1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:02,300 Welcome to Keith's night. Don't tread on anyone and the 2 00:00:02,308 --> 00:00:05,900 libertarian Institute. Usually, when I have my 3 00:00:05,900 --> 00:00:09,100 colleague from the libertarian Institute Scott, Horton on to 4 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:11,600 discuss foreign policy will discuss. 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,400 One of his two books Fool's errand, time to end the war in 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,900 Afghanistan or enough already time to end the war on 7 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:19,100 terrorism. And usually we will take the 8 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:23,200 libertarian approach to war war is on just because it usually 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,100 involves initiating violence against peaceful people to fund 10 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,500 the war and usually ends up killing. 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,100 Displacing millions of people in the war. 12 00:00:32,299 --> 00:00:36,000 However, there is a second anti-war stance that many 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,900 conservatives have that, they'll say yes. 14 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,300 I want America to be the number one Global influence on the 15 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:45,200 planet. And in order to do that. 16 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,700 We must have an anti-war pro-peace stance. 17 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,300 I believe this is best Illustrated in the book. 18 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:54,800 Churchill Hitler, and the unnecessary War by Patrick J. 19 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:57,600 Buchanan here was the final chapter of that book. 20 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:03,500 Chapter 15, America inherits. The Empire one, may pick up 21 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:05,800 something useful from among the most. 22 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:12,500 Fatal errors, James Wolfe, 1757 hero of Quebec in the Twin 23 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:16,700 catastrophes of Western Civilization World Wars 1 & 2. 24 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:20,800 Britain was the indispensable nation and Churchill and 25 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:22,300 indispensable. Man. 26 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:26,100 It was Britain secret commitment to fight for France of which the 27 00:01:26,100 --> 00:01:30,800 Germans were left unaware that. To the world war with a Kaiser 28 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:33,100 who never wanted to fight his mother's country. 29 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,300 It was Britain's declaration of war on August, 4th 1914, that 30 00:01:37,300 --> 00:01:41,300 led, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India 31 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:45,200 to declare war in solidarity with the mother country, and 32 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,500 Drew Britain's Ally Japan. And to the conflict. 33 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:52,700 It was Britain's bribery of Italy with Promises of Habsburg 34 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:57,400 and ottoman lands in the secret treaty of London in 1915 that 35 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,000 brought Italy. Lie in had Britain, not gone in 36 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:06,200 America would have stayed out. It was Britain that converted a 37 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,300 franco-german. Russian war into a world war of 38 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:13,400 four years that brought down the German Russian Ottoman, and 39 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,000 austro-hungarian Empires and gave the world Lenin Stalin 40 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Mussolini and Hitler. It was Britain who's 41 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,300 capitulation to us, pressure and disillusion of her 20-year pact 42 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:29,900 with Japan in 1922 insulted. Isolated and raged that 43 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:32,600 faithful. Ally leading directly to 44 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,800 Japanese militarism aggression and World War Two in the 45 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,100 Pacific. It was Britain's lead in 46 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:43,600 imposing the League of Nations sanctions on Italy. 47 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,800 Over abyssinia. That destroyed the stress of 48 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,000 front isolated, Italy and drove Mussolini into the arms of 49 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,100 Hitler had the British stood firm and back to Paris. 50 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,100 The French army could have chased Hitler's battalions out 51 00:02:57,100 --> 00:03:02,000 of the Rhineland and 1936 and reoccupied, it had the British 52 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,500 not gone to Munich. Hitler would have had to fight 53 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:08,900 for the sudetenland and Europe might have United against him. 54 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,500 Had Britain not issued the war guarantee to Poland and declared 55 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:15,600 war over Poland. There might have been no war in 56 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,800 Western Europe and no World War. Two Britain was, thus the 57 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,900 indispensable nation in turning to European Wars, in two world 58 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:27,800 wars and as is written in the opening pages of this book. 59 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:34,600 A role in both Wars was heroic, but was it wise indispensable, 60 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,200 man? Churchill had played a crucial 61 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,200 role in plunging his nation into the War of 1914. 62 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,900 Britain then brought in the dominions Italy, Japan and the 63 00:03:45,908 --> 00:03:51,900 United States asked with gray, Churchill and haldane had 64 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:54,400 planned to make any war with Germany, a World War. 65 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,600 They succeeded, and Britain emerged, triumphant her 66 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,400 greatest. Rival since Napoleon saw its 67 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,200 high, seas Fleet scuttled its overseas trade. 