The Eric Metaxas Show - Daniel Greenfield

Episode Date: August 17, 2021

Daniel Greenfield from the Freedom Center exposes the disloyalty among the military brass with examples of how they are betraying our country -- and the people of Afghanistan.

to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. I've been traveling. I was in Seattle. And of course, horrible, horrible news in the last couple of days. So I want to start there. But before I start there, I want to mention that we have today, as our guests, Mark Greenfield,

we're going to talk about current events. He wrote a book called Disloyal. how the military brass is betraying our country. And I'll be speaking to Sean Foyt. We don't know if we're going to get Sean Foyt in time to play him in our next segment. We're going to try to get Sean Foyt. Now, I should explain who Sean Foyt is. Sean Foyt has been to Afghanistan.

He served the country. He has been a missionary in places like Afghanistan and Iraq and North Korea. He is now, many of you know, part of a movement called Let Us Worship. And they have gone around the country. They've led outdoor worship events. Thousands of people are coming to faith, finding hope. Sean Foyt is a genuinely brave person. A lot of people who lead worship or in ministry, they avoid politics.

He doesn't. He doesn't really shrink from anything. He's a hero. and I've become friends with him. I should mention I did a podcast with him. I posted the video of it today on my social media and we'll post it again on my email. But in that, he was asking me what would Bonhofer do today?

And that question keeps coming up over and over and over. So I won't discuss that with Sean today, but we will talk about current events in Afghanistan. But I was in Seattle this, this one. weekend. And before we come to, well, it's all mixed together. I was just going to say, I was in Seattle, and I was asked by Pastor Alec Rowlands, who is at Westgate Chapel up there, to do this forum on Sunday night. I preached, gave my testimony at both services on Sunday morning. But in the evening, it was a huge event. There were like 1,300 people showed up to see him interview me.

And I think the first question he asked me, and we sent this out with the email yesterday, so if you're not signed up for our emails, shame on you. Ericmataxis.com. Please sign up for that. ASAP. But he asked me why it was that over the last years I've become more politically outspoken. And I thought, you know, that's a truly great question because everybody seems to wonder. People think, what happened to Eric Mattaxas? Well, what happened to me is nothing. in effect I'm exactly the same, but I didn't feel a compulsion to speak out 10 years ago

in the way that I do now because circumstances were so different. But when you have more than half the country wondering whether the man currently described as president was elected genuinely, I would say this is called a crisis. It doesn't matter whether you think he was elected or wasn't. The fact is that you have half. of the nation, more than half, suspicious that he was not elected. And I think to myself, you can't have a democracy.

You cannot have America proceed with that kind of doubt about the most important thing, an election for the man who's supposed to lead the country. So I was talking to Pastor Rollins about this and how about writing Bonhofer kind of woke me up to the concept that you can't hang. back. Bonhofer hung back initially, and he was eventually drawn in by circumstances to be more outspoken and more outspoken and so outspoken eventually that he went underground to work with German military intelligence to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Why? He knew that Hitler was murdering millions of Jews. He knew that God would hold him accountable. They were in a war,

okay, this was not peace time. This was not we're going to kill the president. This was a war. And he knew that the man leading the nation was brutally murdering and torturing under his watch

millions of Jewish people. I mean, that's just part of it. But so he was drawn in and it wasn't like he did it with glee, but he kind of thought, well, I think, you know, imagine folks, this is the 40s now we're talking about. So I spoke to pastor alec roland's about the idea that as the years of past and things have become

we're not where bonhoeffer was by any means in uh in the in the late 30s but the early 30s everybody thought why has he suddenly uh taken this radical attack why is he talking about these things and he uh because of his experience in the black church in america here in harlem we're in manhattan right now he changed his views he thought i've got to be more outspoken on these issues. So I talked to the pastor about that and I've put it up on social media. I hope you'll watch it. I hope you watch my podcast with Sean Foyt talking about what would Bonhoeffer do today because we're living in radical times. Actually, Pastor Roland said that in Seattle, he no longer takes guests like people who come to visit to downtown Seattle. He says it's gotten so bad. I haven't

been there like in five years that all the box stores have been shut. Macy's, Neiman Marcus, whatever it is, they're shuttered, they're gone. So it's kind of like there is no downtown compared to what there was. He said, I wouldn't go through Pike's market without an armed guard. Now, you know, they're homeless. It's just, it's, so we're kind of in a different place. And so I think that when things change, you have to say, okay, Lord, what do I do now? What do I do today?

