Islamists take over Syria in a rapid Assad-kicking (12-09-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] Just for your edification, I did spend this weekend reading social media posts about Syria. So now I am as much of an expert on Syria as I was on deep water submersibles. Okay. Oh, and also the Ukrainian Donbass region.

[00:00:53] Syrian President Bashar Assad, who looks kind of dorky, arrived in Moscow yesterday in a completely surprise twist of events. Who knew that he was so close to Pootie Poot?

[00:01:10] Yeah, he fled his country as rebel forces pushed into Damascus, the culmination of a lightning offensive that toppled city after city like dominoes.

[00:01:20] The last minute flight from Syria was a stunning end for the Assad dynasty, which ruled the Middle Eastern country with an iron fist for 50 years.

[00:01:32] President Joe Biden said, and that the collapse of a regime that killed and tortured thousands of innocent Syrians over the decades is a historic opportunity for the people to build a better future or be ruled by jihadists.

[00:01:49] We'll see, I guess, you know, whichever. It's like a 50 50 chance. Actually, it's probably not even that.

[00:01:56] No, it's yeah, it's probably going to be jihadist. By the way, I did just see this also.

[00:02:05] Naftali Hazoni or Hazonai. An Israeli fighter pilot turned combat special forces.

[00:02:15] Reporting that Israel conquered Mount Hermon, the highest mountain in Syria.

[00:02:22] Its peak is about 2800 meters. Syria's capital, Damascus, is only 40 kilometers away.

[00:02:31] So that means it is now within range of Israel's artillery shells.

[00:02:38] Well, why did it take this mountain? Glad you asked, Pete.

[00:02:42] Well, let's go to Naftali.

[00:02:44] For decades, Israel's northern defenses were overshadowed by Syria's Mount Hermon.

[00:02:51] No longer.

[00:02:52] The most important natural fortress in the region is now in the hands of Israel.

[00:02:58] Israel did it quietly, driving into Syria's abandoned positions and taking them without a fight.

[00:03:05] In the past, Israel's radar units suffered from a significant blind spot, unable to see beyond Mount Hermon and parts of Lebanon from their position on Mount Meron.

[00:03:22] Not to be confused with Hermon.

[00:03:24] This is Meron or Meron.

[00:03:29] So, you've got this taller mountain that blocks the view and so that's the blind spot.

[00:03:36] They can't see through the mountain, right?

[00:03:39] So what Iran was doing was running low-flying drones to infiltrate Israel repeatedly because they couldn't see beyond the side of the mountain, okay?

[00:03:53] Once placed on Mount Hermon, Israel's radar will see far into both Syria and Lebanon, providing early warning of incoming low-flying jets and drones.

[00:04:05] Israel's intelligence can also leverage the peak, placing sensors to conduct surveillance and intercept enemy communications because a lot of the signals are sort of line of sight, right?

[00:04:19] The mountains, by the way, this was also one of the problems with doing communications and drone, either, well, not rescues, but, you know, aid drops in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene hit because of the mountains.

[00:04:36] And you can't, without line of sight, you can't run your drone onto the other side of a mountain.

[00:04:41] You have to go all the way around by foot, you know, or, like, you would like to be able to just run a drone right over the top of the mountain, but you can't do that because once the drone gets on the other side of the mountain, you lose line of sight and the drone crashes.

[00:04:55] So, if you can get a drone to, like, hover up in the air and act as a relay, and so that's what now this mountain will help Israel to do.

[00:05:07] The mountains also provide the perfect cover for Israel's special forces and spies who can now enter Syria more freely, conducting missions under the cover of darkness.

[00:05:19] As the sun rises, Mount Hermon casts a shadow over Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Lebanon, dominating the main road to their northern stronghold in the Beka Valley.

[00:05:33] I think that's how that's pronounced.

[00:05:34] Several of Hezbollah's smuggling routes north of this mountain now have also been cut off.

[00:05:43] Back to the story here at the Washington Times.

