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The Eric Metaxas Show
Mighty Oaks Foundation's Chad Robichaux on New Book, 'Saving Aziz'
"Is brand new, saving Aziz. How the mission to help one became a calling for thousands to rescue thousands from the Taliban. Okay, most people listening don't know anything about this. What is the story? Well, the story is President Biden made the announcement immediately after he took office. He was going to do a full withdrawal of the United States military from the 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. I immediately had a problem with that and I think anybody understands the military did. A lot of your listeners may not agree with me at first, but if you hear me out, we should never have withdrew from Afghanistan. I'm not a warmonger. My family's been at war for a long time. If we get void war, we don't want to be there. But saying that the military had been a 20 year war and it was endless war is just not true. We had in 2018, we shifted from a conventional kinetic war with that Taliban and shifted to supporting advisory role with the Afghan national army and Afghan national police, participating with the entire international community to fight the Taliban in the mountains of Afghanistan and not in the west, not here in America. And it was working. This is the most strategic place in the globe between Iraq, Iran Russia and China, and it wasn't ours to give up. It belonged to the international community. It blowing to the Afghan government that we spent 20 years putting in place. And we didn't negotiate with our NATO partners. The international community or the Afghan government, we only negotiate the Taliban and we gave that country up to our enemies, not just the Taliban, but China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, ISI. And so I knew that was going to be catastrophic for national security and global security, but also knew that it would be catastrophic for our allies. And once they one more thing in that though, but when I say that we should have stayed there, historically, if you look at the history of how United States have been successful, a post war, we keep contingent forces in different areas strategically to prevent us from going back to war. Germany, we still have 40,000 troops since World War II. Japan, we have 80,000 troops since World War II in South Korea. We still have 35,000 troops since the Korea war. That strategy has worked for us, so do a full and complete withdrawal without leaving that only 2500 troops in a small contingent force in Afghanistan was a catastrophic era and I
Bro History
"afghan national army" Discussed on Bro History
"I think it was about three years ago on where she spent all this time in afghanistan and it was talking about how after the drone bombing of Moolah massoud not must sued them for me Man sewer mullah. Mansour was the leader after muller omar died and then they drove bombed him and then the next guy that took over after him is the current top leader. His name is hawkins. Odd and hawkins zodda essentially adopted this. You know. I don't know about brilliant but at least more intelligent strategy of so just blowing up every damn thing that the americans create or their allies create. Just take it all over so they build a school. Don't blow up the school just to point your guy principal. And if they build a place Station don't blow up the police station. Just take it over. Make sure your guys the chief and same with the mayor and same with the governor and then move onto the next one and another major Invention of theirs was to bring hussars an who's beck's and tajiks into the government and czars are shiites too so that's like an even taller than just being a sectarian ethnic minority That they figured out this was the smart thing to do Was to bring people in and say you don't have to be a pashtoon taliban you want to join our movement. You'd better off joining us now than later in this kind of thing and that you know their government they call. The islamic emirate of afghanistan has been really shadow government or even really the actual government in much of the country for years. Now and so you know. Once it came to taking over the country. It was like a matter snapping their fingers. It was sorta like when the russians took crimea. They went outside and said this belongs to us now. That's it over. It was what the french call khuda. Main one big successful surprised attack and in this case almost entirely bloodless right they just walked right in and i've been predicting on my show for years that they might just walk right in when it comes down to it there might not even be an afghan national army to stand against them at all and the afghan national amino biden said in getting out which i don't care what he says to get out but he goes listen. You know if these people aren't willing to fight for their country and how long should our guys be willing to fight for it and like okay. That's a cute way to put it in everything but let's get real. They weren't fighting for their country. They were fighting for our country against some people in their own country. And how long can we expect them to do that..
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"afghan national army" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"As reported basis, fired today is the third anniversary of the devastating Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions of 2018. Gas from over pressurized pipes across Lawrence and over and north and over, detonated Killing a person and displacing thousands. The young man who died 18 year old Leon el Rondon was killed when a chimney that have been blown off a house crushed his SUV and award in his honor is being presented to the Lawrence Fire Department later today. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on the hot seat today in Washington, but he's testifying virtually will be answering questions from lawmakers about the US pullout from Afghanistan. Alex Ward with politico has more on what the questions will likely include. Originally September 11th was when all U. S troops are going to leave. That got accelerated to August. 31st and seeing as there were still Americans left in Afghanistan and other at risk Afghans why the military mission didn't extend further and why they're now so reliant on the diplomacy that requires working so closely with the Taliban to get people out disturbing reports from the UN human rights watchdog, which says the Taliban has been committing Reprisal killings for Afghans who worked in the Afghan National Army. The U. N Human Rights Council says the country has entered a quote, new and perilous face. The high commissioner of human rights is she's heard reports of people's relatives being detained at random and then later turning up dead. There's also been reports of house to house Taliban searches for people who collaborated with us during his 20 year war in Afghanistan and coming up in two minutes. Cybercriminals threatened a father and it's one year old over his social media handle. 1 33..
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"afghan national army" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Coming in, as reported basis, fired today is the third anniversary of the Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions in 2018 gas from over pressurized pipes across Lawrence and over in north end over detonated Killing the teen and displacing thousands. The young man who died 18 year old Lian L. Ron don was killed when a falling chimney That had been blown off a house crushed his SUV and award in his honor is being presented to the Lawrence Fire Department later today. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the hot seat today. Answering questions from lawmakers in Congress about the US pullout from Afghanistan. Blinken is set to testify this afternoon in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Alex Ward with politico has more on what the questions will likely includes. Originally September, 11th was when knowledge U. S troops are going to leave. That got accelerated to August. 31st and seeing as there were still Americans left in Afghanistan and other at risk Afghans why the military mission didn't extend further and why they're now so reliant on the diplomacy that requires working so closely with the Taliban to get people out staying in Afghanistan, disturbing reports out today from the human rights watchdog, which says the Taliban has been committing Reprisal killings. For Afghans who cooperated with US who worked in the Afghan National Army and who served in the former government. A local hockey players badly injured. He now starts the long road to recovery. He's got a lot of hope. He's got a lot of friends. That's next right now. 11.
News 96.5 WDBO
"afghan national army" Discussed on News 96.5 WDBO
"Created and developed forces that looked like Western forces. And I think one of the big lessons learned here is Maybe those forces were not designed appropriately for the type mission. Excuse me. Excuse me. You've been doing this for 20 years. We've been out for one week. Now you say that maybe we would train them with the wrong philosophy. And tactics and techniques. Are you crazy? How does he get away with that? Well again. It's just It's astonishing to me because, as you know, when we knew, not first met, that was when I was over in Afghanistan, working and train with the Afghan National Army back in 2000 and 5, 2007 and I will tell you that the Afghans are good fighters at the small unit level, you know, maybe the the platoon level at the best and put to try to think that we're going to make them into division level per day, the core being able to teach them how to do combined arms operations, bringing in air power and intelligence, synchronization and things of that nature. That was a bridge too far. And one of the adjustments that we made while I was there was we recognize that and we put more emphasis on commando units, and they were very good being at that level of commando unit self, But that should have been the model. That's what we saw. But, you know, I'm just going to tell you that there are people in the Pentagon and want to hear what they want to hear. There are civilian leadership. They want to hear what they want to hear. Why Because it's all kinds of dollars. And unfortunately now we see 83 $85 billion worth of equipment left over there that we did not properly understand the means by which is the philosophy of people there and the tribal nature of the of the Afghan people. But he failed. He reportedly. I can't do it by his biography, but he was on the ground as as a ground commander. And now he has been chairman of the joint to step 34 years. And you know he would make his way through the Pentagon. Where's his reality? Check? I mean, at the very least, don't get the job. If they're gonna do what going to say. And now he said, Maybe we didn't train them The right way. Didn't train the right. Wait. What were you doing? I want you to hear the rest of this. Let's listen at a much faster rate. And very unexpected.