You know, I speak up about vaccine mandates. I think people should get educated about the vaccine because we can no longer trust our leaders. We have to think for ourselves because if we want to govern ourselves, we have to think for ourselves. That's a very important point. So I wanted to mention that. I wanted to mention what's happening in Afghanistan. Albin, you saw the images. There were people.

I mean, Biden, this is almost like a setup, like God set him up to give a press conference. I don't know, a month ago or whatever it was, two months ago, saying this isn't going to happen. You're not going to have images like in Saigon. It's not going to happen, not going to happen. And then boom, here it is. Images precisely like in Saigon, hundreds of people clamoring to get on flights out of this killing field. That's what it is.

We know that the Taliban, they're going door to door to find out, did you work with the Americans? Because if you did, we're coming back and we're going to kill you. That's what we left behind in this country. And the images remind you of 9-11, where people were coming out of the buildings, jumping out of the buildings, people falling off of these planes. It is so incredibly sad. That is the most horrible thing. I posted that on Twitter. I said, how can it be that this is happening right now? Because we're all, we have our lives.

I mean, the other day, who was on this program, Alan Dershowitz? He said, I think Biden is the right man for now. He said that he's, he's calm the nation or whatever. Like, yeah, he's calm the nation by, like, sucking his thumb with the blanket. Like, you know, he's taking a nap. The nation is We're in free fall, and we have projected such weakness that the Taliban has taken over and undone 20 years. The left knows how to steal an election, but they don't know how to run a country. It's that simple. The left knows how to steal an election, but they don't know how to run a country. That is true.

I'm going to say true. Thank you. We should put that in the Ask Metaxus on Thursday, and I'm going to say true, true or false, true. So anyway, but the image of people clinging to planes as they take off, can we imagine the level of desperation folks? Now, again, whether we ought to be in Afghanistan or how we ought to be there, but the fact is, I also posted on Twitter this morning a clip of somebody explaining exactly what we might have done and what people were counseling the Biden administration to do and what they didn't do. it is a it's a nightmare it's the proverbial dumpster fire

except it's much worse than that but it's projecting American weakness and so we're going to be talking about that today with both of my guests and Sean Foyt and I will be involved while he's leading a let us worship event on 9-11

on the mall in D.C. Now when you look back 20 years on 9-11 it's going to be a totally different event so maybe we'll get General Millie to speak. Just kidding. Hey, folks, we'll be right back.

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Daniel Greenfield is an expert on Islamic terrorism and on Israel. He's also an investigative journalist at front page mag.com. Daniel Greenfield, welcome. Thank you so much for having me on. Well, this is an important issue we're talking about. You have written something for the David Horowitz Foundation for the Freedom Center called how the military brass is betraying our country. The title of it is disloyal, how the military brass is betraying our country.

I want to talk to you about the larger subject of our military, our disloyal military, including General Mark Millie, who I think is at least despicable. But before we get into that, I want to talk to you about what's going on today in the Middle East. This is not unrelated. What views do you have on what is transpiring right now as a result of Biden's decision to pull out what looks like precipitously, putting many lives in danger, to say the least? It's a precipitous pull out. It's one that has absolutely made America look impotent, weak, and incapable of doing even the simplest things, like evacuating civilians before the military.

