Transcript [00:00] So, I always appreciate listening to [00:01] Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. He's [00:05] uh he's enjoyable to listen to. He [00:06] speaks in this kind of matter-of-act [00:08] southern draw. And he has this kind of [00:12] common sense approach to issues. And I [00:16] came across this clip of him talking [00:17] about Iran and uh and the Ayatollah and [00:21] the Ayatollah's ambitions and why Iran [00:24] is a threat to America. And I think with [00:27] his again his kind of common sense [00:29] approach he raises some points that are [00:32] worth keeping in focus as we're f as [00:35] everyone's talking about you know the [00:36] negotiations and is this an American [00:38] interest and why is it an American [00:39] interest. So let's listen to John [00:41] Kennedy and when we come back I have I [00:44] have another short clip I'm going to [00:45] share with you of something else and I [00:46] have my own thoughts about what he has [00:49] to say here. So, here is again, this is [00:51] Senator John Kennedy on the Iran [00:53] situation. [00:55] >> Um, about 90%, Mr. President, [00:59] of my personal and political philosophy [01:04] is don't hurt someone, [01:08] unless they're trying to hurt you first. [01:12] Don't take other people's stuff [01:16] and leave me alone. [01:19] Let me live my life exercising the free [01:23] will and responsibility that God gave. [01:28] Which leads me to my first topic, Mr. [01:30] President. [01:33] Iran. [01:36] I'm not talking about the people of [01:37] Iran. [01:40] I'm talking about the political [01:43] and religious leadership of the [01:46] government of Iran. [01:49] Talking about the Ayatollah [01:52] and his followers. [01:55] And in America, we separate government [01:57] from religion. [01:59] Not in Iran. Thanks to the Ayatollah. [02:02] The government tells you what religion [02:04] to practice. The government is the [02:07] religion. [02:11] Now, everybody has the right to believe [02:13] what they want. [02:16] Um, I'll tell you what the itella [02:18] believes. [02:20] He uh he's Muslim, [02:27] but his strain of Islam says [02:32] that if you do not agree [02:36] with his interpretation [02:40] of uh of of God, [02:43] then you deserve to die. [02:47] You do. [02:52] and he acts on that belief. [02:55] Now, let me say again, the is entitled [02:57] to believe what he wants. [03:00] Um, [03:02] I was raised a Presbyterian. My my [03:04] parents founded two Presbyterian [03:05] churches. [03:08] When Becky and I got married, Becky [03:11] Becky was a Methodist. I was a [03:13] Presbyterian. We compromised. I became a [03:15] Methodist. [03:18] I'm entitled to believe what I want. [03:22] But the ayatollah [03:24] not only thinks that I'm going to hell [03:27] because I don't agree with his religion, [03:31] he wants to kill me. [03:34] He wants to kill Americans and Israelis [03:37] and anybody who does not believe in his [03:40] giad [03:42] and drink our blood out of a boot. [03:45] and he's acted on that. I don't need to [03:47] tell you, Mr. President. [03:49] I don't need to tell you. [03:52] And he he has acted on that. [03:56] And that's not acceptable. [04:00] Now, a lot of the people in Iran, [04:04] the good people in Iran, don't agree [04:05] with Ayatollah. [04:07] If they agree with disagree with him too [04:09] loudly, he just kills them. [04:14] Um, [04:16] now the Ayatollah, it's actually been [04:18] the case for the last, I don't know, 10, [04:21] 15, 20 years, the Ayatollah has decided [04:24] he wants a nuclear warhead. [04:28] Um, why should we care? [04:32] You know, I I hear from some of my my my [04:34] my fellow Americans all the time, why do [04:37] we need to be involved in in Iran? Why [04:40] should we care? Well, number one, we're [04:42] not trying to start a war in Iran. The [04:46] president is trying to end a war in [04:48] Iran. [04:50] If the Ayatollah gets a nuclear weapon, [04:54] he will use it. [04:57] He could use it against America. He [04:58] could use it against Israel. [05:02] I don't know who he'll use it against, [05:03] and I hope I'm wrong, but he will use [05:05] it. [05:06] And you know what else will happen soon [05:08] as he gets a nuclear weapon? Saudi [05:10] Arabia is going to get a nuclear weapon [05:13] and the UAE is going to get a nuclear [05:15] weapon and Japan's going to get a [05:18] nuclear weapon