i apologize if i mispronounce the name but this particular king in greek mythology he uh he was so greedy that he decided that he was going to cut down a sacred forest outside of his of his castle and he was warned by everybody don't cut down the sacred forest outside the castle because that is a repository of our values if you cut down that sacred forest then something bad will happen he cuts down the sacred forest and in return he is cursed he's cursed with an unquenchable hunger in his stomach and no matter what he cannot satiate himself he must eat he must eat and become so bad that he impoverishes himself by eating and eating and eating he has to eat all the time he sells his daughter into slavery for food so that he can eat and then eventually he runs out of things to eat and he ends up beating himself to death he literally ends up eating himself right that is a i think an excellent metaphor for what a large swath of the country would have us do at this point that we ought to satiate our own hunger by eating ourselves by cannibalizing our own society by cannibalizing our values and we've cut down the sacred forests of our values and now the only question is what is going to satisfy that hunger and apparently what's going to satisfy that hunger is endless social welfare benefits endless spending endless deficits destruction of many of the key institutions that were fundamental to our society because those were tied to that sacred forest that we just cut down and then what inevitably happens to crumbling empires they crumble i mean in the end crumbling empires do not survive and again that is not because we opted to be an empire and then we spread our domain too far and then because we had imperial overreach then we had to regress none of that is none of that is true afghanistan is a case in point of that not being true we are expending minimal resources to keep that country stable and to prevent it from falling into the hands of terrorist enemies and to the hands of our geostrategic enemies minimal resources this was not about imperial overage this was purely and simply about an america that does not have the willpower to be what it is and recognize what it is on the world stage it's about an america that is rightly uncomfortable with colonialism and imperialism but is wrongheaded when it comes to the realities of the world and that is somebody always fills the gap and the people who are filling the gap are some of the worst people on earth and which brings us to the actual news of the day the final american military pull out from afghanistan we should put an asterisk by final because the chances that in the future will have to go back into afghanistan in order to kill terrorists in order to rescue american citizens are quite high we'll get to that news in just one moment first let us talk about being an adult if you're an adult you have to take care of your business and that means making sure that the people you're responsible for are taken care of in case god forbid something should happen to you you're walking down the street suddenly you're mauled by a bear you need to make sure that your family at least has the money to pay for your funeral and also has the money to carry on
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN us talk about being an adult if you're an adult you have to take care of your business and that means making sure that the people you're responsible for are taken care of in case god forbid something should happen to you you're walking down the street suddenly you're mauled by a bear you need to make sure that your family at least has the money to pay for your funeral and also has the money to carry on END_SPONSOR_TOKEN