[00:05:48] Factions inside Syria had been struggling to force out Mr. Assad for more than a decade during a bloody civil war that resulted in the deaths of more than a half million people and the displacement of six million others.

[00:06:02] Here is why I am giving you this information.

[00:06:06] We have about 900 U.S. troops based in Syria.

[00:06:10] Did you know that?

[00:06:12] There's probably more, okay?

[00:06:15] Like, far be it for me to suggest that the military and the intelligence agencies might be putting people into countries and not telling us, but I suspect the number may be more than 900 that we know of.

[00:06:28] They are there as part of an international mission to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State, which once ruled large swaths of the region.

[00:06:40] There is a really good time-lapse graphic of Syria, and it goes back like 15 years or something, and it shows by color coding.

[00:06:53] You've probably seen something like this similar to World War II and, you know, the territory that is taken by the different actors in the conflict.

[00:07:03] And so the one I saw yesterday was of Syria.

[00:07:07] And, yeah, there was a point, remember, where ISIS under Obama had taken over like three-quarters of Syria.

[00:07:15] And then right around, I don't know, 2017 or so, I don't really know why, what happened.

[00:07:22] Something happened or whatever.

[00:07:24] And then all of a sudden ISIS just gets obliterated off the map.

[00:07:29] Russia and Iran played significant roles in propping up the Syrian government in recent years.

[00:07:37] Moscow's interest was in maintaining its air base and a naval base on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

[00:07:45] This is according to retired General Frank McKenzie, a former commander of U.S. CENTCOM, Central Command.

[00:07:53] Appearing on ABC's This Week, he said, quote,

[00:07:57] The Russians are going to be very hard to keep that, they're going to try, rather,

[00:08:01] they're going to try very hard to keep that base with whatever entity comes into power in the wake of Assad.

[00:08:08] The Iranians need Syria as a land bridge so they can move equipment into Lebanon in order to threaten Israel.

[00:08:18] So they're going to be very concerned about that.

[00:08:21] Iran's government released a statement saying that the future of Syria is solely the responsibility of its people.

[00:08:28] And by its, they mean Iran.

[00:08:30] No, I'm kidding.

[00:08:31] They mean the Iranian mullahs.

[00:08:32] No, no, no, I'm kidding.

[00:08:33] They were like, oh, it's up to you, Syrian people.

[00:08:35] It's totally your call here.

[00:08:39] Did you see the people?

[00:08:41] They went to the palace and they were ransacking the palace.

[00:08:46] You had other people.

[00:08:47] They went into the prisons and they were cutting out, breaking down walls in the prisons and freeing all of these political prisoners.

[00:08:56] And then you had a bunch of the smart ones.

[00:08:59] They went to the bank.

[00:09:01] Like the Syrian national bank.

[00:09:03] And you just see them.

[00:09:04] I mean, they're rolling out of there with duffel bags stuffed with money.

[00:09:09] Damascus collapsed only hours after one of the largest rebel factions, the Islamist military group called Hayat Tahr al-Sam.

[00:09:21] Popularly known as HST or histamine.

[00:09:25] They announced that it had captured the strategic city of Homs on the way to the capital.

[00:09:31] So an Islamist military group has deposed the kind of sort of secular dictator guy.

[00:09:40] I think this is a very beneficial turn of event.

[00:09:44] Look, I'm not like I'm just like I don't have to root for one side over the other here.

[00:09:50] You know, that's a false choice, a false dichotomy.

[00:09:54] You have to either like Assad or you have to like these Islamist militants.

[00:10:00] No, really, I don't.

[00:10:02] I don't have to like either one of them.

[00:10:04] The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center has identified HIST as a coalition of northern Syria-based Sunni Islamist insurgent groups that emerged from the Nusra Front.

[00:10:17] Remember that name?

[00:10:18] The Nusra Front?

[00:10:22] Yeah, that was Al-Qaeda.

[00:10:24] They're still there.

