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The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1319 - Biden’s Saigon

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1319 - Biden’s Saigon", an episode of The Ben Shapiro Show published September 27, 2022 (48 min, about 9,906 words). It mentions 73 people, works and ideas, including Taliban, United States (states), Saigon, Vietnam, Foreign Policy.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Vietnam, Saigon, Taliban, United States (states)
  2. – 10:00: Taliban, United States (states), Al Qaeda, Bagram Air Base
  3. – 15:00: Taliban, United States (states), Ring Alarm, Al Qaeda
  4. – 20:00: Taliban, Wall Street Journal, Kunduz, Mohamed Elias
  5. – 25:00: Taliban, United States (states), Bravo Company Manufacturing (BCM), Kunduz
  6. – 30:00: United States (states), Taliban, Pakistan, Collective Security Treaty Organization
  7. – 35:00: United States (states), Taliban, Daily Beast, North Carolina A&T State University
  8. – 40:00: Taliban, Apache Attack Helicopter, Camp David, Candace
  9. – 45:00: Taliban, Candace, Foreign Policy, Tony Blinken
  10. – 47:55: Michael Knowles Show, Taliban, Bradford Carrington, Camp David

Notable quotes from "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1319 - Biden’s Saigon"

  • Afghanistan falls to the Taliban and the worst foreign policy tobacco for the United States since America's withdrawal from Vietnam I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show.
    about Taliban · at
  • Remember it was just one month ago that Joe Biden was saying that don't worry it's not going to be like Saigon it's not going to be like the United States leaving Vietnam with…
    about Saigon · at
  • In Afghanistan the mission in Afghanistan was very clearly to get rid of Al Qaeda and get rid of the Taliban to prevent them from taking over again and letting Al Qaeda back in…
    about Al Qaeda · at
  • Peace of mind anytime knowing our home is protected you can protect your home with ring alarm is a powerful affordable whole home security system you can easily install…
    about Ring Alarm · at
  • None of this should be any sort of shock at all because it isn't according to the Wall Street Journal said he was relieved when the Central Intelligence Agency phoned him for…
    about Wall Street Journal · at
  • They rush into kundus it was his first day as the Taliban appointed mayor of kunduz and go Mohamed Elias was on a charm offensive last Sunday the insurgents seized control of…
    about Kunduz · at
  • The outside looking in because Afghanistan which will Ally presumably with Pakistan now provides a threat to India so India is going to start making overtures to Afghanistan…
    about Pakistan · at
  • Alrighty we'll be back here later today with much more in the meantime go check out the Michael Knowles show that is available right now I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show if you enjoyed this episode don't forget.
    about Michael Knowles Show · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Hamid Karzai — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Ash Afghani of Afghanistan fled the country a council of Afghan officials including former president Hamid Karzai said they would open negotiations with the Taliban over the…
  • Clarissa Ward — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Today okay so things are getting incredibly ugly over there obviously CNN reporter Clarissa Ward she says people here are absolutely terrified we can certainly hear quite a lot…
  • Mohamed Elias — Person · 1 mention · first at
    They rush into kundus it was his first day as the Taliban appointed mayor of kunduz and go Mohamed Elias was on a charm offensive last Sunday the insurgents seized control of…
  • Cory Stewart — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Md530f helicopters former British International Development secretary Rory Stewart told the BBC on Sunday everything is going wrong schools are shutting down across the country…
  • Tony Blinken — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Is it is politically moronic it is in terms of foreign policy immoral but Tony blinken I love these kind of statements he then says you know what but here's the thing we will…
  • Matt Walsh — Person · 1 mention · first at
    The other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew claven show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Elliot…
  • Elliot Fell — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Elliot fell executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis…
  • Mathis Glover — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Show is produced by Elliot fell executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford…
  • Pavel Wydowski — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber…
  • Bradford Carrington — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam cyovitz…
  • Justin Barber — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam cyovitz audio is mixed by Mike coromina hair and…
  • Fabiola Christina — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Edited by Adam cyovitz audio is mixed by Mike coromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire…
  • Jessica Kranz — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Mike coromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire production copyright daily wire 2021 as the Taliban takes over Afghanistan the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Abdul Ghani Baradar — Person · 1 mention
  • Adam Ciovitz — Person · 1 mention
  • Andrew Klavan — Person · 1 mention
  • Ashraf Ghani — Person · 1 mention
  • Daniel Bolger — Person · 1 mention
  • Mike Caromina — Person · 1 mention
  • S. Jaishankar — Person · 1 mention
  • Zalmay Khalilzad — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

