WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.080 It's time to get the John Girardi update on world affairs. 2 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:13.560 I'm imagining I'm some kind of like pontificating newscaster here, 3 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:20.000 like that's my CNN intro or something like that. This 4 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:21.719 is the fun part about having a radio show is 5 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:23.280 you get to pontificate about things you. 6 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:28.719 Have no actual background in. So here we go. 7 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.280 But nonetheless, I think I have thoughts on it. 8 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:34.399 And I think they're somewhat reasonable. 9 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:37.359 I want to talk about Israel and what's going on 10 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:44.600 right now between Israel and Hesbellah, Israel and Hummas, and 11 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:48.719 the posture of the United States, which I've hated from 12 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.479 the start. The posture of the United States. I think 13 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:55.920 President Biden has or whoever is making decisions in the 14 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:02.439 name of President Biden in a way that's almost worse 15 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:06.239 than Ukraine. Has kind of positioned the United States in 16 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:14.239 the worst possible position possible. We are sort of in 17 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:22.400 this murky middle of being maximally involved from the perspective 18 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:32.439 of angering foreign countries, but minimally involved as far as 19 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:34.239 what is happening with our stuff. 20 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:40.239 All right, So, just for context, the United. 21 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:49.280 States is in a state of proxy war with Hamas. 22 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:54.959 It is also sort of by extension, kind of in 23 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.799 a state of proxy war with Hesbola coming out of 24 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:03.920 Lebanon to the north of Israel. So mas is in 25 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:08.360 the Gaza Strip to the southwest. Lebanon is to the 26 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.360 Hesbalah is attacking Israel as a terrorist entity out of 27 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:18.439 the country of Lebanon from the north. The United States 28 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:24.479 has declared proxy war. I say declared proxy war because 29 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:29.879 Congress voted and the President okayed a whole bunch of military. 30 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:30.520 Aid to go to Israel. 31 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:37.479 They are fighting a war with our money, our stuff. 32 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:45.599 We're giving them billions of dollars of military aid. And 33 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:49.400 I think when you say we have declared a proxy war, 34 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:52.319 it kind of crystallizes things in a way that it 35 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:55.759 doesn't when you just say, well, the United States provided funding, 36 00:02:56.199 --> 00:03:01.240 the United States provided military aid to Israel. No, we 37 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:09.560 declared proxy war, That's what it is. Biden likes to brag, 38 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.240 Harris likes to brag. There, Oh, there's not a single 39 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:15.400 American soldier in a war zone right now, which is 40 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:18.680 really funny. Harris said something like that during the debate. 41 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:22.000 There's not a single American involved in an active war 42 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:27.639 zone right now, and some American soldiers in Iraq had 43 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:32.000 a kind of viral TikTok or YouTube or some kind 44 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.680 of video saying, then, what the boop are we doing 45 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:36.759 out here. 46 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.479 Where the they're watching the it's a bunch of soldiers 47 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:45.080 in Iraq or somewhere watching the debate hearing Kamala Harris 48 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:47.599 say there's not a single American soldier in. 49 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:49.120 An active war zone right now. 50 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:52.039 And then the guy holding the phone turns to the 51 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:55.159 other guys in the platoon, and the guys was saying. 52 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:59.719 Then, what the boop are we doing out here now? 53 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.080 A declaration of proxy war is what I like to 54 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:11.080 call it when Congress says we're going to send military 55 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:13.840 aid to X, Y and Z, because that's kind of 56 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:20.519 what it is. A proxy war is when somebody else 57 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:25.720 fights a war for you. During the Cold War, there 58 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:30.160 were a lot of proxy wars that were fought in 59 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:35.399 many parts of the world where you had some Soviet 60 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:43.040 backed actor state, actor, militia, terrorist entity whatever fighting against 61 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:51.040 a Western or US backed actor, state, entity, militia, terrorist group, whatever. 62 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.360 And there were various of these proxy wars that were 63 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:59.480 happening all over the world as the East and the 64 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:01.879 West were buying for supremacy over the course of the 65 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:02.600 Cold War. 66 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:05.040 And everyone knew what was going on. 67 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:15.439 I think what's been happening a lot since, Okay, Iraq 68 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:16.720 and Afghanistan happen. 