Courage, Conflict, and the Court: America at a Crossroads | Episode 61

'America's Sheriff' David Clarke discusses numerous issues on this episode, starting with Easter Sunday and the 'Transgender Visibility Day'. Clarke is disappointed that church leadership has not spoken out about Easter's Christian relevance among political and social storylines. He says the 'quiet' miss an opportunity to guide the faithful when religion and politics mix. Clarke then discusses Caitlyn Jenner's criticism of President Biden for celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter. Given Jenner's role in popularizing transgender visibility, he questions her stance against Biden's actions. Clarke questions the propriety of certain conservative leaders spearheading critiques, highlighting the complications of advocacy and representation.

Democratic efforts to remove Justice Sonia Sotomayor to avoid a recurrence of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's case are also discussed in the episode. Clarke strongly advises conservatives to emphasize Supreme Court appointments in the next elections.

Clarke concludes by supporting Israel's right to self-defense and Hamas' total dismantlement. He exposes U.S. politicians for their apparent double standards in assessing Israel's military activities, comparing them to civilian-casualty U.S. military occurrences. Clarke maintains that such instances are unpleasant but sometimes inevitable, requiring a balanced and realistic view of military operations.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Invite to the 'Straight Talk Podcast' "Badge of Honor Cruise"
• 1:23 Easter and Transgender Visibility Day
• 5:23 The Caitlyn Jenner Controversy: A Deep Dive into Transgender Visibility and Politics
• 13:11 The Supreme Court Shuffle: Political Maneuvering and the Future of the Judiciary
• 16:17 [Ad] The Ryan Samuels Show
• 17:04 (Cont.) The Supreme Court Shuffle: Political Maneuvering and the Future of the Judiciary
• 22:13 The Israeli-Hamas Conflict: Insights and Opinions from Sheriff Clarke
• 30:05 The Complexity of War and Intelligence Failures
• 30:54 The Risks Aid Workers Face in War Zones
• 37:42 The U.S. Military's Own Troubles with Civilian Casualties
• 52:27 Reflections on War, Mistakes, and Accountability

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of the Straight Talk Podcast. I'm your host, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke. You know, I talked last week on the podcast about, uh, Easter Sunday and some of the stuff going on around Easter. And this, this flap came up about Joe Biden marking Easter Sunday, which happened to fall on March 31st, which was, was another. Day that I never heard of, and I didn't know about, and I bet many of you did not, this Transgender Visibility Day, which I guess is marked every March 31st, so it happened to fall on, coincidentally happened to fall on, uh, Easter Sunday this year, as Easter Sunday moves around. And it was interesting, some of the reaction to it, from outrage, to no big deal, and everywhere in between. Was taken aback by a couple of things that happened out of that. First of all, where was the church leadership? How come they didn't speak out on it? And I don't mean coming out blasting Transgender Visibility Unity Day after such a thing, but just to remind people what Easter Sunday was and is. It's about Christ, Jesus Christ rising from the dead to save all of us from sin. And I would have expected that with all of the hoopla about Transgender Unity Day and a slap in the face and some of these other things that were going on over this. I just thought it was an opportunity for somebody from the College of Cardinals here in the United States, maybe even the Pope, because it was Easter Sunday, to remind people about what Easter Sunday actually is. Even if they wanted to stay away from the politics of it, but I just thought there was an opportunity that they didn't take. Which is You know, becoming all too common with the Catholic Church, the lack of leadership on some of these issues that, yeah, they transcend religion and they bleed into politics, I get it, but I just can't imagine Jesus and his ministry, you know, shying away from things because, you know, it might've bled into some of the politics of the time, and some of it did. And so, you know, when there's silence, the flock, the followers become confused. You know, where's the leadership? They all have platforms, there are several cardinals in the United States, and it just, I don't know, it really rubs me the wrong way when these opportunities arise for church leadership. It happened during the pandemic when churches were deemed non essential and told not to hold Sunday services and the church just laid down, church leadership I should say, I should be clear on that, just laid down and fell in line instead of pushing back and saying, hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That's for us to decide. Church leaders, archbishops, bishops, cardinals, priests. That's for us to decide. We'll decide the best course of action to deal with this pandemic. And they didn't. And I found that