231 – BOTCHING AFGHANISTAN | The Lasting Death

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1:41 But we're going to go ahead into today's episode, like I mentioned. This one's going to be a pretty

1:45 long one, pretty lengthy one, but we're going to be going into a lot of different things, because

1:48 I think in the last eight or nine days, we've released as many episodes of this boxing Afghanistan

1:53 series, boxing Afghanistan, and it's just, it's been a crazy time period for everyone in the world

1:59 watching what's going on in Afghanistan, okay? And so originally, the idea was, is I was going to

2:04 reach out to people that had been on the show before that were at least tangentially, you know,

2:08 aware of the situation, and maybe we're involved in the situation, what's going on in Afghanistan,

2:12 you know, talked to them for five or ten minutes apiece, put it in one big long episode,

2:15 but we got such a great response from a lot of our guests, some that have been on the show and

2:18 some that haven't been on the show before, that we just decided to do them as standalone episodes,

2:22 which ended up being the right thing. But as of right now, we may have some more in the future,

2:25 but we've had Holly McKay, who was, he was on the ground in Afghanistan, you know, kind of,

2:29 you know, actually looking at the situation as it was devolving, we had Eddie and Andrea Gallagher,

2:33 Eric Blem, Mike Ritland, Taya Kyle, Eddie Penny, Brian Andrews, and Jeffrey Wilson,

2:39 Mike or Michelle Black, and then Eric Maddox. So we're so thankful to all of them for coming on

2:43 our show and giving us their thoughts as to how these things are kind of breaking down and what

2:46 it's going to look like in the future. We have a few other feelers out with some other folks,

2:49 so we might do some more. But today is going to kind of be a wrap up of this series if you can't

2:54 be a wrap up because there are some other things that I need to talk to you guys about, some other

2:58 things that are very important, some other things that you all are asking me about, which we will

3:00 certainly get into new episodes here in the next week or so on those things. But in terms of what

3:05 we're going to go over today, but well, I guess the easiest place to start would be to what we're

3:08 not going to be doing today. So what today's episode is not is it's not a detailed retelling

3:13 of the history of the Afghanistan conflict and all the different points that come to play and how

3:17 we got to this present day and the history of warfare in that region, that is not what we're doing.

3:21 But in the show notes, we are going to leave an episode from Ben Shapiro. It's actually a little

3:24 video that he did last weekend. He did a great video that kind of goes into all of that. So I'll

3:28 share that with you in the show notes so you can check that out. But for today, what I'm going to

3:31 be going over here is kind of the signpost. We're going to do a brief overview of the situation in

3:36 Afghanistan as it stands today to the best of our knowledge, the immediate reaction from the world,

3:40 also the immediate consequences of America's actions, who is to blame for the situation. And

3:46 I'll give you who I blame for this situation. The most egregious things Joe Biden and his

3:50 administration have done since the fall of Afghanistan, my message to really a great many different

3:56 groups of people to include veterans of Afghanistan and that war, Gold Star families and the like,

4:01 what the Bible has to say about refugees and sojourners, the proper posture of Christians in America

4:08 and what that should be at this time. I'm also going to give you some action steps. And if you

4:12 stick with us towards the end, there are some organizations that I've been able to vet in the

4:16 best way that I know how to kind of feel safe about, you know, you potentially giving them your

4:20 monetary support and those different things. And if you stick with me through the very, very

4:24 end, which I hope you will certainly do that, I'm going to go over why the subtitle of this podcast

4:29 is the lasting death. So let's go into the situation in Afghanistan. Okay, so there's the

4:34 stuff that pretty much everybody knows. Okay, so co president Biden, he made a time base and not

4:40 circumstances based decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. Technically, by September

4:45 the 11th of 2021, and we've since learned that that was actually August the 31st. So here really

4:50 in the next few days, and this was in defiance of basically all the advice from pretty much every

4:55 living living human being in his orbit. Okay. Now during this withdrawal, the troop drawdown,

5:01 the Taliban took over every major Afghan city in just a matter of days. It was it was ridiculously

5:06 fast, including the capital city of Kabul. Now the Taliban is essentially controlling all the

5:11 major cities and the entire country and the entire populace of Afghanistan. The Taliban are

5:16 systematically, as we speak, killing groups of people so that namely Afghan soldiers, you know,

5:22 anyone that was even tangentially helping the United States forces, Christians as we'll get

5:27 more into a little bit later. And as we sit right here, and I'm recording this the day before it

5:31 comes out, as we sit right now, there is an unknown number of American citizens stuck stranded. Yes,

5:37 Jin Psaki stranded in Afghanistan and they can't get out. The number is likely over 10,000. We can't

5:43 get the State Department to tell us exactly how many American citizens have been gotten out of the

5:46 country and how many are left there. Okay, they're trapped inside a country because they have no way

5:51 to get to the only working airport in the country. And that's in Kabul because we gave up Bagram Air

5:55 Base and the refugees are in the same boat. Okay. And the US government has given these people zero

6:01 assertions, assurances, zero assurances that they will be kept safe or safe. You've had these these

6:08 groups of people that have sent emails to the State Department and they're basically like, Hey,

6:12 what's the deal? Like we don't see anybody coming to get us, you know, there's this potential deadline

6:16 of August 31st. And you know, where's the assurance that we're going to be able to get out of here?

6:20 The US government is not giving that to people. So that's the stuff that people know about this

6:24 situation. But then there's some stuff that most people surprisingly don't know about.

6:28 So most people know that we left behind weapons and vehicles and equipment and stuff like that. And

6:33 that's now in the hands of the Taliban. But they have no idea how much. So from a recent article

6:39 that Jack Carr wrote for town hall calm, he said this quote, it remains uncertain exactly how many

6:44 weapons and how much ammunition we left behind, though estimates from the government accountability

6:48 office project our billions invested in the Nat Afghan National Army include 600,000 weapons,

6:53 75,000 vehicles and 200 aircraft after 20 years of war, we managed to turn the Taliban into one of

7:00 the best equipped militaries on the planet. Unquote. Okay, so that's something that most of you didn't

7:05 know. That's not just a few M fours and a couple of Humvees. It's an insane amount. We basically left

7:12 them the keys to become a forceful military. Okay. Also, the Taliban are forcing people

7:18 to mark their homes with an X. If that house houses a girl that is over the age of 12.

7:24 The reason that they're having people do that is so that if another militant another Taliban

7:28 militant comes by later, they will be able to take possession of that girl as their bride,

7:33 otherwise known as a sex slave. So here's the other thing that's kind of crazy about that.

7:38 If the Taliban finds a home that is housing a girl that is at least 12 years of age

7:42 and the family did not put a red X outside the building on the house, the entire family is being

7:47 executed. A lot of people don't know that's happening. Also married women over the age of 25

7:52 are being sold into sex slavery. There's a pastor on the ground that actually said this last week,

7:57 quote, husbands and fathers have given their wives and daughters guns and told them that when the

8:01 Taliban come, they can choose to kill them or kill themselves. It is their choice. Unquote.

8:06 So also the Taliban is reportedly going door to door searching for Christians. Okay. They're

8:11 searching their phones for Bible apps, right? So so like the ESV Bible or the blue letter Bible

8:16 or you version, they're searching for apps. If a Bible app is found, they're reportedly killing

8:20 these people immediately. And there's estimates right now it's impossible to have the exact number,

8:24 but estimates that there are between 3000 and 12,000 Christians in Afghanistan. That's a

8:29 country of around 38 million people, but only a few hundred are publicly identified as Christian

8:34 because in this country, they will actually have you put your, your faith affiliation on your

8:38 identification card. And only a few hundred people have made the bold step of calling themselves

8:43 Christian in a country that has been coalesced under a constitution of Islamic law. Okay. So,

8:48 but again, it's almost impossible to know the real number of Christians there. But currently,

8:52 Christians are reportedly fleeing to the mountainside, the countryside, and they're just trying to do

8:56 everything that they can to live. And there's a quote I wanted to read you from Frontier Alliance

8:59 International. This is a group that helps with refugees all over the world. Christian refugees,

9:03 they said this quote, the Taliban has a hit list of known Christians that they are targeting to

9:07 pursue and kill. The US Embassy is defunct and there is no longer a place a safe place for believers

9:13 to take refuge. All borders to neighboring countries are closed and all flights to and from have been

9:18 halted with the exception of private planes. People are fleeing into the mountains looking for asylum.

9:23 They are fully reliant on God, who is the only one who can and will protect them in quote. So,

9:29 just an absolutely stunning situation there. And guys, by the time you listen to this podcast,

9:34 some of the stuff that I told you is going to be out of date. There's going to be worse things

9:37 that that are happening. A lot of people are saying the situation in Afghanistan, specifically

9:41 around the Kabul airport, it's going to get worse before it gets better. And you know,

9:44 there's really nothing to say that it's not going to happen that way. So, I'm really, really sad

9:49 about that. But let's go into the reaction here, because the reaction has been kind of interesting

9:55 to watch. There's been literal, universal international condemnation of what the Biden

10:01 administration has done, which is shocking. Our allies are saying how stupid this was.