69 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:21.720 They are not hugely successful in a lot of ways. 70 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:24.920 Obviously, Afghanistan has turned out to be a complete flop, 71 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.519 a complete disaster. The United States is there for years 72 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.920 and year, decades sort of with no end in sight, 73 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:36.800 these forever wars, and the American people clearly, by the 74 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:40.079 time that George W. Bush administration was over, the American 75 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:44.519 people at all pretty much collectively agreed that, Wow, these 76 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:48.720 wars were a mistake. This is a disaster to be 77 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:53.720 have the United States directly involved in this stuff. We 78 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:57.319 should never do this again. And so what did the 79 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.120 Neo kan foreign policy blob show. 80 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.759 Too, Well, they shifted to proxy wars. 81 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:07.560 They shifted to having the United States just fund other 82 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:15.040 countries to fight wars, just using our dollars, and then 83 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:20.360 they could pretend like we're not super involved. But here's 84 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:28.800 the thing, other countries aren't dumb. Russia realizes that when 85 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:32.480 we give Ukraine one hundred billion dollars, one hundred and 86 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.759 fifty billion dollars to fight them in their you know, 87 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.480 and by the way, I'm this is not some like 88 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:44.160 pro Russian thing, Unlike some other conservative accounts who were 89 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:47.920 getting a bunch of their funding through various channels, ultimately 90 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.800 from Russian sources. The John Girardi shows not funded by 91 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:54.839 the Russians. Putin's a bad guy. His invasion of Ukraine 92 00:06:54.879 --> 00:07:02.399 was totally unjust, unjustified, unjustifiable evil. It is an unjust 93 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:07.839 evil war in the Ukraine's our right to defend their country. However, 94 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.439 it's a separate question whether it is wise for the 95 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:15.800 United States to engage in it. And I feel like 96 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:20.879 the Foreign policy Blob thinks that just giving Ukraine tens 97 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:24.199 of billions of dollars is this nifty trick where we 98 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:29.839 can incapacitate the army of one of our largest geopolitical foes, 99 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:38.160 but not somehow be afraid that Russia's going to attack 100 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.959 us back or hurt us in some way. When meanwhile, 101 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:45.120 Russia sees how is Ukraine arming themselves with our stuff? 102 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.800 They see that the United States is openly advancing a 103 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:54.000 policy to incapacitate Russia's military by giving Ukraine a bunch 104 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.199 of their stuff. They now hate us. They are now 105 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:02.839 our mortal enemies. There is no chance of peace that 106 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:05.120 there's no chance of anything better than a cold war 107 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.120 now between US and Russia. There's no chance for a 108 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:13.319 thawing of tensions. There's no chance for peaceful coexistence between 109 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:18.720 US and Russia. They now hate US because we funded 110 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:23.680 their opponent to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. 111 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:30.639 Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have died on the 112 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:39.519 receiving end of US artillery, US stuff, So that has geopolitical. 113 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:40.399 Ramifications for the future. 114 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.159 And I feel like members of Congress vote on funding 115 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.240 Ukraine as if it's not that big of a vote. 116 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:52.759 People remember who voted how on, you know, authorizing the 117 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:55.919 use of military force to go into Iraq. People remember 118 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:02.279 how congressman and senators voted for going into Afghanistan. Those 119 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:04.879 are votes that people remember for the rest of their lives. 120 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.440 Everyone remembers, Hey, Hillary Clinton was right there voting for 121 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:09.519 the war in Iraq. Joe Biden was right there voting 122 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.840 for the war in Iraq. Barack Obama distinguished himself. Now 123 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.519 he wasn't in the Senate yet, but he opposed the 124 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:19.720 war in Iraq, and that gave him big time Democrat 125 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:21.799 Bona Fidees when he was running for a president in 126 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:29.559 two thousand and eight. But when we vote to fund people, 127 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.320 so this is what I'm saying, we vote to fund wars, 128 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.159 it doesn't feel like as big of a thing. But 129 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:43.039 the long term policy ramifications the hardening of enmity against 130 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.519 us in various parts of the world because they know 131 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:48.759 this person we're fighting, we're only fighting them because the 132 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:50.879 United States is propping them up. So now we hate 133 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:58.320 the United States, and we wonder so why does why 134 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:00.159 do all these actors in the Middle East hate us? Well, 135 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.279 it's because we are funding Israel. 