The carnage in Israel continues for a fifth day. Since Saturday, Hamas has reportedly killed more than 1,100 Israelis, wounded over 4,000. The United States has also confirmed at least 22 Americans have been killed in the terrorist attacks.
00:09:11.360We lost people we knew in that moment.
00:09:14.060To see this outrage, I don't think that Israel should be ever asked by any one of us to tolerate having on its border a Gaza Strip filled with 2 million people,
00:09:28.420most of whom want to destroy every single person in Israel.
00:10:34.980All 2 million may not even like Hamas, although all 2 million undoubtedly dislike the Israelis.
00:10:41.100As I said, the millions of people that surround the country hate Israel.
00:10:45.760Even the Arabs who live inside Israel hate Israel.
00:10:49.840When I was last over there, I was really quite struck by it.
00:10:53.440I had several conversations with Arabs who were living in Israel, enjoying a higher standard of living, by the way, in Israel than they would in any Arab country.
00:11:02.200Enjoying better health care, better security than they would in any Arab country.
00:11:07.120And yet all they could talk about was, who do you think we can find that will help us destroy Israel?
00:11:12.620I mean, this is absurd on the face of it, but it's a reality.
00:11:29.740I've visited the Israeli fortifications and lines around it.
00:11:34.040I was admittedly shocked, as I'm sure the Israelis were, that the Hamas fighters breached Israeli security as easily and as rapidly as they did.
00:11:45.880Because I can tell you from having been there, the Israelis had created a very tight network of early warning and control all the way around Gaza.
00:11:54.980So this is another one of those events where the enemy managed to do something that no one expected and no one anticipated.
00:12:02.560The Hamas fighters managed to coordinate, organize, plan, and execute all without tipping their hand.
00:12:10.680And normally, you know, the Arabs are very talkative.
00:12:14.060They're very talkative in every single conceivable way, which makes security for them almost an impossibility.
00:13:06.320They behaved very much like ISIS, Lou, which was pretty reprehensible.
00:13:10.760But you've got to also understand that the Turks and the Iranians are among those who have helped and advised and assisted the various non-state actors like Hamas in the region.
00:13:24.880And they are equally opposed and hostile to Israel.
00:13:29.560And the challenge right now is that this thing not get out of control and become a regional war that could then conceivably even drag in the Russians.
00:13:39.220And obviously, the Chinese in the background will support the Russians and the Iranians.
00:13:43.280So we need diplomacy on the part of Washington.
00:13:47.180They need to get involved and prevent this.
00:13:49.280And I don't see any evidence that anybody's doing it.
00:13:51.700I don't see any evidence that anyone could do it in this administration.
00:13:55.860Antony Blinken had to delete his first tweets calling for restraint, for God's sake.
00:14:02.180Biden didn't speak to this issue for over two days.
00:14:05.980This is not a Jake Sullivan is missing in action.
00:14:09.380And perhaps that's all just to the good, because they are the same people who brought you the Ukraine, the Ukrainian invasion by Russia.
00:14:18.380They did nothing to stop it, to forestall it and to negotiate a way around it.
00:14:25.340When you say diplomacy, who are we waiting for?
00:14:27.920Because there's no one in this administration who has the standing, the intelligence, the talent or the will to to stand up and and to take diplomatic initiatives.
00:14:39.380Well, the more immediate problem, for example, is that the president of Egypt, who just 24 hours ago stated that Egypt would remain neutral and would not involve itself,
00:14:52.880has now announced that he's preparing to send a convoy with humanitarian aid into Gaza through the entry point at Rafah.
00:15:01.780And that was recently bombed by the Israelis.
00:15:04.960But the problem is, you know, the Israelis have cut off the electricity and water.
00:15:10.200They want to make life miserable inside Gaza with the hope of identifying Hamas or getting the people to surrender Hamas.
00:15:17.960Well, that's going to be a very difficult task now, because the Egyptians, they are also under great pressure from within their own country and in the region to provide humanitarian assistance to the Gaza population.