10:07 Democrats in our own country are saying how stupid this was. Like, how could you possibly

10:12 botch something this badly? Well, if you've been paying attention to Joe Biden for any length of

10:16 time, you know that he's perfectly capable of being an absolute moron. But the thing that's been

10:21 interesting, at least up to this point, is there's been very little media spin, at least initially,

10:26 which I was shocked by. I was thinking we were going to have a 24 hour cycle before we started

10:30 getting the media spin. But isn't it interesting, though, as just kind of a quick side note,

10:34 Twitter is still letting Taliban and all their spokespeople use their platforms, but not the former

10:39 president of the country. But I'm not going to digress and talk about Trump. But the interesting

10:42 thing about what we're seeing now is it's all about COVID-19, COVID-19, COVID-19, COVID-19.

10:49 It's like wall to wall coverage all of a sudden. And here's the thing. I promise. I say this all

10:54 time and then I say something that sounds conspiracy theory-ish after that. I'm not wearing a tin

10:58 foil hat, right? Just got the headphones on. It would not surprise me. One bit if the Biden

11:03 administration actually coordinated with the FDA to announce the Pfizer COVID vaccine FDA approval

11:09 right at the magical time that the Biden administration needs a serious flushing of the news cycle.

11:14 I mean, would that be shocking to anybody? You might say, Oh, that's a separate entity and

11:18 all that kind of thing. Do you really trust most of these government organizations and that there's

11:21 not some sort of a political gain? What have we learned since the beginning of the COVID pandemic,

11:25 except for the fact that these aren't neutral parties working in the federal government of any

11:29 country, especially the United States of America? So it would not surprise me one bit that the that

11:34 this is kind of the new focus and we're hearing about all these stories about, you know, mass

11:37 mandates in schools and you know, how teachers are apparently getting beat up by by, you know,

11:42 people and you know, parents and stuff like that. That's what the shift has been because the media,

11:46 the Biden administration, Joe Biden, they're pretty much hoping that you forget about what's going on

11:51 in Afghanistan, especially because the next week or so is going to get way worse and we'll certainly

11:55 get more into that here in a second. But the next section I want to get into here are the

11:59 immediate consequences of America's actions because there are consequences to every single one of

12:04 these actions and this is certainly one of those situations. The first consequence that I thought

12:07 of is that the Taliban will flex and the Biden administration will allow it. Absolutely will

12:13 allow it. I mean, just the language being used from the Biden administration right now is egregious.

12:18 But as of right now, the Taliban has said, Oh, no, no, no, Joe Biden gave us a deadline of August the

12:25 31st, where he would have all the Americans out of the country. And we're going to hold him to that.

12:29 Their spokesperson called it a red line, right? So the Taliban's probably going to hold a red line

12:33 unlike, you know, Barack Obama, who said there was a red line in Syria. And then apparently,

12:37 the red line just got erased. But the Taliban is flexing and Joe Biden's not going to do anything

12:41 about it. He does not want the news cycle to turn into American troops shot at the Taliban

12:46 Taliban shot, you know, American troops dead or any of those types of things. But they're just

12:50 going to allow the Taliban to do whatever they want. So that's an immediate consequence. Another

12:53 immediate consequence of what happened here is that there is a leadership vacuum that's been left,

12:57 right? When the United States, you know, abdicated leadership in the area that left a vacuum in China

13:02 and Russia are all too eager to fill the gap. Within 24 hours of Kabul falling to the Taliban,

13:09 the Chinese Communist Party and Russia basically announced to the world, uh, whenever the Taliban

13:14 gets fully established and they fully get everything kind of taken care of and they get everything

13:18 established the way that they like, they like, uh, we want to make sure that we support them,

13:21 right? And so China is going to be all too eager to help them build, build roads and, you know,

13:26 give them money and internet and whatever stuff that they need. And Russia is going to be right

13:29 there along with it. So that's an immediate consequence that we're going to have to deal with for a

13:32 long period of time afterwards. Another immediate consequence is that the Taliban will certainly

13:37 reinstitute Sharia law across the country. So if you think about it, we've been there for the

13:40 last 20 years. There are young girls that are in high school and college that have been able to

13:45 get an education. They've been able to go on dates. They've been able to not wear their hijab

13:49 everywhere and all these different things. And you know, not have a mail escort everywhere that

13:53 they go. That's no longer going to be the case. Sharia law is going to be reinstituted. We know

13:57 that's going to happen. And another consequence is that the Taliban is already threatening Americans,

14:01 right? They're already basically signaling that there are going to be issues for not only the

14:06 Americans left in country, but all the Americans that they run into across the world. They're already

14:09 signaling that. Here's another thing. Al-Qaeda and ISIS are going to make a comeback. We're already

14:14 seeing reports of al-Qaeda and ISIS, you know, coordination on certain things. And you know,

14:20 people have said, Hey, al-Qaeda and the Taliban don't like each other. I think even one of our guests

14:23 said that they don't like each other. But they're all working in concert with one another. And do

14:27 you remember the reports that we had about the hundreds, if not thousands of prisoners that we

14:31 had at Bagram? I believe it was that Bagram that were let go out of the prisons there. These were

14:35 al-Qaeda and ISIS operatives and Taliban operatives. They're back with their people now, right? So

14:41 all of these groups are going to make a comeback at the same time, right? And the last thing that

14:45 I kind of noticed here in terms of the immediate consequences because of America's actions is that

14:48 the Taliban is going to take a victory lap. And then they're going to keep doing that. They're

14:52 just going to take a victory lap after victory lap. So September the 11th of 2021 will be a

14:57 celebration day for them, right? That they're probably going to release more propaganda. They're

15:01 probably going to put stuff online. They may even get, you know, an interview with their spokesperson

15:05 on Al Jazeera, right? Who the heck knows? Also, they did a victory lap when they did their own mock

15:10 Iwo Jima photo. So if you look at the artwork for this particular episode, that's the photo that

15:14 the Taliban took of them putting up a Taliban flag, just like our Marines did in Iwo Jima back during

15:19 World War two. And they're wearing our gear. They're wearing our helmets and nods and and BDUs and our

15:27 weapons, right? They're just man, they're dunking all over us right now. Okay. And here's the thing

15:34 is these individuals at the Taliban, they are going to be accepting bribes from all these different

15:40 countries that are trying to get their cooperation right now. And here's the thing, they're going to

15:44 accept these bribes under the table only to talk about it later very, very publicly. Okay,

15:48 the Taliban is going to do everything that they can to make America and our allies look absolutely

15:53 horrifically stupid right now, which if you've been paying attention is not that hard to do,

15:57 you basically just have to point at this point. But now let's kind of shift into the blame game

16:01 here because there's a lot of blame going around. But I want to put the blame squarely on one set

16:07 of shoulders here in just a second. So you've got Democrats that pretty much immediately and

16:11 universally came out and started blaming George W. Bush and Donald Trump, right? They skipped over

16:16 Obama, but you know, Bush for getting us in there in the first place for not having the great,

16:20 the greatest of plans, you know, for taking people out of Afghanistan so we could go to Iraq because

16:24 of WMDs that we didn't end up finding blah, blah, blah. They want to talk about Trump,

16:28 they want to talk about the fact that that Trump, you know, did a deal with the Taliban and, you know,

16:32 that that deal had to be honored, which is interesting because Joe Biden basically got rid of every

16:38 single other deal that Donald Trump made and had every executive order ready to go on his first

16:42 day in office. But somehow he kept this deal with the Taliban, which was a horrible deal.

16:46 Right? Did he have Republicans that are blaming Biden? And there's a lot of really great reasons

16:50 for that more on that in a second. Then we have co-president Biden. He's blaming the Afghan soldiers,

16:55 right? He was all too eager to say, Oh, look at how quickly they fell. And, you know,

16:59 we'll certainly spend some more time talking about that. He just wanted to blame the Afghan

17:03 soldiers. He wanted to blame Trump. He wanted to blame. Come on, man. And he wanted to blame

17:07 dogface pony soldiers. And hey, fat and that's what Joe Biden's been doing for the last week,

17:14 whenever he's not completely useless, he gets up in front of a teleprompter, reads words that

17:18 someone else says and then quickly runs away. So the media can't ask him any other questions.

17:22 Also, the Afghan people and I asked this of Holly McKay, they're blaming the United States,

17:27 but they're also blaming their own Afghan soldiers, which is interesting because they know that their

17:32 military age males gave up. They know that these people gave up and we'll get more into some of

17:36 the reasons as to why they likely gave up here in a second. But the Afghan people are really,

17:40 really angry. And I saw a video today of a man screaming at Joe Biden. This is an Afghan that

17:44 can't get out of the country and there's no way for him to, you know, basically ensure the safety

17:49 of himself and his family and he's blaming the United States, right? And who could blame him for

17:53 blaming us, right? But let's get into who I blame. Okay. And this is not going to be a shock to anybody

17:58 paying attention, but I blame Joe Biden because of course I would because the buck has to stop

18:05 somewhere, right? So Joe Biden, the commander in chief defied the counsel of literally everyone

18:12 and unilaterally made this decision. So he owns it. Again, he is the commander in chief.

18:20 He is the final say on all military issues. And he said, pull out the troops by this date,

18:26 regardless of what's going on on the ground, regardless of what the consequences are going to

18:29 be thereafter. So obviously, I blame Joe Biden because because here's the other thing,

18:34 people want to talk about the Afghans and, you know, the fact that they didn't stand and fight

18:38 and the Taliban took them over sometimes without a fight. Sometimes they went right over the Taliban.