77WABC Radio
"afghan national army" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Biden could have kept her left anything he want. He was not bound by this, and in fact, the Taliban violated this agreement. So the notion that you have now have the president of the United States saying Oh, I'm bound up by an agreement that that Trump left me. Trump left you with an agreement. Okay. The enemy violated this at 100, different ways And you You're free to do whatever you want with it, so that the fact that you now are trying to go out and tell the American people are bound by what he did, and that's why why I left. And he also said that Trump planned to keep Bagram airbase. This guy, this guy de Pop said that on cats at night last Wednesday night, by the way, cats tonight five o'clock every afternoon. It's a great show. He gets all the heavy hitters. He also had on secretary former senator I should say my good friend Joe Lieberman, girlfriend and Joe Lieberman said that Look, this is a disaster right now. If we had a parliamentary democracy, we would have a vote right now of no confidence in the in Congress. Or in the parliament, and we would get rid of Joe Biden. We don't have that mechanism to do that. Right now. We don't have it at all. We're stuck. The founding fathers kind of let us down, if fortunately, I happen to be on Catch and show both both evenings there on his great witness. Pops was also actually and you know if you would call drop Biden's first day in office, my wife Rosemary always reminds me that he was he was do away with all of Trump's executive orders. He was dramatically signing all these things on the executive order. And yet somehow he feels bound by this guy is a total fraud on this. And also maybe you executive order on the Keystone Paris accords. The Iran deal almost went after the other and the wall. Oh, yeah, I feel bound. I have to build the wall. No, he stopped it on day one. Also, maybe you and I are obsessive over this. But if I were president, knighted states and I know if I knew that my because of my screw ups, there were hundreds of Americans and hundreds of our allies who could be held hostage or killed any moment. I wouldn't be going to Camp David. I would be going to Delaware. I wouldn't be visiting Queen's. I mean, you should be spending every waking moment because every day that goes by now is more valuable because each day that goes by the Taliban becomes more and more entrenched. This becomes I hate to say it old news and these people are at the mercy that he should be doing everything possible, not screwing around in Woodside. Remember how he's going to go today? So this spinal ists in Brazil, Joe Biden. He had this call with the president of Afghanistan back in July. And they told the guy I want you to lie create create a false perception that things are good that the Taliban isn't really taking over as they are. So he knew he knew it. And he told us otherwise. He lied to the public. But the President Trump had no qualms about being clear eyed about what the Taliban was capable of doing and what they eventually did. And this was after he dropped the mother of all bombs on the Taliban. This was Trump speaking in 2017, August of 2017 Listen to this. The consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable. 9 11, the worst terrorist attack in our history was planned and directed from Afghanistan because that country was ruled by a government that gave comfort and shelter to terrorists. A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum. They're terrorists, including Isis and Al Qaeda would instantly fill just as happened before September 11th. Was after he made the deal with the Taliban. He was clear eyed about the prospects what could happen as again, according to Dean Pops, former assistant secretary of the Army, he was going to keep Bagram that would have given aircraft over to the Taliban to the Afghan National Army. And this didn't have to happen. This did not have to happen and plus conditions changed so he would not have exited again. They brought as pop said they broke the deal a million different ways. So he would have adjusted on the fly. President Trump would not have done this and would not have certainly not have pulled the military out, closed down Bagram and leave hundreds. Perhaps thousands of Americans and loyal Afghans stranded in Afghanistan any would have let our allies no, because their lives are also put at risk. I mean, it's just, uh it's a shameful if anyone can make mistakes, but this was a self inflicted wound by Joe Biden not on himself. He's doing okay. He can go on vacation. But it's a wound against all Americans, especially those living in Afghanistan and the families of the 13 brave Marines who were murdered and they're laughing at us all over the globe. They're laughing and they're angry. Our allies, Europeans, Germans, They're angry. The Chinese and the Iranians and the Russians. They're laughing at us. No, it's a dishonorable stain. And they won't soon be forgotten. And I know I know the media wants to move on. But that's not going to happen. Lydia Surana is next isn't very interesting story about ivermectin ivermectin is a therapeutic Used to treat Covic. Very interesting, folks. You may have heard about it on during your vacation over the three day weekend or something like that. Joe Rogan is involved. We're going to explain it all to you, and a big hoax that was perpetrated on the American people. The last four or five days. Lydia Sorana is all over it. She's coming right up..
No Agenda
"afghan national army" Discussed on No Agenda
"From of dog patch and lower sla bovi about afghanis. And because i'm the one that's been saying that this training is bullcrap. I saw it in iraq and makes no sense if people can't speak english or any of the illiterate general. They can't read a right and they can't follow any instructions. It's complete mess So the afghan national army. What is that really. And so he looks at the which by the way the durand line which was kind of drew the The border between honeystone of honeystone and pakistan which was just driven just drawn right through tribe tribes like on a year. Now you're afghani now. You're pakistani so a lot of this area is is tribal complete. I'm reading from his note. Now completely isolated uneducated illiterate and many people. Practice customs passed down for generations. They have tribal wars. True blood. feuds kill over land disputes and family insults and protect their lifestyle at all costs. Most are honorable in their own. Sense of honor like killing over insults but certainly some tribal leaders have become enriched beyond measure from intelligence agencies maluku stan. That's india the k. In isis iran. T. t p that's The us to keep the roads. Open are not big secrets. And they recruit the poor boys to do their bidding an eighteen year old with a wife and child that are literally starving. Promise they'll be taken care of if he puts on a suicide vest. Water is choices cost about two thousand dollars. The price of a kalashnikov training. These men is extremely difficult. They cannot read too. How do you use a training manual. Have them watch and record license plates or even vehicles some could better identify by horse than by car their race to be fearless warriors in their tribes yet are mostly young. Have never seen a movie eating at a restaurant or been with. The woman accepts sisters and mothers. We focused on educating the girls and women yet they marry uneducated men such as these and the next generation returns to the standards. It's far more complex than these simple lines. But some things. I do know. In the western educated industrial rich and democratic. Weird people. Do not understand this. I got acknowledged that we really have no idea. Just what we're being told. But if this is and i and i agree with you. This is Pompeii oh he's the one that brought in all my colleagues art the longtime negotiator with the taleban going back to going back to zig new brzezinski With the mujahideen keywords. In on this they had the meeting in doa So what is this was the cia who gave the because it can't be it can't be the military so i know cia. Nobody you said trump. i don't think trump is a part of this way. I said trump. I've said i did say trump. I didn't i think i push back on that. I don't know. I said i don't know if trump knew about it is good because i think it's just purely peyot. Cia purist on pale came from the cia became to guy no. He never left the cia. That's the boy ever. You know exactly heads never do. That's what greenwald always likes to claim. I agree with him. The wall street journal this morning. Then this is being ratchet up so this is part of whatever. This game is part of. It is