Speaker 1: Your talk, your morning news on the way to work
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 2: Day in fault check in throughout the day fifty.
Speaker 1: Five k r C D talkstation coming up on eight
Speaker 1: oh six here at fifty five kr S E talk station,
Speaker 1: Bright Time. I was fishing everyone a very happy Tuesday.
Speaker 1: And thanks again to Dan Carroll for covering for me yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh it is a pleasure having him cover and I
Speaker 1: know it is a wonderful job and understanding he had
Speaker 1: a conversation with Brad Winsterp yesterday, so I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to go back and check out that podcast. You can
Speaker 1: find that at fifty five KRC dot com. Also my
Speaker 1: conversation with Christopher Smithman Orlandossanza on at the last hour
Speaker 1: at seven oh five on immigration. And right now it
Speaker 1: is time every Tuesday, at this time we get the
Speaker 1: inside scoop from bright Bart. You got a bookmark at
Speaker 1: Breitbart dot com b R E I T B A
Speaker 1: r T dot com. Great reporting there, most notably by
Speaker 1: Joel Pollock, who's return of the program to help us
Speaker 1: unfold the fall of the shar Ali sade in Syria.
Speaker 1: Welcome Joel in a very happy Tuesday. Tell you good
Speaker 1: to heavy back on great with very complicated situation unfolding
Speaker 1: in Syria. It's like the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Speaker 1: What's next? Bscharlisad, obviously an extremely violent and murderous individual,
Speaker 1: has been involved in a civil war in his country
Speaker 1: now for going on thirteen years. It seems like there's
Speaker 1: multiple factions that have been fighting against them, and it
Speaker 1: looks to be like one of those the enemy of
Speaker 1: my enemy is my friend. So while you had everyone
Speaker 1: sort of uniformly going after Basharlasad and fighting him and
Speaker 1: his collectives, backed by Iran and Russia, looks like Iran
Speaker 1: and Russia both kind of pulled the plug on their
Speaker 1: support and that led to the almost immediate fall of Basharlisad.
Speaker 1: He apparently has now fled to Russia, who's giving him
Speaker 1: a sanctuary. But what becomes of Syria now that these
Speaker 1: multiple factions are now seemingly left sort of in charge.
Speaker 1: We've got a while to work this all out, Joel.
Speaker 2: Well, Syria is a disaster. It's going to continue to
Speaker 2: be a disaster, but at least it won't be a
Speaker 2: disaster that helps Iran. And what's been happening over the
Speaker 2: last forty eight hours since the Assad regime fell has
Speaker 2: been a number of things. First of all, you've got
Speaker 2: the rebels trying to consolidate power, and they're going to
Speaker 2: Assad's prisons. They're opening them, emptying them. Political prisoners are
Speaker 2: being released. This is the part that people are celebrating
Speaker 2: because Assad ran these torture prisons. There are Lebanese Christians
Speaker 2: who were imprisoned in Assad's jails for decades after being
Speaker 2: arrested in Lebanon for activism against Syria, because the Syrian
Speaker 2: regime occupied Lebanon for a long time. So there are
Speaker 2: some scenes of rejoicing and so forth. At the same time,
Speaker 2: there are reports of attacks and atrocities and other incidents happening,
Speaker 2: especially in the minority communities in Syria. The Asad regime
Speaker 2: was terrible for everybody, but he posed as a protector
Speaker 2: of Christians and other minorities. He himself was not a Muslim.
Speaker 2: He was from a minority sect called the Alowhites, who
Speaker 2: lived primarily on the coast. So the Syrian regime said
Speaker 2: that it protected minorities. Of course, as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 2: they imprisoned Lebanese Christians and were certainly not kind to
Speaker 2: the Jewish minority in Syria which fled, but there have
Speaker 2: been a lot of concerns about the fate of the Kourds,
Speaker 2: the Christians and the Alohites and so forth. And then
Speaker 2: you've got Israel, which is using the vacuum of power
Speaker 2: in Syria to destroy whatever is left of the Syrian military.
