and in afghanistan, as elsewhere around the world, particularly in the muslim world, they are very careful only to do humanitarian activities, and not to get involved in proselytizing because it s a crime in the muslim world. shelter now is not set up as a christian organization but the people who worked for shelter now were all christians. so as they would establish relationships with these afghans, they would begin to tell them about jesus christ, et cetera, et cetera. did you go there with a mission of sharing the word of god, or did you go there to help people? it was both. we couldn t do one without the other. in an islamic culture, talking about religion or faith is usually the first conversation that comes up. so it was much more of a kind of natural flow of life and relationships. it wasn t like, let s go in and
there were eight individuals arrested in afghanistan. all eight were in shelter now international. under islamic law, the crime for proselytizing was death. after we were arrested, they walked us into this compound, and they opened the door, there standing in front of us were about 35 to 40 afghan women. and that was the first time i broke down and cried. in 2001, i was the cia station chief in islamabad, pakistan. where i had responsibility for all intelligence gathering operations in both pakistan and afghanistan. in august of 2001, we first got word that these eight individuals, including two young americans, had been arrested by taliban security in kabul. the u.s. embassy procured the assistance of pakistani lawyer
and he s also trying to convince us that that is the only world that exists. but he s also trying to invite us into this madness that he has. that s herecy against reality, that is proselytizing for the most selfish and instincts that the american people, like all people, have, but he s not appealing to the better angels of our nature. i heard you say the thesis of your show has become essentially, hey, you re not crazy. right. right. that s the the audience is not crazy. how you feel is actually how you feel. how you think is actually how you think. what you see is actually happening. what you hear is exhaactually w he said. i do think that s part of the i peel, with news, what we do every night, people at a certain point yeah, how do you do it? let me ask you a question. yeah. how do you do it every night? i have the relief of doing jokes. right. i m not taking anything away from the ridiculist. please understand that. still ouch. you know. you have th
inright path, you re encouraging other people to come with you on that path. proselytizing for the devil. i think it s red hot iron coffins in dante s inferno, dis, the level of hell they re in. it s pretty bad. doesn t get much worse. the worst spa treatment. and he, our president, wants to live in a fantasy world where only the way he perceives the world is the way it is, only things that serve his vision, and he s also trying to convince us that that is the only world that exists. it s extremely sole existent, but he s also trying to invite us into this madness that he has, that s heresy against reality. that is proselytizing for the most selfish and the base est instinction that the american people like all people have, but he is not appealing to the better angels of our nature. i ve heard you say the thesis of your show has become essentially, hey, you re not
we have the best. and we have the budget to do it. that wasn t easy because i ll tell you this is not a political speech, but the democrats were not going to give it to you. that i can tell you. they weren t going to give it to you, folks. they weren t. they want open borders and the hell with the military, that s not good. is it appropriate for the president of the united states as he frequently does to slam democrats in a political way on a military base in front of u.s. troops? no. one of the things that s important to remember is inside the military, the ethos is to be apolitical. i never knew what the political leanings were of other officers or non-commissioned officers. we didn t talk about that. you particularly don t put your subordinates in the uncomfortable position of proselytizing them with your politics or your religion or any