discouraging as well. Anyway, another aspect of it. Chaitlin Jenner pops her head up over this flap. And she had the nerve to slam Biden for celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter. And let me explain why I said she has the nerve. Let me read, first of all, from some of this article here. Caitlyn Jenner bashed Joe Biden for issuing a proclamation on the Transgender Day of Visibility when it coincided with Easter this year. The Transgender Celebrity accused the President of conflating the Christian holiday with the long standing day of support for transgender individuals, which Jenner herself denies. I'm absolutely disgusted, this is a quote from her, that Joe Biden has declared the most holy of holy days, a self proclaimed devout Catholic, as transgender day of visibility. The only thing he should be declaring on this day is that he is risen, the Olympic goal of medicine, 74 years old, wrote on Twitter. X, formerly known as Twitter, generous, staunch conservative who came out as a transgender woman in 2015 quickly gained backlash for her commentary online, with many noting that the holiday intended to show support for the transgender community has been held on March 31st every year since 2009. Okay, here's the problem I have with her speaking on, and she can do what she wants. I just said I have a problem with it. I didn't say she shouldn't. But I noticed that Fox News kind of held her up. And this is what happens with the media. Both sides do it. You know, you try to find a, uh, a willing, I don't know, participant. In other words, if it's a race issue and you can find a black conservative speaking out against some racial issue, you put the black conservative up there. The Democrats do it too. If it's a race issue, they'll put a black up there that, you know, can claim racism. voter disenfranchisement, so on and so forth. I mean, who better to slam, right? One of their own. So, the reason why it did have a problem with its own is because, if you recall, Caitlyn Jenner is the face of the transgender movement. She got this whole thing started. She is what you could call, tongue in cheek, the patron saint of the transgender community. I put out a post on X in relation to this, this story here, and I'll just read the post. It says here, Caitlyn, in parentheses, formerly Bruce, Jenner, is the wrong person to speak out against Transgender Visibility Day. Jenner got this, I'm sorry, Jenner got this whole transgender recognition started when she came out. We had it shoved down our throats. She became the face of the movement. She became a transgender sensation. She's pictured all over America on the cover of every woman's magazine. I remember, let me stop there. I remember her. She appeared on Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and all these other women's fashion magazines. All made up to look like a woman. Back to the post here. Anyone who said anything negative about Jenner was labeled as transphobic. Everybody was afraid of that, and went along with accepting it. There was no room. For dissent. You remember that? We had Caitlyn Jenner shoved down our throats. We were gonna like it. We were gonna look at her and call her beautiful and all this other stuff or else. Otherwise, you were scheduled for labeling. You were scheduled for cancellation. You were, you were labeled as transphobic and I had nothing to do it. Well, not from my perspective. I can't speak for everybody else. You know, I'm one of those. Let her do what she wants to do. Let him, at the time, do what he wanted to do. He wanted to become a woman, okay? That's fine. I don't care about that. What I do care about is having some of these fringe behaviors. These fringe lifestyles. And that's what that is. See, when you say things like that and the left finds out, which I don't give a damn anyway, they start to attack you. They start to attack me. I can deal with it. These are fringe lifestyles that at one time were described in the American Medical Association manual as a mental illness. But now we've mainstreamed it. And that's okay for an adult. But I still retain the right to look at it and say, there's just something weird there. Not to attack the person. Not to loudly berate the person in their face. That's not how humans should interact. I get that. But I should be able to, like I am on this podcast, come on, you know, those are fringe behaviors. Those are weird. And if people don't like it too bad, just like if I don't like that Bruce became Caitlyn, too bad. Who cares? But, but to use her, I just thought was in bad taste for, for conservative media to say, hey, look, even Caitlyn Jenner says that, you know, Easter and Biden's proclamation are wrong. Yeah, you know, Biden was sticking a sharp stick in our eye. There's no doubt about that, but other people should have been able to come out. And say what? And some did, don't get me wrong. Nobody from the church though. Leadership. They didn't say anything about it. But anyway, enough of that. Just, I found that peculiar. The person who got the movement mainstreamed. Because before she came out, that, it's not like we didn't know that