[00:10:25] Yeah, that was their branch in Syria, Nusra Front.

[00:10:29] Led by Abu Mohammed al-Ghalani, the HST is thought to have between 5,000 to 10,000 members.

[00:10:35] The U.S. and other governments have designated HST as a terrorist organization.

[00:10:41] So we got that going for us now, too, in Syria with our 900 troops stationed there.

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[00:11:50] Yeah, kind of bouncing all over the place because lots of stuff happening today.

[00:11:55] Daniel Penny was acquitted up in Manhattan.

[00:11:59] And the person of interest, a.k.a. the suspect, of the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO was nabbed in Pennsylvania.

[00:12:11] And we've got a name now.

[00:12:13] Luigi Mangione.

[00:12:14] Not kidding.

[00:12:15] That's his name.

[00:12:16] Luigi Mangione.

[00:12:20] And somebody pointed out here he was anti-capitalist, anti-corporatist.

[00:12:26] Yet, we got the.

[00:12:29] Right.

[00:12:30] He was identified at the Starbucks.

[00:12:32] And then apparently a tip came in in Pennsylvania that led to his arrest.

[00:12:38] At a McDonald's.

[00:12:40] Some elderly guy at a McDonald's recognized him and called the cops.

[00:12:46] So, for an anti-capitalist, anti-corporatist, leftist.

[00:12:51] Like, what?

[00:12:54] I know the McRib is back.

[00:12:56] I know that.

[00:12:56] So, I don't know if that's what he was going for.

[00:12:58] But, I mean, come on.

[00:13:00] This is what I mean.

[00:13:01] Like, if you.

[00:13:02] I don't believe these people can actually believe these things.

[00:13:05] If you're so anti-capitalist and anti-corporate.

[00:13:08] What are you going to Starbucks and McDonald's for?

[00:13:13] Maybe he thought Trump was still working the drive-thru.

[00:13:16] I don't know.

[00:13:17] I don't know.

[00:13:20] I got a message here from Russ.

[00:13:22] What is it with all of these kooks?

[00:13:24] They plan their twisted crimes so carefully.

[00:13:27] But then write out a manifesto that, if discovered, would totally lay out their entire motive.

[00:13:32] And remove all reasonable doubt.

[00:13:34] Well, because I think you.

[00:13:39] The people that do this.

[00:13:40] And this is one of the hallmarks of left-wing terrorists.

[00:13:46] They are.

[00:13:46] They're sort of over-educated.

[00:13:49] You know.

[00:13:51] Raging narcissism.

[00:13:52] And so they want everybody to know why they did it.

[00:13:56] Because they feel completely justified in it.

[00:13:59] They're making their case.

[00:14:00] I'm the martyr.

[00:14:01] And here's why I did it.

[00:14:03] And probably suspected that he may end up in a shootout with police and be killed.

[00:14:07] And so he could not obviously go to the grave without everybody knowing how smart he was.

[00:14:15] And how enlightened he was on all of these things.

[00:14:19] And so I think that's.

[00:14:21] It's something in the.

[00:14:23] In the psyche.

[00:14:27] But yes.

[00:14:28] If you don't.

[00:14:29] I mean, if you get taken into custody and now you're going to stand trial.

[00:14:32] Yeah, that manifesto is going to be bad.

[00:14:35] Your defense attorney is going to have their work cut out for them.

[00:14:39] It's going to be difficult.

[00:14:41] Also, I found out.

[00:14:42] Thank you, Steve, who checked into this.

[00:14:44] These are the pressing issues that we investigate during the program.

[00:14:48] Mario and Luigi.

[00:14:49] They are brothers.

[00:14:51] Mario and Luigi are brothers.

[00:14:53] And their last name is Mario.

[00:14:59] Which is really stupid.

[00:15:02] I grew up playing Super Mario.

[00:15:05] And I did not know his name was Mario Mario.

[00:15:08] That's crazy.

[00:15:10] Like what kind of.

[00:15:11] I mean, like what kind of like.

