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This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me, but this I called a mind and
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therefore I have hope the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
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His mercy has never come to an end.
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They are new every morning.
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Great is your faithfulness.
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That's Lamentations three versus 23 and guys as a quick aside, please leave a rating and
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So we definitely appreciate that.
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But today is September the 11th, 2021, which marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks by
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Muslim fundamentalists on multiple sites inside the United States.
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So I just want to kind of go down through the timeline because we're going to be spending
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a lot of time talking about this today.
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A lot of things that we've learned because there's a lot of things that kind of come
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off this and a lot of people are kind of giving you their, you know, their takes on kind of
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where we're at 20 years later and everybody has their own take and the things they want
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to focus on.
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So we want to do kind of a 30,000 foot view on a lot of those different things.
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But let's go through the timeline in that morning.
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At 8.46 a.m. Eastern time flight 11 was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center
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by in New York City by jihadist.
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At 9.03 a.m. Eastern time flight 175 was crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center
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in New York City by jihadist at 9.37 a.m. Eastern time flight 175 was crashed into the western
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side of the Pentagon at 9.59 a.m. Eastern time the South Tower of the World Trade Center
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collapsed 656 minutes after the impact of flight 175 at 10.03 a.m. Eastern time flight
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93 likely headed for the White House or the US Capitol building was crashed into a field
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in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
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The passengers on board fought back against the Muslim fundamentalist hijackers causing
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the diversion and, you know, saving countless lives and then at 10.28 a.m. Eastern time
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the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed one hour and 42 minutes after the
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impact of flight 11.
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So on that day, just under 3000 people were murdered.
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The thing with the death toll is, you know, you've heard a lot of different numbers because
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a lot of people are kind of quoting those numbers today and I normally like to be incredibly
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incredibly specific when it comes to things like that because each one of those people
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had the Amago day.
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Each one of those people is very, very important but the death toll is likely actually thousands
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more than what is being reported in a lot of different areas because of the people that
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have subsequently died due to terminal illnesses caused by exposure to the dust and toxins
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at ground zero.
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I mean, there are literally thousands and thousands more people that have died because
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of these attacks, not just the people that died on September 11, 2001.
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In the deaths, there were 344 firefighters and 71 law enforcement officers.
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They died trying to save people in the Twin Towers.
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And then we have at least 10 pregnant women that were murdered that day as well.
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That's one thing that really drives me insane, especially with Oklahoma City bombing and
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with, you know, other attacks like this is people don't count the babies that were in
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the womb.
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These people that have the Amago day, these people that are separate from their mothers,
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you know, it's not their body.
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It's a separate body entirely, but those haven't been counted, but there were at least 10 pregnant
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women that we know of that were murdered that day.
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And of those that were murdered in the Twin Towers that did not die from the initial impact
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of the planes or the collapse of the buildings, they either suffocated to death.
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They were burned alive or they chose to commit suicide by jumping to their deaths, which there's
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reportedly around 200 people that jumped to their deaths as opposed to suffering suicide
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or being burned alive.
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So that kind of brings us up to speed on the stuff that most of you already knew, but I
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do want to take a quick aside for all the 9/11 truthers out there.
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And I do this fairly often, but I feel like it's very important to continue to do this.
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It is one of the most heinous things that I can think of for you 20 years later to still
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be perpetuating the nonsense that 9/11 was an inside job.
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And the thing is is I don't even have to use the more, you know, advanced parts of my
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brain to tell you how stupid you are for thinking those things.
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Because again, if this were an inside job, right, if we knew about it, if we perpetuated
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this on our own people, aside from the fact that that would be one of the most egregious
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and evil things that we've ever seen in humanity, aside from that entirely, don't you think
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somebody would have came out and blown the whistle by now?
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How many thousands or tens of thousands of people would have needed to be a part of this
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for this conspiracy to actually come to fruition?
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How many people?
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Don't you think they would have put someone on Flight 93 to stop the passengers from
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potentially taking back over the plane?
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Don't you think somebody would have said, yeah, yeah, it wasn't a plane that hit the
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Pentagon?
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It was actually a bomb.
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I was the guy that put it there.
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Someone on their deathbed basically saying, yeah, I was the one that did this part or
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did that part, but we don't see any of that.
