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Today’s Popcorn Moment: Marco Rubio: United States will not be engaged in the managed decline of the West · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. It's the
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  Speaker 1: story you need to hear to believe, then grab your
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  Speaker 1: popcorn because there is more. Marco Rubio is the Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State, and he has been on a tour. He
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  Speaker 1: was in Iceland, and then he was in Greece. And
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  Speaker 1: in Greece, he took time to give a speech standing
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  Speaker 1: in front of the Acropolis. And this is a speech
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  Speaker 1: in a full-throated defense of Western civilizations. And it was
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  Speaker 1: done outrageously well. This argument that we've been making here,
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  Speaker 1: which I believe is the argument, which is the one
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  Speaker 1: that cuts through the nonsense, which is what is it
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  Speaker 1: that we have? Do we recognize how good it is?
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  Speaker 1: And is it worth saving? And if it is, why
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  Speaker 1: don't we go about saving it? And Secretary Rubio stated
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  Speaker 1: in a speech not too long ago, the United States
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be engaged in the managed decline
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  Speaker 1: of the West. That's not what we're here to do.
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  Speaker 1: We're not here to provide the soft landing for the
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  Speaker 1: end of Western civilization. We're here to actively defend it
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  Speaker 1: and fight for it. And when we say fight, we
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  Speaker 1: mean fight. Let's start with this from Secretary Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 2: For thousands of years, the civilization that built what stands
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  Speaker 2: behind me has captivated the imagination of the Western world.
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  Speaker 2: Generations of our statesmen, artists, and philosophers have looked to
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  Speaker 2: it with wonder and they've looked to it with awe. Now,
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  Speaker 2: time has a tendency to dull the senses. Great victories
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  Speaker 2: and catastrophic defeats, they seem to shrink to becoming like
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  Speaker 2: a footnote in a textbook. Another fact for our school
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  Speaker 2: children to memorize and forget. But the Greeks of antiquity,
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  Speaker 2: they seem to have an almost mystical hold on our memory.
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  Speaker 2: They call us back to them again and again. 480
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  Speaker 2: years before Christ. The armies of Xerxes arrived in this
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  Speaker 2: city and they put its sanctuaries to the torch. Most
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  Speaker 2: Athenians had by then evacuated by ship to a nearby island,
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  Speaker 2: but there was a handful of them that refused to
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  Speaker 2: leave their home. So instead they barricaded themselves in the
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  Speaker 2: rocky fortress of the Acropolis to fight an extraordinary last stand,
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  Speaker 2: heaving massive stones and down the cliffs onto the Persian
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  Speaker 2: invaders and holding the greatest empire of that age at
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  Speaker 2: bay for days. They were eventually overwhelmed. The Persians plundered
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  Speaker 2: the temples, they burned the shrines, they raised the Acropolis
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  Speaker 2: to the ground. But when the Athenians returned, they gathered
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  Speaker 2: the broken remains of the old Acropolis and buried them
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  Speaker 2: in the hill where it had stood. And decades later,
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  Speaker 2: under Pericles, they raised the Parthenon.
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  Speaker 1: The understanding of history, the sharing of the stories, the
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  Speaker 1: recognition that sometimes you don't win every battle, it's what
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  Speaker 1: you do next. It's what comes from it. That's the
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  Speaker 1: story that Marco Rubio tells extremely well.
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  Speaker 2: Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice.
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  Speaker 2: We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power to take
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  Speaker 2: back control of our critical supply chains, to re-industrialize our economy,
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  Speaker 2: to rebuild our defense, to fight for dominance of the
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  Speaker 2: technologies and industries of the future. We choose to reach
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  Speaker 2: for new frontiers in advanced manufacturing and superintelligence, in drones, weapons,
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  Speaker 2: and warfare, in chips, minerals, cyber, and every other domain
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  Speaker 2: of human possibility to unleash our energy, to rebuild our factories,
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  Speaker 2: to return our astronauts to the moon, and launch a
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  Speaker 2: new age of exploration in space. Now for all their
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  Speaker 2: lofty ideals, the ancient Greeks were not naive. They understood
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  Speaker 2: that nations have interests. They understood that statecraft requires prudence
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  Speaker 2: and diplomacy. But they also understood that it requires the
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  Speaker 2: ability to wield force when prudence and diplomacy fail. They
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  Speaker 2: understood that power requires not only having the means to
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  Speaker 2: defend yourself, it requires the credibility that you are willing
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  Speaker 2: to use it. This is the classical understanding of politics
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  Speaker 2: and of statecraft that the Trump administration hopes to reclaim.
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  Speaker 2: Reclaim not just for our country, but for the whole
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  Speaker 2: of our civilization.
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  Speaker 1: The undeniable defense of Western civilization, the unapologetic nature of
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  Speaker 1: force when necessary, and reaching for the stars. There is
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  Speaker 1: no leftist in the United States of America who has
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  Speaker 1: a message that can come close to that. You ask
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  Speaker 1: me why I'm not a Democrat? That's why.