and South Korea and I [05:20] could go on and on and on. [05:24] And the more nuclear weapons you have in [05:27] the world, the more likely you are to [05:28] have a nuclear war. [05:31] But that's not the only thing the [05:32] ayatollah has done since he became the [05:36] he exports terrorism. [05:39] He was the person behind Hamas [05:42] and Hezbollah [05:45] that has killed that have killed so many [05:48] people throughout the world, not just in [05:50] the Middle East, but across the world, [05:52] including but not limited to Americans. [05:54] That's why we ought to care. [05:57] The Ayatollah also has conventional [06:00] ballistic missiles and is building more [06:03] as we speak. [06:05] Now, those missiles can't reach America [06:07] yet, but they're working on one. And [06:10] they can sure reach our military bases [06:12] in the Middle East. [06:15] And and they can they can they can sure [06:17] reach Israel. [06:20] Yes, sir. [06:22] Yes, ma'am. [06:25] That's why we should care. [06:28] And finally, the if you disagree with [06:32] him, and we've seen it happen on TV. We [06:34] don't know how many people he's hung in [06:37] the last six months. We don't know how [06:38] many people he's tortured. I've seen [06:40] estimates as high as 50,000. [06:44] So that's what this business with Iran [06:46] is all about. [06:48] We're not trying to be the world's [06:49] policeman. [06:52] We're trying to stop the ayatollah from [06:54] being the world's policeman [06:57] who's getting a lot of support from [06:59] President Xi Jinping in China and [07:02] Vladimir Putin in Russia [07:06] and Kim Jong-un in North Korea. [07:11] So that's where we find ourselves trying [07:13] to stop this war. [07:16] And to the ayto I would say toa you're [07:19] entitled to believe what you want. You [07:21] can hate me. You can believe that. I [07:23] know you hate me and what I stand for. [07:26] You know how I sleep at night knowing [07:28] that you hate me? With the fan on. [07:33] That's your right. But you can't act on [07:35] that belief. [07:38] Put down the nuclear weapons. Put down [07:40] the nuclear enrichment. [07:43] Stop exporting terrorism to Hamas and [07:45] Hezbollah. [07:48] End your missile program. [07:51] Stop killing and torturing your people. [07:53] That's all we want. [07:55] And he's doing that as we speak. [07:58] He's at war. We're trying to stop it. [08:03] Uh I'm not about to tell the president [08:05] give the president any advice. He has [08:07] intelligence that I don't have and and I [08:10] respect the fact that he's being very ve [08:12] very deliberate and careful in making a [08:15] decision. [08:18] Uh if we make a deal with Iran, let's [08:19] make sure we have a protocol to enforce [08:21] it because my experience and watching [08:24] the Ayatollah through the years, I [08:26] wouldn't trust this man if he was three [08:28] days dead. [08:30] I wouldn't trust him if he was three [08:31] days dead. [08:33] Anybody [08:35] whose religion tells them [08:39] that in order to be saved, they've got [08:42] to go kill hundreds of millions of [08:44] people. You can believe it if you want. [08:49] But as far as I'm concerned, it's time [08:50] to get a new religion. And that's what [08:53] we're doing in Iran. Let me say it [08:56] again. We're not trying to start a war. [08:58] This war began a long time ago. [09:02] We're trying to end end it. Our [09:05] president presiding today knows exactly [09:07] what I talked about. [09:09] >> Right. [09:11] So that's uh that's Senator John [09:14] Kennedy. Um [09:18] there we go. [09:20] Um now just a couple points about what [09:23] he said here. First, when he talked [09:26] about how, you know, if Iran gets a [09:27] nuclear weapon, then it means that all [09:28] these other countries are going to get a [09:29] nuclear weapon. Uh, I'm not so sure [09:32] about that argument. A lot of countries [09:34] are trying to get nuclear weapons and I [09:35] don't know if it's dependent on Iran [09:36] getting one. But I will make this point [09:38] that he didn't make which we should keep [09:40] in mind. Okay? And this is good for [09:43] these conversations about what's so [09:44] dangerous about Iran getting a nuclear [09:46] weapon. Iran has proxies, right? Hamas, [09:51] the Houthis, Venezuela, Paraguay. [09:56] This is a point that's lost on a lot of [09:57] people. the connection