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So it's either the most well coordinated conspiracy of all time or you're a complete bloody moron.
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And let's just say the latter is way more likely.
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And then also, I feel like I need to do a quick aside for the, you know, not all Muslims
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are like that people.
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And the reality is, of course you're not, of course, all Muslims aren't jihadists.
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Like duh, thank you for pointing out that water is wet and the sun will come out tomorrow.
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Thank you so much for that.
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But the thing about it is, as I've talked about a lot on this podcast, and as we've seen
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if you study the works of Nabil Kureshi and other folks, you know, the books that are
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on our, our book list, these people that aren't jihadists, that are moderate or progressive
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Muslims, even they are not following the Quran and the Hadith in the most appropriate way.
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Because again, I've talked about abrogation.
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A lot of talked about it on the botching Afghanistan series when I did the lasting death
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episode, you know, my episode where I kind of told you what I was thinking about this.
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The ninth surah, the least abrogated surah, the latest work that we have from Muhammad
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is the most bloodiest, it's a most bloody of all the things that we see inside the Quran,
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which was already bloody to begin with.
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So no, I don't think that we should be looking at this 20 year anniversary and then, you know,
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looking at all the Muslims that we know in our lives and looking at them, you know, a
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scant and worried about them.
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That's not what anybody would be suggesting.
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But again, those people are not following the Quran to the letter.
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They're just not.
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But again, the title of today's episode is for getting 911 because when you're 20 years
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out from anything, there's a lot of forgetfulness that happens.
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I want to remind you of a few things so that you don't forget it because I think this is
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really important.
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So the first thing that I think people forget is the way that you felt and I mean deep down
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in your guts when you saw the 911 attacks.
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Most of you saw this live, right?
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I was in Mrs.
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Bear's English class in 10th grade at, you know, Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Oklahoma.
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And, you know, a buddy of mine, Alex Thompson comes walking in to the class.
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He had been at a, you know, dentalist appointment or doctor's appointment that morning.
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He walks in, he sat in front of me and he goes, Hey, Kyle, you know, dude, the, we're
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being attacked like, you know, people are flying planes into the, into the world trade
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center and like we're under attack right now.
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And at the time they didn't have televisions in the classroom.
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And so, you know, I kind of went up to the teacher and I had Alex come with me because
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I was like, Hey man, I don't believe you.
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I think you're, you're pulling my leg here and the teacher was like, yes, we've received
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the same reports.
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But it wasn't until I got home that I got to see the images for the first time.
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And I mean, you're seeing the planes hitting the building.
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You're seeing the buildings collapse.
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You're seeing the reports of a plane that crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
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You're seeing a lot of different things.
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And the thing for me is one thing that I like to do every single year, I guess I wouldn't
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say that I like it.
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It's just something that I do out of duty.
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I will get all the Nat Geo and all the Discovery channel and all the YouTube documentaries that
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kind of come out and they run them again on September, the anniversary of September 11th
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every year, I make sure to watch those because it reminds me of how I felt in my guts when
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that was happening.
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And let's just say the thoughts are not very positive.
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Let's also say that if I wasn't, you know, a 10th grader, but, but if I had been, you
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know, 18, 19 years old, maybe not in college or something like that, or maybe even in college,
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I may have been one of those guys that was standing outside of the recruiters office that
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very next morning saying, send me, we're going to even the score, right?
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I would like to think that I would have potentially done something like that.
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But everyone seemingly has forgotten how they felt that day.
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And another thing that people have forgotten is what the world felt like on September the
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11th, 2001.
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Just in general.
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So not just the feelings in your gut, but I remember driving home while I wasn't driving
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someone else was taking me home from school that day and the lines to the gas stations
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were all the way out into the street and people were flooding the stores and trying
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to buy up supplies because they thought, Oh my gosh, we're under attack.
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We're at war and people forgot that.
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They forgot what happened on that day.
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But the other thing that's interesting is we've forgotten what the world felt like on
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September the 10th of 2001.
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We were at this time where it was a time of relative peace and I thought Albert Mueller
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did a great thing on his podcast yesterday where he talked about how people thought we
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this kind of postmodern idea that warfare is outlawed now that we're in this time period
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of perpetual peace now and we're not going to have to deal with warfare and attacks and
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any of that stuff anymore.