  • Taliban — Company · 42 mentions · first at
  • Foreign Policy — Company · 4 mentions · first at
    Afghanistan falls to the Taliban and the worst foreign policy tobacco for the United States since America's withdrawal from Vietnam I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show.
  • Wall Street Journal — Company · 4 mentions · first at
  • Michael Knowles Show — Company · 3 mentions · first at
  • Vietcong — Company · 2 mentions · first at
    Not going to be like the United States leaving Vietnam with helicopters taking off from roofs and the Vietcong simply rushing in and killing everybody they don't like it's not…
  • Al Qaeda — Company · 2 mentions · first at
  • Verizon — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Spending too much money on your cell phone bill take a look at it right now if you're with Verizon or at T or T-Mobile you are simply paying too much it's time to switch over…
  • Consumer Affairs — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Charge you for it there's a reason Pure Talk is the highest rated Wireless company by consumer affairs why they are the preferred Wireless partner of AMAC from your cell phone…
  • Conflict Armament Research — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Weapons as well as ammunition according to the weapons tracking group conflict Armament research experts say that such Halls have given the Taliban a massive boost the weapons will not only help the Taliban march on Kabul but strengthen.
  • The Guardian — Company · 1 mention · first at
    I was in Guantanamo for eight years by the way not just this guy okay according to the guardian Abdul ghania baradar who's the Taliban leader he was freed from a Pakistani Jail at the request of the United States less than three years ago.
  • Collective Security Treaty Organization — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Overtures to the Taliban Moscow is preparing to leverage the six Nation collective security Treaty Organization to address potential trouble at the Afghan tajik border which is…
  • North Carolina A&T State University — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Model you know which is your own model so General Bulger who now teaches history in North Carolina State University when you build an army like that and it's meant to be a…
  • Daily Beast — Company · 1 mention · first at
    There's no support he withdrew all of it they are all gone according to the Daily Beast in the last few weeks Afghanistan's Air Force became a sticking point in negotiations…
  • Matt Walsh Show — Company · 1 mention · first at
    The other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew claven show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Elliot…
  • Department of Homeland Security — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Wire 2021 as the Taliban takes over Afghanistan the Department of Homeland Security insists that the real terrorists are American conservatives check it out on the Michael Knowles show foreign.
  • Agence France-Presse — Company · 1 mention
  • AMAC — Company · 1 mention
  • Andrew Klavan Show — Company · 1 mention
  • CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) — Company · 1 mention
  • Department of State (U.S.) — Company · 1 mention
  • ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) — Company · 1 mention
  • State Department (U.S.) — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

  • Candace — Product · 2 mentions · first at
    Like what you hear other news if you've been wondering what it's like to sit front row at Candace's new show Candace you might just be in luck if you sign up now as a daily…
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    Out your laptop you're gonna aim it in the general direction of the engine of an Apache attack helicopter and now I need you to explain to me why it's not working gonna go fantastic now it's a mood issue photos posted to.
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    History first if you've been searching for a daily Morning podcast without an agenda look no further than the morning wire it's been topping the apple and Spotify charts since…
  • A-29 Super Tucano — Product · 1 mention
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  • Peshawar-Kabul Motorway — Product · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

  • White Privilege — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Staff Mark milley when he's not lecturing everybody about the evils of white privilege he told Senators on Sunday a previous assessment of how soon terrorist groups will…
  • Jihad — Concept · 1 mention
  • Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

  • United States (states) — Place · 25 mentions · first at
    Afghanistan falls to the Taliban and the worst foreign policy tobacco for the United States since America's withdrawal from Vietnam I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show.
  • Saigon — Place · 6 mentions · first at
  • Vietnam — Place · 5 mentions · first at
    It's not going to be like Saigon it's not going to be like the United States leaving Vietnam with helicopters taking off from roofs and the Vietcong simply rushing in and…
  • Pakistan — Place · 3 mentions · first at
  • Kunduz — Place · 2 mentions · first at
  • Camp David — Place · 2 mentions · first at
    Headquarters of the Afghan government but Joe Biden Betsy's playing shuffleboard up at Camp David he cannot be bothered we have tomorrow in just one second I mean this like you know how many Americans died to secure at least a base.
  • Bagram Air Base — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Were 3 500 troops on the ground in Afghanistan largely to control for example Bagram Air Base which is now controlled by the Taliban okay those 3 500 combat troops represented a tiny minute proportion of American military power all over the.
  • Tehran — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Powers for example earlier this month Indian minister of external Affairs s chai Shankar visited Moscow and Tehran while Taliban representatives were in each City raising…
  • Islamabad — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Afghan tajik border which is being taken over by the Taliban on The Afghan side Islamabad has now negotiated that's that's Pakistan a quid pro quo with the Taliban so reject…
  • Doha — Place · 1 mention
  • Guantanamo Bay detention camp (Gitmo) — Place · 1 mention
  • Kabul — Place · 1 mention
  • Presidential Palace (Kabul) — Place · 1 mention
  • Qatar — Place · 1 mention
  • Wakhan Corridor — Place · 1 mention
  • Xinjiang — Place · 1 mention

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Full transcript with timestamps

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and frankly over the last 20 years is the Taliban is now in charge of Afghanistan again because Joe Biden decided it would be a wonderful wonderful idea to Simply leave with no plan with no actual transition with no support for the people who are still there and so what we have on our hands is a full-scale disaster area now remember it was just one month ago that Joe Biden was saying that don't worry it's not going to be like Saigon it's not going to be like the United States leaving Vietnam with helicopters taking off from roofs and the Vietcong simply rushing in and killing everybody they don't like it's not going to be anything like that it'll be orderly after all there's a big Afghan Army and we've been arming them and supporting them here was Joe Biden saying what is now in retrospect the dumbest thing he possibly could have said one month ago parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam with some

people feeling none whatsoever zero what you had is you had entire gauge breaking through the gates of our Embassy six if I'm not mistaken the Taliban is not the South the North Vietnamese Army they're not they're not remotely comparable in terms of capability there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a Embassy in the of the United States from Afghanistan it is not at all comfortable this duns are headed fool this unbelievable coward all of that was a lie that was a lie and it was perfectly obvious it was a lie at the time here's the thing they're still lying in real time the Secretary of State Anthony blinken he was asked on Sunday whether this was like Saigon and here is what he had to say President Biden said that under no circumstance that was his word those were his words under no circumstance where the U.S Personnel Embassy Personnel be airlifted uh out of uh