between the [09:58] nuclear issue and the proxy issue. If [10:02] Iran gets nuclear weaponry, if it has [10:05] weaponsgrade uranium and it can put [10:08] together a nuclear warhead, that means [10:10] it could also create smaller tactical [10:13] nuclear weapons. It means that it could [10:14] put nuclear weapons in the hands of its [10:16] proxies and it means that you have [10:18] terrorist organizations [10:20] with smaller tactical nuclear weapons as [10:23] well. Nuclear weapons are not just a big [10:24] warhead that gets fired on the tip of a [10:26] missile. [10:28] Okay, there's other smaller forms of [10:30] nuclear weapons and dirty bombs and [10:31] things. So, preventing Iran from getting [10:34] a nuclear weapon is also preventing its [10:37] entire terrorist network from getting [10:39] nuclear weapons. That's a very important [10:40] point. But the larger point that he was [10:42] making here about just kind of pulling [10:45] back the camera like look, these people [10:46] have a religious belief that believes [10:48] that we're all infidels and want to kill [10:50] us. And this brings up an issue that I I [10:53] talk about all the time, but we we have [10:54] to get it into our heads. [10:57] The conviction [10:59] to destroy evil. The conviction that [11:02] people who are good must destroy evil [11:04] people and fight against them. That [11:07] conviction that led Franklin Delanor [11:09] Roosevelt to declare that World War II [11:12] would only end with unconditional [11:13] surrender. We have to regain that [11:16] conviction because all of this like, [11:18] well, you know, how much of a threat are [11:20] they? How far away are they from a [11:21] nuclear weapon? And is this really an [11:23] American interest? And can they be [11:25] contained? and can we make a deal? All [11:28] this does is kick the can down the road [11:31] and ensure that future generations will [11:33] have to deal with this regime. Forget [11:35] about what they're doing to their [11:36] people. [11:39] It's a lack of conviction about [11:40] destroying evil. Why tolerate it? Why [11:44] allow it to be there? And that's why I [11:45] appreciate so much this common sense [11:47] approach. It almost seems simplistic the [11:49] way he's saying it, but it's actually a [11:50] very deep point and it's a very it and [11:52] if it wasn't so absent in the thinking [11:56] of so many people in media and in [11:58] leadership, it wouldn't be it wouldn't [12:00] need to be made because it's so [12:01] simplistic. They want to kill us. They [12:03] mean it. [12:06] So regardless of how far along they are [12:08] in the process of getting a nuclear [12:09] weapon, it's our responsibility to stop [12:11] it. And this reminds me of this is a [12:16] clip I think about a lot. It reminds me [12:18] of a pretty famous clip of Prime [12:20] Minister Netanyahu long before he was [12:22] prime minister. And you know, well, I'll [12:26] just let it speak for itself. Maybe [12:27] you've seen this already [12:31] here. [12:36] There's a story about two people who [12:40] walk in the forest and are suddenly [12:42] confronted by a grizzly bear charging at [12:44] them. One of them begins to run away. [12:47] The other asks him, "Why are you [12:48] running? Don't you know you can't outrun [12:49] a grizzly bear?" And the man running [12:52] turns around. He says, "I don't have to [12:53] outrun the bear. I have to outrun you." [12:56] That's the attitude, I think, of some in [12:57] the West. They think that they can run [13:00] away from the grizzly bear of terrorism [13:02] and leave a few countries behind to be [13:05] gobbled up by it. But in fact, no one [13:08] can outrun it. The only thing you can do [13:10] with this phenomena is to turn around, [13:12] squarely, face it, confront it, and [13:14] defeat it. And you can only do that [13:16] together. [13:23] That says it all, folks. [13:25] We have a moral issue that is facing [13:28] western civilization. Besides the [13:31] threats, the particular political [13:32] situation, we have a moral conviction [13:35] issue that we need to face the evil and [13:39] we need to defeat it. [13:42] That's it. All right. Thanks so much for [13:45] watching. Drop me a comment. Let me know [13:46] what you think of this. And uh please [13:50] like, share, subscribe, all that jazz. 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