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And it is a glorious Friday, October 19th. Actually, the...what is this?

237th anniversary of the fall of Yorktown when General Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington.

That was a time when we built a country off of dying on our own hills,

for our own beliefs and our own territories and our own values.

This day and age, we like to die on everyone else's hill.

As Americans, all of us collectively, we like to die on the sort of Islam.

We die for one faction fighting another in the Middle East forever.

Spent trillions of dollars, whether it's Afghanistan, whether it's Somalia,

whether it's Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and now we're told we must dump on the Saudis

while they're fighting the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey, Qatar, and Iran.

Because of some guy who may have been killed by then, we still don't have the evidence.

And even if he was, he was a Belonin sympathizer.

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