Speaker 2: Israel has been conducting hundreds of air raids every day.
Speaker 2: According to reports, the flight of F fifteen aircraft is
Speaker 2: just constant over Israel, as the Israeli Air Force takes
Speaker 2: off almost as soon as it lands to go bomb
Speaker 2: something else in Syria, avoiding civilians, which is why you're
Speaker 2: not hearing about civilian casualties in Israeli bombing. They're even
Speaker 2: avoiding the rebels. They're not avoiding they're not attacking the
Speaker 2: rebel military. They're not attacking troops, but they are attacking
Speaker 2: equipment and they're attacking chemical weapons production facilities. So what
Speaker 2: they're doing is they're removing any threats that the rebels
Speaker 2: might be able to get these weapons into their hands,
Speaker 2: and they're also removing any air defenses that Syria might
Speaker 2: use to defend Iran from a potential strike on Iran's
Speaker 2: nuclear program. There is a possibility that given that there
Speaker 2: are only about five weeks left, but before President Trump
Speaker 2: takes office five or six weeks that Israel may use
Speaker 2: that period to knock out Iran's nuclear program. Iran is
Speaker 2: now defenseless. They've lost Hesbala, They've lost Syria, They've lost
Speaker 2: Hamas after starting a war with Israel on October seventh
Speaker 2: last year through Hamas. So Israel is now going to
Speaker 2: take the opportunity to make sure that Iran can never
Speaker 2: become a nuclear power. Potentially, but Iran has no air
Speaker 2: defenses and now it has no advanced warning. In Syria,
Speaker 2: the Israeli Air Force dominates the Syrian skies and will
Speaker 2: do so for the foreseeable future. I'll tell you something
Speaker 2: really interesting. Less than three weeks ago, I was in
Speaker 2: Israel and I was standing on the slopes of a
Speaker 2: mountain called Mount Ramon. There are two mountains in northeastern Israel,
Speaker 2: and the goal on heights. One is called Carmon. One
Speaker 2: is called Hard Dove or Mountain Dove. Mountain Dove is
Speaker 2: a flashpoint between Israel and Hesbola had been attacking places
Speaker 2: on Mountain Dove, and in fact, a couple days after
Speaker 2: I was there, there was a drone attack on the
Speaker 2: troops that I had been with. But Mount Caramone is
Speaker 2: an even higher peak. The Israelis have a military base
Speaker 2: on the side of Mount Carmon, and the Syrians for
Speaker 2: over fifty years had a military base on the top
Speaker 2: on the very peak, So the top of Mount Cremone
Speaker 2: was Syrian on. That was under an agreement to end
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventy three war that Syria started with Israel.
Speaker 2: On Sunday, the Israeli special forces took the peak of
Speaker 2: the mountain, and the Israelis now take They now occupy
Speaker 2: the peak of Mount Armon, So the Israelis have that
Speaker 2: peak of the mountain that I was standing on. I
Speaker 2: was just on the on the side near the peak,
Speaker 2: but not at the top. So now they have that mountain,
Speaker 2: which is crucial for Israel's defense against drones and rockets
Speaker 2: and so forth flying in from Lebanon and from other places.
Speaker 2: So I don't think the israel Is going to give
Speaker 2: back that territory.
Speaker 1: No, no, they will. If I had to make a prediction,
Speaker 1: I put it all in on them keeping the entire
Speaker 1: to the goal on heights that is strategically, that's why
Speaker 1: Israel needs it because it looks down over the country
Speaker 1: and it represents an easy opportunity for anybody with rockets
Speaker 1: military base up there to launch an attack on Israel.
Speaker 1: So the strategic significance cannot be understated. But let me
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. I've been kind of puzzling
Speaker 1: over this and just wanted to get your reaction, Joe
Speaker 1: Pollock Head. The Iranians not and I presume on some
Speaker 1: level the Iranians approve the attack coming out of the
Speaker 1: of Gods on Israel. Had that October attack not occurred,
Speaker 1: would this situation be where we are today in Syria? Well,
Speaker 1: did they undermine the day?