18:41 The entire Afghan military's defense system was built and trained towards and predicated on the

18:48 reality that they would have American air assets at their disposal. They would have United States

18:54 Air Force assets and other assets and drone stuff that would be available to them so that they could

18:58 fight against individuals. That's why we didn't have very many troops in country. Again, more on

19:01 that here in a little bit. But that's what the entire strategy was, was to be able to push back

19:09 the Taliban where they could on the ground and then also be able to utilize our close air assets

19:15 to be able to help them out, right, for a myriad of different reasons. Okay. So that's the who that

19:20 I blame because literally that decision rested on one person's shoulders and he made a horrible

19:25 decision because he's an idiot. But there's also a what that I blame here. So that's the who,

19:30 but there's a what and the what that I blame is fundamentalist Islam because people want to talk

19:37 about Islamic terrorism. They want to talk about Islamic extremism, but the Taliban and Al Qaeda

19:42 and Boko Haram and ISIS and all these groups that I've talked about a lot before Hamas,

19:45 the Muslim Brotherhood, these are fundamentalist. Okay. So as a quick aside, we need to talk about

19:51 what it says in the Quran because there is something called abrogation in the in the Quran, right? So

19:56 abrogation means there are some writings that were written a long time ago that were written

20:00 and inspired by Muhammad, right? But then there are subsequent writings that are not abrogated or

20:05 that are abrogated, basically saying these things that I wrote in the past, those aren't important

20:10 anymore. What I'm writing to you now is what you need to know. This is what you need to carry

20:14 forth into the future. So the ninth surah. Okay, that's basically how the Quran breaks down. It's

20:19 like chapters or books or whatever. The ninth surah, that is the last the very last writings

20:24 given by Muhammad to Muslims. Okay, it's the least abrogated. Okay, I want to read some verses to you

20:30 from surah nine. So let's go to surah nine verse five. But when the forbidden months are passed,

20:35 then fight and slay the pagans where you find them and seize them, illegal them and lie and wait

20:41 for them in every stage of war or every stratagem of war rather. But if they repent and establish

20:46 regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them for a law is off to

20:51 forgiving most merciful. Okay, so by the way, what they're talking about is practice regular

20:55 charity that is enforced taxation at the threat of death. Okay, but let's stay in surah nine and

21:00 go to verses 29 through 33. Fight those who believe not in Allah, nor the last day, nor hold that

21:07 forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of truth,

21:12 even if they are the people of the book, until they pay the jizya, that's that's the tax,

21:16 with willing submission and fill themselves subdued. The Jews called Uzair, a son of Allah,

21:21 and the Christians called Christ, the son of Allah, that is a saying from their mouth. In this,

21:26 they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say, Allah's curse beyond them, how they are

21:31 deluded away from the truth. They take their priests and their anchor rights in their lords

21:36 and derogation of Allah, and they take as their Lord Christ, the son of Mary, yet they were commanded

21:41 to worship, but one Allah, there is no God, but he prays in glory to him, far as he from having the

21:47 partners they associate with him. Thane would they extinguish Allah's light in their mouths,

21:52 but Allah would not allow but that his light should be perfected, even though the unbelievers may

21:57 detest it. It is he who had sent his messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to reclaim it

22:02 over all regions, even through even though the pagans may detest it. Okay, and then we're going

22:07 to stay in surah nine, and here wrap up with verse 111. Allah hath purchased of the believers,

22:12 their persons and their goods for theirs in return is the garden of paradise. They fight in his

22:17 cause and slay and are slain and promise binding on him in truth through the law, the gospel,

22:24 and the Quran, and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah, then rejoice in the bargain

22:29 which ye have concluded that is the achievement supreme. And then we're going to go from the

22:34 Quran to the Hadith. So the Hadith, these are collections of words and actions of the prophet

22:39 Muhammad during his life, the so-called prophet of Muhammad. And this is from one of the most famous

22:43 Hadiths. And this is from the Hadith Sahib Bukhari. Okay, so this is Hadith one 24 of Sahib Bukhari.

22:49 Okay, I have been ordered by Allah to fight against people until they testify that none has

22:54 the right to be worshiped, but Allah, and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle and offer the prayers

22:59 perfectly and give the obligatory charity. Then they will save their lives and property from me.

23:04 And then in the same Hadith, but Hadith one 25, it says this summer or actually it doesn't actually

23:10 say this verbatim. This is a summer here, but the greatest thing that a Muslim can do after having

23:15 faith is to engage in jihad. Okay, so as if to clarify what kind of jihad Sahib Bukhari actually

23:22 clarifies and calls it religious fighting. That is the the greatest thing that a Muslim can do after

23:27 having faith is to fight religiously. Okay, that's what the Quran says. So whether a Muslim doesn't

23:35 perform those deeds, doesn't participate in religious fighting, doesn't actually slay their enemy,

23:40 this is what the majority of Muslims believe. Now, people like Isis and groups like the Taliban

23:46 and Al Qaeda and again, Hamas, Boko Haram, all of them, these individuals are taking this,

23:52 this non abrogated scripture to its logical conclusion, right? Because if you will not

23:59 acknowledge that, you know, there is one God, his name is Allah, and then he has one prophet and his

24:03 name is Muhammad, that your options are very limited. You die or you pay attacks or you convert.

24:09 That's it. That's fundamentalist Islam. That's not radical Islam. Well, let's go ahead and move on

24:16 here. Because we need to go into the most egregious things that Joe Biden and his administration have

24:21 done since the fall of Afghanistan. And there has been no shortage of things that have been

24:26 absolutely horrific. But just a quick reminder before we get into this list, a couple of quick

24:31 reminders, Barack Obama, right? So this is Barack Obama, you know, two time president,

24:36 you know, two times he had his vice president as Joe Biden. When he was asked about President Biden,

24:41 or you know, Biden potentially running for president, he warned his allies, right, in the

24:46 Democratic Party to not underestimate Biden's ability to f things up. That's a direct quote,

24:52 apparently, not to underestimate Biden's ability to f things up, his own president,

24:57 right? Said that about him. And then former defense secretary, Robert Gates, this was Robert

25:01 Gates, the defense secretary under Obama, he said, quote, I think he has been wrong on nearly every

25:06 major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. Unquote.

25:10 Again, these are two people from his administration. One guy was his main boss, right? Saying this

25:15 guy's basically an idiot. He's basically a screw up. But let's go ahead and get in some of the

25:18 egregious things that he's done. So the Biden administration has essentially had to beg him.

25:23 They essentially had to beg Joe Biden to come back from vacation. This was, you know, just last

25:28 weekend, right? And so that he could read a statement that someone else prepared for him,

25:33 which he clearly didn't read beforehand. And after those 20 minutes were up,

25:36 he took no questions. He turned away from the podium. He hopped right back on Marine one and

25:41 went back on vacation. Think about that. Afghanistan was literally falling into the hands of the

25:48 Taliban and he's somewhere doing something, right? He's not in the White House and literally took

25:53 several days of horrible news before the White House announced like, okay, Biden's going to come

25:58 back from Camp David astonishing, right? Another egregious thing is they're allowing the Biden

26:03 administration is allowing their sorry, they're not allowing us troops to go and get aka save

26:11 American citizens that are trapped inside the country and American allies. Okay. So as far as I

26:17 know, okay, I've heard about all these different countries doing it. The British, the Italians,

26:22 the French, the Ukrainians in several other countries, they have allowed their forces

26:28 to go in and retrieve their citizens that are stuck in Afghanistan. They're not just waiting

26:34 at the airport. Like, all right, if you guys can make it to the airport, you know, we'll make

26:37 sure you get out of here safely. No, no, no, they're going into the country and they're risking

26:40 their own lives in order to protect and save their citizenry. But you know, the greatest nation on

26:46 earth with the biggest and best military on earth, the strongest fighting force ever,

26:50 we're unwilling to do so. Again, because Joe Biden doesn't want a bad news cycle. He doesn't

26:55 want a bad headline. American soldiers die trying to protect Americans stuck in Afghanistan or

27:00 something like that. But every other country, including our allies is taking care of their own

27:04 people. But we're unwilling to do that. The Biden administration is another egregious thing is that

27:09 they are treating the Taliban as if they are a legitimate government as opposed to our enemy.

27:16 Pretty much everyone in the State Department is talking about this group of people as if they're

27:22 just some sort of like neutral group, right? There may be a country that we don't like very much,

27:27 but they're legitimate all the same, all the same. So we just need to be nice to them.

27:30 We're not treating them or talking to them like they are our enemy, which they are,

27:36 which goes into the next thing, which is they're trusting. The Biden administration is trusting the

27:40 Taliban to keep their word and they're depending on them to be nice. Because the Taliban's like,

27:45 yeah, yeah, you know, we'll let your people out of here again. They got to be out by August 31st,

27:48 because that's the date that you said, and he'll be really bad if they're here afterwards.

27:51 But yeah, sure, let them come through. We won't do anything to them. They're trusting the Taliban,

27:55 some of the worst human beings on planet earth, in the history of humanity, even. You're trusting

28:03 them to be nice and to be honest, you fools, it's unbelievable. And the next thing is they've done

28:12 away that the Biden administration is somehow in a blink of blink of an eye, they've done away

28:17 with the mantra, we don't negotiate with terrorists. Because that's exactly what we're doing now,

28:22 because Joe Biden set his withdrawal deadline. Again, the withdrawal that he put in place,

28:28 and he said publicly that this depends on Taliban cooperation. This depends on Taliban cooperation,

28:36 absolutely stunning admission, our enemy that wants every single American to die. That's not

28:43 a Muslim, right? And maybe even some that that are American Muslims, they want us all to die.