Kabul in a replay of the scenes that we saw in Saigon in 1975. uh so isn't that exactly what we're seeing now I mean even the images are evocative of what happened in Vietnam let's take a step back this is manifestly not Saigon the fact of the matter is this we went to Afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission in mind and that was to deal with the people who attacked us on 911 and that mission has been successful okay this is insane it's exactly like take out by the way it's not like Saigon let me just show you a picture of Saigon and a picture of what happened the other day this was side by side okay so on your left hand side you'll see Saigon you know people attempting to escape attempting to climb onto U.S helicopters to get out of the way before the Vietcong rushing and killed everybody and on the right that is an American Ferry helicopter that is taking off from the top of the United States Embassy

trying to evacuate people from the top nothing like it nothing you see it no resemblances none weird because they look really exactly the same like exactly the same and by the way you have the Taliban taking full control of the presidential Palace in Kabul and seems reminiscent of Vietnam Circa 1975. here was some of that footage what you are looking at right now is Taliban fighters inside the presidential Palace Taliban fighters placing their guns on the desks sitting behind the desk of we assume that is the uh desk of the the Afghan president a fairly stunning turn around of events in a cardboard okay remember last week last week the Biden Administration said it would be somewhere between 30 and 90 days before the Taliban even had the capacity to take over a couple it took about 30 to 90 hours for them to actually do it 30 to 90 hours see you then it's Kylie Atwood now reporting the American flag at the U.S embassy in

Kabul has been taken down she says this marks a final step in the evacuation of the embassy Kylie says the withdrawal of Embassy Personnel is happening quote incredibly rapidly today and the process is now expected to conclude by this evening she says minus the small number of diplomats who will stay at the Kabul Airport for now by the way how bad was this this is so bad and so rushed and such a botched job that the United States Left Behind billions of dollars in equipment for the Afghan Taliban to Simply take over according to the agendas France press the United States spends billions supplying the Afghan military with the tools to defeat the Taliban the rapid capitulation of the Armed Forces means that Weaponry is now fueling the insurance astonishing of Battlefield successes President Joe Biden said we provided our Afghan partners with all the tools let me emphasize all the tools but the

Taliban have just been seizing all of weapons caches they've picked up um these they picked up a Apache attack helicopters in the western city of pharaoh Fighters are patrolling in a car marked with an eagle swooping on a snake which is the official Insignia of the country's intelligence services the Taliban Blitz is handed the group Vehicles Humvees small arms and light weapons weapons as well as ammunition according to the weapons tracking group conflict Armament research experts say that such Halls have given the Taliban a massive boost the weapons will not only help the Taliban march on Kabul but strengthen its Authority in the cities it has already captured so they just ended up with a bunch of your taxpayer dollars in their hands in the form of actual weaponry according to the New York Times Taliban fighters poured into the Afghan capital on Sunday mid scenes of panic and Chaos bringing a Swift and shocking close to

the Afghan government and the 20-year American era in the country president Ash Afghani of Afghanistan fled the country a council of Afghan officials including former president Hamid Karzai said they would open negotiations with the Taliban over the shape of the insurgencies at takeover by day Zen the insurgents had all but officially sealed their control of the entire country hastily arranged American military helicopter flights evacuating the sprawling American Embassy compound in Kabul ferrying American diplomats in the Afghan Embassy workers to the Kabul military airport at the civilian airport next door Afghans wept as They begged Airline workers to put their families on outbound commercial flights even as most were grounded in favor of military aircraft there were apparently reports as well that some of the airlines the civilian Airlines wouldn't let people aboard because they didn't have a covet

dust so just gonna stay behind and get slaughtered because in a covet dust really solid stuff all the way around for the West a bunch of 8th Century barbarians who are now taking over sophisticated military equipment from Western Powers they just took over auspices of the 700 million dollar American Embassy in Kabul Sovereign American territory that was just taken over by the Taliban and of course the people who are let out were let out largely by fools in the west and by the way this is a bipartisan problem Barack Obama and Georgia so Georgia let's start from the beginning George Shelby Bush mystified the mission in Afghanistan the mission in Afghanistan was very clearly to get rid of Al Qaeda and get rid of the Taliban to prevent them from taking over again and letting Al Qaeda back in okay the the mission was not it was a side mission it was nice the mission was not human rights the mission was not

establishment of a long-term democracy the mission was preventing this from being a terror base period end of story if that had been made clear over and over and over again perhaps the American people would have been willing to make the what amounts to at this point a relatively minute sacrifice to maintain a small troop presence in Afghanistan at the time the United States left there were 3 500 troops on the ground in Afghanistan largely to control for example Bagram Air Base which is now controlled by the Taliban okay those 3 500 combat troops represented a tiny minute proportion of American military power all over the world the last American soldier who had died in combat was killed February 8 2020 it has been a year and a half the United States is spending on average about 40 45 billion dollars a year on Afghanistan which amounts to approximately one percent of the federal budget before coven now with the new

budgets it's going to amount to half a percentage point of our federal budget this was not a quote unquote endless war that required the United States to pull out fourth width leaving people to be slaughtered in the streets and the talibans will rushed back in to take back over the entire country with no possibility by the way of America now being able to Stage attacks on actual terrorist positions because we don't have air bases there anymore okay so George W bush must defined the mission fair then Barack Obama runs on the platform of pulling out in 2008 and then as president he realizes that this is actually not such a great idea and so he sort of takes a halfway position instead of actually securing our position in Afghanistan he starts doing like a mid-range Surge and then he starts making backdoor overtures to the Taliban that continues under President Trump who also campaigned on ending the

war in Afghanistan and was making pretty open overtures to the Taliban I mean there was American negotiation going on with the Taliban in Qatar and then that was followed by Joe Biden who decided to finish this thing by simply pulling out with no negotiations with no possibility of real of real commitment with nothing for no reason at all none hey and the net result is going to be that look the the American people apparently are willing to go to war but we are not willing at this point to see these things through even if it means a minor and it is in in the scheme of how America's spending goes in the scheme of America's military commitment a minor commitment to Baseline Security in places like Afghanistan and by the way that Gap will be filled by somebody now what's what's funny about this is that was Joe Biden's calculation all along Joe Biden's calculation was if I pull out there will be some sort of