Speaker 2: Wouldn't have because the October seventh attack prompted Israel to
Speaker 2: respond by declaring that this would never be able to
Speaker 2: happen again. In order to do that, Israel had to
Speaker 2: take out the threats on its borders. So no one
Speaker 2: would like to say that the October seventh attack was
Speaker 2: a good thing, but it did force the issue. I
Speaker 2: will say this also, it wasn't necessary that things happened
Speaker 2: in precisely the way they did. But had the Biden
Speaker 2: Harrison administration been stronger in its response, had they allowed
Speaker 2: Israel to do what it needed to do. Had they
Speaker 2: also put pressure on Iran instead of sending billions of
Speaker 2: dollars to Iran, then October seventh itself might never have happened.
Speaker 2: So you know how much further fact do you want
Speaker 2: to go? But you know, this wouldn't have happened and
Speaker 2: didn't happen under Donald Trump. Not that aside, again would
Speaker 2: have been good to keep in power either. It's just
Speaker 2: that what happened here was the Uranian regime was able
Speaker 2: to do whatever it wanted to do because the Biden
Speaker 2: Harris administration allowed it to. And the only reason that
Speaker 2: you're seeing has Wella defeated and the Syrian regime collapsing
Speaker 2: is because the ordinary Israeli decided they were never going
Speaker 2: to allow this to happen again. It wasn't like Nishennawu decided.
Speaker 2: In fact, when I was in Israel and October twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, just after the October seventh attack, I talked
Speaker 2: to people who were joining their reserve units going to
Speaker 2: the military after the call up. They were preparing to
Speaker 2: go into Gaza, and the determination of the Israeli people
Speaker 2: to make sure Hamas could never harm them again was
Speaker 2: so strong that if they didn't invade Gaza, and remember
Speaker 2: they hadn't gone in at that point, they didn't in
Speaker 2: vague Gaza. I felt like the army would have turned around,
Speaker 2: gone back to Jerusalem, overthrown Nitsa Yahoo, and then gone
Speaker 2: into Gaza. But yeah, the Israeli people keep in mind
Speaker 2: also who's fighting in these wars. So Israel has a
Speaker 2: very small, regular professional army. It's an army of conscripts.
Speaker 2: Everybody goes. To call it an army of conscripts is
Speaker 2: to belittle the enthusiasm with which Israelis go to the military.
Speaker 2: Aside from religious Israelis and a few others, many Israelis
Speaker 2: are very pleased to go to the military. They're drafted,
Speaker 2: they have to go, but they're very excited to go.
Speaker 2: And people serve in the reserve units until their mid forties.
Speaker 2: So a lot of the fighting right now is being
Speaker 2: done by dads with small children, who have jobs and careers,
Speaker 2: and some of them even live overseas. They may be
Speaker 2: working in the United States and Europe. They get the
Speaker 2: call up, they go home, and they leave their families
Speaker 2: for months at a time. Those are the men and
Speaker 2: sometimes women who have won the war. They are just
Speaker 2: determined never to allow the situation to happen again. So
Speaker 2: the face of the Middle East has really been changed,
Speaker 2: not firecturbery seventh necessarily, but by the sheer determination of
Speaker 2: the Israeli people to survive and to make sure that
Speaker 2: they can never be attacked again.
Speaker 1: Well, and I certainly understand that and is an amazing
Speaker 1: thing to behold. I guess in many respects, I kind
Speaker 1: of think about like the Ukrainians and they've called up
Speaker 1: and got literally every person who's still alive to join
Speaker 1: the army to try to defend the country with obviously
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of success right now. But moving
Speaker 1: back over to Israel and the situation in Syria, I'm
Speaker 1: wondering how much influence we have, the Turkish influence, because
Speaker 1: they have a vested interest in making sure their border
Speaker 1: with Syria is secure, and maybe whatever future administration runs Syria,
Speaker 1: they're going to have some involvement with it. Iranians look
Speaker 1: like they're completely out of it. The Russians looks like
Speaker 1: they're completely out of it. I guess I just wonder,
Speaker 1: you know what future lies in store for Syria because
Speaker 1: these rebel forces, lot of Islamic fundamentalists in there, which
Speaker 1: is not a good thing for Israel and a lot
Speaker 1: of the other countries that are surrounding it.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't know what the future is to Syria.