136 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:03.639 That's why. 137 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:07.919 That's a major reason why for decades and decades and decades, 138 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:11.279 because the United States has militarily funded Israel, all these 139 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:14.840 countries in the Middle East hate our guts. Now you 140 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.720 might say, well, fine, let them hate us, but don't 141 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:21.279 act surprised when they try to engage in terrorist attacks. 142 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:26.720 That is a reality of what it means to give 143 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:32.480 military aid, military funding to another country. You enable them 144 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:39.399 to be your proxy war fighter. Now, with the current 145 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.559 situation in Israel, I didn't think it was a great 146 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:47.759 idea to send them more military funding. 147 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:50.080 My thought is. 148 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:54.240 I don't want the United States to be involved in 149 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:57.200 whatever is going to happen. I don't want the United 150 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.360 States to be responsible for whatever's going to happen. I 151 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:01.879 think this is a horrible conflict. 152 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:02.559 Again. 153 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:06.639 Hamas is totally evil and totally unjustified in what they 154 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:10.360 did to attack Israel on October seventh of last year. 155 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:16.799 Completely utterly evil, horrible. But once we send Israel money, 156 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:25.120 then it's our stuff. Now, what the Biden administration seems 157 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:30.759 to be doing is sort of trying to stop Israel 158 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:34.799 from going too far overboard, but being incapable of doing so. 159 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.879 It seems that the Israelis have basically said, we're not 160 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.080 going to listen to you. We're going to conduct our 161 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.000 military operations the way we want without listening to Joe Biden. 162 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:50.639 And on a certain level, I get that a lot 163 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:55.320 of American a lot of conservatives, are like, yeah, you go, Israel, 164 00:11:55.399 --> 00:12:00.000 do what you need to do. I guess I understand 165 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:04.399 stand that instinct, because the Biden administration seemingly has no 166 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:08.200 clear directives for how it wants It's it's expectations of 167 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:13.240 Israel do seem in various ways irrational. Israel can get 168 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.679 attacked by rockets from Iran, but they're not allowed to respond. 169 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:21.360 Israel gets attacked, they do some sort of responsive attack, 170 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:25.200 and the United State, well, you're just escalating the situation. 171 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.480 And okay, well so they're never allowed to respond. Is 172 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.639 that is that what's going on? They're in this murky 173 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:36.000 middle So I guess I understand the conservative instinct to say, yeah, Israel, 174 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.120 you go, you do what you want. On the other hand, though, 175 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:47.000 there's this reality if you're getting military funding from US, 176 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:52.600 then the president of the United States should be able 177 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:58.240 to dictate the course of things. They should listen to him. Now, 178 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.759 I acknowledge that Joe Biden's inn idiot and his administration 179 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.200 is a bunch of morons, and frankly, I think it's 180 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.879 an open question whether Joe Biden is you know, whether 181 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:12.519 he should even be in office or should instead be 182 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:15.000 removed via the twenty fifth Amendment because he's so seeniw 183 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:19.360 But clearly some kind of political deal was struck to 184 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.759 allow Kamala Harris to run for president, but Joe Biden 185 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:24.320 gets to stay in office, and we have to play 186 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.720 this game to pretend like Joe Biden is still a 187 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:31.759 competent person, still competent enough to be the President of 188 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.440 the United States for the sake of his ego. 189 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:39.159 But I do think. 190 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:43.879 That if we're giving them money, then yes, they should 191 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.440 listen to the American president and do what he says. 192 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:50.440 And I guess I just hate this posture that the 193 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:55.399 United States is gonna fund other countries' wars, and then 194 00:13:55.440 --> 00:14:01.600 those countries aren't even gonna listen to what we tell them, 195 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:04.879 even when it comes to things like these beeper attack 196 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:11.120 infiltrating Hezbola's supply lines so that they got a bunch 197 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.440 of beepers and walkie talkies that the Israeli probably the 198 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:20.000 Mosad had linked up with explosive devices. So you had 199 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:25.000 a bunch of these Hesbela officers and stuff who had 200 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.360 beepers on their hips and wound up blowing their nuts off. 201 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:35.120 So the United States saying hey, that wasn't really a 202 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:38.039 great idea, probably violates some aspects of international law. 203 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.320 Although the United States appealing to international laws. 204 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:46.039 Kind of a little bit laughable in certain respects. Probably 205 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:50.440 according well, international law is kind of a tricky subject. 