political Boon for me I don't think that Boon is coming I think the American people are going to be reawakened to the threat that the Taliban represent and that Al Qaeda represents and that terrorist states in the Middle East represents when there is no militating backlash by the United States and or its allies in the meantime however the United States made a bunch of crucial errors for example emptying out gitmo under Barack Obama negotiating with the Taliban okay here is a Taliban fighter literally saying oh yeah by the way I was in gitmo for eight years the United States released a bunch of the leaders who are currently in charge of the Taliban were released at the behest of the United States I was in Guantanamo for eight years by the way not just this guy okay according to the guardian Abdul ghania baradar who's the Taliban leader he was freed from a Pakistani Jail at the request of the United States less than

three years ago he has now merged as an Undisputed Victor of the 20-year war baradar is the political Chief in the most public phase he was said to be on his way from his office in Doha to Kabul on Sunday evening and televised statement on the fall of Kabul he said the taliban's real test was only just beginning they had to serve the nation by presumably stuffing women back into bags and or into basements making sure none of them ever read again and ensuring that women don't walk publicly without a male next to them like this is that operating in the in the 8th Century seems to be a way of running the nation Barnard played a succession of military and administrative roles in the five-year Taliban regime by the time it was ousted he was Deputy Minister of Defense during the taliban's 20-year Exile varadar had the reputation of being a potent military leader in a subtle political operator Western

diplomats came to view him as on the wing of the katashura the taliban's regrouped leadership in Exile that was most resistant to isi control that's the Pakistani intelligence service and most amenable to political context with Kabul the Obama Administration was more fearful of his military expertise than hopeful about his supposedly moderate leanings the CIA tracked him down in Karachi in 2010 and then persuaded the isi which is the Pakistani Secret Service to arrest him in 2018 Washington's attitude changed Donald Trump's Afghan Envoy zombie halilzad asked the pakistanis to release paradar so he could lead negotiations in Qatar because everybody on both sides of the Isles decided that this was not a war worth a minimum of effort at this point at all now I think all of that is wrong but even if you think all that is right what is certainly wrong is the insane way that Joe Biden just decided

to pull out of this thing even if they think it's good policy for the United States not to be involved in Afghanistan the way that Joe Biden has performed this is the crappiest way anyone could have ever performed this it truly is an astonishing failure by Joe Biden who also is saying that he's not going to do any pressers he's not doing no need does he have to talk to you nah Matlock is on he's too busy he's got things going on we'll get to Joe Biden's reaction in just one moment first let us talk about keeping your home safe there are a thousand reasons why protecting your home it matters to you and there are a lot of reasons why protecting my home it matters to me if somebody stops by or something is going on Outdoors around the house ring will let me know it is peace of mind anytime knowing our home is protected you can protect your home with ring alarm ring alarm is a powerful affordable whole home security system

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incredibly ugly over there obviously CNN reporter Clarissa Ward she says people here are absolutely terrified we can certainly hear quite a lot of gunfire going on over the course of the last hour or two particularly I should say again very difficult to know what exactly that gunfire is because you do hear a lot of it in Kabul but certainly fair to say there's a lot more of it tonight than we're used to hearing and certainly also fair to say that people here in the capital are utterly petrified and essentially have nowhere to look to now that of course isn't no shock at all people are attempting to flee and the videos are just horrifying in the video if this was not supposed to be like Saigon I just have a question how maybe it's not like Saigon maybe it's just World War Z because these videos look like World War Z it looks like the zombie invasion is coming and people are attempting to get on planes

they're they're they're climbing up the the on-ramps on the planes and they're just flooding them there's no organization whatsoever it's Insanity here's some of the videos those are civilian airliners in the background people flooding onto the tarmac desperately attempting to get out people showing up with their families trying to leave before the Taliban come in and kill everybody who is perceived as collaborator that was just some of the video the the evacuation's underway at Kabula airport are shocking some of the video shows people it's a lot closer up you can see people actually climbing up the stairs and and they're just falling off the railings I mean it's utter insanity and Afghans are of course being stranded by the thousands by the thousands by the hundreds of thousands at this point none of this should be any sort of shock at all because it isn't according to the Wall Street Journal

said he was relieved when the Central Intelligence Agency phoned him for an interview and Weeks Later arranged to shelter him on an Afghan base while the state department processes application for a visa to flee Afghanistan he feared the Taliban were hunting him down for his work spying for the CIA and remote in a remote border area of Afghanistan for almost a decade and lack the paperwork to apply for a Visa but rahmat isn't in the clear the Taliban are advancing on Kabul even if he can make it to the capital from his hideout in a province hours away the Afghan commander of the base has since told him he can't shelter there I'm very worried he said in a text message we were feeling in danger here please save our family rahman's story reflects the fears of thousands of Afghans who helped the US during the war and now face A desperate race to leave the country The Wall Street Journal agreed to only use his

first name to protect his safety as best they can about 18 000 families who have applied for the US's special immigrant Visa remain on the ground in Afghanistan okay this is as of two days ago hey thousands 18 000 families remaining on the ground in Afghanistan no way to get out half of those are outside Kabul in areas either already under Taliban control are likely to fall soon which now is everything because it's all Fallen in addition the state department this month said tens of thousands more Afghans would be eligible for priority treatments under U.S Refugee settlement program the new criteria applied to Afghans who work for us contractors U.S funded programs and U.S based media or non-governmental organizations as well as their families but how the hell are you going to get them out the answer is now you're not you're not because you had no orderly transition process the entire place has

