America vs. Americans by Leonard Peikoff
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- Leonard Peikoff analyzes and rejects - as appeasement-ridden and ineffectual - the entire Bush administration response to the terrorist attacks on the United States, from 9/11 until today. America, he says, should have reacted to 9/11 as it did to Pearl Harbor, by declaring war not on Afghanistan or Iraq, but on Iran. The public’s approval of Bush’s policies, he argues, indicates the tragic deterioration of the American mind in the last sixty years, owing to the influence in our schools and colleges of Progressive educators and irrationalist intellectuals.
Recorded April 21, 2003
Outline:
0:05:19 Introduction: Gaining perspective on America vs. the terrorists
0:09:34 Contrasting American responses to Pearl Harbor and 9/11
0:19:42 The war in Afghanistan and the reaction of the people
0:30:42 The war in Iraq
0:35:22 Why did we attack Iraq and not Iran?
0:55:37 Educational brainwashing and its result: a passive, unthinking and too often gutless public
1:01:36 Conclusion
Question period:
1:06:11 Q&A #1 How do you propose we address the madrasas, the schools where radical ideology is taught to children throughout the Middle East?
1:09:35 Q&A #2 How can U.S. military retaliation deter potential future attacks when the Islamic fundamentalists are willing to die, and indeed seek to sacrifice themselves?
1:11:18 Q&A #3 Are there considerations besides religiosity that account for America’s decisions to attack some countries but not others?
1:14:24 Q&A #4 Are Western philosophy and the different thinkers within it responsible for corrupting Islam?
1:18:17 Q&A #5 Have you considered the idea that President Bush’s actions have been consistent with promoting America as the leader of a global-scale police force?
1:20:40 Q&A #6 Can you explain why you believe a World War II-type industrial war is what we should be using to combat militant Islam, when technological advances would allow us to eliminate the leaders with minimal effort?
1:25:08 Q&A #7 As a student, is there something tangible and easily identifiable that I could point to as brainwashing?
1:26:42 Q&A #8 What are the ways in which Iran is promoting the militant Islamic ideology that has become a major threat today?
1:29:23 Q&A #9 Is it morally right for the United States to enter Venezuela to prevent the current attempt by Chavez to create a Communist dictatorship there?
1:31:01 Q&A #10 How would you modify or refine the role of diplomacy in order to combat terrorism?
1:34:17 Q&A #11 Do you believe that the militant Islamists are pursuing this war against us simply because they are jealous of us and our Western lifestyle?
1:35:54 Q&A #12 How would you suggest injecting capitalist ideals into the military?
1:40:16 Q&A #13 What are your thoughts on our failure to secure the U.S. border while we have our military actively securing other countries’ borders across the world?
1:43:23 Q&A #14 Why don’t big corporations and oil companies stop buying Iranian products, particularly oil, in order to break the Iranian government economically, as opposed to the idea of an American bombing of the country?
1:46:23 Q&A #15 Due to the recent rise of religious fundamentalism in the United States, how we can offer an incentive system that would not involve the use of force but would also encourage people to turn away from religion?
1:48:26 Q&A #16-A How do Dr. Peikoff’s ideas on the war in Iraq resonate with those espoused by Dr. Brook in the previous lecture?
1:50:55 Q&A #16-B Does the U.S. bear some responsibility for the current state of events in the Middle East due to our previous actions in the region?
1:53:49 Q&A #17 What political and economic system for the Middle East do you think would be most effective in bringing peace to the region?
1:54:46 Q&A #18 Would you be in favor of a military intervention in North Korea?
1:57:13 Q&A #19 Due to advancements in weapons, particularly chemical weapons (including Anthrax), do you believe that we should engage in more preemptive wars sooner, to protect ourselves?
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A must re-watch, especially today.
Anybody else watching this in 2020 thinking this is just as relevant as it was in 2003?
kalidesu watching this now. And yes! I started watching based on recent conversations on Yaron Brook’s show and because he shared a link of this old video earlier today on Facebook.