existed. Transgenders and cross dressers. Remember he started out with cross dressing, that rumor came out before he underwent the sex change or whatever, gender change. We knew it existed, but it was. Fringe behavior. And we ridiculed it. And we should have. Just because they changed the definition, we're all supposed to fall in line. Well, I didn't. And I won't. And not just on that. On these other fringe lifestyles. And you know what I'm talking about. Okay, let's get into some politics here. There's this push by the Democrats to force Justice Sonia Sotomayor off the United States Supreme Court. They're trying to force her to retire because they fear this Ruth Bader Ginsburg repeat. Remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg? They tried for the longest time as she aged. They tried to get her to retire under Obama so that she could be replaced as a liberal justice with another liberal justice. And she hung in there, and she hung on, and ultimately died on the bench, I mean not literally, but while she was still a sitting Supreme Court Justice. She passed away, and that allowed Donald Trump, who got elected, to replace her, and he replaced her with a somewhat conservative, it was the Democrats biggest fear, and according to this article here from NBC News. You know, the Democrats are fearing a 7 2 conservative majority if Biden doesn't win, and she ends up leaving because of health reasons, or unfortunately passes away on the bench. But I want to add another twist to this, and something that's not being talked about, and it should be talked about more, I think, in this presidential debate. election year for people on the right, for conservatives, Republicans. We have some aging conservatives on the bench too. All right, Sam Alito has hinted at ready to retire, Clarence Thomas is getting up there in age, and there might be one more. But anyway, it's currently a 6 3 conservative majority. But if Biden wins reelection, he has the potential to replace three members on the Supreme Court, which would shift this thing from a conservative majority, to a liberal majority 5-4 it's currently 6 3, but you've got to figure if, and I don't think Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito are going to retire if Biden, uh, wins re election, you know, these guys kind of time this thing so that they can be replaced by another ideological, you know, conservative or liberal. They kind of try to time this, but you don't always get to do that because God might have a different plan. If you remember Scalia, tragically and suddenly died. And you remember how Mitch McConnell, fortunately, the Republicans held the Senate, he held off. He said they weren't going to conduct any hearings on a replacement for Alito until after the election. And then, after the election, Trump won and was able to replace Alito with another conservative. But if you remember, Trump made that one of the tenets of his presidential campaign. He put out a list of conservative justices and he said, I will pick somebody from this list to replace Alito. Antonin Scalia. I think, and this is just my opinion, that turned that campaign in favor of Trump tremendously by putting that list out, a bonafide conservative jurist that he'd appoint, and you know, the Federalist Society, I guess, helped him put the list together and vetted the people, so on and so forth. But I think that was one of the key turning points in that election. People realized that the fate of the Supreme Court was hinging on that election in 2016. And conservatives and Republicans got out there and went to the polls and Trump won. Can you imagine? Hillary Clinton would have won. Would have got to replace Scalia and others. And then that was followed by, or you know, preceded by I should say. Or let me put it this way. Obama came before her and I think he got two choices. He's the one that put Sotomayor on the bench. So we might have had a string of Republican presidents that might have wiped out any conservative majority on the Supreme Court. We might be staring down that barrel again, like I said, with Sam Alito, with Clarence Thomas. They'll hang on, but maybe God has a different plan. Maybe their health won't allow them to go on. You know, you don't want them hanging around like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, really too frail and, you know, to be able to do this thing full time anymore, but you can't force them off. And that stung them, the liberals and the Democrats. And I'm not hearing President Trump talk much about the Supreme Court. And I just think he ought to remind people the importance of this 2024 election. That there may be three replacements on the Supreme Court, and he should bring that thing back around and put this list out again. And remind conservatives and republicans, this is why this election's important. I know all these other things, the border, inflation, I get that. I, in my opinion, none's more important than the Supreme Court. Because that court will be making a lot of the decisions about things on the economy, presidential policy on the economy. Remember they, the court shot down Biden's loan