willingly come together with the left?
They are wrong. They were wrong during the Iraq war. They were wrong about the Vietnam War. In fact, they have been wrong since the 19th Century.
Those of us on the right, the conservatives, will not abandon the facts in order to come together with the side of the argument that does not know what it's talking about.
Glenn Beck: And it's this -- I have more of a chance of hacking off my loyal listeners and audience by saying this, but so be it:
You did not do anything remotely close to having a "revelation" that the other side was "right." You took the easy way out. The speech you made was you throwing your hands up in frustration and advocating that we give up.
You did nothing to see this from a strategic standpoint. This is war. The Iraq War was a part of that war. Yet you do not see this from a strategic outlook. Instead, you're pontificating to an audience as if you are sitting in an armchair, on the porch during the summer night, talking about how something should have happened.
We were right for going into Iraq. We did, in fact, argue that pulling out of Iraq, before the Iraqis were truly able to sustain what we trained them, would result in the enemy being able to create itself a new base of operation.
Where is your "revelation" to that fact?
In fact, George Bush warned about it. What he warned, what those of us on the right argued, ended up happening. We advanced an "if then" statement. The "if" was the desire of the left/liberals. The "then" was the consequences the conservatives said would happen if the liberals got what they wanted.
ISIS is that "then" of the "if then" statements we made against the desires that the liberals wanted.
Glenn Beck statements from GlennBeck.com; Enough is enough: bring them home, period., June 17, 2014.
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