Especially when they discuss the supporting of students who are protesting the existing regimes.
even more now .... november 2023
I'm here.
In 2023.
2024!
Can't believe he was almost 70 here! What a guy.
Love this speech. It's a sad account of the attitude of Americans, but Dr. Peikoff also presents solutions and why those solutions will work. Dr. Peikoff and Dr. Brook are a force to be reckoned with.
One of the great thinkers of our times.
starts at 5:10
15:47 Wow, that made me tear up a little.
Fascinating to observe how far the military (along with everything else) has moved from the D1 altruism and skepticism of the Bush years to the D2 nihilism of 2022. Peikoff called it!
Such a great talk. They’re so confrontational with the question askers at the end. 😂
Awesome
This is fucking brilliant
Can someone explain Dr. Peikoff's hostility to the questioner who asked about the violent nature of Islamic doctrine and practices? I understand that Peikoff's point is that faith as such must lead to barbarism, but I am certainly not against directing particular emphasis on the barbarism of Islam, particularly today.
The questioner did go on an extended rant rather than ask a question though, so I don't know how much that factors in to Dr. Peikoff's incredulity.
54:18 Turns out only a few years.
Yaron made an interesting statement ---- "I do not believe in democracy if those are
the kind of leaders it elects." ---- referring to a dictator who is democratically elected
by the people.
democracy is just "majority rules"...and that is dangerous..
1:04:25 Dr. Peikoff has been successfully predictive of America's future with his books, so to hear him say that "there is still time to change our direction, but not a lot of time", is actually scary.
great speech, maybe the presupposition that terror was due to belief is wrong, maybe it was due to negligent intervention on the USA’s behalf? using 1941 is not a good example comparison - different times call for a different analysis
41:14 The USA bombed anti-Iran Iranian fighters. What villainy.
It’s sad to hear how many times “Christianity” is “characterized” by “the (bloody) Roman Catholic Church” 💔📖
“Biblical Christianity” (as a whole) NEVER encourages in “crusades/inquisitions/theocracies”
✔️📖
Why was Kennedy killed?
The war in Afghanistan has finally ended. Over 17 years after this recording...
After a cowardly, humiliating surrender to the Taliban whom we should have mercilessly crushed 20 years ago.
@@alexanderscott2456 u really missed the point...the war was a sham, like alll wars...
Today 2024 our country is being destroyed! What is the thought on economic collapse, censorship online and otherwise, & transgenderism?
The "Not for Profit" for Profit...
Its a mixed economy law.
Chistopher Hitchens supported Iraq war,
I read this essay back in the day and thought it was amazing. It still resonates. I can't reconcile Peikoff's support for Hillary in 2016 against his utter rejection of the existing Marxist Academia. It's a contradiction a philosopher shouldn't make.
Purpose is not method. Voting Hillary was a strategic method for a long range purpose. Trumps anti-reason consistent Pragmatism was more immediately dangerous to individual rights than Hillarys long range Leftism. Trump has severely damaged respect for principles and long-range thinking. Mans method of using his mind is more influential than his ideas. Political philosophy is not the same thing as the practical politics, inc/temporary compromises, needed to get ones ideals.
For The New Intellectual-Ayn Rand
DIM Hypothesis-Leonard Peikoff
@@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 The Yaron Brook Show has been reporting this in grisly detail. Ayn Rand identified the trend in the 1960s. People are literally losing their minds. Brook warned against white moderates accepting the Leftist claim that race is the basic political fact.
New Fascism-Rand, in her Capitalism
Return To The Primitive-Rand
Ominous Parallels-Peikoff
DIM Hypothesis-Peikoff
@@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 All are anti-ideological, Pragmatic fascism.
@@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 Peikoff thinks it will be a religious fascism, unlike the 1940s.