forgiveness? Now, you know, he came back around with some new scheme, but they struck it down. Issues on the border, if the border is that important, the Supreme Court in the end will be making a lot of those decisions. If this court flips and Biden through some weird way gets to make three appointments, he will then have made four, Almost half, just under half of the sitting justices on the Supreme Court moving forward. We can't have that happen. So I want you to keep that in mind as well, how important it is for Trump to get re elected and potentially replace not just the two sitting conservatives, but also potentially Sotomayor. And then push this to a 7 2 conservative majority. And the value in that, you can't have, you know, Roberts acting as a swing vote. Which he's done. He did it on Obamacare. You don't have to worry about anybody trying to act as a swing vote. Kavanaugh's made some questionable decisions. As, as, um, Amy Coney Barrett has made some questionable decisions. Not a lot, but a few. But a justice here or there can do that, and if it's a 7 2 majority, it won't matter if one of them leaves the plantation. In terms of a Supreme Court decision. Now we're gonna Getting to the Israeli war with Hamas still rages on. Some new developments I want to talk about. You know my position on this, I support unequivocally. Israel, not just their right to defend themselves, but to stay in this war until the job is done, until the mission is accomplished. And that's the total destruction of Hamas. Total. Hamas is like a cancer. When they go in and get the cancer, they don't leave a little bit of it in there. Sometimes they take healthy tissue out. Just in case some that's not detected now, but it's in that some of that healthy tissue you make sure, so what Biden the UN and other leaders around the world are trying to force Netanyahu to do is leave some of the cancer in there because now they're, they're, you know, you know, they're, they're near victory in Rafa, the last frontier. And they're being told, no, no, no, that's enough ceasefire and all this other nonsense. Anyway, I want to remind you, and I've read from this book before, on the podcast, the book titled On War, from Carl von Clausewitz, there's some aspects of war, he was a war strategist by the way, I'll read a little on him. Carl von Clausewitz was a staff officer who served with great distinction during the Napoleonic campaigns and also a military historian and intellectual of the highest order. At ease with both the strategic doctrines of this time and the larger movements. of thought in the world around him. Here's some other aspects of this, uh, this book here, and I consult this thing a lot when we, you know, when I talk about military action. I wasn't in the military myself, I was not, but that doesn't mean that I shouldn't study it, and I shouldn't read from people who were, who commanded these operations, which I've done, and learned from them. So in chapter one here, it says, what is war? War is nothing other than But a duel on a larger scale. It says here kind hearted people might of course think there was some Ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed It might imagine that it is the true goal of the art of war pleasant as it sounds it is a fallacy that must be Exposed war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst This is how the matter must be seen It would be futile, even wrong, to try to shut one's eyes to what war really is from sheer distress of its brutality. Yes, war is very brutal. Very bloody. To introduce the principle of moderation into the theory of war itself would always lead to logical dissonance. Absurdity. Now, let me read this part here from chapter 7. On war. Carl von Clausewitz. In war, more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect. Nearby, they do not appear as they did from a distance. That's an important concept when I get into this thing going on in Gaza right now. So let me read that again. In war, more than anywhere else, Things do not turn out as we expect. Nearby, they do not appear as they did from a distance. By contrast, a general timing of war is constantly bombarded by reports, both true and false, by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness, by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations of ill will. Of a proper or mistaken sense of duty, of laziness, or of exhaustion, and by accidents that nobody could have foreseen. Let me repeat that last part. From accidents that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them very encouraging. If a man were to yield to these pressures, He would never complete an operation. Perseverance, in the chosen course, is the essential counterweight. Perseverance. I'm describing what Netanyahu needs to hold fast to. Perseverance. A man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness. Only great strength of will can lead to the objective. It is steadfastness that will earn the admiration of the world and of posterity. Okay, so with that as the backdrop, let's get into what's going on in the Israeli Hamas war today, an update. You may have heard, last week, Israel