The Candace Owens Show: Lisa Daftari | Candace Owens Show

thank you very much police is gonna need it stuck in here with you don't be nervous okay you guys ready okay ladies and gentlemen we are rolling in to another episode of the Candis Owens show and I have to tell you I have been absolutely obsessed with Iran lately I think a lot of Americans are given the recent news that we killed Salome knee I'm saying his name wrong I've just learned actually it's soleimani because I am here with Lisa deft Ari who is an Iranian guess who specializes in a lot of foreign policy Lisa is the founder and managing editor of foreign desk at foreign desk news.com Lisa welcome to the Candice Owen show thank you so much for having me I'm a huge fan of yours thank you many years I've been following your trajectory and I've always had so much admiration for someone who takes their personal belief no matter how unpopular it may be and and literally turns it into a movement you're tremendous and thank you for having me thank you I really appreciate that um so I will say one thing that that I've always tried to be true to myself and I never go out there and pretend to be an expert on everything I think that's actually where a lot of people fall flies they think that they have to be a know-it-all so I spent a lot of my early years being just kind of really focused on black America get them getting very deep into American politics and just recently have really been interested in the Middle East and have been reading a lot of books about it and of course right now America at least the left thinks that we are going to plunge ourselves into a war with Iran and you know a lot about the Middle East you are Iranian yourself both of your parents come from Iran and I just first want to introduce my audience to who you are so they don't say why does this girl have any right to say anything about what's going on so publicly about about you and yourself yeah you know other than the fact that I've studied the region and this is my area of expertise for many reasons both in my coverage as a reporter as an investigative reporter covering this area and counterterrorism for for many many years but you know I had an advantage because these were my dinner table conversations growing up the fact that my parents had to leave Iran and that we could not live there was always on my mind it was the what my curiosity was all about what do you mean your parents could not live in Iran and you had to leave just during the Revolution this is my father left before the Revolution he was basically a study abroad students to New York so he you know had that advantage of speaking English and being there before but he had all you know his hopes and dreams were to become a doctor and go back to Iran and practice there that my parents left just before the Revolution my mother a year before when they got married and they moved to New York thinking well this might be a temporary thing we'll just stay out of the country and we'll go back when things calm down but as things got more and more tumultuous at the beginnings of the Iranian Revolution in 1979 they stayed in New York and my the rest of our family my grandparents uncles aunts all joined them why can't they live there because they didn't feel safe living there they didn't feel free living there my parents were extremely cognizant of the fact that they wanted to give their children a better future and you know we grew up perfectly Iranian we spoke the language we ate the food we loved and adored the culture but we also grew up very much in love with the United States and the American culture that gave us this amazing home and all these wonderful opportunities so it's it's actually very interesting because people always ask me like you know I sang opera I play the piano I play the violin I speak four languages I played soccer I played tennis you know ideas ballet why and I said because I'm an immigrant and because I grew up with this cognizance that you have this opportunity so you know the hopes and dreams of my grandmother my mother my aunt's or all on my shoulders to take advantage of all of these wonderful opportunities and to make something of myself because that's what they wanted and that's what they wanted for themselves so you know that's truly what I call that's that's my feminist intuition it's not to kind of burn bras but it is to take the opportunities that you're given and say because I'm a woman with opportunities regardless of the fact that you know I'm Middle Eastern or I have dark hair I have been able to do everything and anything I ever wanted to do because I'm in America and you know those dinner table conversations are really what led me to my career choice that's what led me to you know become such a a patriot at heart it's what led me to you know study this region and to set the record straight which I'm still struggling to do particularly as you said in your opening about all the false you know information that's that's circulating about the Middle East well let's so let's actually take it back and first off I want to say I do not recommend burning bras just because it's expensive so I don't do that either but I want to talk specifically about the Iranian Revolution because I think a big issue that we face here in America is that people actually don't have an understanding of history it's remarkable how uneducated people are about history I always make the joke that most Americans don't know that there was such a time before 1776 right they only know things that happened in America pertaining to America but a little little else about the rest of the world and just a few weeks ago you know Colin Kaepernick tweeted his support for the Iranian Iranian regime and said black and brown bodies are always being I'm paraphrasing here but are always being tormented by countries like America and I wrote back to him remember the Persian Empire was that on the thing that ever happened in the world but I want to talk about the Iranian Revolution because I actually have a few friends who whose parents escaped which is the word they used just ahead of the Revolution can you describe what was going on in Iran leading up to the 1979 revolution and how your parents describe that climate right so you know my parents got out probably a little before the that uncertainty began but you can ask almost any Iranian expatriate living here particularly in Los Angeles or all around the United States