And Iran is definitely getting the message. It's going ahead and saying that it's going to be. push as hard as it can because the Biden administration is going to run away from any conflict. And so is every other terrorist group. Now, the sheer amount of weapons, American, we're talking American equipment, artillery, even drones that fell into the hands of the Taliban. Now, the Taliban are not going to be able to use all that equipment. They're going to start reselling it. We saw during Obama's illegal intervention in Libya that all of those weapons, they ended up in conflicts all over the world. The weapons that Biden left behind in Afghanistan,

Americans are going to be killed by those weapons. Those weapons are going to make their way into the Middle East. They're going to make their way into attacks in North Africa. And they could very well even be smuggled into this country for attacks. There's going to be a huge open-air arms market in Afghanistan. Every single Islamic terrorist group, every single jihadist, and the Middle East is going to go there. They might restart the network of training camps,

and we are going to see a lot of bloodshed from that. It's an amazing thing, of course. 20 years after what happened on 9-11, we are seeing a resurgence, a dramatic resurgence of Islamic military groups. And as you just pointed out, they've been emboldened by the weakness of the Biden gang. And what I wonder is whether they will be emboldened to the president. point of striking on our soil again. We know that they have a long memory far longer than we do in our culture and that their plan is to destroy us and if they have to wait 20 years until we lose our cultural nerve and our confidence, as clearly we've done by pulling out of Afghanistan

so precipitously and foolishly. I wonder if you've been thinking about that because we forgot that this was once an imminent issue. Will they strike again? We've kept this nation safe for 20 years. Do you think that they're being emboldened? Do you think they have plans? Well, for us, a 20-year war is very daunting. For them, this is a thousand-year war.

It's over a thousand-year war. And they are thinking in the long term, a Taliban commander said that he wants to see the entire world under Sharia law, under Islamak law. This is their go. Their goal is to create a caliphate. And we've seen that under the Democrats, these efforts take off. We saw just how much al-Qaeda took off under Bill Clinton.

Under the Obama administration, ISIS took off. Now we're going to see yet another resurgence under the Biden administration because, first of all, they see Democrats as innately weak, likely to compromise and cut deals with them. And secondly, the state sponsors of these jihadist groups, because they do have state sponsors, are very much embedded in the Democrat governments, the Prime Minister of Pakistan has just come out and said that the Afghan people have shaken off their chains,

and this is the regime that harbored Osama bin Laden. And yet we're giving them between $500 million to a billion a year. This is what happens on the Democrat administrations, and it poses a clear threat to America because the more of these governments and their terrorist groups see us as weak, the more likely they are to push their luck. The image of Afghani men clinging to an American plane until it's thousands of feet in the sky and then they fall off. Unfortunately, that made me think of people jumping out of the building on 9-11, the image of people falling thousands of feet to their deaths. This will haunt the Democrats forever, which is good. but I'm sorry that this happened.

I want to ask you about this booklet you wrote, disloyal. It's called Disloyal. People can get it at the Freedom Center, David Horwitz Freedom Center. The military brass is betraying our country. Talk about that. What do you mean by that? Well, we're seeing these incredible sites from Afghanistan, and you wonder, where was Millie? Where were the rest of the brass?

Well, the answer is that they were. claiming that the greatest threat from America to America was coming from President Trump supporters. At the time when Millie was doing his whole white rage stick and House testimony, where he claimed that he wanted to understand white rage, meanwhile, the Taliban were eating up Afghanistan, and then we were saying, well, we're going to have to see to find out just what the situation is. Back in the day, the communists, even Imperial Japan before World War II, wanted to divide America around race. they were hoping to create fifth pounds within the United States. Right now, Democrats are doing it through critical race theory, but the military brass are helping them.

During the Black Lives Matter riots, Millie, the rest of the branch service chiefs went ahead and they said, we need to stand down and do an urgent critical conversations about racism. But it wasn't just racism. They began pushing things like systemic racism, white privilege, all ideas that white people are natally evil, that America is in in natally racist. and when you tell this to an 18-year-old kid who is supposed to stand there with a rifle and defend America, and he's already not entirely clear what's going on in missions like Afghanistan, you're completely destroying the effectiveness of the military.