28:48 But gosh, you know what, we can't really do what we need to do unless the Taliban cooperates,

28:52 as opposed to screw what the Taliban thinks, even if you want to pull all the people out of the

28:57 country right now, which as we've seen is not really a great idea, you should say screw you guys,

29:02 we're going to do whatever we can, you know, not we're not going to leave any stone unturned

29:06 to get our people out. That's how much we care about American citizens. Joe Biden and his

29:10 administration are like, I don't really want to do that. It might end up being bad for us.

29:13 But there was one thing that was especially egregious. That was just a really, really short

29:18 thing. But this is a comment that has defined the Joe Biden administration and Joe Biden specifically

29:25 as president, sorry, co president, since he's been in office. And this should be a quote from

29:31 him that should live in infamy. It should absolutely be that we should be hearing this quote decades

29:38 from now as one of the most egregiously horribly stupid and evil and terrible things that we've

29:44 heard an American president say while they were in office. Okay, so let's go ahead and go into the

29:48 clip here. But we've all seen the pictures. We've seen those hundreds of people packed into a C 17.

29:54 We've seen Afghans falling four days ago, five days ago, what did you think when you first saw

29:59 those pictures? It was four days ago, five days ago, come on, this is supposed to be a

30:05 puff piece interview. That was his response to Afghans that were clinging to airplanes falling

30:12 from them. Afghans packed in like sardines into an American aircraft because of a decision that he

30:20 made. That is a direct result of a decision that he made. Ridiculous, evil in a lot of ways.

30:28 And here's the other thing that I think is pretty egregious. And this is really reflective of the

30:33 entire Biden administration is that instead of doing what we should do, which is to speak

30:37 softly and carry a big stick, you know, the Reagan way of doing things, they're speaking

30:40 loudly and apparently the stick is up their butts. This was Biden's UN ambassador, right? The United

30:45 Nations ambassador, Linda Thomas Greenfield, she had this to say in an interview with CNN's Wolf

30:50 Blister Wolf Blitzer last week, it was absolutely insane. Quote, we are hearing from people in

30:55 Afghanistan that they are getting threats from the Taliban. And we have expressed in no uncertain

30:59 terms here at the United Nations through a very strongly worded press statement from the security

31:05 council that we expect the Taliban to respect human rights, including the rights of women and girls.

31:10 We have also indicated that they have to be respectful to of humanitarian law,

31:14 terrorists, that we do not expect to see the Afghanistan will become a safe haven for terrorists.

31:20 It's not their words that we will hold them to. It's their actions that we will be watching.

31:25 Oh, no. Did they just say that they were going to give us a very strongly worded press statement?

31:33 This whole time, I've been worried about bombs falling all this out of the sky and hitting me

31:38 on the top of my turban. Oh, man. But but gosh, if the UN sends a strongly worded press statement

31:44 from the security council, my goodness, what are we going to do? Is that what you think the

31:49 Taliban is doing right now? They're quaking in their boots because the UN is saying things.

31:53 Do you honestly trust a terrorist organization that believes in Sharia law that they're going to

32:00 honor the rights of women and girls? They don't believe that women and girls have any rights,

32:03 right? It's just what world are they living in? Because they're certainly not living in the one

32:08 that we're all in. And here's the other thing that, you know, with the Biden administration,

32:13 they've already moved on. Okay, Jen Psaki's answering questions when she has two and all those

32:18 idiots from the Pentagon are answering questions when they have to. They've moved on. It's COVID-19

32:22 24/7. Since Joe Biden's been back from vacation, right? He has talked publicly about COVID-19

32:29 way more than he has about Afghanistan. And guess what? COVID-19 is a real thing. It's

32:33 something that we're having to deal with. There are people that are dying. There are people that

32:36 are having some issues with it, right? It's not going anywhere. He doesn't want to talk about

32:40 anything else. He's trying to get everybody to focus back on COVID-19 because he can control

32:45 the COVID's news cycle, right? They can talk about new variants and they can talk about

32:49 booster shots and they can send Dr. Fauci out there to say his stupid crap that he likes to say.

32:53 But that's what they've done. They've moved on. They don't care about Afghanistan anymore.

32:56 Not really, right? And the last thing I'll go into here on Joe Biden and his administration is that

33:02 he specifically, I'll just talk about Joe Biden. Well, no, this is all of them. But, you know,

33:07 specifically Joe Biden, they're blaming everyone, okay? Except themselves. Joe Biden specifically

33:15 is blaming everyone he possibly can blame except for himself and the people inside his administration,

33:20 okay? There's no extreme ownership whatsoever. And so here's the thing that's interesting about

33:25 this. Like when Afghanistan was falling, a lot of people, especially in my sphere of influence

33:29 and in my world, they immediately thought to themselves, you know, what would Jaco have to say

33:33 about this? What would Jaco willing be saying about this? Because he fought over there. He has

33:36 brothers have died over there. It's just kind of one of those things. A few days ago, he posted

33:41 a video on Instagram and it was amazing. It's had over a million views at this point. I don't

33:47 guess if it's technically gone viral, but a lot of guys have been sharing this around.

33:51 And it's not on his YouTube channel or anything like that. And I'm going to play

33:56 this video for you right now in its entirety. It's about three minutes long.

34:00 And this is Jaco as if he were the president and what he would be saying right now to the country,

34:06 okay? Now, here's, here's my little caveat right here. I did a, I did a bunch of research to try

34:10 and figure out, you know, the, the parameters around me even being able to share this video.

34:13 I don't think it's technically copyrighted. I don't think I'm going to get dinged by,

34:16 by YouTube or all that, but I can't know until I actually put it up, whether it's going to get

34:20 dinged or not. So there is a chance, if you're listening to this at some point in the distant

34:23 future, that this next section is going to be deleted out. And so I'm going to be doing this

34:27 big intro for something that's not going to happen. So if that ends up happening in the show notes,

34:30 I will have a link to this video. But otherwise, I'm just going to go ahead and play this for you here.

34:36 Good evening. I wanted to give you an update on the current situation in Afghanistan.

34:42 As you know, we were set to leave Afghanistan this month. And as we began the final drawdown,

34:50 I made some critical errors. Namely, I underestimated the strength of the Taliban. And I overestimated

35:01 the strength and capability of the friendly Afghan forces. This was my fault.

35:08 And due to my mistake, the Taliban has taken control of Afghanistan.

35:15 There are reports now that ISIS and al Qaeda are working alongside them.

35:22 Unfortunately, there are tens of thousands of Americans on the ground there,

35:29 as well as friends and allies of America on the ground. And these people, Americans,

35:37 and our allies are all stranded. And that is my fault. But they will not be stranded for long.

35:46 In the next 48 hours, America will be in control of most major airports in Afghanistan.

35:56 Any resistance we meet from the Taliban or otherwise, when we seize these airports will be destroyed

36:04 completely and without mercy. From those airports, we will conduct rapid strike rescue missions

36:13 until we have recovered and evacuated all our citizens, allies, and friends.

36:22 Any person that interferes with these operations will be killed. We will also recover or destroy

36:30 all aircraft, vehicles, weapons, and sensitive equipment that we left behind.

36:35 Any person utilizing guarding or located in close proximity to these weapons or equipment will be

36:45 killed. Once we have evacuated all friendly personnel and recovered or destroyed the weapons

36:54 and equipment left behind, we will depart Afghanistan. But we will continue to monitor everything that

37:04 happens in Afghanistan through our ground and airborne surveillance equipment.

37:11 Terrorist training camps or activity will be targeted and destroyed.

37:17 Gross violations of human rights will be stopped through overwhelming force.

37:24 And any group in Afghanistan fighting for freedom, liberty, and basic human rights will

37:34 be supported through Special Operations Forces and ruthless precision air power. We will continue

37:42 that dedicated support until the enemy is no longer a threat to humanity or to the good people of

37:50 Afghanistan. May God bless America and may God have mercy on the souls of our enemy because we will not.

38:04 That is all.

38:04 Even now, even now, just relistening and rewatching that man. I mean,

38:12 powerful, powerful stuff. That's what leadership looks like. And again, you might say, Okay,

38:18 it's dramatic. He's not actually the president of different things like that. We can pretty much

38:22 rest assured that, you know, this was a guy that was waking up at four o'clock and 4 30 in the morning

38:26 every morning to work out well before anyone knew he was doing it on Instagram. We can assume he

38:29 would say the same thing if he was in that position. And it just makes me lament the fact that we don't

38:33 have someone in the White House that's willing to speak that way. Because that is a message that

38:38 we can all galvanize around. Absolutely. We can all get behind a message like that,

38:42 regardless of what we think about the situation in Afghanistan and whether or not we should have

38:46 been there and blah, blah, all those different things. Okay. So again, that's my list of things

38:50 that were just absolutely egregious by the Joe Biden administration and really their

38:54 application of leadership. But now I'm going to get into some messages that I have for particular

38:59 groups of people. And there's a lot of groups of people here that I think need to get a little

39:02 talking to some groups a little bit more than others. So let's go and get into this here.

39:06 This is my message to the, we should have never been there in the first place crowd. Okay.

39:10 To that crowd, I would say, watch this and remember how it made you feel the first time you saw it.