00:15:30.820So the Israelis now have to contend with the question of do we let them in?
00:15:35.900If we let them in, how much do we let them in?
00:15:39.000How far can they go if we don't let them in?
00:15:41.420Do we end up in a shooting match with Egypt?
00:15:44.100The last thing Israel needs is an active front with Egypt.
00:15:48.260And on top of that, you have President Erdogan, who is now saying he's going to talk to the U.N.
00:15:54.820General Secretary as well as to President Putin about next steps.
00:15:59.500He's already said that he's offended by the fact that we shot down one of their drones over Syria, and he will not tolerate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
00:16:10.960So you've got various actors who, for various reasons, are exploiting this.
00:16:17.520But this whole thing could blow up very suddenly into something we don't want, just as we do not want a direct confrontation with Russia in Ukraine.
00:16:25.340We don't want a confrontation with Iran and Turkey or any other major actor in the region.
00:16:32.660You've got to get people out there to defuse these things and, at the same time, ensure that the Israelis can execute this operation and clean out Hamas.
00:16:45.440It's not going to be easy, and they know that.
00:16:50.400If this war widens, if Hezbollah is suddenly introduced into the equation, which would inevitably bring in Iran, if the Syrians become enraged over this and the Turks decide that they want to cast their lot, we've lost control.
00:17:06.960And this will become a war that will grow and grow and consume everyone.
00:17:15.340I do not want our troops engaged in any war, no matter what.
00:17:20.400I want a standoff solution militarily if there is to be a military solution and involvement.
00:17:27.480But I am very suspicious about the talent and the abilities of the general officers of the United States military right now.
00:17:35.520I know the civilian leadership is absolutely bonkers.
00:17:39.580And I literally would break into a sweat at the thought that our commander-in-chief would be Joe Biden responding to the threats that you just talked about.
00:17:49.320We're talking with Colonel Doug McGregor.
00:18:01.360We're talking with Colonel Doug McGregor.
00:18:03.220We're talking about the United Nations and its concerns about what is happening in Israel, the Gaza Strip, the Middle East broadly.
00:18:10.920The United Nations actually admonishing the Israeli government to remember that under international law, no retaliation against Hamas is acceptable and is, in fact, in breach of international law.
00:18:29.560Your reaction to that statement from the United Nations, Doug?
00:18:34.360Well, I think there's a reason why we ignore the U.N. most of the time.
00:18:46.160As I said, they've amassed 470,000 troops.
00:18:49.460They have excellent technology, excellent weapon systems.
00:18:52.720The only thing they may not have enough of, but we don't know as yet, is ammunition, because they shipped a huge quantity of their artillery ammunition to Ukraine at our insistence.
00:19:04.340And they're going to need a lot of artillery ammunition.
00:19:07.420But the bottom line is, you know, they're going to they're going to go after Hamas.
00:19:11.600And they absolutely should, just as we went after ISIS.
00:20:03.400I was shocked to hear Huckabee, who is supposedly a minister, basically say that we are just as involved as as Israel, that this is an attack on us.
00:20:18.320We've got attacks on the southern border and attacks inside our country right now that are as bad, if not worse, as than what you've seen with Hamas and in greater numbers.
00:20:36.900Let me report it right now, what what Colonel McGregor is saying.
00:20:42.500One hundred thousand overdose deaths a year as a result of the fentanyl that crosses that Mexican border.
00:20:50.080It is the controlled by the Mexican drug cartels right now, north and south and over one hundred thousand just in the last three years under the Biden administration and previously under Trump as well.
00:21:02.440We're looking at nearly a half a million deaths of American citizens at the hands of the Chinese and the Mexican government because it defers to the cartels.
00:21:12.920Now, folks, as he's talking about, as Doug is talking about getting our heads right, take a look at that and compare those casualty numbers to World War One, World War Two.
00:21:24.580The Civil War is the only war that would exceed those numbers in our country's history.