take out biden. This is the wall street journal. Us spies didn't cause kabul to fall. The biden administration apparently wants to make a scapegoat out of the intelligence community to we. Don't even have to read the article to understand what's going on here. The wall street journal. I republican. Party is pitting is ratcheting up. The fake republic will whatever. You know what i mean. It's it's all fake. The only people that are real everything else is fake everything we have to. I think with good reason. We have to assume that everything is up the news media everyone in there playing against the public and we'd out white it cut through it. It's hard of course it is does where there's two of us so then. It was so when you get this thrown in here. China will be our main partner says the taliban i think that's i think that's propaganda. I'm not so sure this has anything to do with china. China was better off with us there. They could mine piece know. Do some stuff because we were protecting. We had the country under control. They have no. I don't think they have desire to put all these unless they want us pakistan as a as a proxy but from what i understand from logan in we run. The intelligence community runs pakistan's entire intelligence community as well so what what is the deal other than making terrorism great again. Because that's what all the the hill country patriots talking about about the afghans out at least ten of them were on a watch list but one of them was wanted for terrorism. So is that being imported into our country is that what it's about the deal was done. I said early on that. The cia did deal. That's when the whole thing you know decide. Let's get out of here and they're still there and it was hinted by shep smith and clip. I played last For he mentioned the cia and they don't wanna talk about it now. I think there's enough. They decided they look at it and they look at the situation. Look we got our we loaded up all three hundred thousand of these afghan soldiers. They didn't do crap like you said. And you witness says than says so. These guys can't fight. The taliban guys like to fight. They're pretty good at it. They can hold their own. Let's give them the guns and weapons and see how many of them and will keep a bunch of of an. I've said this before. And then i kinda backed off on. Then you reminded me the we've got a bunch of Mercenaries there this is. This is the main point. This is taliban point in. Maybe we've got two point. Oh these are trained. They're indexing their firearms properly. They've got they've got a spokes whole who speaks to the press. Who does press conferences since when that happened so we got which is really the giveaway spooked him right there. One hundred percent so the whole thing. This whole thing is a giant somemore solid and you notice that things. They didn't leave behind. I mean they left all the stuff behind but they didn't leave any stinger missiles or anything that can take down an airplane that by omission. You're so right it's all digits because they're taking all these play some yahu what's this and he shoots and brings down a one of the blowback. Did the c seven. Did they leave any crackles. Any of those Those containers on it. Where's the bomb. Yeah we're the ordinance. By the way there's it was selective what they left behind but they left a lot of trucks a lot of vehicles and they can drive those matter. How illiterate they are. They can talk on a walkie talkie they gave him a lot of those sunglass. Those glasses Hundred twenty six thousand pistols went yards did oakley did oakley. Give him a the. The oakley gives taliban's glasses. How under armor do they leave any under armor stuff. I mean come on. Let's where's where's nike league. Lasser to get three pair of the three pairs and they get and he. Here's a giveaway. Since we've been doing this show terrorists and crazy people in the sand drive toyota trucks okay. They don't drive hummers. You show me. Toyota's i'll believe these guys are terrorists. They don't switch brands like that. They're all well this because it gave them the hammer got. They got free hummers. They got they want. Toyota's they trust or they got a bunch of chevy trucks. Forty two thousand dry says give us give us the landcruisers. They don't want the ship. It's not his semi truck with a gift for free. It's taliban chevy truck month. Everybody todd on track month so this is okay. So the thing. Let's now let's just look for one second and what we can expect. This is a this is a huge problem for by the military. Hates him the rank and file okay. They already hated the pencil. Pushers the general austin's in these kinds of jokes.
KTOK
"afghan national army" Discussed on KTOK
"We're featuring Armstrong and Getty in the mornings. Um, with Larry. So I personally know Larry and so, you know, take it with a grain of salt, But, you know, I I know the guy and so um, and and so I'm going to vote for him because he has the greatest chance of winning. And also he really is a really nice guy. And somebody correct me. He's the sage from South Central, not the Oracle of Compton with I believe that Snoop Dogg, the Oracle of Compton, Um or it was easy, but so he's he's, uh, He's the same guy off air that he is on her a really, really good guy. And it's crazy, funny seeing seeing a black and sort of black conservative smeared They're they're they're trying to, you know, dragging up old girlfriends and all this stuff and and the smear job is hilarious. And you're not seeing this because you're not in California. But Larry has a TV spot, pushing back, believe it or not, the L A Times called him a white supremacist. And it's like, Have you seen his picture? Do you know anything about they called him a white supremacist. So he has a TV spot where he flashes a picture of him like in 1982. And he has this mod squad Faro. He has this link from Mod squad. Uh, you know, Dr J Circa 1977 pro. It's the funniest damn thing. And he's sitting in a chair and he said, Do I look like a white supremacist? It's devastating. But Anyway, so so just so just to let you know that's that's the disclaimer. Um okay, Someone called, so we'll take the car Claude in Fountain Hills, Arizona. What's the radio station? You're listening to, uh, I'm actually listening to you over the Internet. And I actually enlisted in the Army in 2000 and three because if you're Seattle radio show, so thank you. I would like to know what? Yes, you had a caller who called in And was saying he felt really frustrated being on the sidelines. You said, Well, you got enlist by, I think at the time it was 35. I thought. Oh, I'm 33 so I didn't like sitting on the sidelines. And you were very inspirational at the time and you have been my play by play through the, uh, the past. I guess 18 19 years of what's been going on, and that's the way I'm trying to get the order. Right. Let's see what I was on tire all the time or kpi. But that was before I went, and that's yes. And that's before I got deployed. With, uh, window. Yeah. Okay. That was that was pretty well, you know, I have ahead were either traumatic brain injury now, some little different there, Richard Cranium. I'm sure I am. I've listened to you talk about Obama's use of signature strikes, which you clarified for me meant he was literally signing on the dotted line to allow for drone strikes, and I'm wondering What will this current administration do to help the pockets of resistance? Still fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan? Um, I'm take my index finger. Making a big zero because that's great radio. Literally. Nothing literally. Nothing think so. They abandoned the Afghan National Army with air support. You know, as we find out from that transcript That was released last week by Reuters of Ashraf Ghani, the the the the Worlds worlds. He holds the record for most weight in $100 bills placed on the Gulf Stream. Um, I don't know. Literally 167 million ways like £3200 So, but so anyway, no, it's dead. They want no matter how many American citizens no matter how many Children From Sacramento, San Diego. Whatever are are are left behind. They will not officially ever kill someone or do anything. They will not lift a finger to help the newly reformed Northern Alliance. Um, nothing. They will do nothing and also they're being assisted. By the American media because you're seeing absolutely Bob guests on TV about these Americans we left but never mind the the Northern Alliance and Ahmad Shah Massoud Sound is the new leader of the northern lines. Never mind that never mind that they could use in a 10 or two or even a drone being flown from from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. Not even that They won't do a bit. Not not. Not a bit rate..
