Why Won`t U.S. Commit to Winning in Iraq?
GLENN BECK, HOST: Well, apparently Hillary Clinton thinks she`s FDR. And I`ll tell you why she`s not in a second. Also, the Washington, D.C., madam, she says she`s going to name names. Who exactly is on that list? That and more, next.</s>ANNOUNCER: Tonight`s episode is brought to you by "300</s>II: The Quest for More Sweaty, Shirtless Dudes", coming never to a theater near you.</s>BECK: Yes, "300", the movie was No. 1 at the box office this weekend, broke all kinds of records, taking in over $70 million. Here`s the point tonight. America will never ever win another war unless it`s a movie. Here`s how I got there. We`ve become this schizophrenic country. On the one hand, Americans were drawn to the story of 300 Spartan warriors who held off the mighty million man Persian army while fighting for what they believed in. We had no problem paying the money, sending our kids to watch this movie, which by the way, was rated "R", full of beheadings. On the other hand, when there`s actual beheadings taking place, actual horror perpetrated by Islamic extremists, Americans will never, ever see that on TV. Nobody will show it to you. And if they do see it on TV, old people will come out of the woodwork saying how wildly inappropriate that video is. We`ve come to a place in our nation some networks don`t even want to show the Twin Towers collapsing. Not this program. I think it`s important from time-to-time to remember. It is because of political correctness that we will never ever unite. We`re never going to unite and fight against evil, because we have no idea that evil even exists anymore, because we won`t name it. We think we understand what war is because we see it in the movies. But somehow or another, you know, we believe we can fight it without the blood. It is tragic but true. You know what war is without blood? It`s a meeting of the U.N. Security Council. And you see how far that gets us. Now Hillary Clinton gave a speech this weekend at the Center for American Progress. In it she quoted extensively from FDR`s two days after Pearl Harbor, which by the way, I hear was a real event, not just a crappy Ben Affleck movie. In the speech, Hillary repeating FDR said this.</s>SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are now in this war. We are all in it, all the way. Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history.</s>BECK: Wow. She`s electric, isn`t she? Then she tacked on this little coda, a thinly veiled jab at President Bush.</s>CLINTON: That was presidential leadership that understood when American soldiers are in harm`s way, we are all at risk.</s>BECK: My gosh, I can`t believe she said this. Now here`s the problem. Hillary kind of left out a pretty important part of FDR`s speech. What she neglected to mention was -- were these words that FDR said only seconds later in the same speech, quote, "The United States can accept no result, save victory. We are going to fight it with everything we`ve got." Why do you suppose Hillary forget that quote, that quote in that speech? Later, when she was asked whether we should win in Iraq, she hemmed and hawed. When did we as a country start electing people who are unwilling to say what FDR said? When did we lose the will to stand up to a deadly enemy and fight them with everything we`ve got like they do "300"? We`ll pay to watch others do it in a movie. But if we don`t stand up and start fighting this enemy to win, this story will not have a happy Hollywood end. So here`s what I know tonight. We will never ever win another war again ever while Hollywood is shoving bloodshed down our throats, we are consuming it with glee, while eating a giant tub of popcorn and drinking $15 soda. At the same time, any actors and producers who finance these orgies of violence and destruction, they have the audacity to tell us that war is evil? Really? You have no problem making money off it, you bunch of sick despicable weasels. Our kids are watching the garbage you`re putting out. And instead of being focused on the enemy that actually exists, that actually wants to destroy us, they wage war with each other in the schoolyard. The path to victory is simple. To paraphrase FDR, unite, focus and fight to win. Here`s what I don`t know. How do the people in Washington, D.C., miss this? It`s pretty clear. As a society, why do we get so wrapped up seeing evil defeated in TV and in movies yet we can`t summon the same passion to even name a very real, very deadly enemy. Joining me now is Dinesh D`Souza. He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, author of "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11". Dinesh, how did we get here?