This is Lou Dobbs with the Great America Show midday update for December 17th.

The US and UK Navy shooting down 15 attack drones over the Red Sea

while the Pentagon was reporting almost a hundred Iran proxy attacks against American troops in Syria and Iraq.

66 of those troops wounded, 19 of them with severe brain trauma, and no response from the White House,

no response from the Pentagon, which is apparently caught up in DEI drills and has no time

or resources to protect our forces.

By the way, our military is now the smallest it's been since the beginning of World War II.

1.3 million, and unlikely to improve without massive enlistment bonuses or a return to the draft.

All branches fail to reach their recruiting goals by large margins and huge numbers of service members just want out and they're leaving

in droves.

And with Biden and Lloyd Austin mandating vaccines and pushing Marxist critical race theory and

D.E.I.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion.

There's no wonder.

Producer Barack Obama taking a lot of flack for a Netflix film he consulted on.

The movie Leave the World Behind is the title, and with a line

in the movie demonizing white people, generating a lot of backlash.

And I hope this will remind everybody just who Barack Obama really is and he is

nothing if not divisive. And his vice president acts like he's in a race with

Obama to be most divisive, Biden actually accusing Israel of

indiscriminate bombing in Gaza.

CNN also claiming Israel was using dumb bombs in those airstrikes against Hamas terrorists.

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