and Europe people who fled during that time would talk about this buzz in the air and this buzz in the air was created by what Iran ins would describe as you know foreign influencers and these were people like the Ayatollah Khomeini who was you know the architect of the toppling of the Shah and the Revolution you know they made the mistake the Iranian people of believing because a few of their freedoms weren't exactly what they wanted for example you couldn't say death to the shot wasn't it wasn't a completely free press you couldn't you know say those things for example that that their lives could be so much better and they came out onto the streets many out of curiosity and many because they truly believe that their day revolution was necessary right they didn't think about was the next step who was going to take over from this in this political vacuum that they were about to create so they came out onto the streets they have this sentiment we need more freedom we're not allowed to say death to the Shah all of these things and what happened and they then it was foreign intervention it was a revolution that was supported by the United States in many ways by by President Carter at the time you know a lot of Iranians if you ask them they think that President Carter is the reason why they're the Shah fell and they're their country basically crumbled into what it is right now going backwards you know why why do I say going backwards because the Iranian people had such tremendous tremendous potential in the Middle East they were educated the women went to college my mother went to university there's pictures of her in miniskirts that you know this is in the 70s and you know juxtapose that to what you're seeing right now you know women that are covered and there hangs because they are homosexual there hangs because they are you know poets and dancers and writers and because they wrote something on their Facebook page I mean where are the libs on these topics you know if you really care about when you talk about Kaepernick and and other c-list actresses that want to talk about and opine about the Iranian situation go ask an Iranian what they think about the Soleimani killing what they think about their revolution what they think about the mullahs what they think about as Islamic extremism you know that's that that's the truth that we're not hearing and exactly to your initial point that you know we don't have enough information we don't have enough information about history we don't have it enough information about foreign policy and foreign affairs and the only time that we bring our attention to these matters are when it's you know something involving the United States like the killing of some awesome soleimani it's a politicized point no one really cares about Qasem Soleimani he was a butcher he's a terrorist he's an awful human being but people are putting that up against the fact that they don't like Donald Trump well I don't want to go to lunch with Donald Trump because he's like a brash human being well then I'm going to put my support behind a terrorist right it makes no sense what's interesting I read a book and I'm probably not getting a name of the book right but I think it was called inside the kingdom and it was about a woman who lived in Saudi Arabia for a long time and she spent a chapter actually detailing how the Iranian Revolution actually had an echo effect all throughout the Middle East because suddenly everyone looked around and said oh my goodness if that could happen in Iran that could happen here so everywhere in the Middle East got stricter right so describe the climate like you said your mother was wearing skirts there was this you know this idea of freedom srted to emerge in Iran people took to the streets then you have a 1979 revolution and what what was the climate like in Iran after the Revolution which is obviously what it is currently today you look you can compare it to what we saw more recently in Egypt when when a country goes into protest mode they stay in that perpetual protest mode until they feel some sort of stability so unbeknownst to most Americans what causes a person to go out onto the streets and protest it's not these lofty ideas about you know democracy and liberty and justice it's not it's it's it's putting bread on the table it's putting your kids in school it's having opportunities it's it's doing all of that and even though those weren't the initial reasons why people came out on to the streets it was the reason why people stayed on on the streets and once the Ayatollah Khomeni took over he had a hard time harnessing the country back in so what did they do they got themselves involved in the iran-iraq war when you involve yourself in a war when young people are being maimed they're being killed what do you do you call them martyrs you start giving handouts to their family members you rally people around the flag and you bring the Iranians in and make them a bit more pro-government because we have an external conflict and what does that conflict now a full-fledged war between in Iran and Iraq that lasted for most of the 80s right so because of that they basically put the people to sleep and said you know what we're we need you to be with us right now because we have big we have bigger issues young men were sent out to warn so almost every family had someone who was killed or maimed again and with the chemical warfare that was going on in Iran Iraq war you know and and that's when people become you know that that becomes a new normal it becomes what they know and throughout that time was calmer I should say and then in the 90s we began to see student uprisings again and again saying this is not what our parents or we and I ran yeah we protested for it this is not what we wanted and we saw something very similar in Egypt recently in the Arab Spring but you're very right to say that many of the movements we've seen in the Middle East they took a page from the Iranian handbook of 1979 this can happen to us if we create a political vacuum this can happen to us something much worse can come in and usually what is that something much worse it's that extremist Islamic politics because they are well organized they have the funding and they come in and they become the infallible voice of this regime because you can't argue with a theocracy I want to ask a question because you brought up how we see people on the Left particularly actresses and singers really