</s>DINESH D`SOUZA, AUTHOR, "THE ENEMY AT HOME": Well, we`ve forgotten what FDR understood and military strategists from Klautzwitz (ph) to Lao Tsu have been telling us. And that is to win a war, you need two things. You need national unity, unity on your side and you need steely resolve, which is to say will. All the force in the world is useless if you don`t have the will to fight. And this is where I think the war in Iraq is being lost. It`s not so much being lost in Baghdad. It`s being lost in the American mind. It`s being lost on the television screens and the corridors of Congress.</s>BECK: You know, Dinesh, I saw -- I have a 2-year-old son. And on Saturday morning, we get up and we watch old cartoons. And I pulled out Johnny Quest this weekend. And we were watching that together. And I was amazed. Every episode of Johnny Quest, the villain is either Chinese, Russian or Vietnamese. Now these were made in the late `60s, early `70s. You`d never see an enemy actually resemble a Muslim extremist ever. We`re not losing it in the news. We`re losing interest the culture, aren`t we?</s>D`SOUZA: I`m afraid that`s true. And also, these cultural attitudes are now being articulated at the highest levels of Congress. I mean, you now have leading Democrats who want to publish a schedule of American withdrawal from Iraq. You only have to look at this from the point of view of the enemy. I mean, if you`re an Iraqi insurgent, you say to yourself, "I don`t have to defeat the elected government. I don`t have to vanquish the American military. I just have to hang in there, because the other side is already announcing that in 16 months, it`s going to pack up and leave. So victory is assured to my side."</s>BECK: How do you win, in a country that has become so politically correct, the only thing left that we are allowed to tear down are ourselves? The only enemy we can actually name is the United States. How do you turn that?</s>D`SOUZA: I think we have to restore some of that World War II spirit.</s>BECK: How do you do that?</s>D`SOUZA: Well, I think the American people, to be honest, are ready for it. We`re missing leadership on both sides. I don`t think the American people want to lose in Iraq. I don`t think they want to pack up in shame and repeat the Vietnam Saigon-style evacuation. On the other hand, the case has to be made. This is the nature of the enemy. This is what they want to do to us, and this is how we can win. Americans don`t want to be in a losing war. They don`t want to be in a war without a point. I don`t know if the stakes have been made very clear to them. See, I think unlike in Vietnam, when that war ended, it was very bad for the people in Indochina. It didn`t affect us all that much. But here, the radical Muslims control Iran. They are very eager to get their hands on a second major state, Iraq. They have already said that if they do, they will target Egypt and Saudi Arabia. So I don`t think this is a war that we can afford to lose.</s>BECK: Do you see an FDR out there? I mean, everybody is talking about the elections. We`re two years away. Is there an FDR out there?</s>D`SOUZA: Not yet. I mean, with Hillary, I think you see a kind of shameless opportunism. I mean, from the time she`s been in the Senate, she`s been fairly conservative. But now that she`s running for president, you see the incredible power of the cultural left and the Democratic Party. They have the activism. They have the money. So they`re making everybody dance to their tune, who can do the most, if you will, to undermine President Bush. And so FDR was different in that FDA was very partisan Democrat, but for him politics stopped, in a sense, at the edge of foreign policy. He was partisan in domestic affairs, but then he tried to unite the country on the foreign front, and that`s what distinguishes him from the Hillary Democrats of today.</s>BECK: OK, Dinesh. Thank you very much. Coming up, the Second Amendment is under fire in the nation`s capital. All the latest on the Bush -- the push to ban guns in Washington. Also, will the D.C. madam pull the trigger and release the names in her little black book? We`ll tell you why some of the nation`s most popular people are a little -- a little more than just slightly nervous. And a new documentary on Michael Moore raises questions about the filmmaker`s methods. We`ll talk to the producers who actually started out liking him and their liberals. Do not miss this one. But first, you may have missed this this weekend. Osama bin Laden turned 50 over the weekend. I wish we would have send him some cake and some very large candles. But of course, the well wishers came out of the woodwork.</s>ANNOUNCER: Happy birthday, Osama. Osama, happy birthday. You`re not 50 years old, you`re 50 years young. Osama, baby, you don`t look a day over 70. Just kidding. Are you 1? Are you 2? Are you 3? Are you 4? They say it`s your birthday. It`s my birthday, too, yea.