@@TeaParty1776 they both actors...do u see it yet??
iraq war was a joke
2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4
FOR THERE WILL BE A TIME WHEN THEY WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE BUT, ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN DESIRE, THEY WILL HEAP TO THEMSELVES TEACHERS, HAVING ITCHING EARS: AND WILL INDEED TURN AWAY THEIR HEARING FROM THE TRUTH, BUT WILL BE TURNED UNTO FABLES.
THE APOCALYPSE 3:15-16
I KNOW THY WORKS, THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT. I WOULD THOU WERT COLD NOR HOT.
BUT BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WILL BEGIN TO VOMIT THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH
Only 18 mins in and man... This guy has no comprehension of the decentralisation of islam or the extreme hierarchical organisation of imperial japanese society/govt.
They share one essential thing in common: they are both movements that value coercion over individual rights. More importantly, I don't have to understand a gang of thugs to stop or kill them, make their movement non-threatening, and discredit their goals. The Union did not need any scholars of Confederacy in order to end the threat from the Confederate movement.
first; don't confuse all religions ... second; islam did NOT enjoy a high level of civilization in the middle ages ... third; and no christianity did not make the west barbaric.
both of those comments are nonsense.
You are wrong on all counts.
Jesus invented the Internet.
@@MasterofFace if you are talking to me.
no, i'm not.
i am 100% correct.
Liar! Al Gore invented it!
@@MasterofFace i am 100% on all accounts.
From 1:22:00 to 1:25:00 the two at the head table make a great argument for genocide.
I reject the arguments, I recognise the insane hate in these individuals and I further recognise that they are as evil as any dictator/torturer/war criminal that has ever been documented or prosecuted.
This talk is a great example of how free speech is used to create hate to deliberately cause war.
I reject these people and everything that they stand for.
+James V so instead of killing the enemy and winning you want to let them come and kill you in the name of justice? how unjust!
Insane hate of what? Hate of the enemy? Yes, indeed. Hate of enslavement and dictatorship? Again, yes. Hate towards horrible acts of terrorism? Of course! And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that!
Hate is a morally acceptable emotion if directed by reasonable thinking.
And yet no one cares.
Once again, you've never been involved in a war or understood how it ends.
I bet most of the audience are loyal Fox News viewers and believe that Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter are great authors. I bet that most of them are little more than the lump sum of their possessions.
AD Hominum !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reason-guided Objectivism is _radically_ different from conservative religious mysticism and Leftist social mysticism. But, within your hidden, blood-drenched, Marxist economic determinism, you are correct.
Wally Kaspars Unfortunately, your comment is as erroneous as your thinking.
@@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 ?
@@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 Explain.
The nostalgia for WWII-type killing insanity in this talk shows me a Joker-style absolute psychopath.
A supreme psychopath.
Someone who lives, hides and is shielded by the decency of a once beacon nation.
This man-shape made of dust has venom enough to poison a few, granted, but the TOD for the USofA has been called by its own, given the insane expense of killing over 1 million Iraqis, shooting farmers in dirt poor other countries, showing the World that "signature strikes" are ok.
And the true cancer of all of the conflicts, the tail that is wagging the dog, is only so briefly mentioned let alone properly blamed.
Well done, hollow skeleton, voice to the sheeple what will keep them dumb and blind.
Some, perhaps many, are not.
Because self defense is equivalent to assault, retaliatory force is equivalent to the initiation of force. Ignore crucial distinctions much?
Clearly a person who doesn't understand anything, or has never had to fought for something before.
The only reason to enter a war is because people have come to kill you, they offer death, and you can only return in mutual trade their own death.
The only way to go to war is with a voluntary army. No psychopaths could control an objectivism army.
Psychologizing; Circumstancial Ad Hominem; Petitio Principii (as thinking passed the sale); Aggressive Ad Hominem; Irrelevant Conclusion
This dude is an insane
Because he is rational
Insanely good