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And that's what people felt like on September the 10th.
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Everyone was just going about their business.
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No one was thinking about the men and women in uniform.
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No one was thinking about fundamentalist Islam, like none of those things were on our radar
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and we've forgotten the world because the world completely changed on September the
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11th 2001, not just, you know, our perception of it.
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But we've also forgotten about what the world felt like on September the 12th of 2001 because
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by September the 12th, the picture was starting to get a little bit clearer.
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And in the subsequent weeks, they would get even clearer.
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We kind of knew that, you know, okay, it seems like the attacks are done.
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It seems like America got caught off guard, but now we're on guard, you know, we're hearing
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things from president Bush and we're hearing things about how we're going to go make this
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right.
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But the thing was about September 12th is we were so unbelievably unified as a people.
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And I mean that as a worldwide people, the number of countries and the number of people
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from other countries, can you imagine if Twitter and Facebook had been around back in that
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day or Instagram or whatever, like the people that were basically their hearts were breaking
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for the United States of America, like there was no competitiveness.
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There was no like, oh, we don't really like America, but I guess we'll say something
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nice.
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No, no, everybody was unified, unified against this evil that they weren't even fully, you
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know, thinking existed prior to that day.
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And on September the 12th, Americans were completely unified for once, which now 20 years later,
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the idea of a unified America is almost unfathomable.
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All right, when I was talking to Mike Ritalin on the botching Afghanistan podcast that we
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did with him, you know, I asked, you know, if another attack like that happened, do you
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think all of the American people would coalesce behind, you know, the, the, you know, the idea
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that we need to go and write the ship and, you know, figure it out and, you know, attack
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whoever took us out and, you know, kind of even the score.
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And he said 100% yes.
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And I just got to say, I don't necessarily agree with him.
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I don't know that that would happen now.
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The world is so much more divided now, right?
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So if you want to blame the media, if you want to blame Democrats, if you want to blame
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Republicans, if you want to blame, you know, conservative talk show host, or if you want
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to blame anybody, right, you know, you can pull your finger in a lot of different directions.
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But the reality is that we're more divided than we've ever been except for the civil
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war, right?
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We're so unbelievably divided to where you can actually fathom a modern civil war in a
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lot of ways, not that anyone's calling for that.
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I'm certainly not, but you can at least see it.
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You can see the foundations that are fracturing.
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But even look at, you know, go out into October, one of my favorite moments just in just think
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about this in New York City, it's game three of the world series and they're bringing President
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George Bush out to throw the first pitch.
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And I'll leave a video link to where there's a kind of like this little four or five minute
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mini documentary, but he goes out there and the chance for USA, USA, USA, as he's walking
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out there in a stadium filled with people that certainly did not vote for him.
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They voted for Al Gore or not at all, right?
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And they just, they rained down the cheers and they knew how important of a moment this
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was.
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And George Bush goes out there and just nails a strike from the pitcher's rubber.
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And it was just like, man, can you imagine something like that happening now?
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I mean, can you imagine what it would be like if Joe Biden went out there and tried to throw
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a first pitch right now?
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Now, he's an adult old idiot.
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He'd probably get lost between the dugout and the pitcher's mound, but there wouldn't
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be universal cheers for that man.
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Not by any stretch of the imagination.
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Trump, if he were to do the same thing, he'd get booed by, you know, Republicans and Democrats
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alike, right?
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We just, we can't even fathom a world that's like that right now, but that's what the world
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was like for a short period on September the 12th and onward, right?
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But then also we've forgotten the images and the videos.
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Again, I talked about already that I want, you know, most of you guys, if you can, to
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watch some of these documentaries, because we just forget these things.
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We put them over here.
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We categorize them differently.
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And it's like, okay, that's just something that I've experienced in the past.
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I don't really want to look at that.
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I don't really want to face evil.
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When we should, again, I encourage you guys all the time, let's push back darkness.
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You can't push back darkness if you don't know where darkness is, right?
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You have to know your enemy if you're going to push back against them.