Speaker 2: The likeliest future is that it remains a disunited, divided place.
Speaker 2: The Turks are going to probably take some kind of
Speaker 2: territory that they want to come to the Kurt. The
Speaker 2: Israelis have moved their military, as I said, onto the
Speaker 2: peak of the mountain and the buffer zone that used
Speaker 2: to exist between Israel and Syria because they need to
Speaker 2: protect themselves against the rebels. And who knows whether this
Speaker 2: Islamist ragtag bunch can administer the country. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you had to make a prediction, you would probably predict
Speaker 2: that it ends up in civil war for quite some time,
Speaker 2: because there are a variety of factions there. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: you know the problem is, I mean this morning's headline
Speaker 2: in political the Biden Harris administration is thinking of changing
Speaker 2: the terrorist designation the group that actually overthrew the regime
Speaker 2: or the rebel group that led the rebellion. You know,
Speaker 2: this is a terrible idea. The same mistake they made
Speaker 2: with the hutis the fact that they want a country
Speaker 2: doesn't make them any less terrorists. You know these people.
Speaker 2: The leader is a guy named al Jabulani, which in
Speaker 2: Hebrew is al Golani. But he wasn't even born in Syria,
Speaker 2: but his parents are Syrian and he traces his roots.
Speaker 2: He says to the Golan, which tells you he's not
Speaker 2: going to stop at Damascus. He wants to take the
Speaker 2: Golan back from Israel, which Israel will never give back
Speaker 2: because it is such an important strategic territory. So the
Speaker 2: rebels clearly are trying to cause trouble. It's going to
Speaker 2: be a mass in Syria for quite some time. And
Speaker 2: you know, it troubles me that the first instinct of
Speaker 2: the US under Democratic Party rule is to throw a
Speaker 2: bunch of money at them and hope it helps them.
Speaker 1: Well, who will be arming this dysfunctional, disparate, ragtag group
Speaker 1: of various factstions. I mean again, I just I sort
Speaker 1: of maybe overstating the case. Iranian pulled, the Iranians pull
Speaker 1: the plug. The Russians pulled the plug. They were You know,
Speaker 1: I'm in large part responsible for a lot of the
Speaker 1: arms and weapons shipping in If the rest of the
Speaker 1: world just just says, hey, you know, you know, we're
Speaker 1: not going to give any weapons of the Syrian rebels,
Speaker 1: and that would just be the end of it, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1: They couldn't launch any major offensive against Israel, or take
Speaker 1: back the goal on Heights, or fight off the Turks,
Speaker 1: as the case may be. They would just be a
Speaker 1: sort of a dysfunctional, impoverished third world country, wouldn't they.
Speaker 2: Well, the Turks are very much involved there. The Turks
Speaker 2: are probably going to make sure that these rebels continue
Speaker 2: to receive arms. Really we need to reevaluate, Yeah, we
Speaker 2: need to reevaluate our relationship with Turkey. They have been
Speaker 2: supportive of Sunni terrorism, particularly against Israel. They have hosted
Speaker 2: the Hamas leaders, they have given rhetorical supports and other
Speaker 2: forms of support to Hamas, and they're also behind the
Speaker 2: Syrian rebels. You know, Yes, Israel destroyed has Bola, leaving
Speaker 2: the Asad regime defenseless. And that's not why Israel did it.
