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And I know, well, I'm just grateful for you being here. I've got a really great segment lined up for you here. My next guest is a retired U.S. diplomat, U.S. Special Agent, HSBC Middle East Bank Executive. He's the author of Switched On. Be sure and go to SwitchedOnLife.com.
SwitchedOnLife.com. I want to welcome Eric Caron to the program. Thanks for being here, Eric. I appreciate it. Hey Pastor Greg. Always a privilege and an honor to be on with you, sir. Eric, you spent, you were just telling me in the break, you spent basically three years as a diplomatic representative over in Dubai in 2008, 2009, 2010.
Talk to me about what you're seeing. First of all, is there any surprise to you that the Taliban has taken over Afghanistan once again? First of all, absolutely, absolutely not. You know, the level of corruption in that country was or is systemic. I was the attaché in Dubai for the Department of Homeland Security. And I also went into Afghanistan, spent several weeks in Afghanistan trying to stem the flow of illegal money coming back into Dubai and other countries from Afghanistan, mostly from corrupt officials within the government and banking industry within Afghanistan.
And if I may say, you know, this past week I went to church and I recently heard the priest get up and talk about, you know, the old universal adage about money can't buy love or happiness. The American people sadly now know with certainty money alone can't buy peace in Afghanistan. We partnered with an international crime syndicate masquerading as a government engaged in pervasive corruption. It was foolish and that we did so. And I would say criminal in some aspects.
What is it? What is it resulted for us? Tens of thousands of people hurt. Thousands of U.S. servicemen killed. And we, the U.S. government, sadly was the biggest source of fueling the corruption in Afghanistan, my brother. Now, explain what you mean by that. And I think we should add this caveat that the issue we have when we talk about, you know, corruption in our own government, I mean, we're watching it. We're looking at it. It's happening right now. But the American people cast their votes, and of course that's, you know, probably another whole topic about what has happened to our election structure.
But what's happened to our election structure, what's happening with these individuals that have usurped power, what is going on in America right now is a direct result of the American, we the people, having abdicated our responsibilities to put people into these positions that reflect our values. And so go ahead and continue because that's kind of at the root. And how is that a, you know, you talk about, the station apparently said they couldn't hear me. Can you hear me now? Okay. The connection dropped. All right.
So, you know, it is... Certainly failure by, certainly failure in leadership by the White House and by DOD, the State Department, as well as the CIA. Those are the, you know, I guess three big, and Congress, as far as oversight, you know, those are the big ticket agencies, if you will, departments, entities that really feel the US, you know, US taxpayer. You know, two main issues that I'd like to highlight. One is the fact that, you know, Eisenhower said it best, he warned the American people in 1961 in his farewell address to the nation, beware of the military industrial complex.
His main concern was what? That the military industry, the defense contractors would exert an undue influence on government policy makers. And we have, we've spent trillions of dollars in equipment, military equipment.
And for what? And we were feeding the military industrial complex. So that's one issue that I think we're going to come to realize. And the other is the fact of the matter is, we have an entity in our government called the CIA, who is actually feeding the beast, feeding corruption within the Afghan government and economy. By paying off, giving Kazakh and his officials in his administration at the time, hundreds of millions of dollars. And we were just fueling the corruption. And you know, I had the chance to go to Afghanistan, like I said, to do some money laundering. And I'll never forget this, Pastor Greg.
I had a general, a high level official from Afghan Customs get up and talk to me and lecture me in front of his colleagues, almost in a George Patton voice standing up. He said, it's not us. You're lecturing us. You're lecturing the wrong people. You need to speak to the president and his associates, because we want our country.
We want, we want what you want and what we want what you have. But these officials at the highest levels are corrupt. That was in 2009, 10. And here we are, 20, 10 years later, we have, we fueled it. We have the Afghan military last week basically dropped their arms and were paid by the Taliban to do so, were bribed at the highest levels and fled. You bring up an interesting point because I, just to give you an example, I was in Washington, D.C. a few years back and I was in a cab with a gentleman. Turned out he was from Afghanistan. He had been a translator. He was now in our country. He had gone to school, gotten a degree, he was getting ready to graduate and what have you.
He was an Uber driver. And he talked about, you know, his family talked about how he loved America, how the Afghani people, there were so many of them that absolutely loved our country. Then I hear this other side that says, oh, no, no, you know, the Afghanis were, are all Muslim and so they built this new constitution on Sharia. And obviously Sharia and our U.S. constitutional style don't mesh.
They're complete opposites of one another. And so they say, well, you know, the Americans tried to bring in a Christian democracy into a Muslim people and so, you know, that was the point of failure. You just mentioned that here's a high level general that says, no, no, no, no, we see what you have and we really, that is what we want. Can you talk about the disconnect between these two narratives? Well, yeah, internally in Afghanistan, you're absolutely right.