sort of romanticized the Middle East I think would be the right word to say that and I'm gonna use an example here she says some anecdotal evidence I think a few days ago we saw Rose McGowan and she's sort of the ground zero of the me2 movement I think it's appropriate to say issue a statement in support for Iran and actually was a blubbering apology on behalf of all Americans pleading with Iran and saying that we in America live under a dictatorship and it was very ironic because then just two days later Harvey Weinstein who she has been obviously championing against with the me2 movement was found guilty of rape and she gave out a cheer and said hooray and I thought this is really interesting right so in her mind and and rightfully so any a man that rapes a woman is a bad person but the entire Iranian regime is something that she should get on her knees for and apologize or and it's a place that's safe when weighed against America right I'm just interested in how that rationale happens no my only reactions all of us is always how did we get here right how did we get to a place where someone can sit comfortably in their home in West Hollywood or wherever she is and have Stockholm Syndrome for a brutal regime that rape skills that hangs you know and particularly with regards to human rights this regime has been so egregious again you know targeting young young women and men who come out onto the streets they just killed 1,500 people and this guy soleimani who was killed that she had so much remorse about his killing he ordered those killings of the thousand and five hundred he was quoted to say we should have killed a million people to get these protesters off the streets I mean how can you be so hypocritical if you feel so strongly about certain views and as you said correctly you know you should be against you know rape and you should be against you know it should be for women's rights but you can't pick and choose just because you don't like this president the most damaging thing that I've always written about it and always say and I know that that you you do the same type of work is to say whatever you're doing right now and this is talking about political activists and people in Hollywood whatever you're gonna do right now is far going to outlast this president and it's going to be a part of the patchwork of this country and it's going to damage our our political culture our pop culture where we stand I mean look at where we're putting the barometer you're apologizing to a brutal regime that you know shoots protesters that hangs women I mean there's a case you want to compare apples to apples is a case that I covered and I got an interview with the mother of a young young girl Reihana who was hanged because she brought a case against a man who allegedly raped her Wow Wow so let's pause there actually cuz I want to talk about rights or non rights rather for Iranian women and it's something that I've been reading into a bit what is life like and and if correct me if I'm wrong women in Iran are seen their lives are seen as half of that of a man exactly is that correct that's Sharia that's that's that's Sharia law that's Sharia law okay so that is the law in Iran that their value of a woman's life is half that of a man and its literal meaning if you take a witness in two courts that woman is equal to half a person so you have to bring two women to equal one man if you are talking about forget about divorce only a man can bring divorce meaning agree to it if a woman wants out of a marriage she basically has to escape if you divorce the the husband gets the children no questions asked if he's violent if he's an alcoholic if he's a drug addict doesn't matter that these are the laws and with property rights same thing so this is this is the law this is not just a you know a cultural perception of a woman being half that of a man in recent years we have seen many movements that have given a voice to the women of Iran and basically highlighting their their courage I'm sure you've seen a lot of these pictures coming out of Iran where a woman will stand on basically you know in a phone booth or something and she would libre call this the stuffy women's movement it was brought by journalists and activists Massey Ali Nejad she's given a lot of women in Iran a platform to basically voice their opinions now this has gotten a lot of them in trouble a lot of them have been arrested a lot of them have been killed to make an example out of them but I think the women in Iran is as in any culture as in all women around the world these are the courageous women these are the feminists that we should be really championing their voice and their their platforms you know I think that whenever people are stifled they become stifled for a certain period of time and in this case it's very unfortunate because this regime has been in place for 40 years and that's more than one generation meaning the and there was a baby boom at that time during the the iran-iraq war because the Khomeini would encourage people we're losing a lot of children we need to have more children so because of that baby boom we talked about an 80 million population in Iran a large percentage of that 67 percent or more are under the age of 40 meaning this this regime is all they know this is a way of life for them so it within America do your parents don't keep a tight network of Iranian Americans perhaps people that flood at the same time of them at the same time as your parents flood from Iran they do I mean I have a very very my family's very I would say not unique in this way but I think my parents we didn't grow up in an expat community we grew up in northern New Jersey right outside of New York City and my parents actually made an effort for us to assimilate and to you know speak English very well and to they didn't see a conflict between you know keeping our Iranian roots but so being fully fully American is what is the sentiment though what I'm trying to get is what is the sentiment amongst Iranian Americans is something that I'm interested in people that flood this country for an opportunity I mean and you can say the same thing about this in terms of people that have fled from Cuba I mean there's so many different countries that people flee from and then you get to America and you you see people that are saying America is a horrible place to live America is a dictatorship people that routinely can say horrible things about the president