been taken over by The Barbarians from the 8th Century no one is getting out former soldiers Aid workers others who previously worked in Afghanistan have been inundated with requests from former Afghan colleagues and employees seeking letters of recommendation and help in fleeing the country this is just obviously horrifying stuff it's gonna get more horrifying by the way the footage will eventually emerge of people simply being shot because the Taliban is apparently doing this the Taliban is simply taking places over and murdering people the New York Times reporting on what it's like living under the Taliban as they rush into kundus it was his first day as the Taliban appointed mayor of kunduz and go Mohamed Elias was on a charm offensive last Sunday the insurgents seized control of the city in Northern Afghanistan which was in shambles after weeks of fighting power lines were down the water supplied

powered by generators did not reach most residents trash and Rubble littered the streets the civil servants could fix those problems were hiding at home terrified of the Taliban so this so the Insurgent Commander turned mayor summoned some to his new office to persuade them to return to work I said our Jihad is not what the municipality our Jihad is against the occupiers and those who defend the occupiers but day by day is municipal offices stayed mostly empty Mr Elias grew more frustrated and his rhetoric grew harsher Taliban fighters began going door to door searching for absentee city workers hundreds of armed Men set up checkpoints across the city at the entrance to the regional hospital a new notice appeared on the wall employees must return to work or face punishment from the Taliban just a week after the fall of Clinton's the insurgents are now in effective control of Afghanistan now they must

function as administrators who can provide basic services to hundreds of thousands of people in just days the insurgents frustrated by their failed efforts to control civil servants back to work began instilling Terror according to Residents reached by telephone I'm afraid I don't know what will happen and what they will do said one we have to smile at them because we are scared but we are deeply unhappy three days after the Taliban took control in kundus omarkiel a civil servant received a call from an Insurgent fighter telling him to go to his office the mayor kunders wanted to speak with him Mr omarkiel had been staying home since the retreat of government forces as insurgents flooded into the streets and a sense of unease gripped The Battered City he had experienced a similar moment twice before when the Taliban seized kunduz in 2015 and 2016 both times the insurgents were pushed back with help from the

American airstrikes this time days after the Taliban took control the entire Afghan Army Corps charged with reclaiming the city surrendered to the insurgents they gave them their weapons and they gave them their vehicles all of the government's Vehicles garbage trucks and computers were exactly where he had left them before the Taliban took over and young Fighters poured into the city the only sign of change was blank spaces on the walls or photos of President ashrafgani had been instead the taliban's white flags had been hung Mr alas assured the workers they would not be targeted by the Taliban and instructed them to return to work to improve at morale halfway through the meeting a shopkeeper pleaded with the Taliban bodyguard to see the mayor like hundreds of others his kiosks had been mostly destroyed by fire during the taliban's final push he said shopkeepers wanted the taliban's promise they could return to the market

to collect their things that safe safely the mayor complied for the rest of the day Elias met with other Municipal leaders trying to get Services restored there was some progress but nearly every shop is closed the shopkeepers are fearing that they will be looted by the Taliban fighters about 500 Taliban fighters were stationed around the city Manning checkpoints on nearly every street corner by the end of the week many residents fears were being realized at the regional hospitals Taliban fighters seized a list of employees phone numbers and home addresses began calling them demanding their return to work one person who had fled to Kabul received a call from a Taliban fighter demanding he returned to work at the hospital armed Taliban were keeping track of attendance female staff were sky blue burkas as they assisted in surgeries intended to wounds from the airstrikes just did things are going to go great

things are going to go just beautifully by the way there is an impact on the United States as well it's not just bad things happening in Afghanistan as we'll get to in just one second first let us talk about a simple fact when the founders of the United States wrote the Constitution the first thing they did was make sacred the rights of the individual to share their ideas without limitation by government the second thing they did was ensure that everybody had the ability to defend that first right that is why people have the ability to keep and bear arms in the United States owning a rifle is a big responsibility and so is building rifles Bravo Company manufacturing BCM builds a professional grade product built to combat standards this is because BCM believes the same level of protection should be provided to every American regardless of whether they're a private citizen or a professional the people at

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that there are terrible ramifications for everybody who is stuck in Afghanistan of course is that there are bad ramifications for the United States the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark milley when he's not lecturing everybody about the evils of of white privilege he told Senators on Sunday a previous assessment of how soon terrorist groups will reconstitute in Afghanistan will speed up on a Sunday phone call between top Biden officials and senators from both parties Senator Lindsey Graham asked defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Millie whether they will revise an assessment to Congress in June of a medium risk of terrorist groups reconstituting in Afghanistan within two years melee said yes he would have to assume that timeline would now be roomed up he would be happy to brief senators in the classified setting sources on the call describe a surreal experience listening in on the Biden

officials brief them on the situation while checking their cell phones and seeing real-time chaos unfolding in Kabul senators from both parties pressed Milly and Austin on efforts to evacuate U.S personnel and the many thousands of Afghans who helped Americans in the war effort and are desperately trying to escape a source said the sad reality is there's no way they can evacuate by August 31st the more than 20 000 Afghans who want to escape the country and that's not including their families you're probably talking more like 75 or 80 000 people who want to escape the country and are not going to be able to get out two takeaways for me what said One Source we're gonna leave tens of thousands of people behind and a timeline in terms of threats has now accelerated remember that was the original reason we went there in the first place Anthony blinken was asked is the Taliban controlled territory now going to become