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But here's the other thing is I bet, I bet you that the people that were there at the
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side of the attacks that they haven't forgotten the images, you know, they're etched into
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their brains.
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In addition to the sounds of people yelling for help, you know, the sound of the buildings
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falling down, the sound of the thud when a human being would hit the ground after diving
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off the 80th story of a building.
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What about the smell?
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They probably haven't forgotten the smell of the fire, the smell of the burning flesh.
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What about the taste, just being able to taste the dust and the death in the air?
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They haven't forgotten that.
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But also there, there's some forgiveness in terms of you might not think about 9/11 every
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day.
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Okay.
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Just to be fair, I don't either.
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Right?
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I don't set a self.
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Hey, I'm going to set a reminder for 10 a.m. every morning to think about 9/11.
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Which is not something that I do, it's not something that anyone does.
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But there are 10s, if not, if not hundreds of thousands of people that lost loved ones
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on that day that do think about it every day.
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They think about 9/11 every day, one of, if not the lowest point for the United States
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of America is something that they experience viscerally every single day.
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And we forget that, right?
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Because again, I understand that there's, there's fatigue when it comes to being empathetic
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towards too many things.
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At once I say that all the time, it's impossible to be outraged or sympathetic or empathetic
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towards too many things you will absolutely explode as a person.
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But we got to remember that there's still people suffering even 20 years later.
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And we also, we have obviously seen this recently.
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We've forgotten why we went to war in Afghanistan in the first place, right?
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Because you voted for Joe Biden and you don't want to be an idiot and you don't want to
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act like you're not on the right team and you know, you want to be on the right side of history
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and so you're somehow doing some sort of mental gymnastics to pretend like us pulling
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out of Afghanistan when and how we did was done perfectly and you wouldn't change anything.
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And you're going through all that right now.
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But let's go back to when we actually went to war.
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When we scrambled the US military and went to war in Afghanistan, why did we do that?
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Al Qaeda mainly perpetuated this attack on the homeland.
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And they were being protected by the Taliban, which was running Afghanistan.
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Now, we can talk about Pakistan.
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We can talk about Saudi Arabia.
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We can talk about all these other different things about people that had some sort of
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a hand in 9/11, right?
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But that's why we went and they were welcome for the fight.
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But we went over there, literal guns blazing to even not, I guess not even even the score,
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but to provide judgment for what happened.
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We could not have left that.
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Unresponded to, you know, all these people that are like, oh, you're just a war hawk
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and you're just, you just want us to be a war perpetually and all these, everything's
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no, no, no.
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But if we did nothing, think about this, guys, if we had done nothing after 9/11, what would
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ever stop anyone from wanting to attack us?
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And not just the countries that hate us, right?
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You know, Russia or Iran or China or any of those types of things, North Korea.
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But why would it stop anybody?
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Right?
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Because at a certain point, you have to punch back.
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And in that moment, it was the only realistic explanation for us.
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It was the only realistic thing for us to do.
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But we've also forgotten about the men and women that died fighting in Afghanistan.
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Right?
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You know, there's a lot of, and you know, I'm not being critical of these people, but
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there's a lot being made of these 13 lives that were lost, you know, as, you know, Kabul
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was being evacuated, those 13, you know, US military members.
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And I 100% support every one of those, right?
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You know, there's a, there's a memorial, like a mile from my house, a guy put out 13 flags
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and these pictures and it's right there on the side of the road.
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It's beautiful.
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And it's awesome.
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You know, bars and restaurants and sports teams are leaving 13 seats, you know, you
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know, unaccounted or, you know, can't sit here.
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These are reserved for these people.
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I'm 100% for all of that.
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The thing that's interesting is there were thousands of our military members that have
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died.
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And we're putting a tremendous amount of emphasis on the last ones that died over there.
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We're forgetting about all the others.
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And so again, you could extend this out way further.
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There were the people that died there that day because of the attack.
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And there's people that have died subsequently because of other things, right?
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Whether it be the cancer that was caused, as I already talked about, or warfare or whatever.
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But here's perhaps the most important point that, you know, I don't really know.
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You can judge for yourself.
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We've forgotten why we were attacked.
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Why we were attacked on that day, okay?