WLS-AM 890
"afghan national army" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Have left without de registering. Others never register at all. That is their right, of course, and it's our responsibility to find them which we are now doing hour by hour. You know, I'm just not sure, folks. What is this? Uh, Paris is Afghanistan like a hot tourist centered and I miss something. Is there like Airbnb is in Kabul that were filled up with Americans. I mean, really, Is this a substantial number of people? How many people do you think went to Afghanistan and didn't register when they left most of them? They're probably there because they're professional contractors in the military. A working with the military. I would think it would be would be rather easy right to reach out to the contract. There's the company's wherever they may be and say, Hey, do you have any people left behind guys? Ladies, This isn't hard, right? Again. If you're the Yankees, leaving l a to go back to New York on a flight. It's pretty easy to say and divvy up the responsibilities hated the pitching coach Pretty short. I don't know who the pitch and go. The only last pitching coach I remember is Mel Statham are but I don't think he's with us anymore, but I don't remember the pitching coach now, but it's pretty easy to say to the pitching coach. Hey, listen, you have all the relievers and the starters on the plane. I mean, he knows them becomes coach them, right. Are you suggesting to me? The United States government can't figure out NGOs, contractors, military people, and who knows? Maybe there are visitors. I'm sure it's not that many, but you can't tell me and give a rough number Who's left behind. You can't reach out and do it. That doesn't sound right to me. Why are they doing that? Most of you already figured it out. This gives me uh No pleasure. Obviously in telling you this nothing but pain. They're preparing to blame these Americans when they leave them behind in August, 31st I hope and pray this isn't true. I desperately hope that the public outcry From this calling your congressman calling your senators what? Whatever it may be whatever you can do to get involved and have your voice heard right now stops them from doing this. But I've heard from multiple credible people well aware of what's going on with Intimate familiarity. Geopolitics. All of this nonsense going on right now that they are preparing to leave these people behind. And the blame game is going to be well. They didn't register. They didn't non register so Sorry by bad. I know that sounds horrible. What? I'm hearing it from a number of a number of credible people right now that this is exactly what's going to happen. This Israeli grotesque. This is disgusting stuff. You think they can't figure this out with the United States government? We can figure this out. The question is, do they want to figure it out? I'll get two questions two and three in a minute, because the audio from that is just as disturbing. Why did we abandon Bagram? Why don't we retake it? And why did the Afghan National Army fall apart and fall apart so quickly? Terrible decisions all around. I'm Dan Bongino..
The Dan Bongino Show
Three Questions Biden Needs to Answer on Afghanistan
"A head count. Don't think for a second. This is just an innocent mistake. We really have no idea how many Americans are in Afghanistan. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, we We don't do stupid. Okay. Where do we tolerate? Stupid and that's just stupid. To hold in your head. Okay? Questions how many stranded Americans are left behind? These are the questions Amid the chaos. We can't hit the bed. If you know what I mean. We have to think clearly as they focus Question number two. Why did we abandon Bagram Air Base? And why are we re taking it now? There are two runways there. It is a secure or was a secure military facility. About a 20 minute. Hello, left outside of Kabul. We could be flying planes out. Almost 24 7. We have the ability to fly out at night. There we control it. Why have it? Why did we abandon Bagram? Why haven't we retaken bargain? Fair question? No. Question number three. I said there are a lot of questions, but these are the top three. I see. Right? Why did the Afghan National Army fail fail so quickly? We know the intel was there. We know the military. Intel was there. The Afghan National Army was not ready to fight the Taliban. We know that why isn't that they felt so quickly. And why is this all basically been hidden from us? Well.
600 WREC
"afghan national army" Discussed on 600 WREC
"Uh, we're back with with Holly McKay. Why didn't they fight? So that before I actually spent the night before, with the Afghan especial forces, commanders and what I've been gathering and what they were able to affirm me and also a friend to me after the fact when I when I went back to them, and they're all in hiding now, of course, running running for their lives when they explain to me what happened was that they were basically sold out, Glenn. So this is how corruption The Afghan within the ranks of both the government and the military. And I really feel that the US throughout this entire occupation counter blind eyes, the level of corruption and that was a big factor. Yep. Yep, we did. And so what happened was There was a deal struck between one of the top and a Afghan national army. A leaders in the area who was just appointed by Ghani. Mind you a week before it happens. He was appointed and he and a bunch of other kind of lead is all struck a deal with the with the Taliban in advance to basically hand over the city. They got their money or whatever it is they got. They got to flee. They're all gone. They're all often to use Beck istan or wherever Dr Maddox. They'd all left the country. These poll men and this is what upset me most went. President Biden was blaming the Afghans are running away. These poor men. Some of them very young kids. Some, you know, boys, I should young men. I should say some of them being very experienced by there were basically left to the Florida They didn't know a deal has already been struck for them, too. Surrender. They didn't know that that body my contact in. The commander said to me, you know, He got to four o'clock that afternoon, and they were just being overwhelmed and overrun. And he said then somebody came in and told him that basically everybody had left. And he just said the morale he just said, you know, basically, they were just told you guys just need to run because the city's already been handed over my God, you know, just kill you. So the poor young men and women are fleeing toward the is back border and then they get there and they're dumping You know, whatever. You know, this is a tad bit choose, you know they're having to dump their weapons and dump their, um, vehicles and things and they're trying to get into Uzbekistan, which I think had to end up shutting the border because it was so overwhelmed, never really left to the Florida and I can't blame them at that point for wanting to run away when they know that their own leaders on their side had already sold them out. Yeah, And I mean, what are you going to? When are you going to do at that point, You're going to run for your life. Maybe. Were you fighting for at that point not finding for your country anymore. So so, the Taliban something the Taliban says to you that, you know. Hey, we're not the Taliban of 20 years ago. We've had about three minutes to finish the story. I'm so sorry. Love to have you on again. So, Yeah, so basically long story short. The only way we realized that we were actually going to get out of the city was to have the Taliban that there was too many checkpoints. There's no way we could have passed those ourselves safely. So the Taliban through some very careful deployment, see, Thanks. Thankfully, some really great State Department people. Plus is that consul in Mazar was extremely helpful. We were able to get an escort. Yes, and immediately the first thing that you know, the Taliban driver says to me is he just got out of Bagram to, um, that was very nonchalant. And basically he wanted to tell me you wanted to welcome me to the governor. The governor wished he could have been there to talk to me, but he was busy and then sort of said We're not the same as a lot of propaganda about us. But then I started obviously read through the lines that I probed, and I wanted to know. Well, what do you What is your future for Afghanistan and it was very clear and they made nothing. No effort to hide the fact they wanted a very stringent interpretation of Of Sharia, and that, um, you know, women were going to be covered in right stuck into their basements and and you know, anyone who steals was going to get their hand cut off. So they were pretty blunt about that. Having said that they were very A lot to me because I was a foreigner. And I recognize that I know that my Afghan friends and colleagues are not going to be given the sort of the nice treatment that I received, you know, and and that's what what sort of scared me. So, um, Holly was lucky, but that luck won't be extended. I would love to have you back on. Maybe even perhaps later this week, just to talk about some of your other experiences and to be able to because you've been everywhere you have seen the worst of the worst. And I'd love to hear how this compares to What has already happened elsewhere. What is.