a hotbed of terrorism again you just avoided the question as he has apt to do you don't think that Afghanistan now is going to become a hotbed of terrorism Jake we have uh tremendously more capacity than we had before 9 11 when it comes to counterterrorism in places around the world where we don't have forces on the ground in Yemen uh in parts of Africa in parts of Syria we are able to deal with any potential terrorist threat to our country and we're doing that every single day and look uh I can't tell you what uh what the Taliban is going to do um that would be a complete and unanswer so he asked him is Afghanistan going to become a terror hop and he's like well Yemen isn't so well I noticed that Yemen isn't in Afghanistan so that's a weird answer Anthony Lincoln by the way when the United States leaves a vacuum somebody rushes in to fill it according to foreign policy magazine it is not merely

a question of what happens in Afghanistan it's also a question of the United States's Global enemies maximizing their benefit right now according to foreign policy.com U.S President Joe Biden's announcement U.S troops will be gone from Afghanistan by August 31st will remove the most formidable obstacle to Total Taliban takeover of the country for 20 years the US presence in Afghanistan they're not always appreciated has nevertheless served as a predictable and stabilizing Force now the prospect of renewed Taliban rule has sparked major anxiety among the Region's powers for example earlier this month Indian minister of external Affairs s chai Shankar visited Moscow and Tehran while Taliban representatives were in each City raising questions about whether back Channel negotiations are ongoing so India doesn't want to be on the outside looking in because Afghanistan which will Ally presumably

with Pakistan now provides a threat to India so India is going to start making overtures to Afghanistan meanwhile China is going to be making overtures to Afghanistan as well Russia is making overtures to the Taliban Moscow is preparing to leverage the six Nation collective security Treaty Organization to address potential trouble at the Afghan tajik border which is being taken over by the Taliban on The Afghan side Islamabad has now negotiated that's that's Pakistan a quid pro quo with the Taliban so reject U.S bases on Pakistani territory in exchange for the taliban's assistance in combating Pakistan's own Taliban style militants so now it's not even that the United States is going to lose its bases in Afghanistan also the us is going to have no staging bases in Pakistan okay which is next door so there went the security cooperation with Pakistan whatever that was worth amid all of this Regional angst China is

quietly attempting to secure its interests in post U.S Afghanistan Beijing has been actively engaging with Kabul on construction of a Peshawar couple Motorway which will connect Pakistan to Afghanistan to make Kabula participants in China's belt and Road initiative up until now Kabul didn't want to do that because the United States was helping them out now Beijing is building a major road through the walk-on Corridor a slim strip of mountainous territory connecting China's westernmost promise province of Jean Zhang to Afghanistan and onward to Pakistan and Central Asia according to a 2014 report and Afghanistan May possess nearly a trillion dollars worth of extractable rare earth metals locked within its mountains China will now have some control over that yes when the United States leaves a vacuum bad things happen Okay so time to ask a serious question how did any of this happen how did this happen in the

first place I gave you a sort of brief history of Afghanistan and the failures of all the administrations prior but let's talk for just one second about Joe Biden so Joe Biden is now blaming Trump he of course says well it's not my fault that I decided to Simply precipitously withdraw they put out a pathetic picture like over the weekend this White House tweet they tweeted out a picture of Joe Biden alone in the Situation Room saying this morning the president vice president met with their National Security team and Senior officials to hear updates on the drawdown of our civilian Personnel in Afghanistan evacuations of SIV applicants and other Afghan allies and the ongoing security situation in Kabul well I mean if you took a picture I mean as long as we know that's not a stock Vote or anything there's speculation that was a stock photo by the way we don't know if that's true or not the speculation was because on the

wall the time difference between Moscow and China is apparently two hours when it should be three and the reason that it is two hours is because before March it's actually a two-hour time difference so people were speculating that's not actually a photo from like right now it doesn't really matter very much bottom line is Joe Biden is not present according to the Wall Street Journal during the 2020 political campaign Biden presented himself as a globetrotting leader who at home the Senate Foreign Relations Committee served as Barack Obama's Point man on a complex international issues and who is determined to bring a steady hand to National Security yet the turmoil that is now engulfed Afghanistan which has led Biden to send 5 000 troops back to the country by the way which by the way that's double the number of troops that he was taking out in April so remember that time we were supposed to withdraw now we have 6 000

troops total into the country apparently has confronted the White House with a rather large crisis Biden said in a statement on Saturday one more year or five more years of U.S military presence would not would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country and an endless American presence in the middle of another country's civil conflict was not acceptable to me well wait a second what I'm questioning it wasn't about us being present in the middle of another country civil conflict it was do we have the capacity to back allies in killing terrorists or not that we do all over the world by the way the United States military is present in over a hundred countries this apparently will not be one of them even though it is now a chief Terror Target Meanwhile by the way Lincoln ramped up the Biden administration's effort to deflect criticism saying that Trump had

allowed the Taliban threat to grow okay so here's the question even assuming that's true even assuming that Trump blew it with regard to the Taliban you came in and then just handed them the country along with all of our allies who will now be slaughtered along with all of our resources because you decided to precipitously pull out announce the date and then just leave and by the way it's even worse than that Joe Biden wants to take a credit for that he overruled everybody to do this his own intelligence officials were saying this is an idiotic idea his own generals were saying this is moronic I mean President Biden said on Saturday he's going to be sending approximately 5 000 U.S troops to safely evacuate U.S and Allied Personnel according to the Wall Street Journal of course slightly larger than the 3 000 Personnel who are already in transit back to Afghanistan and the 1000 already there but this

spectacular failure stemmed from built-in flaws of the Afghan military compounded by strategic blundering of the government of Afghan president ashkafgani the Taliban took advantage of U.S sponsored peace talks to deceive Kabul about their intentions as they prepared and executed a lightning offensive here is the here's the key part you ready here's how bad Biden blew this the Afghan army fighting alongside American troops was molded to match the way the Americans operate the US military the world's most advanced relies heavily on combining ground operations with air power using aircraft to resupply outposts strike targets vary the wounded and collect reconnaissance and intelligence in the wake of President Biden's withdrawal decision the U.S pulled its air support intelligence and contractors servicing Afghanistan's planes and helicopters that meant the Afghan military simply could not operate anymore the same