68 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,700 Ravaged, its colonies, confiscated. 69 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,300 Germany had been destroyed disgraced divided dismembered 70 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:14,300 disarmed and driven into unpayable debt, but the cost had 71 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:17,500 been seven hundred thousand British dead. 72 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:22,200 A national debt 14 times what it had been in 1914 rebellions 73 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,900 across the Empire and Britain's inevitable Eclipse as the First 74 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:31,100 Nation on Earth. The British century was over, 75 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,100 the American Century had begun. The cost of Western civilization 76 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,800 was perhaps 10 million, dead soldiers, and millions of 77 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,100 civilians dead from starvation and disease. 78 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,700 The Great War began at Versailles and Versailles begat. 79 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:49,000 The second world war to stop Hitler. 80 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,700 Britain gave a war guarantee to Poland to honor. 81 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:53,800 It. Britain declared war. 82 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:57,700 Both decisions were victories for Churchill this War lasted 83 00:04:57,700 --> 00:04:59,700 six years. Years and ended in the ruin of 84 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:04,000 Europe, Stalin ization of 11 Nations, and collapse of the 85 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,500 British and French empires in the two phases of the great 86 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:12,300 civil. War of the West 100 million 87 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:15,900 Europeans perished as victims of war or the monsters bread by 88 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:19,400 War, nor did The Killing stop with Hitler's suicide in his 89 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,800 bunker from the Baltic to the Balkans Stalin's, murders went 90 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,800 on and on and triumphant communism conquered China and 91 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,800 North Korea leading to the mass murder of tens of millions of 92 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:37,400 Asian friends of the West. Looking back at the fruits of 93 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:42,700 these two world wars in 1950. George Kennan wrote today. 94 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,600 If one more offered the chance of having back again, the 95 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,400 Germany of 1913 a Germany run by conservative, but relatively 96 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:55,200 moderate people no Nazis and no communist a vigorous Germany 97 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,300 United and unoccupied full of energy and confidence able to 98 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:02,900 play a part again, in the balancing off of Russian power 99 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:05,400 in Europe. Well, there would be objections. 100 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,600 Which from many quarters and it wouldn't make everybody happy. 101 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:13,300 But in many ways it wouldn't sound so bad in comparison with 102 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:16,700 our problems today. Now, think of what that means 103 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,400 when you total up the score of the two world wars, in terms of 104 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,100 their ostensible objective, you find that if there had been any 105 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:28,900 gain at all. It is pretty hard to discern. 106 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:35,100 The price of Britain's victory in 1945 was 400,000 more dead, 107 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:38,300 the fall of the Empire and an end to the days of Hope and 108 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:41,200 glory. And bankruptcy of the nation 109 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:44,700 Britain face socialism at home and your absolute dependency on 110 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:47,800 the United States and the displacement of National 111 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,000 Socialist Germany as dominant power in Europe by a stalinist, 112 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,900 Russia with a revolutionary agenda that posed a far, greater 113 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:59,400 menace to British interests and western civilization. 114 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,800 All the British dominions and colonies. 115 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,800 Now, turn to America for their defense and Leadership for 116 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,900 coming. Belatedly to the rescue of the 117 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:09,600 mother country. America had demanded and taken 118 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,200 title to her estate. Britannia was allotted a Cottage 119 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,200 By the Sea to live out her declining years, but the great 120 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,600 man was given his own statue. In Parliament Square. 121 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:25,200 How America triumphed in negotiating with Stalin, 122 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:29,000 Churchill as we have seen made far greater blunders than had 123 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,900 Chamberlain and With Hitler. He had put his trust in Stalin 124 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,500 believing that. If Britain gave him all, he 125 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:39,700 demanded Stalin would cooperate in building a lasting Peace by 126 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:43,000 March 1946. When Churchill gave his Iron 127 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,400 Curtain Speech, it was apparent to all. 128 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,500 But the incurably gullible that Churchill had been had that the 129 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:54,800 Soviet Union was and always had been a mortal enemy of the West. 130 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:58,500 The Americans had watched the initial crisis from afar on, 131 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:02,200 September 3rd. 18:39 the same day, Britain and France, 132 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,800 declared war. FDR had assured the nation and a 133 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,400 fireside chat. There will be no blackout on 134 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:15,300 peace in the United States. This war was not America's for 135 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:19,200 FDR told his countrymen in 1940 the year of Churchill's 136 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:23,300 Norwegian debacle Dunkirk and the fall of France, FDR won 137 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:26,800 re-election on a pledge while I'm talking to you mothers and 138 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,700 fathers, I give you one more assurance. 