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So we weren't attacked because we were occupying their land because at the time we weren't,
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that's a modern thing, like, oh, we're, you know, we're creating terrorists because we're
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just there.
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You know, we weren't attacked because we killed their fathers and radicalized their
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sons.
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That's a common thing that a lot of people on the political left or people that are anti
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war.
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It's like, well, you keep killing these guys.
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And then, you know, they're kids four years old and they see that their dad's not there
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anymore.
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And then when they become of age, they're so mad that they're going to join the Taliban.
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And surely there's been something like that that has happened, right?
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There have been people that have been turned into, you know, soldiers because of thing,
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because we took out their evil fathers.
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I'm, I'm sure something like that has happened, okay?
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But we were attacked on that day because they hate us.
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They hate us and the they, you know, the being true fundamentalist Muslims, the adherence
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of the least abrogated surah of the Quran, the ninth surah and the haddith towards the
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end of the so-called prophet Muhammad's life, okay?
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That's why we were attacked.
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Because Muhammad and all the people that have perpetuated, you know, the, the true core
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of Islam require it.
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And here's kind of a small side because some of you maybe haven't heard this before.
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But, you know, let's bring in the Palestinian conflict, the Israel Palestine conflict in
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here.
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Just a little bit.
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You've likely heard Dennis Prager, you know, Prager, you say this in his speeches.
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But if the Israelis were to lay down their weapons, okay, you know, hey, we're, we're
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not going to do this anymore, we're going to lay down our weapons.
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There would be a genocide of the Jews that would begin immediately.
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But if the Palestinians were to lay down their weapons and say, we're not doing this anymore,
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peace would immediately begin immediately.
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That's the difference that people don't quite understand, especially people that have this
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leftist worldview where, you know, there's some sort of perfect ability inside humans,
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and they assume that all humans are decent and good, but we as Christians know that,
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no, we have a sin nature.
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We are flawed beyond imagining, right?
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So we don't assume that people are just good outright.
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We know that they're not.
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But again, these people, there's nothing we could have done to these people to have prevented
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this from happening.
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There's no amount of money.
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There's no amount of financial aid.
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There's no amount of technology.
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There's no amount of concerts we could have thrown in their backyard.
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That is foolish to think otherwise.
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We were attacked because they hate us because we are the infidel.
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We are the biggest middle finger in the West and they want the entire West to fall.
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And the last thing I'll talk about here in terms of us forgetting is a lot of us, not
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all of us, but a lot of us have forgotten to tell our children about that day.
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You know, the, the common refrain is never forget, right?
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We're never going to forget, but again, this entire podcast is about us forgetting.
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We have forgotten because again, this happened 20 years ago.
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So your kid could be in college right now and have no idea, essentially they wouldn't.
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Like let's say they're 22 years old, right?
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There were two in this happened to, like they couldn't fathom, right?
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Maybe they're three, four or five years removed from college.
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Maybe they're in grad school.
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Maybe they're getting their doctorate.
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They can't, they can't feel what you felt on that day.
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And it reminds me of Pearl Harbor because Pearl Harbor doesn't affect me the same way
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that I did my grandparents because they were the one, they were the ones reading the newspaper,
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seeing that we had been attacked, right?
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Grandparents and great, grandparents, right?
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9/11 is visceral to them.
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And then, or sorry, Pearl Harbor was visceral to them.
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And then 9/11 became visceral to them, you know, however many decades later, right?
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So our kids need to understand what the world was like.
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You need to have this conversation with them.
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Whenever they're of age and that is up to you to determine, you need to show them the
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videos of what happened on that day.
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You need to sit down and have a talk to them about fundamentalist Islam, about the fact that
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these people attacked us and we didn't do anything to them to begin with, right?
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We need to tell our children about that day.
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I mean, my son is, you know, 16 months old, right?
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It's going to be years and years and years before we have the talk, about 9/11, you know
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what I mean?
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But it's going to happen.
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He has to understand and he will understand that there's evil out there that only God
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can stamp out, right?
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And there are ideologies out there that will only be taken care of whenever there's a new
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heavens and a new earth.
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But he needs to know about evil.
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A lot of churches, a lot of ministries, a lot of parents, a lot of people don't want
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to talk about the reality of evil.
