Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One.

Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plane. It is your host, Eric Erickson, and my show.

I bet you know the name. Yeah, the Eric Erickson jokes. I'm not

that creative. Welcome. The full number 877-97-9-737-4-25. Should you wish to be on the program,

I ensconced in the actual studio of my flagship station.

I got an event to go tonight for my buddy Scott Slate.

I am going to go on a TikTok tirade again.

You all know my feelings on TikTok, but something happened yesterday.

We need to go in the way back machine. We need to get in the time machine. We need to go in the way back machine.

We need to get in the time machine.

We need to go all the way back to May 2nd, 2011.

Roll us back. On May 2nd, 2011, American Special Operators raided Osama bin Laden's location in Pakistan, his compound.

Ordered by Barack Obama, opposed by Joe Biden.

In the compound, they found a letter Osama bin Laden had written to America, his letter to America.

From Osama bin Muhammad bin Laden to the American people, I speak to you about the subject

of the ongoing war between you and us.

Even though the consensus of your wise thinkers and others is that your time of defeat will come.

Compassion for the women and children who are being unjustly killed, wounded, and displaced in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan

motivates me to speak to you. First of all, I would like to say that your war with us is the longest war in your history and the most expensive for you

financially. As for us, we see it as being only halfway finished. If you were to ask your

wise thinkers, they would tell you there is no way to win it because the indications are against

it. How will you win a war whose leaders are pessimistic and whose soldiers are committing suicide?

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