happened with another failed American effort the South Vietnamese Army in the 1970s Senators hired Lieutenant General Daniel Bulger who commanded the us-led coalition's mission to train Afghan forces in 2011 and 2013. so just to reiterate the United States worked with the Afghan forces they trained them in a certain type of combat namely they could call American airstrikes in they had the ability to call in American Air resources to clear an area or to pick up the wounded and then what did Joe Biden do he said we're not doing any of that anymore so it's not just a matter of air support disappearing it's a matter of the entire model was rooted in a particular level of American support and without any warning whatsoever Biden just went through the support boom all the supports are gone okay that is like a house that exists in the Hollywood Hills and the foundations are not particularly stable

you could Shore up those foundations or theoretically you could just Dynamite them and then be surprised when the house falls down Joe Biden decided to Dynamite the foundations for whatever the security strategy was here there's always a tendency to use the model you know which is your own model so General Bulger who now teaches history in North Carolina State University when you build an army like that and it's meant to be a partner with a sophisticated Force like the Americans you can't pull the Americans out all of a sudden because then they lose the day-to-day assistance they need when U.S forces were still operating here the Afghan government sought to maximize its presence through the country's far-flung Countryside maintaining more than 200 bases in outposts that could resupplied be resupplied only by air there were no resupplies available once the United States removed its support extending

government operations to the more the most of America of Afghanistan's more than 400 districts has long been the main pillar of America's counter-insurgency strategy Mr ghani had ample warning of the American departure after the Trump Administration signed a February 2020 agreement with the Taliban calling on U.S U.S forces and contractors to leave by May 2021 but the Afghan government failed to adjust its military footprint to match the new reality many officials didn't believe that they would actually leave okay by the way Joe Biden was informed of all of this he was told about all this and then he just did it anyway that's the part that's so so stunning I mean he he overruled his own advisors there were none of his advisors told him that this was a good idea they were all telling him it's a terrible idea they were telling him exactly what was going to happen this wasn't an intelligence failure as people people

are trying to blame this on the Intel Community this is not intelligence failure this is a political failure by Joe Biden he did not care what happened next period that's the end of it I mean how bad was this by the way how bad did Joe Biden absolutely F these people how bad he did it it's so bad that President Biden refuses to allow contractors to continue operating in the country there's no support he withdrew all of it they are all gone according to the Daily Beast in the last few weeks Afghanistan's Air Force became a sticking point in negotiations between the Biden Administration and Afghan officials according to one person familiar with the talks the country's mostly U.S provided air fleet was dependent on foreign contractors to assist with maintenance as the U.S withdrawal took hold the Biden Administration refused to even allow contractors into the country to service the Afghan military's aircraft

the United States effectively grounded the Afghan Air Force so we took away our planes and we said you can't use those anymore and the Afghan government said okay fine we'll use ours can we at least borrow some of your contractors so you know our airplanes fly and this is like nope you're on your own you're gonna have to get Mohammed over there the guy who's hurting the Sheep you have to get him over here he's gonna have to fix up the Apache and then they're surprised at what happened in the interim Afghan air Crews were forced to get creative maintenance Personnel were relying on Zoom calls with American experts in order to figure out how to maintain the aircraft left behind by the Americans I'm sure that was going great I'm sure customers are okay can you get a better angle you got your Zoom ready okay we're gonna take out your laptop you're gonna aim it in the general direction of the engine of

an Apache attack helicopter and now I need you to explain to me why it's not working gonna go fantastic now it's a mood issue photos posted to social media show the Taliban fighters have captured us provided a29 super tecano light Air Attack aircraft and md530f helicopters former British International Development secretary Rory Stewart told the BBC on Sunday everything is going wrong schools are shutting down across the country clinics are shutting down across the country people are taking refuge in their home looting is taking place and of course again everybody who had the temerity to work with us is going to be murdered that's that is the likely next step here now the good news is that again the state department is making some very strong statements here like some very very strong statements in fact the state department put out this particular statement and is is stunning Masterpiece

of just self-importance and delusion quote given these deteriorating security situation we support are working to secure and call on all parties to respect and facilitate the safe and orderly departure of foreign Nationals and Afghans who wish to leave the country those in positions of power and authority across Afghanistan bear responsibility and accountability for the protection of human life and property and for the immediate restoration of security in civil order Afghans and international citizens who wish to depart must be allowed to do so roads airports and border crossing must remain open and call must be maintained the Afghan people deserve to live in safety security and dignity we in the International Community stand ready to assist them stand ready to assist them you literally just left you literally just left okay this is a domestic argument where the police officer arrives and the

husband is literally beating the wife to death and the police officer takes one look and goes you know what can't do anything here and walks away but as he walks away he says lady if you need help remember I'm only a 911 phone call away that's what this is right now that is so unbelievably delusional so unbelievably delusional but by the way the delusions don't stop there we'll get to more delusional nonsense from the state department this is crazy I mean it's absolutely nuts don't worry though Joe Biden is not going to miss an episode of Matlock he has not spoken to the American people over the weekend at all he wasn't planning to the Taliban had a press conference from the from the headquarters of the Afghan government but Joe Biden Betsy's playing shuffleboard up at Camp David he cannot be bothered we have tomorrow in just one second I mean this like you know how many Americans died to secure at least a base

a foothold for the United States to Target Terror in this region you know how many Americans were wounded in Afghanistan tens of thousands of Americans lost limbs were wounded suffer severe psychological distress in order to maintain a base of operations from which we can kill terrorists we don't get another 911 and this dumbass decides you know what I'm pulling out I'm not providing any support I'm gonna not even allow contractors in there to fix their airplanes but how did this happen and by the way it's nothing like Saigon I mean just nothing how could you even see a similarity between this and Saigon unreal we'll get some more in just one second first let's be real about this when you are thinking about Sleep Quality you tend to think about your mattress which is great you tend to think about a lot of things in your room one thing you probably don't think too much about your sheets you need an excellent set of sheets