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39:42 For those of you that are just listening to the show and you didn't actually see the

40:01 visual on YouTube, first of all, you should make sure you go subscribe in YouTube. So you can

40:04 actually see the visual, but some of you might even recognize that audio. That was video of the

40:11 second plane going into the second twin tower on September the 11 2001. We should have never

40:20 been there in the first place. Never been there in the first place. I want to remind you that

40:26 that's part of the reason why we went there in the first place because the Taliban was protecting

40:32 the people that pulled off that attack that killed 3000 plus Americans, which was not an

40:37 inside job. You unbelievably idiotic nerds. And here's the other thing. What about the people

40:44 that were falling from the twin towers that day? Because they were left with the choice of

40:51 either be burned alive or to jump. Remember that? And here's the other thing that I found that was

40:59 very, very interesting. I see the Americans falling from the twin towers and the Afghans falling

41:04 from the US military planes as the same people. I see that as the same image. The first time I saw

41:09 those people falling from the planes in Afghanistan, I immediately thought that people that were

41:12 falling from the twin towers immediately. Okay. And here's the thing is these people in Afghanistan,

41:20 they were clinging to these planes, right? And trying to get into the landing gear, right?

41:25 Because they were worried about systemic racism or are being concerned about someone

41:29 misgendering them or the absence of free health care or because their student debt was too high.

41:33 These people saw that as the only pathway to potential further life.

41:40 And much like the people in the twin towers, it was their last gas, their last hope at

41:48 maintaining their own personal autonomy, right? It's impossible to put yourself up in one of those

41:53 upper stories on the twin towers. And you see the smoke, you see the fire, you can feel the fire

41:57 in your last decision that you've made is to jump. We can't put ourselves there. But I see those as

42:06 the same thing. Okay. And for all these people in America that are calling America, this horribly

42:12 racist and terribly patriarchal place, right? You know, all these horrible people, it's super

42:17 interesting to me that these people are not clinging to airplanes trying to get out of the United

42:22 States, right? They're not trying to get out. But here are these desperate Afghans

42:28 that are clinging to these planes in the hope that one day they might end up in the United

42:35 States of America, a country which, as we've been reliably informed, is horrifically racist,

42:40 patriarchal, oppressive, and it's the worst place in the world to be. Think about that.

42:45 Because a lot of these leftists in America, they don't actually mean it because if they meant it,

42:48 they'd get the hell out, but they don't mean it. But these Afghans meant it. They wanted out,

42:54 and they knew the likelihood of death was high, but they did what they could to try and get out,

42:59 to get here. So that's my message to those people. But here's also my message to the,

43:05 we have to stop these endless wars crowd. This was by no means whatsoever an endless war.

43:14 But by no means, by like no level of definition, okay? As many people know now, but didn't know

43:20 before two weeks ago, we've had zero combat deaths in Afghanistan in 18 months, which doesn't make

43:26 the previous sacrifices any less brave or heroic or sad. But that's not an endless war. Because

43:34 a lot of people think that they were, they were looking at Afghanistan, you know, in 2020 and early

43:39 2021, as if it was Vietnam at the height of the battle there against Avia Kong, right? They're

43:44 thinking of it as the worst, you know, warfare in World War one or World War two or the Korean war.

43:50 That's the way that they're seeing this. Okay. But again, most Americans, including myself,

43:56 as I've admitted on previous episodes, we had no idea that there was basically no serious fighting

44:01 going on over there, that the situation was fairly well handled, even with the skeleton crew of troops

44:06 that we had over there. So to this endless wars crowd, this is the problem with bumper,

44:11 sticker, sloganeering. Because you hear people say that and it sounds right. It's like, yeah,

44:17 we've been there for 20 years. What have we got in the, you know, the country's still not,

44:20 you know, a full fledged democracy and, you know, gosh, you know, we just need to hurry up and get

44:24 everybody home and we got to stop these endless wars. There's so much more to it. That's what

44:28 happens when you do a univariable analysis. That's exactly what happens. Now, here's my message to

44:34 the, we can't just leave our soldiers there forever. Crowd. Okay. A few things that you're

44:39 perhaps not aware of. World War II ended in 1945. Okay. But we still have troops in Germany and Italy,

44:48 even to this day, even to this day. The Korean war ended in 1953 and we still have troops in South

44:57 Korea. Okay. And now I want to go over some numbers that might be shocking to you. These are the numbers

45:02 that the best that I could possibly find. They won't be exact, but it's the exact, but it's the most

45:06 up to date I was able to find about us troops currently deployed in countries overseas. Okay.

45:11 We have around 54,000 troops in Japan, 36,000 troops in Germany, 26,000 in South Korea,

45:18 13,000 in Italy, 10,000 in the UK, 4000 in Bahrain, 3000 in Spain, 2000 in Turkey, 2000 in Australia,

45:27 1500 in Saudi Arabia, 1000 in Kuwait, 1000 in Belgium. And we're literally in dozens more

45:33 countries than that. I think we're in over 100 countries at this point. Okay. And just a reminder,

45:38 when co-president Biden decided to pull us out of Afghanistan, we had less than 3000 troops left

45:43 in country. Okay. Now, to be fair, to all those countries that I listed before, we're not in

45:49 active everyday battles and conflicts within those other countries, but neither were we in

45:54 Afghanistan before we left. It was not a completely safe situation, but it was not a precarious

45:59 situation by any stretch of the imagination, like not whatsoever. So for these individuals,

46:04 they're like, Oh, we got to get our boys out. Do you mean that everywhere? Like, do you literally

46:10 want us to be completely isolationists and take the hundreds of thousands of troops that we have

46:14 elsewhere and bring them back? Is that what you want? Now, here's my message to the, we should

46:21 never try to nation build again, crowd. I largely agree with you. Okay. Because especially in

46:29 Afghanistan, when we try to do this nation building type thing, many of these people don't want

46:33 democracy. They don't want it. Democracy does not fit with their worldview and the things that they

46:38 want. Okay. Because guys in less than a week that these people went from pseudo 21st century

46:45 democracy type people back to the seventh and eighth century tribal rule within a week.

46:51 That it doesn't seem like they wanted our style of government, right? And this is, this is the

46:58 clash of worldviews. If you listen to the briefing with Albert Mueller, I think he talked about this

47:01 on Monday, it's a clash of worldviews here because the majority of Muslims around the world, whether

47:06 they practice Sharia law and jihad, they agree with it, which is astonishing to us as Americans.

47:13 Most of these people agree with the dictates of Sharia law, which doesn't look anything like

47:18 modern American life and hopefully stays that way forever, right? But it's just not something

47:24 that they wanted. So if you're trying to build a nation in a way that you want, but the people

47:30 there don't want it, it's not something that's sustainable in the long term. Here's my message to

47:35 the, it's America's fault that those people hate us crowd. Because there's a lot of people in that

47:39 crowd, right? It's only stuff that we've done wrong that is causing them to feel this way.

47:44 But I'll say something that Dan Crenshaw says all the time. Those people over there, they hate us

47:49 because they hate us. Okay. The Taliban and all the other groups like them, they hate us because

47:55 they hate us. It has nothing to do with what we've done or not done. Now you can make an argument that,

48:01 you know, if a little boy, his dad was in the Taliban and you know, the Taliban was killed by

48:05 US forces and that made him mad and he didn't have his dad. And by the time he's 16, you know,

48:09 another Taliban guys, you know, ready to put an AK 47 in his hand or a bomb on his chest and say,

48:14 Hey, we're gonna go kill some Americans. Maybe that's going to inspire them. But that's not where

48:18 the story started. Okay. Right. It started way back before then. Okay. This has nothing to do with us.

48:24 And in terms of what we've done, it's because of who we are and what we represent.

48:28 We represent a freedom that these people don't want their people to have. Okay.

48:34 So it's ridiculous to say that it's our fault. The next question or that I guess the next message

48:39 here would be cope. And this is to co president Biden. Okay. This would be my message to them.

48:46 You're a feckless coward.

48:48 And that's probably the nicest thing I could think to say directly to co president Biden at this moment.

48:58 There's a lot of other things I'd like to say, but kind of a family program here.

49:03 Next message. This would be my message to the never Trumpers, right?

49:07 To the conservatives or the Republicans that ended up being Biden voters in the last election in 2020.

49:14 This is just a reminder to you. When you're voting against someone,

49:21 you have to remember that you're voting for someone. So Democrats were very eager to get out

49:30 and vote against Donald Trump. You know, conservatives that were kind of on the fence,

49:34 they just couldn't bring themselves voting for a guy like Trump. They just couldn't have a vote

49:38 for Trump on their record. You got to remember, there's someone on the other side of the ticket.

49:42 And in order to vote against orange man bad, you had to vote for the guy that's not alive.

49:48 Okay. And look at where we are now.

49:52 Look at where we are as a country. This virus that Joe Biden said he was going to have under

49:58 control by July. How's that working out, right? The southern border is an absolute atrocity,

50:04 right? But the economy is not responding in the way that should have. We can't get our people to go

50:10 back to work. Businesses are crumbling, even though they're allowed to be open. There's threats of

50:15 more lockdowns. We have kids being taught in school that their friends are vectors of transmission

50:19 and they themselves are vectors of transmission. And when they're not talking about masking and

50:23 doing all those things, they're basically telling these kids, Oh, you were born white. So you're

50:26 an oppressor telling little kids that this is the Joe Biden country, right? Is this the country you

50:34 wanted? Are things better now than they were two years ago pre COVID? Are things better?