inadvertently And just remember what I just read about Klauswitz said, sometimes, you know, this stuff happens in war. Things are not always as they appear. Mistakes are made. It's bloody. It's brutal. So Israel inadvertently bombed a car carrying kitchen aid workers we're on a mission there to, uh, to get food and, and, and water to the, the people in Rafa. It was a mistake. Okay. And everybody pounced on it. Ah, here's why Netanyahu needs pullback. Ah, here's why this needs to end. Remember that part that I just read that said you got to persevere? You're going to be under pressure to pull back when you shouldn't? This is what Netanyahu has to do. I hope he's read this book. Or at least parts of it. It's a lengthy book here. It's, I don't know, about 800 pages? Yeah, 867 pages. Small print. You know, you can't, I didn't read the whole thing, but I've read certain aspects of it. I looked at the chapters and I say, hey, this one, this chapter here seems interesting on the nature of war, the engagement strategy in general, on the theory of war, defense, and so I looked and I go, hmm, this looks interesting here, and I'll read that chapter. So I have read some whole chapters on this stuff. The stuff that I just read to you I've highlighted from previous readings on it. This is important to understand. This is what the media does not understand. This is what politicians do not understand. They want Netanyahu to make decisions in the best interest of politics. Instead of for the survivability of the state of Israel. And it's easy to sit back and second guess. And so they pounced on this aid worker thing that, uh, killed tragically, but it happens in war, it's an unintended consequence. It's an unintended consequence. It's, it's one of the, it was an intelligence failure. Stuff happens in war that you can't foresee or you can't predict and mistakes are made. This was an honest, Mistake. Tragic, but it's an honest mistake. Unlike October 7th, because we, you know, you don't hear too much about October 7th anymore. That was not an honest mistake. That was a deliberate attack of civilians. Deliberate. Rape. Beheaded. Taken hostage. That was deliberate. We've all forgotten about that now, all hung up on these 7 8 workers. Oh my god, this is, oh this is horrible. Yeah, it's horrible. They're in a war zone. That's the risk you take, that's the chance you take when you decide to go on these missions. I'm talking about the, the aid workers. Yeah, what they're doing is a good thing, but you're entering a war zone for heaven's sakes, and you're gonna assume some risk. You didn't deserve to die in this fashion. I'm not that cold hearted, but I also don't think because of that that Israel And Netanyahu should, should pull back and stop their mission to eliminate Hamas. So you got Biden up there lecturing, he had a conversation with Netanyahu after this happened. Of course, you know, he's outraged, blinking, we're outraged. Yeah, we're going to get to outrage in a little bit, feigned outrage, because that's all it is. So you got Biden lecturing Netanyahu saying, you know, you gotta, you gotta do better here or else. First of all, that's Netanyahu, you know what I said? You listen to me. You listen to me, Joe. I don't work for you. I don't represent you. You don't represent the state of Israel. And I will not be lectured to after what happened to us on October 7th. I'd remind, you have to remind him. I will not be lectured to after what happened to us on October 7th about why we're at war. We didn't start this war, but we're going to finish it. And anything going, you know, you know who's to blame for those seven aid workers being killed? Hamas! Because had they not have done what they did on October 7th, there would be no war in Gaza. Have people forgotten that? They can't make that connection? And you know somebody in the State Department, but you're not going to get it under a Democrat administration, should say what I just said. Well, wait a minute. This is tragic. This is horrible. But you know who's to blame for those seven aid workers being killed? Hamas. They started this crap. What about the slaughter, the beheading, the rape of elderly women, of young women, the slaughter of people coming out of a music concert, the beheadings and the hostages? What about that? And keep reminding these idiots, who are nothing more than anti Semites, by the way. Like, in the media, reminding them of this, keeping it front and center. You know, it's, it's just, you know, that I have to sit here and do this, I think is, it's tragic. Because I haven't forgotten October 7th, just like I haven't forgotten 9 11. So Biden's up there lecturing Netanyahu, and he says, you know, you got to do a quick investigation and inquiry and blah, blah, blah, and, well, Netanyahu did that. You know, I'm, I'm all for that. You know, you need to do an investigation when these mistakes are made and more what happened, intelligence failures, we thought, we made a mistake. And so the disposition, at least there was one, by the way, from Netanyahu. This article here from USA Today, Israeli military fires officers for their roles in a strike