who can threaten the president's lives and you know the president's life whether it's in jest or in sincerity and and saying that they hope terrible things happen to the president and they're allowed to do that here because we have freedom of speech right and hearing them say that they're oppressed right that they that they feel like they're living in a dictatorship what is the sentiment amongst the community people that have actually lived under systems of oppression right I think there's there's I mean this is a gross generalization but if I were to kind of break it down for you I think the majority of Iranian Americans particularly those who either fled before the the Revolution during the Revolution or just after the Revolution they remember it very very very well and they they don't take anything for granted their children are all very very highly educated they push their children to assimilate they love this country and they want better for Iran and those are usually the Iranians that push for regime change they're very happy regardless of the political party for any politician any president to push for regime change or to push for you know a better Iran so they don't see when for example when Donald Trump pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal in May of 2018 most of those irani ins that I'm referring to were very happy because they understand that it's a punishment for the regime and not the people even though the people will be sanctioned right so they see the difference and they see that there has to get worse before it gets better and maybe the Iranian people have to you know take that they have to burden take that burden of you know economic hardship go out and protest but it will get better and those that this this this group would be for that another group I would say is is a much smaller minority of the Iranian expats they probably are more recent immigrants and they have a softer place in their heart for the Iranian people of course the Iranian regime I don't know if that also can be called Stockholm Syndrome or if it could be something that they see is you know let's say in the nuclear deal let's use diplomatic means let's you know let's use appeasement as a way of either dealing with the Iranian regime or at least having a bit more breathing space for the Iranian people you know and I I don't understand that argument as well only because we've seen that appeasement doesn't work you know and I think that more importantly lately sorry to cut you off but it could be simply that they're just tethered to the relatives that are still there they are but they're frightened that Iranians who are in Iran I think that's a better that's a better litmus test to this whole conversation right when you say you know I can have sympathy I can't have empathy for the people I'm not there you know I'm not there I can't really feel what the economic pressures but the bottom line is that yes these sanctions are affecting the people but only because the regime is allowing the people to face the burden of the sanctions and then also even if you if you do the if you run the opposite argument I mean when Obama sent a billion dollars in cash today Iranian people the Iranian people didn't see that money they know that right that's the difference that's most important years ago you know the Iranian regime had really brainwashed and running people into saying death to America death to Israel that was their go to protests Allah Akbar death to America death to Israel any protest you'd go to you'd see these these slogans being said what are the slogans today not Gaza not Lebanon I only live for Iran it rhymes beautifully in English and in Farsi so I mean all the slogans rhyme so it's always such an injustice to translate them but in this case a any diversity its nap as in not as analogue not John and fedora Iran so they're basically saying you know stop putting our money into terrorism we know what you're you know they're basically they're wise now they understand they understand that the money that the the government got never went to the main street economy never went to better the lives of Iranians but only went into terrorism and they're very much aware of it you know for every video that comes out about the the funeral of the procession arrived the soleimani a funeral there are so many videos that are sent to me that I that I posted on my website with cakes that say you know way to go Trump or dance parties where they're just showing their feet because they don't want their faces to be shown but celebrations in honor of the killing of Qasem Soleimani right because I did see the images and and to just give just to be clear about what I did see there were tens of thousands of people in his hometown right in Sully emani's hometown that were rushing and mourning his death so that's at some level he was appreciated maybe he was a hometown hero or I can offer you another I would love you okay so this has been for years people would say to me I saw you know the Friday prayer so that's when they give their big sermon that's when they say death to America that's when the big leaders the comedy and the you know all the ayatollahs line up and they give their big sermons on a Friday that's when they would people would say to me but look how many people are there we like yes but you know what a lot of people are required by their work to go there a lot of people are offered free lunch to go there a lot of people are it's mandatory to be there so for the three days that the country mourn Soleimani it was everything shut down all the stores were closed schools were out work was out many people were required by their work to go there the government reported that million people were there it's impossible when you look at the size of the street when you look at the the extensive of the space that they had for them to be there yes thousands of people were there I also see examples of that in history to where people are required to be there and particularly in Russia and Romania a Chou's sq remember but when when that big thing happened on camera he actually required everyone to come out and pretend of the people were happy even though they were suffering under this like evil regime exactly and then one day it tripped forward and you realize that all these people were required to be there is basically a show I think the rest of the world to say first of all that and second of all it's exactly what