206 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:53.679 It's valid unless it's not. 207 00:14:54.120 --> 00:15:01.200 Basically anyway, the Israelis detonate all of these walkie talkies 208 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:05.639 and all these beepers, and the United States our foreign policy, 209 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:11.120 our defense, our Secretary of State is basically left to 210 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.039 sort of impotently saying, oh, that seems kind of that 211 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.480 seems kind of excessive, that that seems sort of inflammatory 212 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:25.440 to tensions here. It's like, we're not even involved, We're 213 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:30.000 not even part of this process when again, we are 214 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:33.519 funding Israel's military operations. 215 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:34.919 We are funding it. 216 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:44.480 And I guess I am angered and frustrated at Yes, 217 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.519 I'm a little I am frustrated at the Biden administration 218 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:53.000 sort of taking this bizarre, murky middle posture of not 219 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:56.679 really pursuing peace, giving the Israelis all this military funding 220 00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:59.279 and enabling them to fight a war, but then not 221 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:02.639 really enable them to really win it. Like we're sort 222 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:06.200 of in the worst of both worlds, like either either 223 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:12.320 aggressively get peace or aggressively pursue complete war. Kamala Harris 224 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.200 does this all the time, talking out of both sides 225 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:14.600 of her mouth. 226 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:18.120 But I despise this idea. 227 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:23.120 I feel like it's unacceptable, this idea that Israel is 228 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.279 getting funding from America and then not really listening to 229 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:27.639 what we have to say with what they do with 230 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.240 that funny. I think there's there's a certain aspect of 231 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.679 that that that is unacceptable and which I think the 232 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:38.120 Trump administration would I genuinely think the Trump administration would 233 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:39.159 be handling this whole thing. 234 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:40.279 A lot better. 235 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:46.639 When we return then the very uncomfortable truths that neither 236 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.240 side wants to acknowledge. Next on the John Girardi Show, 237 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:57.840 some uncomfortable truths about Israel's war against Hamas and which 238 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:02.200 will likely extend if Israel continue to pursue military action 239 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:07.920 against Hezbollah, the terrorists from Lebanon in the north, which 240 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.240 again they're only pursuing because hes Balah keeps fire, has 241 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.759 been firing rockets that there is reel ever since October seventh. 242 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:18.119 But there's some uncomfortable truths that certainly Kamala Harris does 243 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:20.839 not want to deal with, and that I think also 244 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:26.200 people on the right don't want to deal with. Kamala 245 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:29.920 Harris is both insisting on a piece on a seas fire, 246 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:37.839 insisting on a quote two state solution, which I've never 247 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:40.960 felt like. The two state solution has been more dead 248 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:47.759 than since October seventh. Since October seventh, when again Hamas 249 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.799 the governing entity for which is both a terrorist organization 250 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:56.599 and the governing entity for the Gaza Strip initiated a 251 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.240 massive terrorist attack to kill a thousand Israelis with whom 252 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:04.000 are you going to negotiate a two state solution with 253 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:08.599 Hamas terrorists who actively want all of the Israelis dead, 254 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:12.000 who want, you know, from the river to the sea, 255 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:14.960 Palestine to be free, and that that's like their sworn oath. 256 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:18.000 I don't know if it's an oath, but anyway, that 257 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:19.400 that's their thing. 258 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:23.920 And which, by the way, most of the Palestinians in 259 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:25.599 the West Bank, it's not like the Palestinians in the 260 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:29.119 West Bank are these moderate enlightened folks. They all thought 261 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:31.960 most of the Palestinians in the West Bank thought October 262 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:37.680 seventh was pretty cool. So I'm not exactly sure with 263 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:43.200 whom Israel can agree to a two state solution that 264 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.880 when one side doesn't really want a to if one 265 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.039 of the two sides does not want a two state solution, 266 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:51.720 it's not going to happen. If if the Palestinians don't 267 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:56.440 want a two state solution, if they just want a 268 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.440 one state solution, and that state being Palestinian control and 269 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:03.559 not the Israelis in control, then it's not gonna happen. 