that kills seven aid workers. The Israeli military fired two officers for their role in the attack on an aid convoy in Gaza this week that kills seven World Central Kitchen volunteers, including one American. An incident that's drawn international outrage. Where's the outrage about October 7th? The international outrage in which a new Israeli probe says was a mistake carried out after forces misidentified the vehicle carrying aid workers. The inquiry found Israeli forces struck the world central kitchen convoy that was in the midst of a large scale humanitarian operation in Gaza under the belief that they were targeting Hamas operatives. They made a mistake, they misidentified them. Faulty intelligence. Happens. It says, the investigation's findings indicate that the incident should not have occurred, said an Israeli military statement on the findings, which was shared with officials, the non profit, and others on Thursday. The strike on the vehicles is a grave mistake. This is a quote from an Israeli military, higher up. The strike on the vehicles is a grave mistake stemming from a serious failure due to a mistaken identification, errors in decision making, And an attack contrary to the standard operating procedures. Remember what I just read from Carl von Clausewitz on war? This crap happens. Things do not always appear or they're not as they appear. up front as they do from a distance. It still happens in war. It's happened. It's been caused by the U. S. military. We're going to get into that. But let me finish this part of it. At least Netanyahu conducts an investigation and held people accountable. They're right. Israel should not have happened. But it's war. It says here, in a statement, the World Central Kitchen said it welcomed Israel's decision to dismiss and reprimand the military personnel involved in the strike, but that's not enough. Well, of course, there's never enough of these anti Semitics. The organization also demanded the creation of an independent commission to investigate the strike, saying the IDF cannot credibly investigate its own failures in Gaza. Well, they're always gonna do it. Nothing's ever enough. Nothing's ever enough. I believe if Israel today agreed to a ceasefire, that still wouldn't be enough. Excuse me. It wouldn't. So, let's get into what the U. S. is outraged about, and some things that have gone on with the U. S. military in Afghan, Iraq, and other areas around the world. Syria. Mistakes made in war, leading to the death of civilians, civilian casualties, including women and children, by the U. S. military. And I'm not here to dump on the United States military. I'm here to show, Carl von Clausewitz said, things happen in war. Sometimes bad things happen in war. Bloody things happen in war, brutal things happen in war, mistakes happen in war, civilians get killed inadvertently. The United States and Israel do not target civilians. They might be collateral damage, but no one asks why is Hamas hiding, you know, soldiers and hiding, not really soldiers, but hiding fighters, let's put it that way, hiding fighters and military equipment at headquarters. Underneath hospitals, in schools, around the civilian population. They do it on purpose. So that when people come in, whether it be the United States or in this case Israel, and they try to take out a top commander or blow up a central command post, they're going to kill people who are in the hospital, including doctors and patients, and but nobody, in anything that I've read here, including Biden and Blinken, they have castigated Hamas for operating like this. That's the problem. It's not what Israel did inadvertently. That's not the problem. That's not the question. The question should be, why does Hamas do this? Because they're creeps. They do it intentionally. So that the civilians are put in harm's way that'll end up dead and then they'll come out and all look they're targeting civilians No, they're not. So let's get to some of the things that have happened in the past which Netanyahu should have reminded Well, he's busy. I had time to look this stuff up He doesn't. What he should have reminded Biden as he's being lectured to about you gotta do a better job of not targeting civilians They're not targeting civilians We're not getting civilians killed. What are you supposed to do? You've got a top Hamas commander that you need taken out. And he's hiding underneath the hospital. What are you supposed to do? Well, I guess we can't, I guess we gotta leave him there. You put out the call, and Israel's done that. Get out of the hospital. Abandon it, we're coming in. They told that to the population of Gaza at the start of this war. Told the people, get out. We're giving you a warning. 