WBAP 820AM
"afghan national army" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"Claim that they ran. Shameful. Okay? Yeah. Those who have never fought for the colours they fly should be careful about criticizing those Who have you add to that. Britain loses patience with Sleepy Joe is the headline in the daily UK male former Prime Minister Tony Blair saying that Biden's an imbecile And Boris Johnson rumored to saying that we would have been better off with Trump this idea that this is an alienating our allies is absurd. Well, yeah, And you think about Joe Biden came out and said one of these, you know? Insidious press conferences that his he had hurt. Not heard anything from my foreign partners about them being upset or or not happy with. What is going on. The parliament held him in contempt. What was the last time that the UK Parliament held an American president and contempt? They certainly certainly did not do that with Donald Trump. So progressive socialist left scrambling right now, they don't know what to do. If you replace job, I will Camilla hair as you go from the frying pan into the oven. So elections do have consequences. And so the American people need to wake up and understand. We cannot have these dithering idiots from the left ever, ever again being in control of our country. Colonel Allen West our guest right now, folks he is running for Governor of the Great State of Texas, the Taliban Isis al Qaeda. They're all back and they're all in and terrorist La la land there in Afghanistan. Courtesy of Mr Biden, and they're well armed now, as nearly $100 billion of American equipment are now in the hands of terrorists like Black Hawk helicopters and Tucano attack aircraft. That that in and of itself is a colossal failure. Not to mention the the Chinese and the Russians What they're doing to reverse engineer now with their hands on all this equipment Now you're absolutely right. And what I have read is that the Taliban now has the 30 largest air force in the world. They have more Black Hawk helicopters, then Australia does. That's an embarrassment. And when I look at General Milley and also Secretary of defense often they need to resign as well as I think his name Jake Sullivan, who is the national security advisor, they need to resign. Because these people have failed the American people and we're coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9 11 and what have we done? We have allowed the exact same people who were responsible for bringing 9 11 to the shores, the United States of America. We've gotten them back in the power and control And if you look into some of the pictures you see Taliban fired, is walking around with American rifles. American in four car bees with the optic sights on it, And they even have uniforms and equipment of, uh of American troops. Night vision That's going to be one of our greatest advantages, night vision goggles. In the field. Now the terrorists have that capability You mentioned General million. I would be remiss if I didn't ask you to comment on Mr White Rage himself here is Mr Millie talking about the Afghanistan DiBacco? Listen However. The time frame of a rapid collapse that was widely estimated and ranged from weeks to months and even years following our departure. There was nothing Did I or anyone else saw. That indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days. This is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many people have suggested that if he perhaps was, you know, focused on doing his job. Rather than creating divisions in the United States military along racial lines that maybe we could have seen some of this coming. You're absolutely right, instead of sin around and telling people that He's concerned about white rage and and critical race theory being implemented as military. He should have been getting briefings about Afghanistan. He should have been getting briefings about the status. Of the Afghan National Army. He should have been asking when was the last time they conducted. You know a combat operation, although you know what level of training have they been doing at the at the squad company battalion levels. Those are the type of things he should have been looking at. But he wasn't and so again. That's why I think General Milley to step down. He should resign. Let's bring things back here to home for Colonel Allen, West gubernatorial candidate. Here in the Great state of Texas. Rogue STD's are pushing their mask mandates counter to the current governors Executive order We expect the Texas Supreme Court this week will rule in favor of the governor. Because it is the Texas Constitution, after all, But with these with these courts nowadays, who knows? Let me just ask you. What do you think? The right now we've learned that there are no punishments. Available by the rule of law. When leftist is DS break the law If you were governor right now, how would you be handling these lawless I STs? Well, first of all, if I was a governor, I would not establish the precedent of mandating masks by which now they're trying to follow, and that's the failure of Our current governor Governor Abbott last year when he was doing all this mass mandating and shutting down businesses and things of this nature, But if I was sitting there as governor right now, I would let these people know that If you don't want to abide by the directions that I'm putting out for the state of Texas, then we will look and see how we restrict funding to go to some of these SD and especially some of these superintendent, if you look and do the research These high level six figure incomes that they're making. But yet and still we see a lot of failure out there in the school districts, So I think that we need to do a review and get a better utilization. The taxes, Taxpayer Texas taxpayer dollars. It will go into these independent school districts now I wanted to get there's a lot of Hey, being made by the left wing press this weekend about what happened with Mrs West and I know that you I've watched some of your videos online and you're pretty hot about this, so I wanted to give you an opportunity. To set the record straight that you're probably not being given by the rest of the press. Well, it's very simple. My wife had dinner at P. F. Chang's Friday night. Uh, she had water and lemonade and the overseas for her dinner indicate that she was pulled over by Dallas Police Officer Officer L. Harris. Badge number 11792. For failure to use a turn signal and changing lanes, which is pretty insidious to me. If you're not causing an accident or something. Why would you get pulled over for that? For whatever reason that officer Harris Demanded my wife get out of the car, and my wife agreed to go with the field sobriety tests because she had nothing to hide. And I believe that nothing came up. She was not told the results of the Breathalyzer when she said she would take And then she was arrested on the spot for suspicion of the You are again when she had only had water and lemonade for dinner that night, which the receipts for PF change show But Was even more insidious is that my grandson who was in the car with her was left in the car on the side of the road while they carted my wife off and to go downtown for process and she was Charged with driving while intoxicated. How are you going to be driving while intoxicated when all you had was water and lemonade? There's no alcohol in our home. Uh and she was released. Finally Saturday morning Saturday afternoon at one P.m.. But I want an apology. I want these charges dropped. I want this officer L..
WCBM 680 AM
"afghan national army" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM
"The leftist radicals in this country started in the sixties, and they continued marching. So when you look from the sixties to today, we have had a generation. We have had people after people after people who are so totally brain lost That the youth of today anybody 20 years old or younger cannot even remember 9 11. They do not know why we are all on fire about what happened to America on 9 11 and this victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan really doesn't mean that much to them because they do not know nor understand the significance of us handing the Taliban this victory. But wait, it goes beyond simply not understanding what 9 11 was all about. You have occurred sitting Congressman I think from a California he was being interviewed this past week and asked what he thought about the Taliban flag flying over the U. S embassy in Kabul as well. It's just a building. I beg your pardon? It's just a building. And that's where that's what they don't understand. And this is one thing not just only with members of Congress. This is running also from the military. Look at the general and commander of our troops in Afghanistan. Um what's his name? General Austin, the Austin Scott Miller. He's the commander of the U. S and NATO troops in Afghanistan. He said he was shocked, shocked by how quickly the Afghan national Army had surrendered to the Taliban. No, I don't know whether he is a three star general four star general or 100, star general, and I don't really care but a guy who professes to be shocked by how quickly the Afghan National Army has surrendered to the Taliban. Has no business being a general. And that tells you everything about our miss understanding of our enemy because we have been teaching them this youth that we have built in the eyes of the generals. If Utopia of this is what we are all about, we're going to win hearts and we're going to take our enemies that their words You know, whatever happened to trust but verify. We left that behind with the age of Ronald Reagan. And now we have military generals. We have leaders who do not understand our enemy. And I'll give you another perfect example. As to why this level of ignorance continues. So right now we have almost 45,000 there are estimating now Americans trapped in Afghanistan those we know about those we do not know that they are in the country. So when you look at the other governments right now, the British are they're doing commander operations, getting their people out. Not only getting the British people out, but getting the Irish people out poor trapped in Afghanistan. We are not doing that with our own people. Why? Because we have turned instead of the Department of Defense who actually goes in and those of the go and And rescue Americans Right now we turned this operation to the State Department. So you've got the suits of the State Department who do not know anything about the art of war who do not know anything about going in a combat operation and saving Americans are now running the show, while all other countries are sending their military to save their people. Uh, which, of course, is a bizarre circumstance were recounting on French foreign legionnaires to get Americans to the airport safely. But It's not all that surprising if you have an administration that believes that Americans can simply stroll through the streets of Kabul, holding their passports high above their heads, and there's simply allowed free entry under the airport. And that seems to be the belief No, There are no problem for Americans there. Correct misunderstanding our enemy again and again and again, But you know, this is what Joe Biden display squarely and Joe Biden's flat displays squarely and and the Democratic Party's lap. We We don't have any leadership and on And on top of that, the president that we have right now, every time he comes from television. Twice since this whole debacle started, wants to talk about vaccination and then to talk about Afghanistan the second time and doubles down. Uh, as to, you know, I made the right decision. We had to get out of Afghanistan. What we know we all understand and agree that we had to get out of Afghanistan. But we don't get out of Afghanistan, leaving the people behind them leaving our enemies. $85 billion worth of What works of what worry and machinery behind. We literally have built all the Taliban to be the most strong, powerful military force in the region, courtesy of the U. S. Army and the U. S tax dollars. She Gabriel, National Security analyst chairwoman for Act for America, By the way, will you be at the hold their feet to the fire this year? Yes, I will forward to be there. Yes, we are going to be there. Maybe we can never get a coffee and about sometime, okay, I would love it.