you always talked about you know this regime went after the lower socioeconomic brackets and that is how they if they do have a following if they do have loyal followers it's because they get checks from the government right so after the iran-iraq war who are the who sent sending their kids off it's not you know it's not the hire and families in Tehran because their kids are at Harvard University it's the lower socioeconomic brackets where they have to send their children off to war their children die or they become suicide bombers or they become you know fill in the blank they get checks from the government and because of that you know you saw videos of Ahmadinejad the previous president where there was the 2009 Green Revolution started in the aftermath of his reelection he would walk down the streets in these parades and he would just hand out money you know in cities where these people would would take to it yeah then we can draw that parallel here in this country as well you know don't drink the kool-aid you don't have to follow the government because they are asking you to because they're considering you the low-hanging fruit right you know think for yourselves and I think with the Iranian people of them those groups are so stifled and their children victims to the government because they're asked to give up their children in in order to support the government let's actually talk about the government I think right now a main concern that a lot of people have is that we're gonna go to war with Iran it's particularly because the leaders of Iran keeps saying that they are going to answer and they're issuing all of these threats and they've targeted something like I don't know something 30 to 50 US targets around the world they're saying that they have the ability to bring a lot of damage - what do you make of those threats well there's World War 3 will not happen I mean yeah and why not because Iran just doesn't have the recent infrastructure realizing the sanctions are working the pressure campaign Trump administration has applied to the Iranian regime has worked it has totally worked in the sense that this was a big hit but even before this hit we saw the vulnerability of the Iranian regime because we would hear these threats every day they weren't reported and again brings us to the fact that we only woke up to this Iranian threat because of Qasem Soleimani this threat existed this chest something that the Iranian regime does was going on every single day will there be a full-fledged war absolutely not they don't have the resources they wouldn't want to get themselves involved in such a war and they would never be able to to show up against the United States Willa's bluffing they're bluffing now but they do have what we could about asymmetric warfare right we can talk about proxy warfare which is exactly what they set themselves up to do after 1979 after this regime took over for 40 years their agenda was to spread their their version of the Islamic state there in the original Islamic state they were the Shiite Islamic state they wanted hegemony in the region they wanted to spread their influence spread their power what did they do they set themselves up and wherever they could so first it wasn't supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon to do their dirty work in the region then it became you know Syria Iraq Yemen Gaza and now Latin America we should be I mean this is we have to wake up to this if not for before now we definitely have to face the fact that we do have Iranian assets in in South America right at the footstep of the United States the whereabouts they've set themselves up in the form of becae G fighters in the form of Hezbollah they've set up cultural centers in places like arou guai in Bolivia in Peru in Brazil in Venezuela of course in Argentina there are cases and there are experts who follow these these influences on the ground there and again something that we haven't been paying attention to but becomes more important now because that's where they could do the damage we can talk about a cyber attack we can talk about a proxy attack but a full-fledged world world war 3 is not in the cards what do you make of their in their influence on Iraq over the years because I think I was reading article and I don't know if it's true so you feel free to correct me if I'm wrong that they really have been able to really spread their influence in Iraq and they've sort of got a stranglehold on it and we're seeing a lot of people and Iraq come out and be in support of them and saying that this should have never happened obviously happened to Baghdad Airport so is that am I reading that correctly are we getting a fair knowledge of what's happening in Iraq right now as you're essentially becoming they're part of the government and I think there was a breaking point where the Iraqis looked at themselves and said look we don't know how to nation-build and here we are with the political vacuum and the Iranians are here and something's gotta give so let's work with them kind of like what we're doing with the Taliban and Afghanistan you know we have to bring them to the table if they're going to be here anyway and the Iranian influence in Iraq was very strong it has been for many many years but they it dwindled quite a bit when we had a bigger presents in Iraq of course right when we left we created a bigger political vacuum a bigger opportunity for them so now we have members of their Parliament that are from from the Iranian militias you have this presence of the Iranians there that they probably can't get rid of and as you said there are there's a certain segment of the Iraqi population that says well we want the u.s. out because we've learned to deal with the Iranians but you also have another segment that wanted that that were initial protestors that wanted this Iranian influence out of Iraq that are because they're more in a holistic they wanted to become Iraqis again right so you have both but what you read is absolutely accurate right and then do you think that they're any of the bigger powers would ever get involved in this sort of a sate if but I guess a battle I mean Russia China what do you start your the read is Israel I'm what's going on right now in that environment yeah I think people definitely have their sides but they're not getting involved because I think it will you know for Israel for example we know that they've probably been after this guy for longer