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I mean, we talked about this with Andrews and Wilson, you know, because that was kind of
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a theme of dark intercept and some of their novels.
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But again, people get really, really uncomfortable with evil because they want to assume there's
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good in everybody.
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They want to assume that there is no sin nature, right?
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They want to assume that somehow their child is going to be different.
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You probably heard me talk about this before.
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There was this woman that stood up because this preacher was basically talking about how
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even children have a sin nature and she's like, no, I don't agree with that.
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Like my, my children, they're not sinners.
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They're a perfect blah, blah, blah.
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And he basically looked at this woman and says, when did you start teaching your kid
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to be selfish?
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You know, at what age do you appropriately teach them to interrupt and be rude?
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Or do they just do that naturally, right?
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Which is a nice way to shut the woman up at that point.
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But again, we know as Christians, I've said it before, I'll say it again.
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We know as Christians that there is deep seated darkness in everyone and it's called sin.
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We can't escape it.
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We were born into it and the only way that we can be saved is through the blood of Christ.
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Now at the beginning, I read from Lamentations and I'll just reread it again here.
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This is Lamentations 3, 20 through 23.
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My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.
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But this I called a mind and therefore I have hope.
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The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
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His mercy has never come to an end.
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They are new every morning.
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Great is your faithfulness.
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So if you're not familiar, these are the words of the prophet Jeremiah.
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And again, I want to focus in on verse 21 here, okay?
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Because most people focus on, you know, the greatest, your faithfulness because, you know,
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greatest thy faithfulness and the song and all the things, but let's focus on verse 21.
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But this I called a mind and therefore I have hope.
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If you have time, which I would highly suggest you do this.
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So this is in Lamentations 3, read Lamentations 1 and Lamentations 2 and up through verse
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20 and Lamentations 3.
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Because this is, it's arguable, but from, from my reading, this is perhaps the first
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time in the book of Lamentations, that hope of any kind is spoken of, right?
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The Adam Clark commentary puts it this way, quote, he humbles himself under the mighty
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hand of God and then his hope revives, unquote.
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So this entire book, you know, I think, you know, Jeremiah was referred to as the weeping
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prophet, right?
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I mean, it is excruciating the words that he's writing.
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This guy had to be going through some excruciating, you know, mental and emotional and spiritual
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strain at that time, but he found hope.
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He founded after he humbled himself before the Lord, but his hope was in the steadfast
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love of the Lord in his mercy.
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Again, I talk all the time about this podcast about we need to talk about truth.
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We need to talk about truth, but in the mercy of the Lord and how great it is and how it's
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new every morning, basically, assuming that it just never runs out.
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His grace doesn't run out on a daily basis, right?
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It's always there for us, right?
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And so how does that apply to what we're going through today?
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Because tomorrow, or sorry, it's like today and all the days subsequent to that, there
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are people that are going to be lamenting.
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They're going to be just absolutely wailing over this.
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And for Americans, we've all been wounded by this, especially those that were old enough
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to really understand what happened on that day.
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But the Lord is there for us.
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He does have a steadfast love that can sustain us.
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And that is why we share the gospel.
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That is why we give people the story, because again, every worldview has an origin, meaning
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morality and destiny, origin.
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Where do we come from?
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Meaning why are we here?
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Morality.
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How do you tell between good and evil and destiny?
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Where do you go when we die?
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I just happen to believe that Christianity has the best answers to all those questions.
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It's the most cogent worldview to help us understand our plight as humans and what we
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should do moving forward.
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But there's a lot of motions on a day like today for a lot of people, most of you listening
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to this podcast.
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But again, the Lord's mercies are new every morning and great as his faithfulness.
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All right, guys, before we let you go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost out
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on dawn to life.
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Our mission is equipping into pushback darkness with content that for just spiritual, mental
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and physical resilience.
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So here are the links I've got for you today.
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I've got a link to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum website.
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There's some great resources on there.
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I've also got a YouTube video of New York after 9/11.
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So it's kind of a timeline documentary.
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So that's going to give you some of the imagery that I was talking about earlier.
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And then also I got a YouTube video of President Bush's opening pitch at Yankee Stadium after
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9/11.
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So it's a little four or five minute vignette that you can check out.
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All right, guys.
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