00:21:31.600And people are simply blithely going on accepting collateral damage, Doug.
00:22:06.860It controlled the border and policed it.
00:22:09.400It was critical to our national security.
00:22:12.280It's critical today to our national security.
00:22:14.760When you mentioned, well, let's put the army there.
00:22:17.960People look at you and they don't even seem to understand why I haven't figured this out.
00:22:22.660Lou, is it because we're such a large country that not enough of us are personally touched by this tragedy on the border?
00:22:31.100Yeah, I think the answer to that is really complicated.
00:22:33.660But I think foremost amongst the reasons would be one, not until I think we have to credit Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, with this.
00:22:45.220When he started transporting illegals up to New York City, he decided to start showing people what a sanctuary city really was.
00:22:54.780The mayor of Eric Adams has has gotten religion.
00:22:58.580He now wants to he's out begging people, whether it's Colombia, whether it's Mexico, all across Central America, begging them not to send any more illegal immigrants.
00:23:12.980Now, you know, it's just it's just the way the national corporate media is reporting.
00:23:19.800It's in their interest because their corporate owners and the oligarchs that make up media are in line and in tune with Wall Street and all of corporate America, which they want.
00:23:32.200Obviously, those people in here for two reasons, one for cheap labor, two for more votes and they'll lie, cheat and steal.
00:23:40.740And they've done just that for three for 30 years, 33 decades on the border.
00:23:46.680So it's that's where we are now. And something is about something is about to break because it can no longer be tolerated.
00:23:54.480I think you're right. Well, you know, it's very clear that Netanyahu is not going to be there much longer.
00:24:02.360He is going to be held personal response, personally responsible for this breach of security with Gaza.
00:24:19.500And the Israeli armed forces were not where they were supposed to be.
00:24:23.120The Mossad did not do its job properly.
00:24:25.740The focus was obviously somewhere else.
00:24:28.000Some people say it was internal. I don't know.
00:24:30.660But he's going to be held responsible.
00:24:32.280The question is, we have a much worse situation in the strategic sense, confronting us, as you've pointed out, as a result of the open borders policy.
00:24:44.700Who is going to stand up and demand that the people in Washington be held accountable for this?
00:24:52.100You know, when we talk about accountability, this administration hasn't been held accountable for anything because it controls the deep state.
00:25:02.060The Marxist Dems who control this administration won't permit it.
00:25:05.840There's been a cover up since the well, actually, before even the Obama administration.
00:25:12.100But continuing into this, we're looking at a collaboration between the deep state, the Marxist Dems and the Marxist Socialists of Europe and the CCP.
00:25:24.960Right now, those entities and organizations and nation states are more in alignment than the two political parties of the United States are with one another, the Democrats and the Republicans.
00:25:36.300It is a it's a conflict that is before us.
00:25:43.240And the Republicans, bless the poor, the poor, good hearted fools, don't understand that they're in a war, that they're losing and haven't even yet fought.
00:25:52.520Yeah, I'm not sure really that many of these so-called Republicans are really in the war at all.
00:25:58.520I have a feeling that they've sort of merged with the Uniparty.
00:26:39.140Why would you absolve the individual citizen of making the effort to go to the poll to identify himself as an American citizen and a legal resident and cast his vote?
00:26:50.040Why are we demeaning voting as something that you just do when you feel like it online?
00:27:16.500They insult the people they are supposed to represent every day by by doing exactly what you've described.
00:27:23.260There is no accountability because no one to hold them accountable, not the mayor, not the media, not their low information data and information constituents.
00:27:36.100They live and depend on upon the ignorance of the people they were elected to serve.
00:27:44.280It's atrocious, but it's the system and the state of our country right now across far too much of it.
00:28:09.640And, Colonel, we were talking about two wars and Ukraine.
00:28:13.700What is the situation in your judgment in Ukraine?
00:28:17.380And what does the additional conflict in the Middle East add to our geopolitical concerns?