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foreign so the state Department's response to this Divine administration's response to this is so unbelievably insane I mean it's truly crazy it really is and it is as though O.J Simpson just murdered a bunch of people it's at least some guy who's just standing there watching O.J Simpson do it it's like don't worry guys I can always if you need me to step in I'm right here meanwhile just sitting there having a pina colada watching OJ kill his ex-wife like this is pretty much what is happening right now with the United States the state department statement where they said that they stand ready to assist in any way is just so crazy Nancy Pelosi loved it by the way Nancy Pelosi actually put out her own statement she said the president is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and his action the Taliban must know the world is watching its actions we are concerned

about reports regarding the taliban's brutal treatment of all Afghans especially women and girls oh really oh really are you concerned quote the U.S the International Community and the Afghan government must do everything we can to protect women and girls from inhumane treatment by the Taliban as we strive to assist them we must recognize that their voices are important and respect their culture is she is she adult I mean the answer is clearly yeah she's an adult I mean there is a screw loose all the lights are not on upstairs there are marbles missing from the marble jar Ed that pinball machine broke long ago I'm running out of euphemism for how crazy that statement is that is so crazy what so we care deeply about the Afghan women and girls and the Afghan government Bears serious responsibility and I Nancy Pelosi will Tut tet tut the 8th Century cavemen about their treatment of women and girls that's how

much we care we care so much the International Community will hold you responsible by the completely leaving and letting those girls get hit with acid in the face for going to school but Nancy Pelosi cares so deeply about women she's so much for women's rights that she tweets angrily about things that don't even make any sense she has a couple of cards shy of a full deck that that lady wow wow hey Tony blinking for his for his part the state department secretary he says you know it's not in our interest to stay after all like it or not uh there was an agreement that the forces would come out on May 1st had they not had we not begun that process which is what the president did uh and the Taliban saw then we would have been back at war with the Taliban by the way from the perspective of our strategic competitors around the world there's nothing they would like more than to see us in Afghanistan for

another 5 10 20 years it's simply not in the National interest that's insane mean they would they would like to see us stay there then why is it that the minute we left the Russians and the Chinese all rushed in and the pakistanis and the Indians and everybody else why why we all know the answer to this not in our interest to stay but our strategic competitors are happy if we stay in what world in what insane world this is so disconnected from anything remotely resembling reality this is what's maddening what happened here is that a perfectly pure and beautiful idea ran up directly against the brick wall of reality and the brick wall of reality is winning it is not a Shah the Biden Administration decided to drive Thelma and Louise style this car directly over the cliff and it was fun until gravity applied right the movie it turns out didn't end with the car in slo-mo sailing over a gap it turns out the movie continues and

then the car bursts into flame when it hits the bottom with the two ladies inside that's the part they don't show in the movie because not heroic when you burst into flame at the bottom and you die it means you were a okay and what they've done here is moronic on every pot and it is and it is not only intellectually moronic it is it is it is politically moronic it is in terms of foreign policy immoral but Tony blinken I love these kind of statements he then says you know what but here's the thing we will not legitimize our government if they don't do what we want them to do we won't give them legitimacy you literally handed them the country we won't legitimize that government well if you don't invite them to your Georgetown cocktail party I'm sure the Taliban are going to be super pissed if they can't get a nice Manhattan they'll probably just cry themselves to sleep with their AK-47s and the Apache Attack

Helicopters you just gave them probably they will weep into their beer over not being able to eat caviar with Anthony blinken here's the bling and say we're not going to legitimize we wouldn't do that well no they they are illegitimate you sir you sir are illegitimate what in the world illegitimate the guy's like again I go back to the OJ thing it's like oh Jesus like stabbing his ex-wife and the guys are like sir you seem unpleasant to me what you're doing is quite illegitimate and I insist that you stop yes this is this is working out well here's Anthony blanken a future Afghan government that upholds the basic rights uh of its people uh and that doesn't Harbor terrorists uh is a government we can work with and uh and recognize conversely a government that doesn't do that that doesn't uphold the basic rights of its people including women and girls uh that can that Harbors uh terrorist groups

that have designs on the United States or Allies and partners certainly that's not going to happen oh man we won't be happy with you we won't be by the way the agreement that you insisted on keeping also had requirements in the Taliban like don't invade the entire country you know what they didn't do listen to any of that and then you say that you're abiding by those agreements whatever agreement Trump made was also contingent on Taliban performance of their end you didn't care you've said he didn't care you've said if they violate the agreement you wouldn't do anything and you didn't by the way here's the good news President Biden is expected to address the nation according to CNN not like there's anything going on in the world he's busy he's a busy guy he's at Camp David cutting his toenails and making sure that that he eats his cream of wheat in the proper measure he the man needs his can of insurer

every morning he doesn't have time for you and your petty worries about you know the destruction of an entire nation because we fail to keep any sort of basic level of moral or foreign policy commitment he's a busy busy man that's all alrighty we'll be back here later today with much much more in the meantime go check out the Michael Knowles show that is available right now I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show if you enjoyed this episode don't forget to subscribe and if you want to help spread the word please give us a five-star review and tell your friends to subscribe to we're available on Apple podcast Spotify and wherever you listen to podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew claven show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Elliot fell executive producer Jeremy boring our

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