50:38 Because guess what? I will take angry, loud, bombastic and rude leadership over no leadership

50:48 at all any day. So again, you may have Donald Trump on a ballot at some point in the future.

50:54 And I've already given my opinions on that, right? I'm not very happy about that potentiality for

50:59 the future. And I don't think it's going to end up well for Republicans if that happens.

51:02 But anytime as you move forward in the future, right? When you just can't vote for someone that

51:07 seems so bad, because the media has portrayed them in that way, right? Including the things that

51:12 they do that are actually bad. I want you to remember that there is somebody else that you are having

51:16 to vote for in order to do that. Now, this is my message to the we shouldn't be the world's police

51:22 crowd here. A lot of people we shouldn't be, you know, team America, world police, we shouldn't be

51:25 doing that. How are you liking the world when America is so emasculated and weak?

51:30 Are you enjoying this world? Are you enjoying the images of what's going on in Afghanistan right

51:39 now? Is that something that you enjoy? Because anytime that we put our fingers into anything going

51:44 on in any other country, you get really offended. Oh, we shouldn't be there. We shouldn't be the

51:47 world's police. And that's people on both sides as well. Do you like this? I'm assuming that you don't.

51:53 Now, here's my message also to the Afghan war fighters. Okay. To the ones that basically ran away

52:02 when the Taliban came. So it's hard for me and it should be hard for you to hear that US service

52:07 members that served in Afghanistan, say things like, you know, we knew this would happen eventually

52:12 because the Afghans won't fight their cowards, their weaklings, like they just don't have it in them.

52:17 Okay. By now, I know a lot of you Afghan soldiers that are still alive because you haven't been

52:23 headed by the Taliban yet have heard feedback similar to that probably from your own country

52:27 man, hopefully from your own country man, right? And I guess my question you would be like,

52:31 are you going to let feedback like that and commentary like that paralyze you or galvanize you?

52:38 Because at the end of the day, you did leave your post. You did give up.

52:46 You didn't fight back in a lot of these situations.

52:48 What are you going to do with that? Moving forward,

52:52 which goes into my message to military aged males still left in Afghanistan,

52:59 and I'm a tread very fairly carefully here. Those first images and videos that we saw of people

53:06 rushing the airports, trying to get on the planes, holding onto the planes,

53:09 are actually getting onto the planes. They all had one thing in common. They all look to be

53:15 military aged males. So here are hundreds and thousands of military aged males that are trying

53:22 to get out of the country and not fight for their country. As an American, that seems very odd to me

53:30 considering our history and what we've done historically during warfare, right?

53:35 So to the military aged males still left in Afghanistan, apparently there are some Afghan

53:43 forces that are pushing back that are rebelling against what the Taliban is doing and they have

53:49 weapons and they have training and they have capability. Now, the reason why I'm not spending

53:54 a lot of time on this is because I have not heard fully corroborated reports for how well

53:59 they're doing, but there are apparently areas where they are definitely, you know,

54:03 sticking it to the Taliban, right? So as opposed to running, perhaps you can join the fight.

54:11 Now, here's my message to innocent Afghans. I'm so sorry that this is happening.

54:16 Me personally, I'm not responsible for what's happening over there because one, I did not serve

54:22 over there. And two, I am not pulling the levers of government right now. But I am so sorry

54:28 that the United States of America, the greatest country in the history of the planet has allowed

54:33 this to happen to you because you are going to see a lot of death and a lot of destruction.

54:39 And you're going to see the foundations of what you had built there over the last couple of decades,

54:45 crumble if, you know, any more that it has already, right, even more so. And I'm so sorry about that.

54:51 And again, as you've heard me saying this podcast for, I'm not big on apologizing for other people.

54:55 I mean, if you need to apologize, don't have someone else do it. You need to be the one to do it.

55:00 But in this particular instance, I feel I feel so bad that I want to apologize on behalf of the

55:07 entire country. I hate that this is happening to you. But now I want to move on to my message to

55:13 active duty military, so people that are still serving. Okay, to be clear, this is not a you problem.

55:18 It's a them problem. Okay. And the them that I'm referring to are the generals that are

55:24 supposedly leading you. Okay. So Jack Carr actually did another article recently with townhall.com

55:29 and he said this, tactically, we are the most effective fighting force on the face of the earth.

55:35 Operationally, we have serious issues in large part due to a promotion system that rewards

55:39 mediocracy. Any frontline soldier who has been in a bub that's the battle filled update brief,

55:45 with staff officers and their power points will be acutely familiar. Rose colored assessments

55:50 that only got rosier as the graphs and figures were polished on their way up the chain of command.

55:55 Strategically, we are a complete failure and have been since the 1960s. Once again,

56:00 as the situation continues to deteriorate in Afghanistan, the front frontline soldier, sailor,

56:05 airman and marine will bear the brunt of their senior leaders failures. Unquote.

56:08 That's true. It's seemingly true. We have not done well in a lot of the areas where we should

56:15 have done well. And I think Jack Carr's pointed this out. I'll try to remember it in the put in the

56:20 show notes. One of the first things he put out in a blog is that, you know, things started to go

56:24 poorly for us when we changed ourselves from the Department of War to the Department of Defense,

56:28 right? But seemingly to the military men that are listening to this, your superiors are way too

56:33 worried about being promoted and about other things like climate change or COVID or white rage or

56:40 diversity right now. They seem to be focused on those things. They just apparently don't have time

56:45 to worry about the lethality of the US military. And I know that puts you in a tough spot because

56:52 maybe you're 11 years in, you were thinking you were going to put in your 20. I don't know what this

56:56 is going to look like for you until we get another person in office. I really don't.

57:00 But I have a couple more messages left before we move on. This is my message to Afghan war vets.

57:07 So veterans that actually served in Afghanistan. To those that are feeling like their sacrifices

57:13 were in vain. The sacrifices of just being over there. Perhaps you left blood over there. Perhaps

57:20 you left limbs over there. Most of you, if not all of you left brothers over there. I will echo

57:28 the sentiments of the people I had on the podcast last week. What you did was not in vain.

57:34 The best thing that I could possibly think to say is you gave the Afghan people hope that there

57:40 could be something better than the world that they were living in. What more can you do?

57:47 If you went over there and you did what you were told and you acted heroically,

57:51 and whatever your job was, whether you were, you know, scooping mackerel cheese in the mess hall,

57:55 or you were, you know, out beyond the wire every single night, killing bad guys,

57:58 you did what was required of you to keep their country safe as well as you could,

58:04 but also to keep us safe here. No more 9/11 style attacks here on the home front. That's because of

58:11 you. And I'm so thankful that you did that. And I will forever be indebted to you for doing such

58:17 a thing. And my last message here is to gold star families. So this one's a little bit harder.

58:23 So obviously I had a couple of gold star widows from last week, you know, Taya Kyle and Michelle Black.

58:29 And obviously their circumstances are a little bit different in terms of how they lost their loved

58:33 ones. But there's a lot of people right now that they don't want to hear the you did your job,

58:39 right? They don't want to hear, you know, it was good for 20 years. They're only looking at the outcome.

58:44 And they're looking out a picture on the mantle and a folded up flag. And they're thinking, I'd

58:48 rather have my son, right? I'd rather would have had him for the last 20 years. I'd rather see him

58:55 grow up and have family. I want grandkids, right? And they're not going to get that opportunity.

59:00 So my message to you is that I am just so very sorry. I'm so unbelievably sorry that this is

59:09 happening. This is such a horrible situation. And I cannot imagine how hard it must be for you

59:16 to be going through this. There, there really are any words that I can give you to comfort you.

59:21 And all I hope is that somehow we will be able to make this situation right in Afghanistan.

59:28 But that hopefully your son or daughter that lost her life overseas was doing that because

59:37 that's where they wanted to be. They wanted to be in the fight and they wanted to be protecting

59:41 this country. And they saw it as their civic and patriotic duty. So again, I'm not really happy

59:48 with with my words there, but it's the only words I got for you. I'm just so, so very sorry.

59:53 But outside of just the persecution and all the other horribly violent things that are happening

59:59 right now in Afghanistan, this is causing and will continue to cause a refugee problem in that

1:00:04 country right in maybe in the entire area. And so this has caused quite a bit of debate in our

1:00:09 country and in other countries as well. Because yeah, people saying like, okay, you know,

1:00:14 we have no responsibility to take these people into our country. Let's resettle them over there.

1:00:18 Or no, we need to bring everybody here no matter what. And it's on both sides of the aisle. There's

1:00:22 not really like a clear vision as to kind of what's happening. And just to kind of remind you,

1:00:25 our refugee is that's a person who's being forced to leave their country in order to escape war

1:00:30 or persecution or natural disaster or famine or something like that. And in the Bible, they're

1:00:34 also called a sojourner. That's someone that, you know, temporarily resides in a place, right?

