Steve Yates
speaker
1,090 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Steve Yates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that has had a huge impact on our politics, on the debate about our military, the perception of wars and basing overseas.
But what has been lost is the visceral reality that you and I have lived.
I mean, the world is not exactly born good.
There's a lot of evil in the world.
And we need big, bad, strong tools out there to keep that evil at bay.
And the fact that that evil could reach out and touch us in a profound way that really shocked all of us, I think, at a very visceral level about 25 years ago on September 11th, that sort of has faded.
And yet the reality is today we're still concerned that the Iranians have people in our country that could be engaged in violence.
nefarious activities.
We have cartels that can engage in terroristic-like activity at a moment's notice with almost nothing we could do to stop it from happening.
We'd just be having to try to react after it happened.
In some ways, we are better, I think, just because technology is better.
We do have
Some institutions that have been trained to do a bit more in 2026 than we did in 2001.
But in other ways, I think we've we've kind of had this holiday from history kind of thing where we have a whole generation that has grown without any of that shock or reality check that we got.
And so my my advice to.
to anybody who's willing to listen is don't outsource memory.
If you lived it, oral histories are the only way we can pass it to another generation.
And give it with the emotion and truth that you lived and felt, because it was just a powerful thing.
Now, I was evacuated out of the White House, which I felt like that was a really sensitive violation of a sacred place.
You know, America should never be under attack to the point where you've got to walk home from the White House.
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