Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America podcast with Lou Dobs,

always in the fight for truth, justice, and yes, our American way of life.

And now, here he is, the Peabody Award-winning Voice of Truth, the Great Lou Dobs.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Great America show where truth, justice, and the American way

are the only way. We thank you for being with us, and here we go. Russia's war against Ukraine

goes on, more death, more devastation, and destruction, sickening sites of war in Ukraine.

The Russians have several more cities surrounded now and are only a mile outside Kiev.

Two weeks worth of war so far, and no end in prospect. And the Western leaders,

blowviate, but say, and do little, and two weeks of this war is more than enough for most of us.

And the rest of the world may not understand how Americans could possibly be war weary in only two

weeks. After all, the war is more than 5,000 miles away from us, at least for right now,

and we Americans do realize that proximity thing could and sometimes does change very quickly.

After all, Iraq and Afghanistan are about 7,000 miles away. Iraq, a little fewer,

Afghanistan, a little more. And before we knew it, we were at war in both places. Most Americans

never did quite grasp the reason for the US presence in far away foreign lands, but there we were.

In Iraq, for about five weeks, and defeated the enemy. But then our military stayed on for another

nine years. Afghanistan, almost two full decades, 20 years. Can you imagine? Hardly seems

possible. But we were there, and we have the grave markers and wounded veterans to prove it.

Combat operations ended in 2003. And then we stayed another 18 years. What were our leaders thinking?

Yes, we're already tired of the Russians war against Ukraine, but don't blame our

weariness on our admittedly short attention spans. Maybe we Americans need to acknowledge that

our test scores are going down, not up. Maybe we should be blaming the two big Marxist teachers'

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