139 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,500 I said this before but I shall say it again and again and 140 00:08:32,500 --> 00:08:36,299 again, your boys are not going to be sent into any Foreign 141 00:08:36,299 --> 00:08:40,799 Wars, FDR was lying. But in the election of 1940, he 142 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:45,200 had to Echo America First for even after Hitler had occupied 143 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,700 Europe from the Atlantic to the Vistula America was saying this 144 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:53,800 is not our war though. Derided as isolationist, the 145 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,400 America First Patriots, kept the United States out of the war 146 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,800 until six months after Hitler had faded Russia. 147 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,600 Thus the Red Army bore the brunt of bloody combat to bring Hitler 148 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,700 down as would seem only right for Stalin had colluded with 149 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:13,700 Hitler in the rape of Poland and had launched Wars of aggression 150 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:17,600 against as many nations as his Partners in Berlin. 151 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,600 Not until four years after France had fallen and three 152 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,900 years. After the Soviet Union had been 153 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:27,400 invaded did u.s. Troops land on the Normandy 154 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,300 beaches to open the second front. 155 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:33,000 They are the Americans and British faced, a German Army 156 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:37,400 1/4, the size of the German armies, on the Eastern Front 157 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:39,600 because we stayed out of the war. 158 00:09:39,700 --> 00:09:42,800 Until after the Soviet Union had been invaded America. 159 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,900 Lost 400,000 men while Soviet combat losses are estimated. 160 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,700 Rated at 10 times that how many more US military cemeteries 161 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:58,000 would there be in Europe? Had we had to face a German army 162 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,900 of three million instead of seven hundred thousand troops 163 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:07,100 under Rommel and Vaughn Road instead on D-Day America is the 164 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:11,100 last superpower, because she stayed out of the world wars 165 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:14,900 until their final acts and because she stayed out of the 166 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:17,900 alliances and the world wars longer than any. 167 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,800 Great power, America, avoided the fate of the seven other 168 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,300 nations. That entered the 20th century, 169 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,300 as great Powers, the British French, German, austro-hungarian 170 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:33,400 Russian, Ottoman, and Japanese Empires are all gone. 171 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,500 We alone remain because we had men who recalled the wisdom of 172 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:41,500 Washington Jefferson and John. Quincy Adams about avoiding 173 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:45,800 entangling alliances staying out of European Wars, and not going 174 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:51,100 abroad in search of monsters. Monsters to destroy The Road 175 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:55,400 Less Traveled by after America emerged, as the Undisputed 176 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,900 leader of the West in 1945. However, the shocks reversals 177 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:03,400 and humiliations at the hands of Stalin were greater than those 178 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:07,600 that had caused Britain to declare war in 1939 America. 179 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,700 However, chose a different course embracing the wisdom of 180 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:13,600 George Kennan. America pursued a policy of 181 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,600 containment and conscious avoidance of a third world war. 182 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,500 When Stalin trashed, the Yalta agreement, terrorizing the 183 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:24,700 peoples of Poland and Eastern Europe for whom Britain had gone 184 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:26,900 to war. America was stunned and second 185 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:31,900 but issued, no, ultimate a when Moscow blockaded Berlin in 186 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:34,700 violation of Allied rights Truman responded. 187 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,700 With an airlift, not armored divisions or atom bombs. 188 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,600 When Stalin's agents carried out, the Prague coup in 1948. 189 00:11:42,700 --> 00:11:45,800 Truman did not see in Czechoslovakia and issue that 190 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,900 justified War as Churchill had, When the checks were forced to 191 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:53,800 give up the sudetenland, America's answer was NATO 192 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:57,700 drawing a red line across Europe that the West could defend as 193 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:01,000 Britain should have done in that March of 1939. 194 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:06,200 Instead of handing out an insane War guarantee to Poland and 195 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,000 where the British had failed to line up a Russian Alliance 196 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,600 before giving its War guarantee. America enlisted, ten European 197 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,700 allies before committing herself to defend West Germany. 