Bro History
"afghan national army" Discussed on Bro History
"Who's back in his are tribes against the pashtoon populations and does obama. Who sent seventy thousand more troops in the search right. Another thousand americans killed and who who knows how many afghans killed in effect driving more people into the insurgency and it was the us national security establishment who completely sold the american people on a fake bill of goods. They lied repeatedly about the status of the war. They lied repeatedly about the progress of the afghan national army. They lied repeatedly about you. Know the progress of the actual state itself Day repeatedly lied about everything. The national security establishment and this was a failed project from the doom. And i wasn't alive in vietnam but it's unbelievable that we could try a project like that again and get away with it like i thought that in west point you studied the vietnam war a lot. Yeah because i was a failure like how many big time generals have their like thesis and stuff or no they write books on the vietnam war like hr mcmaster wrote his thesis on the vietnam war. Now they could have won. How do not learn news lessons. But i think you need to understand the reoccurring themes in afghanistan and You have to understand some structural features that make afghanistan the way it is. And that's how you could really understand the ascent to power of taliban the geography. I think most people who've listened to the snow it's very rugged it's very mountainous. It's a very poor place it's landlocked. It has a social system of intense local loyalty thus it has always had a very weak central state. If there's a central state at all brain Obe recurring theme. Afghanistan is that outsiders repeatedly intervened in the country. So the british did this. The soviets did this the united states. Did this all for their own geopolitical reasons or the political reasons of the people in power and what were the result of these occupations. That was not great. weren't great. They are all able to pacify the urban population centers but then found the countryside in hospitable and they left they all withdrew and after they withdrew and turner conflicts escalate. Until some new group establishes order which often offends you know. External actors again who then intervene in this cycle just goes on and on and on and on and on on on that is kind of the major themes or the cycle of life for afghanistan and Afghanistan has been in a perpetual state of horses. Nineteen seventy eight so at this point. We're going well over forty years of war which in turn has created award like culture now this whole generation of people for most people that all you know is war is never yet never been born not bore like as in most a lot of americans now or young america's now who are born after nine eleven they've only been living through technically wartime. But we're not. Yeah it's worse than morale's else were somewhere else now. A place in like very foreign exotic lands at. We can't really even imagine we're point and a lot of times now like the people that were fighting..
Mark Levin
U.S. Veteran Shares Story About Texting With Afghan Military Recently
"It's really driving me crazy because myself and some of my other colleagues we've actually been getting, uh, text messages on WhatsApp. From some of the Afghan National Army guys that we've been training over the years. And it's really sad. They're sitting there begging us for something to do. They're like, what can you do for us? What can you do for us? Their words were, you know they are hunting us down specifically door to door because of the equipment that we trained them on. Um and it just like I mean, it's extremely heartbreaking, and it's very demoralizing. And I'm just I'm just ashamed that at what's going on here. I mean, it's It's tough for me it myself and a bunch of the other guys that I'm working with are you know we're kind of having a hard time with this. It's emotionally hard, isn't it? You can't sleep at night over this. I wasn't even over there. I don't know any of these people, and I'm having trouble sleeping at night thinking about what's happening to these people. Yes, sir. There's a few gentlemen that I know by name that, um Buddy of mine. He said. Oh, yeah, you know, so and so contacted me and I'm just like, Yeah, I'm like, I remember this guy's a great guy. Great soldier. I'm like, you know has have you heard anything else? He's like No. After his first After his last text message. I didn't hear anything. The last one that we got from them was, uh, they just said, sir. Thank you very much for everything that you've done for all of us. We We really respect and had a great time working for all of you. And then that was the last we heard from them.
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"afghan national army" Discussed on No Agenda
"The mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last twenty years. Our no. it's the last minute scramble. You know that it's the last minute scramble. When the assurance from the president himself were this was not what we were going to see reason that their. Us forces at the airport affects shooting a successful drawdown down of our embassy. Securing the airport to be able to get other people out is because the president pre-position those forces thousands of them in the gulf. So they could be moved in rapidly in the event that there was a rapid collapse. Oh so there are a successful drawdown of our embassy. So that's what we call it when you burn your files and flee and a helicopter from approaching gunfires factual waiting. Another successful drought woohoo. Hey he's talking on our turf off carlson back off. This is are. We make jokes around here The last one. I want to get this down. We'll get to good sniff. Because this i did not know and this was on. This is just talker talking about stuff. That i didn't know this was going on to this. Extremely he may be exaggerating. Because i think he does because i will watch him closely in some of the stuff he gets criticized for and i think he might be a little Over the top with some of this but if this is true this is pretty bad. But let's play. This is him on the gender studies. And what's going on in afghanistan which is driving the afghanis nuts as left wing academics in the us have used the developing world as a laboratory to test their theories about how societies ought to be ordered but aren't over time they've constructed a parallel government of ngos that work alongside our pentagon state department as well as with the united nations to impose radical social engineering projects on the world's poorest people who have no say in the matter over the past twenty years for example congress's allocated close to a billion dollars to export academic feminism to afghanistan where that money go to programs like a two years. Master's degree in gender and women's studies offered kabul university. Something afghans apparently never knew they needed another. Us government effort meanwhile funded quote activities that educate and engage afghan men and boys to challenge gender stereotypes. Right they weren't doing that enough. And of course. Always and everywhere leaders enforce the most american of all cultural exports affirmative action american funded gender advisers demanded that women compromise at least ten percent of the afghan national army and a still larger proportion of that country's political leadership thanks to american impose gender quotas dozens of women ultimately were installed as representatives afghans parliament. How'd that work. Well the whole thing was a sham. As always in fact many of these new female legislators had never been to the provinces they claim to represent almost nobody in afghanistan. Liked any of this by the way. And why would they yeah. There was a picture going around of a mural of gen- gender equality equity and a whole bunch of afghan women and children huddled around on the under With guns trained on them. There's a lot going. There's a lot of propaganda here when when it's all about the women and the women and then hillary clinton is calling trudeau about the women and the girls. This is the same with boko haram where the girls think about the girls. The something going on here he is an here's Here's a guy who probably knows something. Although he seems fallen from grace along with his jowls is leon panetta former. Cia directory was also was not director was not secretary of defense at one point as well. I believe think so a we way. Hugh's all over the government. So here's a little blurb from him a. We went there for two missions one to go after al qaeda the leadership of al qaeda and bin laden because of what they did and attacking our country on nine eleven and we were successful going after al qaeda and obviously i'm very proud of the mission to go after bin lot obviously but even though he was in pakistan but there was a second mission which was su prevent afghanistan from ever becoming a safe haven. Was that the mission. It's funny that not a single report mentioned that but this panetta's version for terrorism again. Unfortunately we have failed at that mission and with the taliban now controlling afghanistan. there is no question that they will provide a safe haven for al qaeda and for isis and for other terrorist says who able to reorganize strengthen themselves again and potentially use afghanistan as a base for attacking not just the united states but other countries as well. This is a national security threat. So who says that well he. Cia isn't it. i mean he's he's really a cia guy that he was also secretary of defense was an anomaly. And all the cia guys they all know it and come on. The cia has been running ran. Obama didn't trump if anything that was dia to now we're back to the cia running the show. We know tear dear. President biden is not running anything but to show you the panetta knows. At least he has a story. This is general. lloyd austin. who is the. He's the boss of the military. Here listen to this. Jim joke. I'm you still saying. You're focused on the airfield. People can't get into the airfield. What we're gonna do everything. We can to continue to try to deconflict and create passageways for them to get to the airfield capability to go out and and extend operations currently into into kabul. And where do you take. I mean how far can you extend into kabul. And how long does it take the flow those forces and to be able to do that. It sounds like you're saying this depends on diplomacy with the taliban. That's it that's our only option is getting them to agree to do this. Something here they gotta jump in on him. The guy is caught in the headlights. I don't have the capability ana none of them clueless clueless. That's the guy running the military please. So now let's talk nice voice. Let's talk about. The taliban. Caught this piece on the bbc About the taliban and their funding. Obviously they have to have money in order to have weapons and And do things and and run the show. So how do they get all this money. Do they do it. So we know this plenty of people willing to fight but fighting's expensive not just in knives you need to pay for weapons and actual fighters so how they doing this michael simple. Is it possible to know how rich the taliban is that. There is one suggestion that in two thousand nine hundred and twenty twenty. They had about one point six billion us.