[00:15:14] Uncreative parents do you have.

[00:15:16] Your last name is Mario.

[00:15:18] And you're like, yeah, you know what?

[00:15:18] I like that name so much.

[00:15:19] We're going to give it to him as a first name, too.

[00:15:22] And then the other one's Luigi Mario.

[00:15:24] Like when you're calling the kids like, hey, Luigi Mario.

[00:15:27] And then what if you're in trouble and your mom uses your whole name?

[00:15:30] And then it's Luigi Mario.

[00:15:32] And then Mario comes along, too.

[00:15:33] Not you, Mario.

[00:15:34] I was talking to Luigi Mario.

[00:15:36] It's just stupid.

[00:15:37] Just so dumb.

[00:15:38] All right.

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[00:16:08] Luigi is Mario's younger but taller and thinner, I would submit.

[00:16:16] Twin brother.

[00:16:22] I'm down the rabbit hole here, people.

[00:16:26] He was the secondary protagonist of the Super Mario franchise.

[00:16:32] He has lived in Mario's shadow throughout his entire life, developing both cowardly and heroic tendencies.

[00:16:38] He has helped and fought alongside his brother on many occasions.

[00:16:42] Mario Brothers marks his first appearance.

[00:16:46] Right.

[00:16:46] So the first appearance of Mario was Donkey Kong.

[00:16:51] It was just Mario.

[00:16:53] And Donkey Kong.

[00:16:54] Who, by the way, at the time did not have the bow tie or whatever, didn't that or the tie.

[00:17:01] They put that in on for Game Boy.

[00:17:04] I'm telling you, I'm down the rabbit hole.

[00:17:06] I did not expect to be doing this kind of research during the program.

[00:17:11] But apparently Luigi, because that's the name of the guy that they just took into custody for the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.

[00:17:19] His name is Luigi Mangione.

[00:17:21] And shocker of shockers, he is exactly what I thought he would be, which is, you know, this leftist.

[00:17:30] And went to a $40,000 a year prep school, went to an Ivy League university, spent probably close to a quarter of a million dollars, probably more than that, in tuition.

[00:17:46] Right.

[00:17:47] Meanwhile, railing against the cost of health care.

[00:17:50] Like, dude, you're sucking up all this money for your degree in, I think it's like computer science and stuff.

[00:18:03] Do you think he played, like when he was growing up, do you think he played the character of Luigi in like Mario Kart?

[00:18:09] You probably have to.

[00:18:10] If your name is Luigi, you probably have to play the Luigi character.

[00:18:14] I mean, unless it was like a really lame character.

[00:18:18] Like if I was playing a game and there was a character named Pete, I would play that character.

[00:18:22] Because it's just easy.

[00:18:24] But unless it was a lame character, then I wouldn't play that character.

[00:18:33] Okay.

[00:18:33] I'm going to do it.

[00:18:34] I'm going to do it.

[00:18:36] Gary, welcome to the show.

[00:18:38] Hey, how you doing?

[00:18:39] Hey, I'm all right.

[00:18:39] What's up?

[00:18:40] Okay.

[00:18:41] I used to know somebody from Long Island.

[00:18:43] He comes from Babylon.

[00:18:44] His name was George George.

[00:18:46] I knew John Johnson.

[00:18:49] Okay.

[00:18:50] And did you know that George Foreman's got three, four or five sons?

[00:18:54] They were all named George.

[00:18:56] Yeah.

[00:18:56] And he had like a bunch of kids and like half of them were named George.

[00:19:01] Yeah.

[00:19:01] And every son was named George.

[00:19:04] And then one time there was an interviewer.

[00:19:06] He asked him why.

[00:19:06] He said, well, when I need somebody, all I have to do is yell, George, somebody better show up.

[00:19:12] That does.

[00:19:13] Look, there's an efficiency there that really is unparalleled.

[00:19:17] Yeah.

[00:19:17] I mean, that's where his mind is at.

