Charles C.W. Cooke

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1,251 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 29 Jul

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The Megyn Kelly Show · "Second Strike" Narrative Falls Apart, Kash Patel Responds, and How To Be a Man, with Rich Lowry, Charles Cooke, Elliot Ackerman, and Bryan Cox | Ep. 1204 · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

That is a fundamental break in the social contract.

Well, also, although, of course, it is not the case that most people who come here from Islamic countries are radicalized, they are more likely to be radicalized than, say, me.

Because they come from a background in which the messages they're receiving are normal.

If somebody came up to me and started talking about radical Islam, I think I would look at them funny.

That's true.

That's right.

But I managed to avoid killing anyone in the process.

I just wrote very furiously at my keyboard in the grand tradition of American rebels.

But look, it's more difficult to vet people from Afghanistan than it is people from England or Japan or Australia.

And that's another thing we have to bear in mind.

He may have been vetted, but the information that the federal government was able to look at when I applied to become a permanent resident and then a citizen was comprehensive because I came from a

stable country in which the bureaucracy and the government have long been fairly competent.

And that is true of people from France or from Germany or from Australia or Japan or what you will.

It's just not the case for people from the third world.

There aren't many records in failed Islamic states such as Afghanistan.

And that is, you know, when we hear the word vetted, that's something we ought to bear in mind.

Now, that doesn't mean, of course, you don't let anyone in from anywhere that isn't a Western country.

But it does mean you have to have a different approach because you just can't know that the paper trail in an Afghanistan, as opposed to, say, a Germany, is worthwhile.

Look, they're all loser countries.

There are loser countries.

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