Speaker 2: Israel did it because Hesbola attacked it, right, But but
Speaker 2: it's also the fact that the Syrian rebels got a
Speaker 2: lot of help from the Turks and that Airdwon sees
Speaker 2: himself as a leader of a Sunni Islamist revival, and
Speaker 2: the Turks may be involved in Syria in a very
Speaker 2: deep and nefarious way. So you know, that's why Israel
Speaker 2: is basically taking a buffer zone, even though you know,
Speaker 2: the odd thing is that Israel and Turkey until Airedione,
Speaker 2: were actually good allies. But Airedwan, because he's an Islamist,
Speaker 2: does not want to work and play nicely with Israel,
Speaker 2: so he's basically making advances in Syria. The United States
Speaker 2: has interests there. We have troops there to counter ISIS,
Speaker 2: but there are some ISIS branches that are involved in
Speaker 2: the Syrian rebels, so we're probably going to have to
Speaker 2: maintain some presence there. Trump may say he wants to
Speaker 2: pull them out. That could happen, but then what happens
Speaker 2: to the Kurage, who have been our allies against ISIS.
Speaker 2: So look, it's going to be a mess. The only
Speaker 2: thing I can tell you is that Iran has lost.
Speaker 2: Iran has lost the most important forward buffer and staging
Speaker 2: base that it had for its terrorist operations. The Iranian
Speaker 2: regime is very, very vulnerable. The Iranian people are great
Speaker 2: friends of America, and it would be incredible if the
Speaker 2: regime would somehow disappear and a new pro Western government
Speaker 2: would take over in Iran. Then we'd have a real
Speaker 2: ally there to help counter the threats that might emerge
Speaker 2: from disorganized Syria. But we'll see. For the meantime, Israel
Speaker 2: is destroying whatever military assets the rebels might have hoped
Speaker 2: to get their hands on, and we'll just have to see.
Speaker 2: The Biden administration again, of course, is trying to shovel
Speaker 2: money at them. You know, if humanitarian aid, let's get
Speaker 2: some eight. You know, this is the same mistake they
Speaker 2: made with the UTIs. They took the uties off the
Speaker 2: terroorri lists so they could send Yemen a bunch of money,
Speaker 2: and look what happened. People like you were screaming, you
Speaker 2: can't do this, you can't do this. We've got a
Speaker 2: US Navy base across the Strait from yeah, and you
Speaker 2: know they're gonna and of course they disrupted international shipping
Speaker 2: and continue to do so. So you know, there's no
Speaker 2: sense of reality among the bureaucratsy staff these Democratic party administrations.
Speaker 2: But we'll have to just see.
Speaker 1: Really makes you wonder why ultimately, Joel Paulocke Brightbart dot
Speaker 1: Com book market, Joel, I love having you on the program.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your thoughtful insight and we all have our
Speaker 1: you know, metaphorical popcorn out as we wait to see
Speaker 1: what happens in Syria. We'll talk again real soon and
Speaker 1: keep up the great.
Speaker 2: Work at Breitbart, all right, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Eight twenty two fifty five Kirscity Talk Station.
Speaker 1: Get in touch with Chimneycare Fireplaces though, and don't put
Speaker 1: it off. People lit their fireplace for the first time
Speaker 1: and maybe you found out you had a problem. Mike,
Speaker 1: I know you did these gas fireplace and first time
Speaker 1: you let it, Oh, the house start to get smoky.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Well, phone call a Chimneycare fireplace instead
Speaker 1: of schedule of deployment to get that looked at, because
Speaker 1: it could be very, very very dangerous, which is why
Speaker 1: I always say get a carbon monoxide detector. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: you got to think of your safety. So have one
Speaker 1: of the professionals from Chimneycare Fireplace and Stove inspect your
Speaker 1: chimney thoroughly, whether it's connected to a free standing stove
Speaker 1: or a wood waste peal of stove or just your
Speaker 1: standard run of the mill. And yes, gas fireplaces as
Speaker 1: well needed thorough inspection. They do literally everything tuck pointing,
Speaker 1: cap and damper replacement, UH sweeping of course, and have
Speaker 1: them clean your dryer event when they're out there, or
Speaker 1: just call them for that alone. Chimneycareco. Dot Commerce where
Speaker 1: you'll find them a plus for the better business buer
Speaker 1: have been that way for years and years. Locally interoperated
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty eight five one three, two four eight
Speaker 1: ninety six hundred five one three two four eight ninety
Speaker 1: six hundred fifty five car the talk station