than the US has this we haven't had tabs on him they should certainly have Saudi Arabia they want the to diminish the Iranian influence in the region more than we do because they want to export their version of Islam in the region the Saudis and the Iranians that proxy war has been going on for longer than than the one between the United States and the Iranian so we definitely know what side many of these countries will be in Russia for example what's their be their their skin in this game is more so about Syria they want to remain in you know they want their influence to remain in Syria so everyone has some skin in the game and they have very gender that they want to push forward you know the issue is that the Middle East for many many years and probably because of the oil for nothing more is has been a free-for-all you know so everyone wants a piece of that pie and now you know Donald Trump is the president that said look we have to have a restructuring of the world order and you know maybe he doesn't say it as eloquently as he should but that's exactly what he's doing he's really correcting what has been wrong for for many many years people taking away an advantage of the United States what we do look this is this is really the world's dirty work what we did and taking our cost and solely money I did a segment on Al Jazeera on Saturday and they actually had someone from the Iranian regime come there and say Donald Trump is a terrorist and what he did should be condemned by the world community a my reaction to that was this was the biggest deed that he did for the world community cuz the world is a better place and he said candana Trump provide evidence that the world is a better place now and I said you and I can provide the evidence the world a better place now you know in it's it's it's really it's interesting to watch this because I think more than anything we know that anything that goes on in the Middle East is not about you know you know it's it's perception in reality the reality is is much different than what the perception is and the political cloud is is very thick particularly over these topics look look at the issue in Syria we still don't know what's going on there right and the average American the average journalist doesn't know what's going on there's so much American can't point out where New York is on a map forget and you know and and there's so much to unpack you know to really understand I think you're asking the right questions what are the agendas here what is China want what is Russia won right what is the u.s. won really and I think that was the issue under the Obama administration the u.s. didn't know what we wanted why did we even want to sit at that table what how did we want it to turn out you know and we'd switch sides are we protecting the Bashar al Assad regime do we want them out or protecting the Russians or do we want them out you know well now there's chemical weapons now we draw a red line now what should we do okay well let the Russians take care of it the same Russians that we wanted out of the situation so I think that for many years it's been that the foreign policy has not been on the radar for journalists for students you know in our school system we just haven't taught foreign policy we haven't taught history we haven't taught political science well I think there's such a lacking there and that's why we have such strong incorrect apini emotional reactions and toddler reactions you know fearful yes the very little knowledge even I don't want to go to lunch with Donald Trump therefore he shouldn't kill a terrorist right right is that really what's going on here right and and there also has been the argument and I'd like to know what you make of it that some people feel okay I throw in the towel I'm a I admit that this guy was a horrible person he wasn't a great person but was this really a priority for America right and that we have a president that's right the concept of America first and putting American interests first and many people feel that there's a bigger threat at the border right and certainly that is a more immediate threat in terms of securing our nation's borders and like why was this so high up on the list it was an argument that we're seeing not just on the left but on the right as well great question yes it is it's a great question you're absolutely right because as much as we can point fingers and say the left has this wrong the right has never prioritized form Foreign Affairs either we've never prioritized doing the right thing at the right time either and because we've been so insular with domestic affairs but let me just you know make the record straight on this if we're worried about national security if we're worried about domestic national security not I'm not even talking about our assets in the region we have to worry about the Iranian threat and that is because their tentacles are everywhere if you look at the world terror Iran's number one export is terrorism whether in the form of one single suicide bomber putting on a vest and coming right out to the Federal Building here in Los Angeles or going to the Empire State Building in New York this these are the threats that we should be worried about and they can't come here and they did come here and they probably are here but the main issue here is you have to catch terrorism at its roots not at its not at its tentacles and when you look at some of these individuals I mean Europe is is really mourning the fact I think maybe more privately than publicly that they've been so lacks on national security that they've been so lacks on terrorism you know and you look at Iran it's it's a state sponsor of terrorism they want to call this is this is the irony of the whole situation they want to call this guy the number two most important person to a sovereign state such as Iran so this was an act of war because the president assassinated the number two guy meaning and the equivalent would be if they came out and took out our vice president right right well that is exactly how they're trying to make it the equivalent of are they are they operating like a normal state I mean this guy wasn't even killed in the country in which they say he was number two in I mean he wasn't even there what was he doing running around killing people and ordering and if you don't care about Americans being killed which I wouldn't understand why you wouldn't be but let's just say worried about the list