This is a threat to our national security. It's a threat to our future as a nation. Well, I guess I have to ask about General Millie, Mark Millie, I guess is his name, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. When he said what he said, we haven't covered this on this program. It's so disturbing. I almost, I really want to look away. But to have the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff show himself to be so deeply ignorant to the point that I guess it betrays his lack of values.

He doesn't seem to have any core principles. That's the impression I get. When you see somebody responding to the ideology du jour, as though it were something really serious, as though it were, you know, something discovered, he's responding in a way. that betrays his lack of understanding of the deeper issues of things like cultural Marxism. In other words, he's a sitting duck for the people who are trying to divide us and destroy us. And I just wonder how is it that this kind of man could rise to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs? Unfortunately, in the current environment, that's the only kind of man who could rise to the top.

The people at the very top, the four stars are very much politicians, their home base is Washington, D.C., Their big career plan is to retire, become law-based for the defense industry, join the boards of a corporation, maybe run the university. They are very attuned to what senators think, to what members of Congress think, to what the Washington Post thinks. They have very little regard for national security. So they are politicians, as you've said, very aptly. They have no particular principles.

They have no real values. Millie was going along with President Trump until the media made it very clear that he would have to suffer career consequences. He made the switch just in time. The Biden administration talked about dumping him, but they kept him. And, you know, that whole reverse speech that he gave about white rage,

this is very much an effort to keep his job. It may end up losing his job anyway over this, but this is a guy who walks out for his career first and does not care about anything, whether it's America, the Constitution, or his duty. What he cares about is the next step in his career ladder. Unfortunately, this is who is running the military,

and this is what I discussed in the soil. What do you make of the idea that he rejected the use of the military to put down the violence that the BLM, who are cultural Marxist and Antifa, who were cultural Marxists and anarchists, that they were fomenting in our cities? It's absolutely incredible. The report from a pro-Milly book is that when the Black House matter riots were going on, and they had besieged the White House, they set the White House gatehouse on fire. They tried to set fire to the Church of Presidents. And Millie turned to President Trump and said, this is not an insurrection. He pointed to a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and said, that was an insurrection. But in January 60, he claimed that was an insurrection.

So as you said, this is a guy whose only standards are double standards. That's absolutely cynical. Meanwhile, the real insurrection was going on in Afghanistan, and he was paying absolutely no attention because Afghanistan was not good for his career. But D.C. politics was very good for his career. Well, it really does strike me that we're in some kind of war. It looks like World War III because it involves the whole world. History, if we survive into the future, will tell us what this odd period is that we're going through. We're going to continue our conversation with Daniel Greenfield.

The booklet is disloyal how the military brass is betraying our country. Stay tuned. Hey, folks, welcome back. We are talking about this booklet put out by my friend David Horowitz. Freedom Center. It is called disloyal, how the military brass is betraying our country. We have the author, Daniel Greenfield. Daniel Greenfield, let's talk more about how the military brass is betraying our country.

I think, first of all, we have to deal with the title. There is nothing more horrific, more scandalous than the idea that the very people charged with leading our nation and protecting, I should say protecting our nation, are in fact betraying our nation. How is that conceivable? It's very difficult for anybody who's grown up, as I have in this country, thinking of these men in uniform as betraying their country. It's demonic to me.

In other words, it's not merely ironic. It's just staggering that the very people charged with protecting us are betraying us. How did we get there? Well, we got there with a fundamental betrayal of the oath. which is to the Constitution. It is not to democracy. It's so often in the military, we're now hearing that the job of the military is to protect democracy. That is what we saw earlier in the Biden administration,

where you had this massive military presence in Washington, D.C., the militarization of the mall, almost unprecedented in American history, to defend the Biden administration from a threat that did not exist. This was the military very much agreeing to intervene in a civil political conflict. And it saw this as defending democracy. Now, when Democrats talk about defending democracy, they mean their own power. The United States is a republic. The job of the military is to protect and serve, but to their allegiance is to the Constitution,

it is not to democracy. Now, when members of the military aren't increasingly being told that their job is to defend democracy and to advocate for transformational change, which is something we are hearing, that means their job is to be community organizers for the left, and that has really become the agenda of the Biden administration for the military. We often hear about, you know, the rank and file FBI is not like the leadership who are politicians, and we've seen that horrifically played out, born out. The same seems to be true of the military. The men and women in uniform don't seem to be much like General Mark Millie.