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"afghan national army" Discussed on No Agenda
"The mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last twenty years. Are you know the last minute scramble. You know that it's the last minute scramble. When the assurance from the president himself were this was not what we were going to see reason that their. Us forces at the airport affects shooting a successful drawdown down of our embassy. Securing the airport to be able to get other people out is because the president pre-position those forces thousands of them in the gulf. So they could be moved in rapidly in the event that there was a rapid collapse. Oh so there are a successful drawdown of our embassy. So that's what we call it when you burn your files and flee and a helicopter from approaching gunfires factual waiting. Another successful drought woohoo. Hey he's talking on our turf off carlson back off. This is are. We make jokes around here The last one. I want to get this down. We'll get to good sniff. Because this i did not know and this was on. This is just talker talking about stuff. That i didn't know this was going on to this. Extremely he may be exaggerating. Because i think he does because i will watch him closely in some of the stuff he gets criticized for and i think he might be a little Over the top with some of this but if this is true this is pretty bad. But let's play. This is him on the gender studies. And what's going on in afghanistan which is driving the afghanis nuts as left wing academics in the us have used the developing world as a laboratory to test their theories about how societies ought to be ordered but aren't over time they've constructed a parallel government of ngos that work alongside our pentagon state department as well as with the united nations to impose radical social engineering projects on the world's poorest people who have no say in the matter over the past twenty years for example congress's allocated close to a billion dollars to export academic feminism to afghanistan where that money go to programs like a two years. Master's degree in gender and women's studies offered kabul university. Something afghans apparently never knew they needed another. Us government effort meanwhile funded quote activities that educate and engage afghan men and boys to challenge gender stereotypes. Right they weren't doing that enough. And of course. Always and everywhere leaders enforce the most american of all cultural exports affirmative action american funded gender advisers demanded that women compromise at least ten percent of the afghan national army and a still larger proportion of that country's political leadership thanks to american impose gender quotas dozens of women ultimately were installed as representatives afghans parliament. How'd that work. Well the whole thing was a sham. As always in fact many of these new female legislators had never been to the provinces they claim to represent almost nobody in afghanistan. Liked any of this by the way. And why would they yeah. There was a picture going around of a mural of gen- gender equality equity and a whole bunch of afghan women and children huddled around on the under With guns trained on them. There's a lot going. There's a lot of propaganda here when when it's all about the women and the women and then hillary clinton is calling trudeau about the women and the girls. This is the same with boko haram where the girls think about the girls. The something going on here he is an here's Here's a guy who probably knows something. Although he seems fallen from grace along with his jowls is leon panetta former. Cia directory was also was not director was not secretary of defense at one point as well. I believe think so a we way. Hugh's all over the government. So here's a little blurb from him a. We went there for two missions one to go after al qaeda the leadership of al qaeda and bin laden because of what they did and attacking our country on nine eleven and we were successful going after al qaeda and obviously i'm very proud of the mission to go after bin lot obviously but even though he was in pakistan but there was a second mission which was su prevent afghanistan from ever becoming a safe haven. Was that the mission. It's funny that not a single report mentioned that but this panetta's version for terrorism again. Unfortunately we have failed at that mission and with the taliban now controlling afghanistan. there is no question that they will provide a safe haven for al qaeda and for isis and for other terrorist says who able to reorganize strengthen themselves again and potentially use afghanistan as a base for attacking not just the united states but other countries as well. This is a national security threat. So who says that well he. Cia isn't it. i mean he's he's really a cia guy that he was also secretary of defense was an anomaly. And all the cia guys they all know it and come on. The cia has been running ran. Obama didn't trump if anything that was dia to now we're back to the cia running the show. We know tear dear. President biden is not running anything but to show you the panetta knows. At least he has a story. This is general. lloyd austin. who is the. He's the boss of the military. Here listen to this. Jim joke. I'm you still saying you're focused on the airfield. These people can't get into the airfield while we're gonna do everything we can to continue to try to deconflict and create passageways for them to get to the airfield capability to go out and and extend operations currently into into kabul. And where do you take. I mean how far can you extend into kabul. And how long does it take the flow those forces and to be able to do that like you're saying this depends on diplomacy with the taliban that's it that's our only option is getting them to agree to do this. Something here they gotta jump in on him. The guy is caught in the headlights. I don't have the capability ana none of them clueless clueless. That's the guy running the military please. So now let's talk nice voice. Let's talk about the taliban caught this piece on the bbc about the taliban and their funding obviously they have to have money in order to have weapons and And do things and and run the show. So how do they get all this money. Do they do it. So we know this plenty of people willing to fight but fighting's expensive not just in knives you need to pay for weapons and actual fighters so how they doing this michael simple. Is it possible to know how rich the taliban is that. There is one suggestion that in two thousand nine hundred and twenty twenty. They had about one point six billion us.