Syrian civil war that hundreds of thousands being killed and being dissed placed because of this guy look at Iraq you know so a lot of a night we can go on and on and on look at the protests in Lebanon look at Hezbollah in Lebanon look at Gaza and the Palestinians getting weapons and supplies from them and and fighting the Israelis so we look at the turmoil around the globe and we say this has to do with America you can draw a very direct line between Iran's terror funding and you the United States is national security and what's interesting is that nobody wants to talk about the precursor to the event them storming the US Embassy that is in and of itself an act of war I mean III look at the zero in DCs it's you note some it's some of the most beautiful homes to look at and when when you walk down that road I'm just sitting here imagining could you imagine if a bunch of Americans stormed and tried to burn down the embassies in DC that's an act of war we would never do that is completely uncivilized right so when they ask the question of was this was this number one on our list of but this guy didn't just spring up like a whack-a-mole no like that expression yeah like okay he came up she we should we clobber him now or should we wait first of all that and and secondly you know President Obama went after a low-level in comparison to Soleimani a low-level terrorist who was at an Afghani wedding and 23 of the wedding guests were killed no I know I see there's the whole time nobody murdered here no one batted an eyelash shouldn't it mean this was such a targeted attack this is beautiful in this you know I do count here so to me this was a beautiful attack why because we only took out the bad guys right every day in Iraq there are bombings by different groups particularly the Iranian militias and ice cream shops at schools at pizza parlors where ordinary civilians are taken out where Americans are taken out we see this in Afghanistan we see this in Syria we see this all around the world and no one bats an eyelash I mean there were so many attacks under the Obama mission the only reason and I hate to politicize this but this is only to basically bring everyone back into having a logical approach to this right it makes unfortunate and you're right it should be something that's not politicized and I don't remember it being politicized when Osama bin Laden was killed I remember everybody celebrating and saying this is a bad guy and we got the bad guy and that was good and yet we very quickly kind of arrived into a place in America where they don't care anymore about America it's not about America it's not about what team you're on it's right no matter what no matter what our president does they feel like they have to be opposed to it you don't need to like every single thing that the president does I certainly don't like every single thing that the President does you shouldn't like every single thing that anybody does for the record not even yourself looks notice I'm like man why did I do that but we when we get to a point where we can't celebrate the you know taking out the bad guys or when we get to a point where were apologizing to evil regimes right people in a place where women are seen as half a human being when way next to men that to me is scary and that's a very dangerous slippery slope and it's why I try to use my platform to talk about the direction that we're going into saying people just pretty much get get your head up for a second right look above the water try to see beyond where we're at today mom's not gonna be President forever right but this is going to be your country forever you know and until you part from this earth and you need to think very carefully when you speak out against things like that because it's it's what kind of a message does it send to the international community exactly when we have people in this country getting on their knees saying you know I'm sorry I'm too evil people in the world just because they don't like the person that's leading their country up absolutely right and that's the perfect juxtaposition is when you have people sending you know pictures with cakes or thanking Trump then here we're having people tweet out using their platform with millions of followers using their platforms to apologize to an evil regime I mean really get it straight you might not like Trump but you're exactly what you said you are you're speaking on behalf of the entire United States to apologize for a brutal regime I mean I think it's just low information and high emotion and it's funny because and I'm obviously I'm I'm oversimplifying this but I do find that people that have come to United States come to the United States illegally and have worked for everything they have similar to your family and similar to the uber driver that took me here was from Russia and we had a very long conversation he talked about how much loves this country how grateful he is to this leader and what operations has been afforded since he left Russia I think he said he left 29 years ago and I find that remarkable that the people that tend to respect the environment that they're in are people that have lived somewhere else and I do think that part of the blind spot that so many Americans have is that freedom almost leads to tyranny and in a way right there they're kind of inextricably linked right you have you have so much freedom that you just don't realize your own blessings that you that you start fighting for tyranny right right look at college campuses are a great example of that you know where you just don't they don't have the information they are riled up to believe something that isn't true and then they're sent out because they are bored to do something about it with with again lack of facts lack of of that rich experience and you know it's because I don't know maybe I owe everything to my parents for having those conversations with us and for you know making us feel you know I I wasn't an immigrant I wasn't I was a child of immigrants but I carry that immigrant story with me and so so much ingrained in Who I am and that that I'm so much gratitude for that and again if I didn't have my you know even though my my mother works in Iran and she was you know she went to college you know I she didn't feel the brunt of this regime but it's it's so linked to Who I am and I'm watching those women over there and then watching the women's March here which is embedded with you know the the