1:00:38 Maybe they don't completely relocate there. But there are a lot of political and public safety

1:00:44 questions that come along with this, you know, forthcoming refugee crisis, right? Because we're

1:00:48 still in the middle just trying to get our own people out, but we're trying to get allies out

1:00:52 that are actually Afghans that we're trying to get over here, maybe get them, you know, temporary

1:00:54 citizenship or actual full citizenship, whatever the situation is. But there are a lot of questions

1:00:58 that come up. And one of them is like, where will we relocate these people to? To other places in

1:01:03 the Middle East, near Afghanistan, to our neighborhoods, right? Then then it begs the question, you know,

1:01:08 will we relocate just them? Or are we going to kind of do a string migration type thing? Are we

1:01:13 going to relocate these people and their entire extended family? That's an important debate that

1:01:18 we're not going to really get into here. But that's an important question to think about. Also,

1:01:21 who's going to pay for the relocations and the subsequent and likely required welfare of these

1:01:27 people that are relocated wherever they're relocated? You know, what do we do or how do we know that

1:01:34 these people are who they say they are? Some of these people don't have papers. Some of these people

1:01:39 have gotten their passports taken away or destroyed by the Taliban. How do we know they are who they

1:01:43 say they are? And then, you know, how do we know that we're not relocating terrorists into the

1:01:50 interior of our country? Because if I'm al Qaeda in the Taliban and ISIS, I'm making sure there's

1:01:55 some of our people on these planes and some people are like, Oh, that's kind of an outmoded fear.

1:01:59 I don't really feel like that's really legitimate. But how do we know that, right? Which they could

1:02:04 have just done this a whole lot easier. They could just fly anywhere into, you know, South America

1:02:08 and just make their way through Mexico into the country and no one would even stop them. But then

1:02:11 also if Democrats and leftists are right, why would we even want to relocate these brown people,

1:02:18 right, as they would call them to the most racially oppressive country in the history of the planet?

1:02:23 Right? Because again, as I talked about earlier, I've been reliably informed that we are the worst.

1:02:28 We're literally the worst country ever in history, right? But I want to kind of diverge away from a

1:02:34 lot of the political talk, which is kind of what we've been doing here for the last hour or so,

1:02:37 to go into what the Bible has to say about specifically refugees and sojourners, because

1:02:41 there's a lot to really talk about in this particular situation. So in Genesis one 27,

1:02:46 we see this. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him,

1:02:50 male and female, he created them. So this is the introduction of the Amago day, the image of God.

1:02:55 Okay. So this is every single person that's ever been born. They have the Amago day,

1:03:02 every single one of them. Okay. And as a quick side note, this is the exact reason why we look

1:03:08 at what's happening right now on the ground over there in Afghanistan. And we know it's wrong.

1:03:13 We know it's wrong. And it's because this is not just another case of a highly evolved

1:03:20 monkey that wears pants and talks, taking advantage of a weaker, highly evolved monkey that wears

1:03:25 pants and talks, right? That's how we know, because all of us inherently have the Amago day.

1:03:32 And we know there's value in us as sentient beings. Okay. Then also the Bible says this in Psalm 139,

1:03:38 13 through 14, for you have formed my inward parts. You didn't meet together in my mother's womb.

1:03:43 I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. My soul knows it

1:03:48 very well. So every single person, again, ever, they have the Amago day, and they were fearfully

1:03:53 and wonderfully made with a purpose to glorify God. Okay. But then we have God, you know, speaking

1:03:59 to the Israelites through Moses in Leviticus 19, this is verses 33 and 34. When a stranger sojourns

1:04:05 with you in your land, you shall do, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who

1:04:10 sojourns with you as the native among you. And you shall love him as yourself for you are strangers

1:04:15 in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Okay. And that really gets into we have a lot

1:04:20 of Bible characters, right? That had to flee their homes because of, you know, they were refugees

1:04:24 or sojourners. So we have Abraham and, you know, he had to leave because of famine. So we see that

1:04:30 in Genesis 1210. Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there

1:04:35 for the famine was severe in the land. Also with famine, we have Jacob's sons later on in Genesis 47

1:04:40 verse four. They, they said to Pharaoh, we have come to sojourn in the land for there is no pasture

1:04:45 for your servants flocks for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now please let your

1:04:49 servants dwell in the land of Goshen. And then we have a limulek Naomi and their sons in Ruth 11.

1:04:54 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land and a man of Bethlehem and Judah

1:04:58 went to sojourn in the country of Moab. He and his wife and his two sons. So there were examples

1:05:03 right there in scripture of people that became refugees because of famine. We also have this

1:05:07 because of warfare. So Rahab has described in Joshua of chapter six verses 24 and 25.

1:05:13 And they burned the city with fire and everything in it. Only the silver and gold and the vessels of

1:05:17 bronze and of iron. They put in the treasury of the house of the Lord, but Rahab the prostitute

1:05:21 and her father's household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And he has lived in

1:05:26 Israel to this day because he hit because he hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

1:05:32 So because of warfare, there were people that were displaced and made refugees then.

1:05:36 But also we see this because of persecution. So we have King David in 1 Samuel 21 10 and David rose

1:05:41 and fled that day from Saul and went to Akish the king of Gath. Okay. So that was King David that

1:05:47 had to leave at one point. Then we have Elijah in 1 Kings 19 1 through 3. Rahab told Jezebel all

1:05:52 that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent

1:05:56 a messenger to Elijah saying, so may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as

1:06:02 the life of one of them by this time tomorrow, then he was afraid and he arose and ran for his life

1:06:07 and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah and left his servant there. And then we have King

1:06:11 Jesus, right? So we see this in the Gospels was specifically in Matthew 2 verses 13 through 15.

1:06:16 Now, when they had departed behold an angel, the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,

1:06:20 rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt and remain there until I tell you,

1:06:24 for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him. And he rose and took the child and

1:06:28 his mother by night and departed to Egypt and remain there until the death of Herod.

1:06:33 This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet out of Egypt. I called my son, okay?

1:06:38 So lots of examples of refugees and sojourners, okay? But also I want to kind of point out that

1:06:44 God through scripture uses the concept of a refugee or a sojourner and citizenship as a metaphor for

1:06:53 how God saves us through Jesus Christ, okay? So we see that with Paul in Ephesians, this is chapter

1:06:59 two verses 12 through 13, and then we're going to skip to 19. So again, Ephesians 2 starting in

1:07:03 chapter 12. Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ alienated from the common

1:07:09 wealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the

1:07:13 world. But now this is verse 13. Now in Christ Jesus, you were once far off and have been brought

1:07:19 near by the blood of Christ, not a verse 19. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,

1:07:24 but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, okay? So

1:07:30 that's the interesting thing for us. We need to be thinking as American Christians about this

1:07:34 situation and be thinking about these people in this way. And this is outside of the politics, okay?

1:07:39 I know we're probably going to get into politics later, maybe in a different podcast or something

1:07:42 like that. There's a lot of political questions that need to be answered, a lot of logistical

1:07:45 questions that need to be answered here. But at this particular moment, as American Christians,

1:07:49 this is how we should remember these people, okay? This is how we should remember to think

1:07:53 about these people. And this is kind of getting into the next section, which is what is the proper

1:07:57 posture for Christians in America at this time, okay? And the only thing I could really think of

1:08:03 this just kept coming up for me is to suffer with those who suffer into mourn with those who mourn.

1:08:07 So we're going to go back to Scripture here. So suffer with those who suffer.

1:08:10 Let me get that from 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verses 13, and then 25 through 26.

1:08:16 For in one spirit, we were all baptized into one body. Jews are Greeks, slaves are free,

1:08:20 and all were made to drink of one spirit, that there may be no division in the body,

1:08:24 but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers,

1:08:29 all suffer together. If one member is honored, all rejoice together. And then to mourn with those

1:08:34 who mourn. This is Romans 1215, rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn.

1:08:40 So I think an appropriate posture right now for us as American Christians is to realize there is

1:08:45 a lot of suffering that's already happened. A lot is going on currently, and there's a lot more to

1:08:50 come with these people. There are a lot of people's there. They're mourning things that have just

1:08:55 happened or mourning things that will happen. And the best thing that we can do is to suffer

1:08:59 with those who suffer in a mourn with those who mourn, okay? Because there are a lot of people,

1:09:03 not just Christians in Afghanistan, that are going to be suffering through all this.

1:09:07 The mourning is going to be absolutely horrific. And who knows how many months, years or decades,

1:09:12 we're going to have to be dealing with this, right? But now I'm going to get into the action steps,

1:09:17 okay? And these are going to seem kind of simple, but I do want to give us some practical things

1:09:22 that we can do as as members of this, you know, undaunted life community. So the first one is to

1:09:27 obviously pray for the innocent Afghans. Pray for them. Because there's not a whole lot that we can do.

1:09:35 Most of us can't physically go over there and do anything to actually help these people get out,

1:09:40 but we can pray for them. And they're certainly power and prayer, but not just for the innocent

1:09:45 Afghans. We should also pray for the Taliban. And that just sucks, even saying out loud

1:09:54 to pray for the Taliban. Because I like many of you, I want them all to die.

1:09:58 And maybe right before they die, they accept Christ or something like that. It's hard for me

1:10:04 to think of them in any other way other than an enemy combatant that I want to see dead on the

1:10:08 battlefield, right? But right now, since the United States has abdicated leadership in the area,

1:10:14 we can't enforce any type of worldview or any providing type of aid unless we go back

1:10:22 with the kind of full force of our troops, which I don't think of the Biden administration has a

1:10:25 stomach for the Taliban's in control. Pray for the hearts of the Taliban to be changed.

1:10:33 There's an incredible thing going on in that part of the country right now,

1:10:36 where Middle Easterners are being converted via the Holy Spirit, providing dreams to people.