270 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:11.200 So Harris keeps sort of saying out of one side 271 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:14.880 of her mouth that Hamas needs to be destroyed because 272 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:17.480 Hamas is evil terrorists, but that Israel really needs to 273 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:23.559 restrain itself. Well, if you want Hamas completely destroyed, then 274 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.839 Israel can't be restraining itself, and your prospects for a 275 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:29.680 two state solution are going out the window. 276 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:31.480 If Hamas is destroyed, Let's remember it. 277 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:36.400 Israel withdrew all of its Israelis, all of its settlers, 278 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:39.839 everything out of the Gaza Strip. In two thousand and six, 279 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:43.640 they gave up control of the Gaza Strip and said, 280 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:47.279 all right, Palestinians can control it. The Palestinians immediately had 281 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.240 an election in two thousand and six where they elected 282 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:58.319 Hamas a terrorist organization. The guys from Hamas kicked out 283 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:03.240 militarily the other political party, and they completely now control 284 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:06.759 and dominate the Gaza Strip. So they're the Now. They 285 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:09.599 proceeded not to have another election for the next Here 286 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:10.680 we are eighteen years later. 287 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:16.880 But that's that's the situation. I don't know whom. 288 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:19.599 There's nobody else to negotiate a two state solution with 289 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:28.680 at least with regards to the Gaza strip. So Kamala 290 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:31.599 Harris has some uncomfortable truths she refuses to grapple with. 291 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:33.559 She's talking out of two sides of her mouth about 292 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:36.759 that Israel needs to have a ceasefire, but we need 293 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:40.680 to hold Hamas accountable. Those two things are irreconcilable. Israel 294 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:45.839 can't stop fighting and still hold Hamas accountable. Hamasa needs 295 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:48.160 to be eliminated and Israel needs to pursue a ceasefire. 296 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:49.799 The two things are irreconcilable. 297 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.240 Now, on the other side, I think conservatives in America 298 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:58.079 who are the pro Israeli side, needs to acknowledge some 299 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:05.240 stuff basically, and a lot of this is Hamas's fault 300 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:11.240 in a sense, because Hamas are bunch of evil, horrible 301 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:17.920 monsters who have a whole different conception of civilian versus 302 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:23.400 military and civilian casualties versus military casualties than we do 303 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:29.599 coming from our Western formed consciences. Our Western mindset when 304 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:32.880 it comes to war is that there's a distinction between 305 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:39.880 civilian and military casualties, that military casualties are acceptable during 306 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:44.200 the exercise of a just war, civilian casualties are not, 307 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:47.400 and that Civilian casualties have to be mitigated as much 308 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:51.079 as as possible. Civilian collateral damage has to be mitigated 309 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:55.519 as much as humanly possible. The principle of double effect 310 00:21:55.599 --> 00:22:04.359 has to always be respected. But Hamas doesn't care about that. Seemingly, 311 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:06.920 Hesbulah in the North does not care about that. They 312 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:09.920 think that they don't make a big distinction between civilian 313 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:16.119 and military casualties. They actually are on purpose putting their 314 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:20.279 civilians at risk because they know they can win an 315 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:23.680 national p or victory if more of their civilians die, 316 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:27.519 so they can say what how evil Israel is and 317 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:35.119 can thereby starve Israel of international support. They think of 318 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:40.640 civilian deaths as something that is advancing their goals, and 319 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:43.359 it's all sort of part of this sort of twisted 320 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:51.960 Islamic Shria ideology. So they don't respect the traditional Western 321 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:57.079 distinctions between military and civilian. In fact, they understand it, 322 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:01.559 and they manipulate it by deliberately their civilians in harm's 323 00:23:01.559 --> 00:23:02.599 way as human shields. 324 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:10.680 I think conservatives don't want to acknowledge that maybe there's 325 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:16.880 no way to actually eliminate Hamas. Will you hear conservatives 326 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:20.640 say Israel needs to fight until HAMAS is completely destroyed. 327 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:24.200 And there's a part of me that thinks that's like saying, 328 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:29.799 you know, imagine if, like if someone said, we're not 329 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:33.400 going to rest until Republicans are completely destroyed, how would 330 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:34.680 you propose to do that? 331 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:38.880 To eliminate Republicans? You can kill Donald Trump, and you 332 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:40.440 can eliminate the. 333 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:42.079 Lock up in jail. Let's say, lock up in jail. 334 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:44.519 You could lock up in jail Donald Trump and Mitch 335 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.440 McConnell and Mike Johnson and every Republican elected official. You 336 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:52.480 haven't eliminated Republicans, though. I think it's the same way. 337 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:56.160 It's not like HAMAS has like a very strict roster 338 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:58.799 of membership. These are all the HAMAS fighters and nobody 339 00:23:58.839 --> 00:24:01.559 else is really involved. It doesn't really work like that. 340 00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:07.160 Unless you're gonna say we're gonna have massive, massive casualties, 341 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:10.160 you're not really gonna eliminate HAMAS. 