privilege well privilege but it's also better with an anti-semitic message or you know that intersectionality that is just so so misinformed that's all I can say this is informed you know if you want to stand up for minority rights learn first about what's going on and what you're standing up for and who the true minorities are I think you know I I think we can take a big message from from this current situation Malcolm soleimani and again my question daily when I go on Twitter or any news show is how did we get here I mean the fact that we have to talk about not the news about Qasem Soleimani not what the implications are for terrorism and the and for Iran and for America and all the national security parts but what it means here back at home that we can't be on the same page regarding such a non partisan issue right absolutely so what would your message to the world be about all of this if you could get a message out to everyone you know I think I'd go back to what you said we can't agree on everything and we won't agree on everything and that's the beauty of this country that you can be upset about the president and you know in four years you'll have another chance you know every time there's an election the fact that we have all of these opportunities to hear our voices you myself both being from minority backgrounds but having the opportunity to sit here and have this conversation and having hopefully millions of people hear it I think there's ma-mutt there's not too much that all of us can agree on but when we do have something we can agree on we should open up our eyes and know I know that it's for the bigger good look at this issue of terrorism that should really unite everyone I look back at a post 9/11 America and how it brought so many people together not caring about what color you are but just raising the American flag red and blue right that's the thing that can unite everybody that can unite ago and you said it so perfectly in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden being captured I remember the very night you know it brought together so many people nobody I mean everyone gave kudos to to President Obama President Bush as well because he had worked to get us there on that one-yard line to catch him a lot of the intelligence community's being praised and being applauded it wasn't a partisan issue and now to look at where we've come I always ask myself what are our enemies thinking about this right now I know we're giving her so much fodder I mean if I if I was sitting across I would say and I was a real enemy of America I'd say let's not plot against them because they seem to be imploding and that and that is that is a very sad truth I know that you you you run the foreign desk news calm and you have an email list that people can subscribe to is that right leases top ten I send out a top ten email every morning with just the headlines and links to the top ten stories of the day for foreign policy very much with an American angle what should we know as Americans you'll sound smarter at work and among peers so you can subscribe I'll put a link on Twitter you could subscribe it's important guys honestly you really have to get into the Julie the geo political scene if you want to really understand what's going on in America they don't teach enough in school while they're teaching feminist dance Theory 101 they aren't really focusing on that so in whatever capacity you can if you're watching the show please start paying more attention to what's going on in the world because there always are larger implications for America Lisa we wrap every episode I'm sure you've seen my show with allowing you to leave a voice message for the world as we call it so you're gonna look into that camera and for two minutes you can say whatever you want and just you know every person in the world watches my show so they will hear it yes they do as they should already on your mark get set world I give you Lisa Daft re Thank You Candice for allowing me this opportunity to be on your show I admire you so much because of the passion that you have for your work and taking that passion and creating something so positive for people to hear and my message is very similar this is this is what I've run my entire life on I think everyone has a gift everyone has a passion that that they want to unleash but first get your facts straight learn educate yourself knowledge is the number one tool in your toolbox then use everything else you have every opportunity when you go to college every every place you're at every cocktail party you're at you can you can educate others you can use your passion for good but before you do that you should create that sense of confidence with knowledge about the world and look this this president's not gonna be here forever but we will and you know when he's not in office and whoever comes in next whether it's him again or a Democrat or after that a Republican doesn't matter we're going to leave these marks for the next generation we're gonna leave these marks for the next decades to come and because of that we need to create a better environment a more unified environment if there is something where we can unify ourselves it should be for the strength of America for the future of America we are imploding we're imploding because we're allowing our emotions to create this division between both sides and when it comes down to it if a suicide bomber comes into any building into any school into any musical concert they're not gonna care whether or not you voted for this president they're gonna want you dead and because of that we need to remain vigilant we need to remain united and to know that there's just one United States of America we should go back to that unity that our founding fathers had when they created this nation that's amazing thank you so much for joining that was almost exactly two minutes Wow only 13 seconds left thank you for joining and give it back thank you guys for watching the latest episode of the Candis Owens show I hope you guys enjoyed the conversation as much as I did as many of you guys already know Prager U is a 501c3 nonprofit organization which means we need your help to keep all of our content free to the public please consider making a tax-deductible donation today I would really appreciate your support

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Length: 47min 27sec (2847 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 19 2020