[00:19:20] I think that was pretty smart of him in many ways.

[00:19:23] Yeah.

[00:19:23] I mean, it's terrible for the kids, but for him, it worked out pretty well.

[00:19:27] Yeah.

[00:19:27] I guess it was George two, George three, George four.

[00:19:30] Who the hell knows?

[00:19:30] Yeah.

[00:19:31] Yeah.

[00:19:31] You would have to number them at some point, maybe different middle names just for legal purposes.

[00:19:36] Yeah.

[00:19:36] Gary, I appreciate the call.

[00:19:37] That is true.

[00:19:38] Yeah.

[00:19:38] I don't know.

[00:19:39] I don't know why people do that to their kids with these names, you know, like Assad,

[00:19:48] like that guy, like that's no wonder he turned into a despotic tyrant with the last name

[00:19:55] like that, but he fled Syria.

[00:19:58] He's in Russia now.

[00:20:00] Oh, and Israeli military troops have confirmed that they had redeployed forces into the buffer

[00:20:06] zone between Israel and Syria known as the Golan Heights.

[00:20:11] So they have taken the Golan Heights.

[00:20:13] Israel has.

[00:20:16] The abandoned Syrian army positions on the Golan Heights will be occupied until the leadership

[00:20:22] vacuum in Damascus is filled, says Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which I'm

[00:20:28] going to go out on a limb and say that if it's Al Qaeda that takes over, yeah, you're probably

[00:20:33] not getting the Golan Heights back.

[00:20:36] And so that's.

[00:20:38] Yeah.

[00:20:39] Think about.

[00:20:40] I mean, what was it?

[00:20:41] The I forget.

[00:20:42] I'm not up to speed on all of the various Israeli history and, you know, what they celebrate,

[00:20:49] but like the six day war and like all of the different wars.

[00:20:53] And they.

[00:20:54] They take they take the land and then they celebrate it for like years and years and years.

[00:20:58] Think about the parties and the celebrations that Israel is going to be having for like decades

[00:21:05] to come.

[00:21:06] They already have a lot of holidays.

[00:21:07] I just want to throw that out there.

[00:21:09] They have a lot of holidays.

[00:21:10] They celebrate a lot of different things.

[00:21:12] And so or they recognize I shouldn't say they celebrate because some of them are are grim

[00:21:17] remembrances.

[00:21:18] But I just I feel like I feel like this one's going to go down in the history books like

[00:21:24] this whole period, the last year or so.

[00:21:26] I got a feeling they're going to be.

[00:21:28] Marking these victories, these military victories for a while.

[00:21:34] So good job, Hamas and Hezbollah.

[00:21:37] You guys got immortalized.

[00:21:39] You got posterized.

[00:21:43] So apparently YMCA is not a gay anthem.

[00:21:46] Did you know this?

[00:21:49] I just found this out.

[00:21:50] All right.

[00:21:51] But hang on.

[00:21:51] Let me go over and get Ed on first.

[00:21:53] Hello, Ed.

[00:21:54] Welcome to the show.

[00:21:56] All right, man.

[00:21:57] I appreciate a great show today.

[00:21:58] You were talking about the Daniel Penny case.

[00:22:02] I wonder sometimes, Pete, do we really understand what's going on?

[00:22:06] But I do not think Bragg is that stupid.

[00:22:08] I actually think he's a very bright person.

[00:22:10] I think he knew the case that he brought against Donald Trump was a low percentage that

[00:22:15] it was going to be overturned on appeal.

[00:22:18] And I think he knew the same thing about this case also when they dismissed a manslaughter

[00:22:24] without coming to a jury verdict.

[00:22:28] That just about guaranteed an overthrow.

[00:22:30] But I'm wondering, is he actually getting what he wants?

[00:22:34] If you remember, Black Lives Matter was much more about Marxism than they were about black

[00:22:39] lives.

[00:22:40] So is he trying to create a division and actually bring a war across the United States so he

[00:22:48] can, I don't know, possibly see his vision come to fruition for the United States?

