I would make the point to you, as others have pointed out before, including the president of El Salvador, that The west only achieved the place that it did in human history because it spent previous centuries eradicating the criminal elements within its territories. So the west that we came to know that had the great music and architecture and science and the most powerful economy, it had spent centuries previous to that establishing order first. (05:53–06:04)
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Asserts that Western success was due to eradicating criminal elements over centuries.
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