198 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:23,000 Unlike Churchill in the 1930s, American leaders of the late 199 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,000 1940s and 1950s believe that, while the fate of Poland and 200 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,400 Czechoslovakia was tragic. Both were Beyond, u.s. 201 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,700 Vital interest from 1949 to 1989. 202 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:36,200 The American Army, never crossed the Yalta line. 203 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:40,700 When East Germans Rose in 1953 and hungarians in 1956. 204 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:46,100 Eisenhower declined to act in 1959 Ike welcomed The Butcher of 205 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:50,200 Budapest to Camp David. When Khrushchev built the Berlin 206 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,200 Wall, Kennedy called up the reserves then sent them home 207 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,300 after a year in the missile crisis of 1962. 208 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,000 Kennedy cut a secret deal to take u.s. 209 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,700 Missiles out of turkey for Cruz chefs. 210 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:04,400 Taking Russian missiles, out of Cuba. 211 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:08,200 When the Prague spring was crushed in 1968. 212 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:11,200 LBJ did nothing. U.s. 213 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,700 And action was not due to cowardice but cold calculation, 214 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,300 as to what was worth risking war with a nuclear arms. 215 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,900 In Soviet Union and but was not worth risking War. 216 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:27,000 When the Polish workers movement solidarity was crushed in 1981. 217 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,700 Ronald Reagan, denounced the repression, but he neither broke 218 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:34,800 diplomatic relations with Warsaw nor imposed economic sanctions. 219 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:39,900 Eisenhower and Reagan were not Chamberlain's, but neither were 220 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,900 they Churchill's. Who ruled the capitals east of 221 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:47,300 the elbe was not to them. A vital us interest worth a war 222 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:49,300 they believed in Defending. What? 223 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:52,600 We had not risking War to retake what? 224 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,200 Roosevelt and Churchill had given up at Tehran and Yalta, 225 00:13:56,700 --> 00:13:59,400 Reagan believed America, and freedom were the future. 226 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:04,100 That communism was headed for the ash heap of history that we 227 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:06,400 need. Not indeed must not blunder into 228 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:10,900 a war to hasten. Its inevitable and patience and 229 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:14,400 perseverance were required. The use of proxies to bedevil. 230 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,300 The Soviet Empire and its outposts in Afghanistan Angola. 231 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:21,400 And Nicaragua and carrying a bigger stick. 232 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:25,400 That was the Reagan way. For half a century. 233 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,000 The United States confronted stalinist enemies as evil as 234 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,400 Hitler, but more powerful and more dedicated to our 235 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,200 destruction. Yet America never went to war 236 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,100 with the Soviet Union. We won the Cold War by avoiding 237 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:41,800 the blunders Britain made that plunged. 238 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:47,300 Her into two world wars, unlike the Brits of 1914 and 1939 239 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:52,200 Americans did not feel the need to pull the bully down, if it 240 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,100 meant war with a great power. Such as the Soviet Union of 241 00:14:56,100 --> 00:15:00,900 Stalin Khrushchev and Brezhnev our way was not as glorious as 242 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:03,900 Churchill's way. But Reagan won the Cold War and 243 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:06,000 World leadership without firing a shot. 244 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:10,600 When Churchill who had inherited a world Empire left behind a 245 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:15,300 small dependency to win a war. Without fighting is the greatest 246 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:20,700 victory said Sun Tzu, that was Reagan's achievement replicating 247 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,900 churchillian Folly with the end of the Cold War. 248 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:28,500 Or in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. 249 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:33,200 America was at her apogee. All the great European nations, 250 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,900 Britain, France, Germany. Italy Were Us allies as were 251 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:40,100 turkey Israel. Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and the 252 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:44,600 Middle East and Australia, South Korea and Japan in the Far East 253 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:47,600 in the Reagan Era. Russia was converted from an 254 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,800 evil empire of the early 1980s into a nation where he could 255 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,900 walk Red Square, Armand. I'm with Gorbachev with 256 00:15:56,100 --> 00:16:02,600 Russians, straining to Pat him on the back. 400 million people 257 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,000 in Europe and the USSR had been set free. 258 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:08,800 The Red Army had begun to pack up and go home. 259 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:12,800 The captive Nations looked on Reagan's America as their 260 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,300 Liberator with all the territory and security any country could 261 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:19,900 ask for the first economic political cultural and military 262 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:23,300 power on Earth. America ought to have adopted a 263 00:16:23,308 --> 00:16:26,800 policy to protect and preserve what she had for. 264 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,300 She had everything. Instead we started out on 265 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:34,000 Familiar road. We were now going to create our 266 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,800 own New World Order after 9/11 the project took on urgency, 267 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,300 when George w-- Bush. A president, disinterested and 268 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:46,400 untutored in foreign policy was converted to a wilsonian 269 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,200 ideology of democratic fundamentalism. 