[00:22:53] I don't know.

[00:22:54] That speculation is very expansive and assumes a lot of things.

[00:23:00] So I suspect that he knew both of the cases he brought against Trump and Penny were weak,

[00:23:06] but it served his purpose, which was to signal to the people that put him into office, barely,

[00:23:13] he barely won that race.

[00:23:15] And so I suspect that it was a play for those base voters that he needs to shore up.

[00:23:21] And so he can always say, like, I did these things.

[00:23:24] And if somebody else came along and overturned it afterwards, then he just uses that as fodder

[00:23:31] for his campaign also.

[00:23:33] And then if he's obviously successful, then he gets to tout his success.

[00:23:36] So from a game theory standpoint, it's a win-win for him because there's very little downside

[00:23:44] because outside of New York, like, so what?

[00:23:48] People are criticizing him for it.

[00:23:50] So what?

[00:23:50] He doesn't care.

[00:23:52] Those aren't the people that elected him.

[00:23:53] So I appreciate the call, Ed.

[00:23:55] I think that, yeah, I mean, I don't think he's stupid.

[00:23:59] I agree with you there.

[00:24:01] But I have no evidence to say that there's some sort of larger race war he's trying to prompt.

[00:24:09] Right, so Victor Willis, the lead singer and songwriter of The Village People,

[00:24:14] he has clarified that the hit song, YMCA, not a gay anthem, not a gay anthem,

[00:24:22] and that his wife will pursue legal action against anybody perpetuating the claim.

[00:24:29] Willis thanked President-elect Donald Trump for reviving the song's popularity

[00:24:33] in a lengthy Facebook post the other day, noting its rise to the top of the charts

[00:24:37] after Trump used the song in his presidential campaign.

[00:24:39] The singer also expressed frustration over the persistent, quote,

[00:24:44] misguided framing of the song as pro-gay propaganda.

[00:24:49] He said, come January 2025, my wife will start suing.

[00:24:53] I don't know why his wife has to do it.

[00:24:55] Like, he can't sue?

[00:24:56] What's up?

[00:24:57] I don't know.

[00:24:57] Anyway, my wife will start suing, maybe she's a lawyer,

[00:25:01] each and every news organization that falsely refers to YMCA

[00:25:05] either in their headlines or alluded to in the base of the story

[00:25:10] that YMCA is somehow a gay anthem.

[00:25:13] He said there's been a lot of talk, especially of late,

[00:25:16] that YMCA is somehow a gay anthem.

[00:25:19] As I have said numerous times in the past,

[00:25:21] that is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay.

[00:25:27] Wait a minute.

[00:25:29] Oh, and some, not all of the Village People were gay,

[00:25:32] and that the first Village People album was totally about gay life.

[00:25:36] To that I say once again, get your minds out of the gutter.

[00:25:39] It is not.

[00:25:41] He says he wrote 100% of the lyrics,

[00:25:43] and the writing partner, Jacques Morali, wrote the music.

[00:25:47] I knew nothing about the Y being a hangout for gays when I wrote the lyrics to YMCA,

[00:25:55] and Jacques Morali, who was gay, never once stated that fact to me.

[00:26:01] I wrote YMCA about all the things I knew about the Y in the urban areas of San Francisco,

[00:26:06] such as swimming and basketball, track and cheap food and cheap rooms.

[00:26:10] And when I say hang out with all the boys,

[00:26:13] that is simply 1970s black slang for black guys hanging out together for sports,

[00:26:19] gambling or whatever.

[00:26:20] There's nothing gay about that.

[00:26:22] However, I don't mind that gays think of the song as their anthem, he says,

[00:26:27] but you'd be hard-pressed to find YMCA on their playlist at any gay club

[00:26:32] or parade or other gay activity in a way that would suggest

[00:26:36] it's somehow an anthem to the community.

[00:26:41] Just stop talking, dude.

[00:26:43] Just stop talking.

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