carter malcauzian, he talked about the difference between the afghan army and the taliban, the taliban fight for belief, killing infidels, the army and police fight for money. the taliban are willing to lose their head to fight. how can the army and police compete. it seems to me, one of the things, i m obviously not an expert in this, but as soon as the american backing and all of the infrastructure was gone, it wasn t a hard conversion to take over. i don t know if that s impugning afghan soldiers generally, it didn t seem like they had the same fight in them anymore. perhaps they were demoralized. once you remove air power, it becomes hard. no ground forces anywhere in the world fight. it s unrealistic and unreasonable to expect others to do like wise. we in the united states have a professional army, people who go
riot, anarchy is coming into our cities now thanks to the rhetoric of the democrat, thanks to the constant impugning of the police by president biden, and criminals and lowlifes feel emboldened. laura: you have chicago mayor lori lightfoot welcoming federal crime prevention now that a democrat is president. the federal government making an announcement in the short-term, a conversation last week, i m anxious to get those resources operational. what we do not welcome is the deployment of unnamed federal special secret agents. we are not going to allow democracy to be hijacked by the federal government. laura: the study and contrast which what she said in july of 2020 versus what she said today
the rhetoric of the democrats, thanks to the constant impugning of the police by candidate biden and president biden that is causing him to back off, and criminals and lowlifes now feel emboldened. laura: well, then you have chicago mayor lori lightfoot, she is suddenly kind of welcoming federal crime prevention help now that, well, a democrat as president. watch. the federal government will be making an announcement in the short-term car had a brief conversation with the president about it last week, so i m anxious to get those up and operational here. what we do not welcome is the deployment of unnamed federal special secret agents. we are not going to allow democracy to be hijacked by the federal government. laura: so, a study in contrasts, what she said in juld today and yesterday. bring in the resources. where are these resources going
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on or potential dirt on a political rival to affect an election, that somebody outside america should come in and affect our election? none of them would say that was okay, and none of these republican senators or congressmen say it s okay. or should say it s okay. take a look, since you re teeing it up. you didn t know we had this ready. on the one hand you had folks saying i just don t want the deal with it. let s talk about something else. and then folks where the goalpost was moved. senator graham used to call donald trump a, quote, racist kook, and he used to serve in the military. no one is impugning that he cares about these issues, and yet look at where he moved the goalpost to. is it ever okay for an american president to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival? i think being a political rival is not a you can t ever be asked questions. yeah, i think it s okay to talk about this kind of stuff.