If the generals and the leaders in the military are behaving in a partisan manner, they are no longer what they're supposed to be. Is there a way to change this? What would the game plan be to change things so that people like General Mark Millie would not rise to where they are? Is there anything we can do? It is very important to emphasize that the people on the ground that people are risking their lives right now in Afghanistan are heroes. What we're dealing with is a corruption at the top. It's a corruption in Service Branch Academies. And there needs to be fundamental structural change.

We need to change the system in which presidents simply accept. whoever they're handed to. We need to change the system in which these people, four-star generals, have the plan to go on to lobby for the defense industry, because their job then becomes politics rather than national security. We have to change the entire career ladder where we're rewarding people for their political astuteness rather than their military performance, because that way you get generals who are all about virtue signaling. During the Obama administration, it was about environmentalism. Now it's about racial. justice. It means that they spent all their time virtue signaling to Washington, D.C., instead of

actually producing results on the battlefield. And this is a fundamental crisis because it means that we have the kind of military that the Europeans have, which is really not the military we want. You mentioned also that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the Pentagon's military training program incorporated critical race theory and the un-American 1619 project. How is it possible that these utterly false ideologies, they're not merely un-American, they're fundamentally false, that they would make their way into Pentagon training? I think this is where, you know, most Americans are waking up. We're horrified. And, we think this has to end. We cannot live in a nation that is being protected by people,

indoctrinated with Marxism, with cultural Marxism. How in the world is it possible that things could get that far in the military? It's one thing if it happens at Harvard and Yale, because they've always been, you know, drinking the zeitgeist Kool-Aid. But in the military, I would think that this couldn't happen. How has it gotten this far? One answer, and this is something that most people don't realize, is that that the very same instructors who were teaching on college campuses in, say, Harvard or Yale, are teaching at Service Branch Academies. They're teaching at the Naval Academy. This happened under Bill Clinton. Previously, you had to be actually within the military to teach at a service branch academy.

Under Clinton, you had the same civilian professors coming in, and these are the guys who are absolutely pushing radical agendas, and they're teaching the next officer class. This is a huge, huge problem. Now, people like Millie themselves are products, for example, of Columbia. of the same Ivy League system, and that is bad enough. But the same system has infested, for example, the Naval Academy. In one of the more recent issues you have, a lieutenant commander discussing America's problem with systemic racism and confessing his own bias,

these kinds of things have become routine. And this is the kind of Marxist indoctrination that our troops rejected even when they were prisoners of war in Vietnam. There were people who had bamboo shoots, pushed into their fingernails. They still would not parrot the Marxist indoctrination. Now they do it voluntarily, Ontario because it's good for their careers and because this has been embedded in Service Branch

Academy. It is a huge crisis that some patriotic column that are fighting, but that most people are unaware of. I just cannot believe that we have these traders in our midst. It's just a staggering thing. General Mark Millie and these others, they should be driven out. I don't know how we do it, but we've got to do it. We'll be right back, folks. We're talking to the author of Disloor. how the military brass is betraying our country. Folks, I'm talking to Daniel Greenfield, a reporter at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. How, Daniel, do you come to know David Horowitz?

And by the way, are you in California? Are you in Israel? I didn't even ask you where you are today. I am in California. I'm in Los Angeles, the home of $6 dollar gas, courtesy of the Biden administration. I can't imagine. I can't imagine.