72 hours, we're coming in. Hamas didn't do that on October 7th. They didn't tell those Israelis, hey, we're coming in to massacre you, be ready, beware. They just came in and did it. And this is the stuff that aggravates me in terms of this anti semitic, you know, they're trying to thinly veil it, you know, that, oh, it's about humanitarian. No, it isn't. Nobody gives a damn about those Gazans, those Palestinians. Not even Egypt and Jordan who sealed off their borders so that the Palestinians, you know, you can't have this refugee movement. Out of the country so that Israel can come in and do what they're gonna do. So I mean when I say nobody cares about these Palestinians, except at a time like this because now you can flaunt your anti semitism as virtue signaling. Oh, we care about human loss. No, you don't. Anyway, the United States has been involved in some military conflicts over the last, I don't know, 10, 15, 20 years. Starting in Iraq, Afghanistan. I'll just read a couple of these headlines. It's to show you, you know, that, that, that too, too. To criticize Israel. Lloyd Austin, Blinken, Biden. To criticize Netanyahu and Israel. When they themselves have been caught up in this military operations that lead to civilian casualties. They should know better. They should have the decency to say, yeah, that's happened to us too. It's a mistake. It's inadvertent. And, you know, we, we understand Netanyahu. But, you know, just kind of hurry up and get this done. Here's an article here. These go back. This is 2022, all right? This is under Biden. Civilian casualty files revealed U. S. hit thousands of deaths in the Middle East air war. U. S. air power has been central to the country's war in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere, with officials promising that drones and other sophisticated weapons allow the U. S. military to carry out precision airstrikes that spare civilians caught in war zones. But a groundbreaking investigation by the New York Times reveals the US military's air wars have been plagued by bad intelligence, imprecise targeting, and a lack of accountability for thousands of civilian deaths, many of them children. Oh, you're kidding. You mean this happens in war? And here the US is hiding this stuff. Israel couldn't hide it. The whole world's watching this, what's going on in Gaza. They couldn't hide it. The United States under Biden tries to hide it. This is despicable. The nerve of him lecturing Netanyahu. So it says here, two part series, this is the New York Times, by reporter Asmaat Khan is based on a trove of Internal Pentagon documents, as well as on the ground reporting from dozens of airstrike sites, and interviews with scores of survivors. Quote, What you have is a scale of civilian death and injury that is vastly different from what they claim, said Khan, who spent five years on this investigation. Here's another one. Afghanistan. Again, under the Biden administration, U. S. admits Kabul drone strike killed civilians. At least they admitted this one. This is from 2021. A U. S. Central Command investigation found that an aid worker, an aid worker, and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the August 29th strike. The youngest child was just two years old. The deadly strike happened days after a terror attack at Kabul airport amid a frenzied evacuation effort following the Taliban's sudden return to power. A U. S. Central Command investigation found that an aid worker, an aid worker, and nine effort following the Taliban's sudden return to power. It was one of the U. S. military's final acts in Afghanistan before ending its 20 year operation in the country. Listen to this. Remember, go back to what Von Clausewitz said about stuff that happens in war. You don't intend, you didn't know, you can't predict, and sometimes you just screwed up. It says U. S. intelligence had tracked the aid workers car for eight hours, believing it was linked to the ISIS K militants, a local branch of the Islamic State, General Kenneth McKenzie said. The investigation found The man's car had been seen at a compound associated with ISIS K, and its movements aligned with other intelligence about the terror group's plan for attack on the Kabul airport. See, this is their faulty intelligence. But, you know, that's what intelligence is. It's not, it's not exact. I mean, they followed this car for eight hours, for heaven's sake. So it says, at one point, a surveillance drone saw men loading what appeared to be explosives into the boot of the car. But these turned out to be containers of water. Oh, shucks. We made a mistake. Yeah, they did. That's all. General McKenzie described the strike as a tragic mistake and added that the Taliban had not been involved in the intelligence that led to the strike. It says, the strike happened as the aid worker pulled into the driveway of his home from the airport. The explosion set off a secondary blast, which U. S. officials initially said was proof that the car was indeed carrying explosives. However The investigation found that it was mostly caused by a propane tank in the driveway. Yeah, oops. In a statement, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, We now know that there was no connection between this car and ISIS K, that his activities on that day were completely harmless, harmless, and not at all related to the imminent threat we believed we faced. Just like in Israel, or in Gaza, with the IDF, Israeli Defense Forces. We believed it, but it turned out to be wrong. So Austin says, we apologize. And we will endeavor to