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Sep 11, 2026
John PodhoretzHOST
I mean, he thought America was Baby It's Cold Outside.
John PodhoretzHOST
Meanwhile, while he's sitting there listening to Baby It's Cold Outside, we're fighting in North Korea, we're fighting in the Dominican Republic, we're fighting in Lebanon, we're fighting in North Vietnam.
John PodhoretzHOST
We are taking our obligations as leader of the free world and facing down this existential threat from the Soviet Union very seriously.
John PodhoretzHOST
And then we could finally loosen up, and it was in this 11-year period of loosening up that Osama bin Laden saw his opening.
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John PodhoretzHOST
And for people whose own lives did not feel as though they were being satisfied by American life in some fashion or by the way the world was ordered in some fashion, either because they were ahistorical or because they had psychological problems or because they believed in an ideology that suggested that there was nothing better to democratic capital- from democratic capitalism than other forms of more superficially egalitarian government, uh, that, um, that, uh, we had this war from within, uh, that was the result of our success, not our failure.
John PodhoretzHOST
That was the result of the triumph that we and our system and our ideas and the ideas promulgated in this 250th year of the Declaration of Independence had, had given rise to this-
Eli LakeGUEST
Well, that I think in-- I, I don't wanna give any credence to, uh, the Weather Underground and the radicals, but what they would say is, our behavior and what we did to Vietnam was, uh, incontestable, that they would point to the legacy of racism and Jim Crow, which was still a living memory in 1970, even though we'd lived through the Civil Rights Movement.
Eli LakeGUEST
They would, they-- And this was, in many ways, what animated them was a sense of guilt.
Andrew NeilHOST
We knew America's weakness.
Andrew NeilHOST
We knew about Vietnam.
Andrew NeilHOST
But by and large, you thought America's on the right side.
Andrew NeilHOST
It's a, it's a democracy that does things the right way.
Greg PolingGUEST
And the numbers for the current Trump administration are considerably lower than they were for Biden or for Trump one.
Greg PolingGUEST
So you are seeing the same decrease in US soft power here you're seeing across the world, but it is starting from a much higher point than, say, Indonesia or Malaysia or Vietnam if we're going to compare it to neighboring countries.
Will TodmanHOST
It's interesting.
Will TodmanHOST
So and when we talk about the alliance, for those of our listeners and, and our audience who don't closely follow this, what are the foundation, the foundational pieces of that? Like how-- What, what are the-- What's the core of the relations between the two countries?
John NegroponteGUEST
Um, we've, we've sought ways, uh, to enhance the relationship and also to interest other, uh, affected states in the region, other, uh, like-minded democratic countries, uh, to, uh, join with us, uh, in, uh, taking an interest in the well-being and security of the Filipino nation.
Greg PolingGUEST
You know, I, I would frame this as, um, maybe kind of three acts of, of the alliance, and we are now well into the third act.
Greg PolingGUEST
So the first was the post, uh, World War II, Cold War era alliance represented by the, the military basing agreement, which expired in nineteen ninety-two, and the MDT, which was basically the U.S. using the Philippines as a, as a staging area both for counter-Soviet operations and for the war in Vietnam.
Greg PolingGUEST
You know, phase two, after kind of a ten-year hiatus, was the counter-terror mission that, I mean, really kind of had its root in the nineteen ninety-seven Visiting Forces Agreement, but took off with Operation Enduring Freedom Philippines after nine eleven.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
He recently ordered a batch of Sweetapolita's Birthday Party Sprinkle Medley, which features confetti, sequins, and edible glitter to celebrate his company's 16th anniversary.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
When it came to tariffs, Mr. Davis has paid them on refrigerators and freezers from China and Vietnam.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
Besides that, he did not have much experience with import duties before tensions between the United States and Canada heated up again this summer.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
But as the end of August approached and it appeared that Mr. Trump's 50% tariff on some Canadian goods would kick in, he grew nervous.
Quinn AbigailGUEST
Ever since I left the boat, I was backpacking in Asia for a while.