They are certainly, of course, as we're seeing it today, there is a faction of the society who want to oppress its people who want Sharia law. And, you know, but we also know and I know and you know, there is a faction of the society in Afghanistan who want what you and I have. And that's the that's the push and pull that's going on. And, you know, it saddens me that we're in the state that we are in today. I think if we understood one thing that that corruption, corruption without without controlling the bribes in the cash payments to corrupt officials, drug lords and bankers and thousands of others by CIA. And we if we we we we facilitated that and if we will never win, we would never win the war without controlling the corruption. That's the bottom line. That is the bottom line. Pastor Greg, that corruption ruled the roost, if you will, at the end of the day. And now we're seeing it, we're seeing the fact of the matter is corruption was there is the downfall of Afghanistan. So the rule of law is vital. And we didn't understand that.
We did not understand that. And now what do we have on the brink? We are on the brink, I believe, of a potential World War Three with Iran, Pakistan, China and other nations aligning with the new, quote unquote, new Afghan government.
And in the other, you know, or will we capitulate to the Taliban and other Afghan terror groups who are now well equipped with sophisticated U.S. military equipment? Well, that seems to be what Biden is doing, Eric. I mean, if you look at what his administration is doing and I would argue the other side of that is, is that, you know, we had an administration under Obama that had completely sold out to Islam. So so they were they embraced all of this corruption. Yep. Eight years.
Yep. And fully supported it. But it wasn't just Obama. You had corruption under George W. Bush. You had corruption under the Clintons. You had corruption under H.W.
Bush. You had you had corruption that was working to try to circumvent what Ronald Reagan tried to accomplish. And you certainly had a State Department that came out in its testimony of the impeachment, Ukrainian impeachment trial against President Trump that clearly said. And I had a friend on Saturday who was in that State Department under Rex Tillerson, who sat at the table and was told by the department head before they found out that he was a Trump appointee. Any any directive that comes from the White House is to be ignored. Well, any directive that comes from the White House and once they figured out he was a Trump appointee, they they they got him fired.
They tossed him out. Yeah. You know, you're talking about the deep state. And which is which is a form of a mob. They're a mob is what they are.
They're criminals. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, we're seeing the results of it right now as we speak. As we speak, there are thousands of people potentially being hunted, captured and killed in Afghanistan as we speak. And if we think we're going to negotiate with the Taliban, it would be Taliban terrorists. That's what they are.
Yeah. We again will be sadly mistaken by doing so. Thousands of people will die in Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of people will die in Afghanistan now. Thousands will die around the globe, including the US, because there's a safe haven for terrorists. It's a whole country now in Afghanistan, safe haven for training, a safe haven for raising funds through the through the heroin trade, through the weapon trade, through human trafficking.
They have the whole country under their control. Right. And we better wake up as a society here in America and understand that border security here is more vital today than ever. And I thank you for pivoting to that, because I know we're going to go into a break in a minute. But, you know, you have have warned every time you've been on my program for the last year. You have been warning, you know, everybody, anybody that will listen about the dangers and the threats coming across our border. And and now, you know, you are you are we're watching the nightmare reveal itself, because as you just said, Afghanistan becomes a launching point for these terrorists, but they don't even have to launch them. Because a lot of those terrorist cells, ladies and gentlemen, are inside of America right now. And we're simply waiting for Afghanistan to fall as the signal to begin their activities here.
And you've been hearing reports for the last three or four days from analysts and experts that are suggesting that something much worse than 9-11 is on its way. Eric, we'll talk about that when we get back. Here's the thing. God is and the name of Jesus Christ is where our power lies. Hi, this is Michael, creator of Michael's MNP supplements. Let's talk energy. Do you wake up tired even after a full night's sleep? Does keeping up with your family and or your job leave you exhausted by noon? Do you find yourself turning way too early in the day and too often to caffeine loaded drinks just to get you through it all? Why not turn to Michael's MNP's energy factors instead? Our energy factors are safe, healthy and a natural way to keep your body energized and without that caffeine crash that you get from those laden drinks. Visit us today at michaelshealth.com. This is Pastor Greg and I use energy factors.
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SwitchedOnLife.com. Eric, you've been talking for a long time now about the danger at our border and the importance of getting that border secure. Talk to me about your concerns about that and then what you just told me, by the way, about the GOA report that shows that Biden has armed the Taliban just like Obama armed ISIS.
Yes. Well, you know, we have to understand it's just not the southern border that we need to secure. It's all our border entries. That means our land borders from the southwest to the north because right now the northern border is wide open. We're all paying attention to the southern border, understandably so. But we have the northern border. We have land borders, airports and seaports that are wide open today. And we as a nation, again, have to understand border security equals national security, full stop, period.
And you can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't be a politician, say, yeah, I'm for security, but let's take down all the security measures. And we're going to allow people in. We're going to screen people once they hear. That's the American thing to do.
But no, B.S., we have to understand border security is national security. Special interest aliens from around the world, including Africa and other parts of the Middle East, are trying to come to America to do what? To hurt us. We know it. We know it because they're here. They've been here in the past and they've hurt us.
And they were hurt us. Again, 9-11 is coming up. We have to understand the threat is real and they're planning to attack us. And we need to understand that Canada makes it easy for terrorists to come into their country, get paperwork and then cross over into America for presenting legal Canadian paperwork. And we're not screaming any of that, ladies and gentlemen.
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