Now, you are a. religious Jew, correct? Absolutely. You take God seriously. I mean, I can tell by your hat, people are listening by radio, don't know, but it's amazing to me that the people in the Jewish community who are serious about God, who is serious about their faith, tend to be dramatically more conservative. I've noticed this in my own building where I live in New York City.

There are a number of Orthodox Jews, politically quite conservative, pro-Trump. What do you make of this strange divide? Because I think when most Americans think of Jews in America, they think of them as liberal. But you are obviously not. It's the same divide that you have among Christians or Christians in quotation marks. There's a survey that I like to quotes from the last days of the Obama administration, which found that Jews who attended synagogue at least once a week were opposed to the Obama administration. those who did not were, of course, very supportive of it.

The really huge shift with Jews is that far more Jews are secular than are religious. A minority of Jews in America are religious. And those people, on the other hand, when you look at voting patterns, their districts, particularly in New York, are some of the places where Republican presidential candidates, including Trump, won by some 90%. These are districts that are very much conservative. They're a Republican. Because if you are a religious person, if you understand that there is a religious person,

if you understand that there is a God, if you understand that the Bible is true, then you're not going to embrace any of the left ideologies because the left is its own religion. It is a belief system. It is a rival belief system. And it is one that no serious religious person would ever accept. Well, again, there's an irony because when somebody says you're a Jew, they're not saying, are you a Jew because of your ethnicity or are you a Jew because of your beliefs? It's just, I mean, I should say it's because of ethnicity. And so you know and I know that There are some people that I would say that they can be ethnically Jewish, but they're really not worshipping the God of Israel. And, of course, in the Gentile community, a lot of times, especially Jewish people say they're Christians.

They're not Christians. They're Gentiles. Christians take the God of Israel very seriously. But this divide is, it's never been more pronounced than it has in recent years. I think in part because of the threats to Israel, because of the resurgence of Islamic, jihadism. What are people in Israel? What are they thinking right now of what just happened, what's happening in Afghanistan as we are talking? I think quite a few people saw this coming. They weren't supporting much hope in the guy because they'd seen eight years of the Obama administration. They know exactly what to expect from the Biden administration because it's all

the same people even worse. What they really were hoping was that the United States would at least behave in a way that showed strength, even if we actually weren't strong, even if our leadership was bad. The disaster is obviously bad for America. It's bad for Israel. It's bad for all of our allies because we lose credibility. We lose credibility around the world. China's right now is telling Taiwan, the United States will not stand with you.

We can take you any time we want you. Iran is accepting the very same message. This is the shot heard around the world, and its message is that America is weaken and America's allies have picked the wrong side. It's an amazing thing. I mean, it's a horrifying thing that we in America can be represented by people who betray us, whether it's the military brass you mentioned in your book, Disloyal or our leaders. I even remember under George Bush I first the betrayal in Iraq, I mean, that we did not march on to Baghdad. We didn't worry about what would happen with those who had allied themselves with us during the war. We abandoned them. It really is a terrible thing. And I think that most people know that Donald Trump, if he were in the White House, he would have their back. He believes in the kinds of things we're talking about.

It really does seem like the deep state. It really doesn't matter whether you're a Democrat or a Republican. We know that folks like General Mark Millie, they blow with the wind, whatever allows them to keep power, which is effectively what the deep state is. But I think the problem is that the deep state, in order to keep power, finds itself allying more and more with cultural Marxism. That's the way the wind is blowing, and they go the way the wind is blowing effectively. Yeah, that's what we've seen across the board, whether it's corporate America or the military. Right now, the left has the cultural power. And these people are living in areas where the left dominates.

They're going to these schools, and they're sensing that this is what, this is our moral code. because these people don't really have an internal moral code, they respond to peer pressure, they respond to what the media tells them, and they align with it. And this is the unfortunate tragedy of what's going on with America. The more of the left pushes leftward, the more the people who claim to be in the center but actually have no fixed moral compass, go to the left with them. General Mark Milley made some comments about the riot on January 6th that were so incendiary I've never been disgusted in the way I was disgusted by listening to him.