Quinn AbigailGUEST
I was just backpacking around Thailand and Vietnam, Bali.
Quinn AbigailGUEST
Yeah.
Quinn AbigailGUEST
And then I went to Morocco for a little bit and then went back to Nepal and I did some through hiking in Nepal and in Aparna.
Thom HartmannHOST
But this is far from the first time a president has lied us into war.
Thom HartmannHOST
Vietnam wasn't the first time an American president and his buddies in the media lied us into a war, when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara falsely claimed that an American warship had come under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin and LBJ went along with the lie.
Thom HartmannHOST
Neither was President William McKinley lying us into the Spanish-American War in 1898 by falsely claiming that the USS Maine had been blown up in Havana Harbor.
Thom HartmannHOST
It had caught fire all by itself.
Thom HartmannHOST
Bush's lies that took us into Afghanistan and a bit over a year later into Iraq are particularly egregious, however, given his and Cheney's reason for those lies.
Thom HartmannHOST
In 1999, when George W. Bush decided he was going to run for president in the 2000 election, his family hired Mickey Herskowitz to write the first draft of Bush's autobiography, A Charge to Keep.
Thom HartmannHOST
Although Bush had gone AWOL for about a year during the Vietnam War and was thus apparently no fan of combat, he'd concluded from watching his father's little three-day war with Iraq that being a wartime president was the most consistently surefire way to get re-elected, if you did it right, and have a two-term presidency.
Thom HartmannHOST
I'll tell you, he was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999, Herskowitz told reporter Russ Baker in 2004.
Tom OrenbergGUEST
That was my next location after that.
Tom OrenbergGUEST
We were on base in a clinic, and this young lady saw a Vietnam veteran with a hat and said, Sir, I just wanted to say, you know, really loud in front of everybody, thank you for your service.
Tom OrenbergGUEST
And at the time, you know, that was just unusual.
Tom OrenbergGUEST
I was like, that is so weird.
Tom OrenbergGUEST
Well, because you can –
Jeff EasterlingHOST
No, I see exactly what I think I see what you're saying.
Jeff EasterlingHOST
I feel what you're saying here, because, you know, the way the Vietnam vets return, it's like Greg was in here the other day.
Jeff EasterlingHOST
And, you know, his story of coming back was was different from the ticker grades.
Mike CaltaHOST
It definitely was a, the most horrible time in, in my lifetime.
Mike CaltaHOST
Um, and uh i think every every generation has one you know uh sometimes there are good things and well it usually balances one good thing and one bad thing we went to the moon but we also had vietnam you know i mean they uh we had covid and we had 9-11 all these in the past you know 20 years uh it's pretty um it's pretty insane when you look back and you think about what mass destruction was there how I always joke around and say the Avengers movies, all they do is destroy buildings in New York.
Mike CaltaHOST
How long do you think to clean that up? But the fact that they had to clean all that up and go through all that and rebuild, it's been something else.
GalvinHOST
Have they done that in the Avengers movie? Like made a tongue-in-cheek like this guy works for the company that cleans up all the
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
He recently ordered a batch of Sweet Apolita's Birthday Party Sprinkle Medley, which features confetti, sequins, and edible glitter to celebrate his company's 16th anniversary.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
When it came to tariffs, Mr. Davis has paid them on refrigerators and freezers from China and Vietnam.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
Besides that, he did not have much experience with import duties before tensions between the United States and Canada heated up again this summer.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
But as the end of August approached and it appeared that Mr. Trump's 50% tariff on some Canadian goods would kick in, he grew nervous.
Andrew BairdHOST
Running through the woods.
Ted WelchHOST
Yes, it is, you know, an ex-Vietnam Green Beret and POW uses jungle warfare skills to take on a bigoted police force chasing him through the Pacific Northwest woods.
Andrew BairdHOST
You know where this movie, Mayday, was filmed? Bulgaria.
Ted WelchHOST
Bulgaria.
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