1:10:44 There's tons of stories of Muslims that are converting to Christianity because they've been

1:10:48 basically haunted in their dreams by Jesus, right? An amazing thing, something we don't really

1:10:53 experience here. The Holy Spirit will get his work done, right? So pray for the innocent Afghans,

1:10:59 pray for the Taliban, but also act boldly when and where possible, but be careful.

1:11:06 Okay. I was planning on reading some text messages from somebody that I know that is doing some

1:11:12 work over in that area, but I can just basically sum it up here by saying, there are a lot of

1:11:17 organizations right now that are raising money that have no capability to move the needle,

1:11:22 like none whatsoever. These are people that are raising lots of money and I'll leave

1:11:28 them nameless, but I think you could probably even think of some. They're raising a ton of money,

1:11:33 but they're not actually getting people out of the country. They have no way of getting people

1:11:38 from the outskirts of Afghanistan or from the city of Kabul to the airport. They have no way of

1:11:43 getting them there safely, but they're raising money, right? And it's, it's a hard thing to kind

1:11:51 of sit here, but this was the best advice that my buddy who remained nameless. This is what they

1:11:55 told me. They basically said, there are going to be some organizations that start coming out

1:12:00 that are obviously moving the needle that are literally getting people out. They're getting

1:12:04 them to surrounding areas. They're not getting in the way of the other processes, and we should

1:12:09 support those organizations. So again, I'm going to go ahead and transition that part now. There's

1:12:13 some organizations that I'm comfortable referring you to at this point, if you want to act with

1:12:17 your dollars. Okay. So the first is called save our allies and all this will be in the show notes,

1:12:23 but that is a joint coalition with no one left behind the Independence Fund and the Mighty Oaks

1:12:28 Foundation. So a podcast alum, Chad Robashow. This is what his group is doing. They are actually

1:12:33 chartering flights out of host nations. So they are apparently legitimately moving the needle and

1:12:38 actually getting Afghans and getting US citizens and getting interpreters and getting all those

1:12:44 people out of the country and flying them to safety via host nations. Okay. That is my understanding.

1:12:50 Okay, which with all these people, I reserve the right later to apologize for sending you that way.

1:12:54 But through some other back channels, I was able to confirm that that is essentially

1:12:58 what Save Our Allies is doing. Okay. Now the rest of these suggestions are coming directly from

1:13:02 Holly McKay. So I'm actually just reading directly from her meet her email. All of these will be in

1:13:07 the show notes as well. These are the organizations that she has vetted that she would like people

1:13:11 to support as well. So the first is emergency USA. And so again, I'm just reading from her email

1:13:15 here as an honorary board member of emergency USA for the past four and a half years. I can

1:13:19 personally attest to the incredible work this organization has done and continues to do for

1:13:23 Afghans in need while much needed media attention while much media attention in recent days has

1:13:27 been focused on the calamity surrounding the Kabul airport. Let's not forget that the embattled

1:13:31 Afghans left behind were left behind with nowhere left to go and no prospect of leaving anytime soon.

1:13:36 Emergency USA not only has a critical hospital to treat the war wounded in the heart of Kabul,

1:13:41 it also offers lifesaving medical services across the country far from the media's purview.

1:13:46 Millions of Afghan lives have been saved since 1994. We must keep emergency doors open for nations

1:13:52 most vulnerable. So those links are in the description here. Then we have stronghold rescue and relief.

1:13:57 My friend, Aframados, a former Navy SEAL founded this organization in 2019 as a means to support

1:14:01 those dire and dire need around the world with as little overhead as possible. He personally calls

1:14:07 each of the few Afghan interpreters on their assistance index each night, ensuring them in

1:14:11 these uncertain times that their their cases are being worked on in crafting the best plan in a

1:14:16 plan of action toward a safe and swift evacuation. This helps to keep families calm and hold the ethos

1:14:21 of no person left behind. There are still many Americans who love and care for those who serve

1:14:25 shoulder to shoulder with our troops. The focus of stronghold these past few weeks has been on

1:14:29 creating land routes out of Afghanistan to smuggle out Afghan families who will inevitably be left

1:14:33 behind. This underground railroad of sorts will be pivotal as the US makes its final departure

1:14:38 and the homicide Karzai International Airport or HKIA falls into the Taliban's grip and there is

1:14:44 nowhere left for allied Afghans to go. Okay, so that's very obviously a from motto say alum of

1:14:49 the podcast as well. We would like for you to support him. Next organization is women for Afghan

1:14:53 women. As we all know, women and girls have the most to lose when it comes to the Taliban takeover

1:14:58 and many are deeply fearful for their lives and future. Thus, women for Afghan women serves as

1:15:02 the largest women's organization in Afghanistan. According to its website at present, it is accepting

1:15:06 donations to help provide safe shelter resources and aid to the thousands of women, children,

1:15:11 families and staff. So that link will be in the show notes and we have reporters without borders

1:15:15 again reading from Holly's email here as a journalist and writer myself, the pillars of free speech

1:15:19 and shining the light in the darkness in the darkest of places are the backbones to decisions

1:15:23 and policy initiatives. Afghan journalists are some of the most extraordinary in the profession

1:15:27 and the incredible press apparatus in the country is one of slim success of slim successes of the

1:15:33 past two decades. It is one of the slim successes of the past two decades. I apologize. Sadly,

1:15:38 Afghan journalists have lost that achievement in the blink of an eye and are almost all running

1:15:42 for their lives. RSF is working to advocate on behalf of journalism in Afghanistan,

1:15:46 as well as support those who need safe passage out. And then the last one is international rescue

1:15:50 mission or IRC. They have set up a form in which we can all raise our voices to the White House

1:15:55 and urge the Biden administration to take immediate action in guiding Afghans to safety. So again,

1:16:00 all those links are in the show notes. I know that took a while to get through, but we're kind of

1:16:02 bringing it to a a conclusion here. So I want to tell you guys why I decided to call this podcast

1:16:09 the lasting death. Okay. And if you're still listening right now, again, we're really appreciative

1:16:14 that you're listening to all this and taking in all this information, okay, especially some of

1:16:17 the more action oriented type things. But the reason I wanted to call this the lasting death,

1:16:21 the first reason is because the deadly ripple effect of Americans withdrawal will last years

1:16:26 and not decades. Again, I agree with the people that think that things are going to get way worse

1:16:31 inside of Afghanistan before they get better. So if you thought people falling from planes and,

1:16:36 you know, people getting their heads chopped off and public executions and Christians being hunted

1:16:39 down and murdered and, you know, families having to put exes on their doors and their kids being

1:16:43 taken away as child sex life. If you thought that was bad, it's about to get way worse. Okay.

1:16:47 So we'll be a lasting type of thing. We'll be a lasting death. But all the while I was thinking

1:16:55 through this and kind of coalescing my thoughts to bring it to you. There's really only one

1:17:01 true lasting death. And that is an eternity spent apart from Christ.

1:17:06 So this is my dire word to you. It's anyone listening to this. That is not a Christ follower

1:17:17 that you need to do so. Because he's the only way for us to the Father.

1:17:26 All you have to do is confess that you're a sinner, repent from your sins, acknowledge that you can't

1:17:31 save yourself, right? You can't determine where you go when you die. Like you're not the one in control,

1:17:38 right? You have to admit that you need a savior and you have to commit your life to Christ.

1:17:42 Just a few quick scriptures here. John 3 16, what most people know, for God so loved the world

1:17:48 that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1:17:53 And then Romans 5, 8. But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners,

1:17:58 Christ died for us. Romans 10, 9. Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord

1:18:03 and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. And then John 14,

1:18:09 6, I alluded to it just a second ago. Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life.

1:18:13 No one comes to the Father except through me.

1:18:18 So to the people in Afghanistan, we should be praying that this becomes a reality for them,

1:18:23 that the church would continue to grow somehow in Afghanistan when all they're trying to do is

1:18:29 to stamp it out. But also for you listening to this right now, this is a message for all of us.

1:18:33 That if we don't accept Christ, it's not a beautiful picture for us after we pass on.

1:18:40 Every worldview has an origin story, a meaning story, a morality story, and a destiny story.

1:18:46 Origin, meaning, morality, destiny, origin. Where did we come from? Meaning, why are we here?

1:18:52 Morality, what's the difference between good and evil? Destiny, where do we go when we die?

1:18:55 That's the Christian story. And we have to accept it.

1:18:58 All right, guys, thanks so much for listening to this rather long podcast. But we are going to

1:19:02 do a quick resilience boost before we let you go. Adun daunted life, our mission is equipping

1:19:06 men to push back darkness with content that forage is spiritual, mental, and physical resilience.

1:19:09 I've got a lot of links for you. First of all, I've got the, like I have my voice crack there

1:19:13 here at the end. I saved it all the way to the end, you guys. I'm doing my best here, okay?

1:19:16 But I've got that YouTube video of Ben Shapiro. It's called in the graveyard of empires,

1:19:20 America's war in Afghanistan explained. So that's going to be for you in the show notes. Also,

1:19:24 I have the articles from Jack Carr. One is called the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan.

1:19:29 And then the second one is a time for a bold adjustment, fire, the general. So that was the one

1:19:33 that he put in town hall. Then I've got that Instagram jocko willing video that I played for

1:19:37 you earlier. Again, it might may or may not be there in the actual body, but it is here at the very

1:19:41 end. Also, I've got a link to Holly McKay's sub stack. So you need to subscribe at her hub

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