On this episode of the WBC Minicast, host John Rocha talks about the rescue of a downed U.S. Air Force One pilot, the President's tweet about Iran, and more. Sponsors!
00:01:37.480He probably had to use some of his weapons as well to stay alive, was able to get a message to American rescuers, a massive effort by Delta forces both in the air and on the ground, a little bit of help from Israel as well.
00:01:52.820He's safe out of the country. And all those ground forces who did engage in some firefights with the IRGC and besieged police forces, they're all out safely. We haven't heard about any other serious casualties from this. This is a major, major, probably one of the most difficult extractions and rescue missions in the history of the world.
00:02:13.040This reminds me of the Entebbe raid that the Israelis carried out in 1976 on July 4th weekend, no less.
00:02:20.780But this, to me, was also a major Herculean effort by the United States, an amazing effort.
00:02:26.760And don't forget the co-pilot himself, this guy in particular was a weapons officer, his efforts to stay alive.
00:02:34.600He also saved his own life in many heroic ways.
00:02:37.460We're going to find out more about it.
00:02:38.720And if you're a Hollywood screenwriter or a wannabe screenwriter, let me give you two pieces of advice.
00:02:44.340First of all, spend the next couple of days hoovering up every bit of information about this rescue that you can get so that you can write a good screenplay.
00:02:51.300And my second bit of advice is, please don't worry about the ethnicities of anybody involved.
00:02:56.820Please don't make this into a Rainbow Coalition nonsense.
00:05:07.740The Islamist leader of what was then Palestine, the Palestinian-British mandate, al-Husseini, was also known as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spent the entire war as Hitler's guest in Berlin.
00:05:20.980And he did a daily radio broadcast. I'm ashamed to say I'm also a radio broadcaster. That was broadcast all over the Arab world, also heard in Iran, which is not an Arab country, by the way. It's a Muslim country, but not an Arab country.
00:05:34.120these people were absolutely trained by adolf hitler joseph mengele the whole rotten crew0.98
00:05:42.580and that whole rotten crew chose suicide instead of surrender chose radicalism instead of sanity
00:05:50.140every single time and the last thing that hitler did his last order as the leader of germany was
00:05:55.600to flood the subway tunnels of germany because he knew that the german people were hiding out
00:06:01.260in those tunnels so they could survive Allied bombing and Russian bombing attacks.0.99
00:06:06.040If he was going to commit suicide, he wanted them all to commit suicide.1.00
00:06:09.220And that is something that we need to expect from these disciples of the Nazis, the Islamist1.00
00:06:15.340If you don't expect that, you don't know your history.
00:06:18.780Now, President Trump is doing the right thing morally by demanding their surrender, but
00:06:21.860I hope he knows there's a thin chance they will.
00:06:25.200Their response so far has been incredibly defiant, despite their weakness.
00:06:29.360They have an official response. The IRGC has responded to Trump's latest ultimatum by saying that the Strait of Hormuz will never reopen. There's going to be a new world order in the Strait of Hormuz. I mean, just all the fiery rhetoric they could pull out of their turbans. That's what they decided to answer President Trump with, which is really a disgrace.
00:06:50.260because there are 90 million people in Iran, most of whom don't want any war anymore.0.67
00:06:55.340And they're going to put these people in harm's way.
00:06:57.320I talked with Fernando Mateo on many of these stations.