270 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,800 Only by making the whole world Democratic. 271 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:56,500 Can we make America secure? Marxism is a religion, Joseph 272 00:16:56,500 --> 00:17:01,800 schumpeter said in 1942 and as James, Jose montagnier, an 273 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,900 economist and student of schumpeter has written to the 274 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:07,800 believer Democratic fundamentalism, like Marxism 275 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:10,900 presents. First a system of ultimate ends 276 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:15,400 that embody the meaning of life and our absolute standards by 277 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,599 which to judge events and actions. 278 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:21,300 And secondly, a guide to those ends which implies A Plan of 279 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:27,200 Salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind or a 280 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,200 chosen section of mankind is to be saved. 281 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:34,800 It belongs to that subgroup of isms, which promises Paradise. 282 00:17:35,100 --> 00:17:39,900 This side of the Grave Democratic fundamentalism added. 283 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:44,300 Montagne is akin to the religious fervor of old Bush 284 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:45,600 professes. His faith. 285 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:49,500 In the ideology of democratic fundamentalism in, his Neil 286 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:54,500 biblical rhetoric as Christ said, he who is not with me, is 287 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:58,600 against me, Bush declared either, you are with us or you 288 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:02,100 are with the terrorists. This war is a struggle between 289 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:06,100 good and evil, the evil ones. Have no country. 290 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,500 No ideology. They're motivated by hate 291 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:11,100 America's. Ultimate goal is ending tyranny 292 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:16,200 in our world after seven years of a foreign policy rooted in 293 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:21,300 such moral Clarity, the world of 1989 has disappeared and America 294 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,100 has begun to resemble the Britain of Salisbury and 295 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:27,000 Balfour. A superpower past, her Prime 296 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,200 with enemies Rising everywhere in Latin America. 297 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:33,800 Castro has found a successor in Hugo, Chavez across the Middle 298 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,300 East, Islamic people's seek to expel us. 299 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,700 We are mired in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and defined by the 300 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:44,000 surviving partner of the axis of Evil Iran. 301 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,800 China may be about to become for us. 302 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:51,400 What Wilhelm in Germany, became for Britain. 303 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,600 Notwithstanding all the neoconservative blather about 304 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,500 our being in Omni power in a unipolar world. 305 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:03,300 We are bedeviled on every continent what happened rather 306 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:05,300 than follow the wisdom of conservative men. 307 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:07,400 Like Kenan Eisenhower and Reagan. 308 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,300 We began to emulate every Folly of Imperial Britain in her 309 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:15,700 plunge from Power. With all our braying about being 310 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:19,900 the indispensable nation and bring them on braggadocio. 311 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,900 We exhibited an imperial. Hubris. 312 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:27,300 The whole world came to detest. There was hardly a blunder of 313 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:30,200 the British Empire. We have not replicated as grey 314 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,100 and Churchill seized on Vaughn clocks violation of Belgian 315 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:38,200 neutrality to put her precook plans for war into effect the 316 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,900 neoconservatives seized on 9/11 to persuade, our untutored 317 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:46,100 president, that he had a historic mission to bring down. 318 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:50,600 Saddam Hussein liberate Iraq, establish a strategic position, 319 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,900 flanking, Iran, and Syria democratize, the Middle East, 320 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:57,300 and the Islamic world, and make himself The Churchill of his 321 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:00,300 generation as Chamberlain gave Awards. 322 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,100 Guaranteed a Poland. He could not honor the United 323 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:07,300 States began to hand out. NATO War guarantees 26 Warsaw 324 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:10,500 Pact Nations, the three Baltic republics and soon Ukraine and 325 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:14,100 Georgia should a hostile regime come to power in Moscow and 326 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:17,000 reoccupied these nations. We would have to declare war 327 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,400 yet. No matter how much we treasure. 