342 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:14.240 I don't know how you realistically do that anyway. 343 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:16.119 I don't think conservatives want to grapple with this. When 344 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:20.880 we return Robert F. Kennedy's Affair and some Thoughts about 345 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:22.720 Life and Affairs next on The John Girardi Show. 346 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:28.240 So we were reading the lurid details of it. 347 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:30.480 Seems like the details are always lurid when it comes 348 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:36.119 to Kennedy's Robert F. Kennedy is now embroiled in a 349 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:40.839 bit of a scandal. There's a political reporter named Olivia 350 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:48.559 Nutzi who was getting a little creasy, and Kennedy and 351 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:55.200 her engaged in some kind of weird sexting affair, and 352 00:24:55.319 --> 00:25:01.599 Kennedy sort of has leaked or given to reporters sort 353 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:03.240 of his side of the story, and there were some 354 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:05.880 reporters reporting on it that basically, oh, you know, Kennedy 355 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.359 kept trying to block her, and then she would reach 356 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.000 out and other means, say hey, can you unblock me? 357 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:13.559 I have something actually really important to tell you. And 358 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:18.119 then she kept sending him Lewde pictures of herself that 359 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:21.680 were more and more pornographic until then, and Kennedy found 360 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:25.920 it difficult to resist, just like, all right, come on, 361 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:31.599 oh oh this temptress. I find it oh too difficult 362 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:35.240 to resist. Okay, Yeah, as if, as if poor John 363 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:41.319 Kennedy was ensnared by her magic wiles, like you know, 364 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:44.759 like Odysseus being caught on the island with the nymph 365 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:48.079 and her magic binding him to the island, and there 366 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:51.119 was nothing he could do, nothing that poor John Kennedy 367 00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:54.440 could pause, that poor Robert Kennedy could do other than 368 00:25:55.200 --> 00:26:01.720 start sexting her back. Okay, married man Robert Kennedy. And 369 00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:04.200 the whole thing got me thinking about marriage and my 370 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:09.440 own marriage, and the kinds of things that people do 371 00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:14.440 and rationalize. And first I think, I want to it 372 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:16.799 makes me want to talk about marriage. I mean thinking 373 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:20.759 about this a lot. Holly and I have been kind 374 00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:24.359 of a mentor couple for a couple in our parish 375 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:29.319 who are getting married, two young people in their twenties 376 00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:33.200 just getting started out. And I've talked with other young people, 377 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:37.079 other folks in their twenties who think about getting married, 378 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:45.440 dating seriously, decide to break up in some respects, and 379 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:49.880 a couple of thoughts I want to talk about with marriage. 380 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:56.640 One of the things I dislike around kind of the 381 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:03.240 conventional wisdom with marriage is people saying marriage is hard, 382 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:07.119 marriage is so difficult, it's so much work, you gotta 383 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:10.599 put so much work in it, and you gotta really Oh, 384 00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:13.759 marriage is such a burden, guys, And marriage is very tough. 385 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:17.240 But then that there's some you know, good at the 386 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:19.920 end of the rainbow, and this. 387 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:27.160 Is a very common refrain that you hear, And. 388 00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:29.319 There's part of me that's kind of like, don't I 389 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:33.720 don't know that that's true, or it isn't it hasn't 390 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.279 been true for me, or maybe it is true, but 391 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:40.680 maybe in a somewhat different way. 392 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:46.119 Is marriage difficult. 393 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:53.279 I'm not denying that many marriages are, and that people 394 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:58.920 have to overcome their flaws. You know, any marriage involves 395 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:06.960 the mole of two unlikes together. Okay, No two people 396 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:10.079 are perfectly fitting puzzle pieces as far as personality. 397 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:11.839 Not talking about physical stuff. 398 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:20.440 I'm just talking about personality, attitude, expectations, temperaments. You know 399 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:26.640 that this side of heaven, there's basically it's hard to 400 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:31.160 find two people perfectly SYMPATICA. Everyone's going to have some friction, 401 00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:37.759