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So anyways, well, there we go. So we got lots to get to. But right now, let's start the show with getting to tonight's. First word. Well, you know, it's been said that the best predictor of future behavior, well, is past behavior. If you want to know what your neighbor is going to do tomorrow, pay attention to what he's already done. Someone once said, know your enemy. If you want to avoid the peril of a battles. Well, we're in the middle of those battles right now and it's high time we stopped pretending otherwise. Just look at what happened over the course of a single day this month across the West. It's like a rerun of the same nightmare script. Two Muslims go on a rampage and murder at least 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. Five more Muslims getting arrested in Germany for plotting to blow up a Christmas market. French authorities have to cancel a concert in Paris because of credible threats from Islamic terrorists. And right here in our own backyard, two Iowa National Guardsmen get murdered in Syria by an Islamist thug while they were over there playing footsies with some illegitimate regime. And that's not even touching on some of the other recent atrocities. Like I said, the massacre of Jews in Australia, the butchery of Christians in Nigeria, the shootings at Brown University campus. Hey, maybe it's time we acknowledge what we know about this enemy that's hell bent on destroying us. Daniel Horowitz today said in his very fine column at the Blaze. None of this represents an anomaly. It represents the accumulated failure of a strategy best summarized as this. He says, quote, invade the Muslim world. Invite the Muslim world. We've spent the better part of a generation importing millions of migrants from these unstable hellholes while sending our own brave soldier soldiers over there to babysit their sectarian civil wars. The contradiction is staring us in the face. We accept the risks of mass migration at home while risking our troops abroad to contain the very same ideologies. Islamist movements don't respect borders, whether they're Sunni or Shia operating in Syria or Europe or right here in North America. Their targets are always the same Jews, Christians, secular institutions and Western civil society. But our so called leaders treat these as isolated incidents instead of the expression of a coherent, deadly ideology. From the carnage of 10-7-23 to the horrors back on 9 11, to the thwarted plots to bomb Los Angeles and Christmas festivals across Europe. Maybe, just maybe, it's time to be honest about what's right in front of our eyes. Our enemy is telling us exactly who they are, what they believe and what they intend to do to us. And who is the enemy? Well, put simply, it's Islam. Now before you liberals out there start screaming Islamophobia from your safe space. Remember, a fear isn't irrational or phobic if it's based on cold, hard facts. We've been reassured a thousand times that Islam just means submission to God. Sounds harmless, right? Especially to those of us with Christian sympathies. But shouldn't we look at how the Quran itself defines that submission and what it instructs its followers to do? The Quran is crystal clear. All Muslims must work to convert Christians, Jews and everyone else to Islam and kill those who refuse. This is the Muslim worldview right there in black and white. Only the blind, the foolish and the dumb ignore an enemy who explicitly says he's going to kill you and your neighbors and then goes out and does it, horowitz continues today. Nowhere in this incoherence is it more stark than in Syria. On one hand, the Trump administration is moving towards normalizing relations with this new leadership. In June, President Trump signed an executive order terminating US Sanctions on Syria, including on its central bank, all in the name of reconstruction and investment. Last month, Syria's new leader, a former Al Qaeda big shot who's rebranded himself as some kind of statesman, waltzes into the White House, where Trump praises the developments and says he's very satisfied with Syria's direction. And get this, the US Is now even floating the idea of a permanent US Military base in Damascus to solidify our presence and prop up this new government. So we're embedding our troops deeper into one of the most volatile snake pits on earth, putting American soldiers at the mercy of a regime whose leaders and allies were jihadists like five minutes ago, accused of massacring Christians. At the same time, the White House is pressuring Israel to limit its defensive ops in southern Syria, including that buffer zone along the Golan Heights, even though the Israelis are doing a bang up job of degrading these jihadist threats without losing their own people. America risks lives to stabilize an Islamist adjacent regime while tying the hands of the one ally who actually enforces order. And the contradiction gets even deeper when you throw in our immigration policy. Syria is still one of the most unstable dumps on the planet with no reliable vetting. But we're admitting Syrian migrants hand over fist while keeping 800 US troops inside Syria with no clear mission, no end in sight, and supply lines that are sitting ducks. The truth is, it doesn't matter which Islamic country they're from, how friendly their government is to us, or the tribal mess back home when they cluster in large numbers form their own communities run by Muslim Brotherhood outfits. They're incompatible with the west, period. The problem is Islam itself, fueled by mass migration and subversion pushed by people like the Muslim Brotherhood through places like Qatar and Turkey. This conf. This conflict isn't just about Jews. They're the first target, but not the last. Islamist ideology goes after all non Muslims and any society that won't submit. The west has to decide, defend our civilization or keep subsidizing its destruction through mass migration without assimilation, foreign entanglements without a strategy and alliances that buy our silence. Instead of building up Syria, risking our troops lives and appeasing enemies in Qatar, why not pull out? Let Israel handle regional security. They're the pros at it while we slam shut our own borders to this. As Kevin Downey Jr says Religion of pieces. Protecting America requires clarity. End immigration from jihadist incubators, dismantle Islamist networks here at home. The withdraw the troops from these unwinnable secretarian swamps and empower allies who actually fight our enemies. Anything less isn't compassion or smart foreign policy. It's criminal negligence. Worldviews matter. Some are enemies of life and freedom and we ignore that difference at our own peril. And that's tonight's first word.