What do you think his future is in the military from here on in? Well, his future, I strongly suspect, is a scapegoat. There's already talk about making him the scapegoats for Afghanistan. Bottom line, is this guy did everything he could to keep a job under a future Democrat administration, and it might not be enough, which would be a kind of a just award. The question is whether he would be around for a time. hire with dignity and make way for Brown with the Air Force Chief of Staff or whether you'd be humiliating we've forced to resign to atone for Biden's mistake. And, you know, that is pretty much karma.

It is amazing to me, though, that these people, I mean, the idea of greatness, of nobility has effectively vanished among our cultural leaders. The idea of taking a bullet for your team, doing the right thing at a great cost, profiles and courage. It just strikes me that these men don't think that way. They really have sold their souls effectively for a mess of pottage. I believe that's from the Old Testament. And it's kind of they sold their birth rights for a mess of pottage. And it's just, it's astonishing that these are the men leading us today. 20 seconds, final word, if you would. There's a very striking contrast right now between a Marine raider who received a Navy cross for a six-hour firefight with ISIS in which he tried to save two of his buddies and successfully

saved the French soldiers repeatedly wounded and he had to be forcibly evacuated. The contrast between the brass in D.C. and the men in the field could not be greater. And we owe it to those men in the field to have a leadership of military brass that is worthy of them and worthy of our nation, worthy of our Constitution. Daniel Greenfield, God bless you. Thank you for your time and for all you do. Hey there, folks. Hey, Albin, I've got to tell you something very important.

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We're not going to talk about that today. We've got other things to talk about. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Let's take things back into our hemisphere because we've been talking about Afghanistan with our guests. Right now, you know, people always say, what can I do to help? What can I do? What can I do? Well, one thing we can do is help the poor.

When you do those things before God, you know, you're good. You need to give, you need to think about who you can help. We can't fret. We have to act. So we partner with food for the poor every year to feed kids that are starving in places like Haiti. Well, every now and again, when we're doing a campaign with food for the poor, something happens that makes them. things worse. Tropical Depression Grace. So it's not a hurricane's tropical depression, but it is drenching Haiti right now three days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Okay, 84,000 homes collapsed. Now, try to imagine living in an incredibly poor place like Haiti. The government is beyond useless. Okay, so the situation on the ground could not be worse. We were doing this fundraiser

$37 feeds a kid They need this folks Feeds a kid for six months $37 We were doing this fundraiser And then this earthquake hit 84,000 homes collapsed Drenching Turential Rains

So Actually courtesy of NBC News We have this clip we'd like to play To tell you about the situation in Haiti The massive quake of flattening buildings across Haiti, triggering landslides that cut off access to some smaller communities. Families who lost their homes are now sleeping on nearby soccer fields.

And now Tropical Storm Grace's forecast to hit Haiti bringing punishing rain that could lead to flash flooding and new mudslides. Yet another blow to a country in crisis. Okay, folks, we need your help. Metaxus.com. We have a new banner. It says help Haiti, metaxis talk.com. I'm being blunt. We need your help. This is a bad situation. It was a bad situation. It's a far worse situation. If you want to do something, this is a mitzvah, right? Something good to help people who are suffering right now. You can do it. We need you to help. They're poised to dispatch. I have my notes. Eight 40-foot containers and four trucks to this region containing canned goods, rice, beans, evaporated milk, other emergency. All they need is some money. because they've already got the goods, but to get them there, they need our help.

It's why they come to us. Please go to metaxistock.com, click on that banner, or you can make a phone call. There are many people listening to this program. It would mean nothing to you to give a good amount of money. 844-863 Hope. Please take advantage. This is a moment. These people need our help.

844-863 Hope. 844-8663 Hope. 844-863 Hope. or go to metaxis talk.com. Click on the banner. We desperately need your help. Today is the day. 844-863 hope.

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