00:28:25.520Well, the first geopolitical concern that Americans should have at this point is that we're having trouble recruiting for the armed forces.
00:28:32.880The United States Army is far below the strength that is required.
00:28:41.520And in addition to that, we're unable to recruit qualified people.
00:28:46.520We've driven large numbers of qualified young soldiers and Marines out of the service over this vax nonsense and, you know, the current social engineering programs, which are offensive and repugnant and divisive.
00:29:00.020So our armed forces are in no shape to do anything.
00:29:04.120And I think the American people need to know that you've been talking about societal cohesion, which is effectively what we're dealing with with this widespread criminality.
00:29:14.040Well, the same thing is true in the armed forces.
00:29:16.820We're our country is not strong and our country is not in a position to take on a major opponent.
00:29:22.220Now, when you look at Ukraine, we've now pretty much exhausted much of our war stocks by shipping everything over to this Ukrainian army.
00:29:30.640And remember, the Ukrainian army, like the Ukrainian state, is helplessly corrupt.
00:29:35.760Ukrainian company and battalion commanders are pocketing the cash that is supposed to go to their soldiers in payment because they never report anyone killed.
00:29:46.760Because if you report a soldier killed, he doesn't get paid anymore.
00:29:49.760So the Ukrainians have lost between 450,000 and 500,000 men dead.
00:29:56.200And those people, in many cases, are still being carried on the army's rolls.
00:30:00.220And that's enriching the battalion commanders and company commanders.
00:30:03.680People that are wounded seriously on the battlefield in Ukraine and the Ukrainian army can't even get evacuated.
00:30:10.520If they want to be evacuated to a real hospital to be treated, they have to bribe the medical authorities and the ambulance drivers to take them there.
00:30:23.360The only thing that can happen now is that things can get very much worse because our refusal to talk to the Russians, our refusal to acknowledge their legitimate security interest in Ukraine, just as we have legitimate security interest in Mexico, means that the Russians will have to advance.
00:30:42.960And if they do, they could end up at the Polish border because there is nothing to stop them.
00:30:48.720And the Europeans are turning away from this.
00:30:51.040The Poles have turned away from the notion of going to war in Ukraine against Russia.
00:30:55.440They realize it's pointless and it's suicidal.
00:30:58.720We are going to lose this battle on a gargantuan scale unless we belly up to the table, admit the truth, the war is lost, the war is done, and try to negotiate some sort of stable peace that excludes the notion that whatever remains of Ukraine will ever become part of NATO.
00:31:19.200Remember that when Ukraine was neutral, I was stationed at the, I worked at Supreme Headquarters of Light Powers Europe.
00:31:25.740And everyone at the time in the 1990s said the most important mission that Ukraine has is to keep the Russians 500 miles to the east.
00:31:35.660And the way you do that is by being neutral.
00:31:41.880That's going to have to be the solution now, or you will end up with hundreds of thousands of Russian troops on the Polish border, the Romanian border, the Moldovan border.
00:31:51.440The Russians don't want that, and neither do we.
00:31:58.120And the sooner it ends, the better, because the longer that drags on and the longer that we fail to contain, if we do not contain this conflict between Israel and Hamas and prevent other bad actors from involving themselves, then we could see a very large regional war become a global conflict.
00:32:50.280We haven't been in this kind of position, certainly since the late 30s, when the Depression obviously reduced the Army and the armed forces in general to a perilously low state of readiness.
00:33:04.800Right now, we've got more problems because we have enormous morale problems, discipline problems.
00:33:48.14043 four-star generals for a force of 1.16 million people.
00:33:54.080And during World War II, when we had 12.2 million men under arms, we had only seven four-stars.
00:34:03.340Gosh, how could we have possibly gotten anything right in World War II without all those extra four-stars?
00:34:09.840Well, we have a military that I'm sorry to say, and I want to say straight up, I appreciate the service of everyone in the United States military.
00:34:19.700But right now, we have a corrupt military, and we have a military that is far from being a fighting force.