learn from this horrible mistake. The horrific consequences of the U. S. military's miscalculations have drawn questions about the accuracy of future counterterrorism operations. The catastrophe. Listen to this. It's from the BBC, by the way, this story. The catastrophe exposed the dreadful human cause of a war that inflicted a lot of damage from the air for years. Yeah, mistake. And that's not just one. If you put that in a search engine, civilians killed by US military airstrikes, you'll find A bunch of them here. 12 civilians killed by, this is from CNN, 12 civilians killed by U. S. military operations. Mistake. Now here's one that really strikes home, because remember what Israel did? They fired some commanders, some were reprimanded and punished. They took quick action to try to calm this thing down. Biden says you need to do an immediate investigation. He shouldn't have been telling Netanyahu any, which is why I said Netanyahu should have said, stop lecturing me, clown. I wish I was an advisor to Netanyahu because I would be able to look this stuff up for him and say hey, when you're going in with Biden, keep this stuff in mind, you may want to bring this up when he starts to lecture you about what we should or what you should or shouldn't be doing. Here's another one, New York Times. No U. S. troops will be punished for a deadly Kabul strike, Pentagon chief decides. The military initially defended the strike, which killed ten civilians, including seven children. But ultimately called it a tragic mistake. See, they initially defended it. Israel didn't. Israel didn't defend it. They said, let us investigate. Let's take a look at it. So the article says none of the military personnel involved in a botched drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. That killed three people. Ten civilians will face any kind of punishment, the Pentagon said on Monday. The Pentagon acknowledged in September that the last drone strike before America withdrew its troops was a tragic mistake that killed a civilian, civilians including seven children, after initially saying it had been necessary to prevent an Islamic State attack on troops. See, at first they went into defense mode, this was necessary. Oh, we had to do this. They didn't give Israel a chance to do that. So anyway, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who had left the final word on any administrative actions such as reprimands or demotions or to senior commanders, or to two senior commanders, approved their recommendation not to punish anyone. So two commanders said nobody should be punished in Los Angeles. Lloyd Austin rubber stamped it. Okay, that's fine. That's not what Netanyahu did. People were held responsible and accountable. People were, commanders, fired. Some were reprimanded. That didn't happen here. This is kind of that crap that goes on in Washington where no one's ever held accountable. I don't remember Netanyahu taking to the media when this happened in Kabul and saying, oh, the United States got to do a better job than this. This is unacceptable. We're outraged that seven children 10 civilians, including seven children were killed. We're outraged. You got to do something now, Mr. Biden, you got to hold people accountable. No, the United States just kind of, you know, move along, nothing to see here. First they lie about it, and that was intentional, until somebody went digging and found Pentagon reports, because if somebody didn't do that, they would have got away with lying, saying this guy was an ISIS K guy, and that was a secondary explosion, was the result of explosives in the car, and that was, it was all a lie. And I just get tired of this crap, with the way Israel's treated, and the way Netanyahu's being pressured, for things that happen in war that have happened to the United States, Not just once, but a lot over the time that the United States was in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Because it's war. It's not precise. You do what you can, and that's really all you can ask. I'm not suggesting that when Lloyd Austin left it to two commanders who said nobody would be punished. That's a decision Lloyd Austin gets to make. But him and Blinken and Biden, of all people, Lecturing Netanyahu? Coming down hard on Netanyahu over these seven aid workers who were mistakenly and inadvertently killed in an airstrike? They know better! I wonder if Austin's, if he even has this book in his library collection. On War by Carl von Clausewitz. This is a classic. Every military commander should be made to read this book. And they, they, they do. They know better. They know better. But with this full outrage and this holier than thou and move along nothing to see here, we've done the same thing but it's worse that you did it. I get tired of this crap, ladies and gentlemen. I'm gonna keep you abreast on this, uh, Israeli conflict. And hopefully, you know, in the next couple of months they go and they finish this, this operation and then Israel decide when to cease war activities. Not the United States and not the UN. Thanks for listening. 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