328 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,500 The newly, free Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. 329 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,300 Their independence is not a vital us interest and never has 330 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:29,500 been and the threatened loss of their independence cannot 331 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:32,900 justify War. With a nuclear-armed, Russia. 332 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,300 As Britain had a balance of power policy, not to permit Any 333 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:40,500 Nation to become dominant in Europe, the 2002 National 334 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:45,100 Security strategy of the United States, declares Our intention 335 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:48,600 not to permit, Any Nation, to rise to a position to challenge 336 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:53,000 us dominance on any continent and attempt to freeze in place 337 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:56,700 America's transient moment of global Supremacy, but time does 338 00:20:56,700 --> 00:21:00,200 not stand still new powers arise old Powers fade. 339 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:04,300 No power can for long dominate, the whole world look again at 340 00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:06,900 the graveyard of Empires the 20th century. 341 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:12,300 Even we Americans cannot stop the march of history as Britain 342 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,100 through over Japan and drove Italy. 343 00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:16,700 Into the arms of Hitler Bush pushes. 344 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:20,100 Russia's Putin into the arms of China by meddling in the 345 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:23,900 politics of Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus planting us bases in 346 00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:27,300 Central, Asia and hectoring him for running an autocratic state. 347 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,300 That does not pass muster with the National Endowment. 348 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,700 For democracy. Ours is a peculiarly American 349 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:37,400 blindness under the Monroe Doctrine. 350 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:42,500 Foreign powers are to stay out of our hemisphere yet. 351 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:46,000 No other great power is permitted to have its own sphere 352 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,400 of influence. We below self-righteously when 353 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,900 foreigners funnel cash into our elections, yet intrude massively 354 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,200 with taxes, dollars in the elections of other nations to 355 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:03,200 promote our religion of See as the British launched, an 356 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,500 imperial war in Iraq, after their victory over the Ottoman 357 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:08,700 Empire. We launched a war in Iraq. 358 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:12,500 After our victory over the Soviet Empire, never before have 359 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:16,300 our commitments been. So numerous or extensive yet. 360 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:21,300 Our active duty forces have been reduced to 1/2 of 1% of our 361 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:25,200 population. 1/9. The number under arms in May 362 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,600 1945. We are approaching what Walter 363 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,900 Lippmann called foreign. Policy bankruptcy, our strategic 364 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:36,700 assets armaments and allies cannot cover our strategic 365 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:39,500 liabilities. Our commitments, to go to war on 366 00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:42,600 behalf of scores, of Nations, from Central and South America, 367 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:46,000 to the Baltic, and the Balkans, to the Middle East, the gulf, 368 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,300 Japan, South Korea, the Philippines Australia and Taiwan 369 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,400 like the British. Before us, America has reached 370 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,700 Imperial over stretch, either we double or treble. 371 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,300 Our air sea and land forces or we start. 372 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:05,300 Writing commitments or we are headed in examiner oblique for 373 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,300 an American DN Bien Phu. For if the US Army and Marine 374 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:12,900 Corps are stretched to their limit by insurgencies in 375 00:23:12,908 --> 00:23:16,600 Mesopotamia and Afghanistan. How can we police the rest of 376 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:21,200 the planet? We cannot if two or three of the 377 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,300 iou's we have handed out are called in the bankruptcy of u.s. 378 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:29,000 Foreign policy will be exposed to the world. 379 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,300 America is Is as overextended as the British Empire of 1939, we 380 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:37,300 have commitments to fight on behalf of scores of Nations that 381 00:23:37,300 --> 00:23:40,300 have nothing to do with our Vital interest commitments. 382 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:44,800 We could not honor were several to be called in at once. 383 00:23:45,300 --> 00:23:49,400 We have declared it to be US policy to democratize the planet 384 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,900 to hold Every Nation to our standards of social justice and 385 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:56,200 human rights. And to end tyranny in the world. 386 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,500 And to show the world. He meant business, President 387 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:02,200 Bush had Placed in his Oval Office. 388 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,600 A bust of Winston Churchill. Thank you for watching Keith 389 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,600 Knight. Don't tread on anyone and the 390 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,400 libertarian Institute.