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"afghan national army" Discussed on No Agenda
"The mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last twenty years. Thank you know the last minute scramble. You know that it's the last minute scramble. When the assurance from the president himself were this was not what we were going to see reason that their us forces at the airport effect shooting a successful drawdown down of our embassy. Securing the airport to be able to get other people. Out is because the president pre-position those forces thousands of them in the gulf so they could be moved in rapidly in the event that there was a rapid collapse o- waiting a successful drawdown of our embassy. So that's what we call it when you burn your files and flee and a helicopter from approaching gunfires factual waiting. Another successful drought woohoo. Hey he's talking on our turf off carlson back off. This is are. We make jokes around here The last one. I want to get this down. We'll get to good sniff. Because this i did not know and this was on. This is just talker talking about stuff. That i didn't know this was going on to this. Extremely he may be exaggerating. Because i think he does because i will watch him closely in some of the stuff he gets criticized for and i think he might be a little Over the top with some of this but if this is true this is pretty bad. But let's play. This is him on the gender studies. And what's going on in afghanistan which is driving the afghanis nuts as left wing academics in the us have used the developing world as a laboratory to test their theories about how societies ought to be ordered but aren't over time they've constructed a parallel government of ngos that work alongside our pentagon state department as well as with the united nations to impose radical social engineering projects on the world's poorest people who have no say in the matter over the past twenty years for example congress's allocated close to a billion dollars to export academic feminism to afghanistan where that money go to programs like a two years. Master's degree in gender and women's studies offered kabul university. Something afghans apparently never knew they needed another. Us government effort meanwhile funded quote activities that educate and engage afghan men and boys to challenge gender stereotypes. Right they weren't doing that enough. And of course. Always and everywhere leaders enforce the most american of all cultural exports affirmative action american funded gender advisers demanded that women compromise at least ten percent of the afghan national army and a still larger proportion of that country's political leadership thanks to american impose gender quotas dozens of women ultimately were installed as representatives afghans parliament. How'd that work. Well the whole thing was a sham. As always in fact many of these new female legislators had never been to the provinces they claim to represent almost nobody in afghanistan. Liked any of this by the way. And why would they yeah. There was a picture going around of a mural of gen- gender equality equity and a whole bunch of afghan women and children huddled around on the under With guns trained on them. There's a lot going. There's a lot of propaganda here when when it's all about the women and the women and then hillary clinton is calling trudeau about the women and the girls. This is the same with boko haram where the girls think about the girls. The something going on here he up as an here's Here's a guy who probably knows something. Although he seems fallen from grace along with his jowls is leon panetta former. Cia directory was also was not director was not secretary of defense at one point as well. I believe think so a we way. Hugh's all over the government. So here's a little blurb from him a. We went there for two missions one to go after al qaeda in the leadership of al qaeda and bin laden because of what they did and attacking our country on nine eleven and we were successful going after al qaeda and obviously i'm very proud of the mission to go after bin lot obviously but even though he was in pakistan but there was a second mission which was su prevent afghanistan from ever becoming a safe haven. Was that the mission. It's funny that not a single report mentioned that but this panetta's version for terrorism again. Unfortunately we have failed at that mission and with the taliban now controlling afghanistan. there is no question that they will provide a safe haven for al qaeda and for isis and for other terrorist says who able to reorganize strengthen themselves again and potentially use afghanistan as a base for attacking not just the united states but other countries as well. This is a national security threat. So who says that well he. Cia isn't it. i mean he's he's really a cia guy that he was also secretary of defense was an anomaly. And all the cia guys they all know it and come on. The cia has been running ran. Obama didn't trump if anything that was dia to now we're back to the cia running the show. We know tear dear. President biden is not running anything but to show you the panetta knows. At least he has a story. This is general. lloyd austin. who is the. He's the boss of the military. Here listen to this. Jim joke. I'm you still saying you're focused on the airfield. These people can't get into the airfield while we're gonna do everything we can to continue to try to deconflict and create passageways for them to get to the airfield capability to go out and and extend operations currently into into kabul. And where do you take. I mean how far can you extend into kabul. And how long does it take the flow those forces and to be able to do that like you're saying this depends on diplomacy with the taliban that's it that's our only option is getting them to agree to do this. Something here they gotta jump in on him. The guy is caught in the headlights. I don't have the capability ana none of them clueless clueless. That's the guy running the military please. So now let's talk nice voice. Let's talk about. The taliban. Caught this piece on the bbc About the taliban and their funding. Obviously they have to have money in order to have weapons and And do things and and run the show. So how do they get all this money. Do they do it. So we know this plenty of people willing to fight but fighting's expensive not just in knives you need to pay for weapons and actual fighters so how they doing this michael simple. Is it possible to know how rich the taliban is that. There is one suggestion that in two thousand nine hundred and twenty twenty. They had about one point six billion us.
The Big Story
How Canada and the Western World Failed Afghanistan
"I'm jordan heath rawlings. This is the big story. Stephen save holds the patterson chair and international affairs at carleton university. Among the books he's written is adapting in the dust. Lessons learned from canada's war in afghanistan. And he also co hosts a podcast about canada's national security called the battle rhythm hasty. Hello i'm doing all right like many canadians. I kind of spent the weekend. seeing progressively more and more disturbing images coming out of afghanistan especially kabul and. I'm i'm wondering if you could maybe describe what we're actually seeing and hearing about in afghanistan right now. Well it's the collapse of the government that we've been trying to build for the past twenty years The taliban were kicked out of the country by american forces and then in two thousand and two There developed a un effort that became a nato effort called isaf the international security assistance force along with a variety of other international partners to try to build a self sustaining afghan government. And then two thousand fourteen. Nato largely pulled out three years. After canada pulled out of combat and for the past seven years there was a nato effort to train the afghan army and last year. Donald trump Negotiated deal the taliban that would vote the remaining few americans that were left in afghanistan out before this summer there about two thousand five hundred americans soldiers mostly doing training and doing coordination type stuff and So that was Trump's decision last year and then when it became president there was a question about whether he would live by the deal which had a deadline of may fifth at all. Americans are supposed to be out by may fifth and the by racial thought. That would be too fast. That that we would be able to get our stuff in our people out in his In his mind and so they sent the data september eleventh and over the course of the summer The taliban made a series of deals with a variety of actors within afghanistan that led to the collapse of the afghan national army forces that were guarding a variety of places around the country until the only thing that was left was couple which fell this weekend.
77WABC Radio
Sean Parnell Says Afghanistan Strategic Blunders Will Be Studied for Years to Come
"Mark. There were so many unbelievably grave strategic blunders that will likely be studied at military academies for the next 50 years about how not to conduct an excel. The the Afghan National Army was structured very similar to ours in that ground power. Is augmented with air power. But when Joe Biden pulled out their contractors that service their aircraft, he effectively decimated their air force. And so early on in this Taliban offensive, the Afghan National Army We're actually fighting back. But when they saw that they had no air support and likely no American support. I think they they just threw their hands up and said it's not worth it. The next question I have, and I really would like to know who is responsible for this for this decision, and I think it's President Biden. Is who made the decision to abandon Bagram airbase Before all of our American citizens and allies could be evacuated out of the country. It's shocking one of the greatest. It's one of the greatest strategic blunders. In America in the last century mark. There are only a few airstrips in Afghanistan, where you can actually land the plane. The Taliban controlled Kandahar, the Taliban. Control. Bagram, now in Kabul is almost overrun. So how exactly it's not just as simple as sending 5000 or 6000 more troops back into Afghanistan because we don't necessarily have a foothold to do it. And and all of this, every bit of it is laid right at the feet of Joe Biden. Had we killed bin Laden. The Taliban and Al Qaeda were absolutely decimated. We had almost a decade to plan and effective withdrawal, and it was completely destroyed and seven months of the Biden administration. It's just
The Erick Erickson Show
"afghan national army" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"Felt that that was a good fit for me for have a senior american Because there's not a lot of You know senior. American officers that have that kind of experience in the military especially in active duty. So i i. I work with the national afghan national police in travel over afghanistan with were very little. Us you know presence. I mean i was protected by afghans these same afghans over there desperately asking for help to get their families out. They protected me for over a year. They're one of the reports. I've seen for the wall street journal. Is that people need to understand. The afghan army was trained to fight alongside the american army. Not just by themselves and as we pulled out taken away Their intelligence capability their support and also even pulled their contractors. Who fix their helicopters planes. So it's almost impossible for them to be able to find a lot of people think that we have a. We had a very large presence in afghanistan. We had a minimal presence. i mean but mostly logistical and intelligence support. So there have been fighting by themselves for four year ex- except for having you know air support in logistics which are really hard task for for a country. The country doesn't develop that kind of capability overnight. is so there was not a whole lot of america's you know directly engaging talent and they were holding their own relatively well but they knew that they had air cover in also knew that they had ito. Contractors will fly their casualties due to medical care. You soldier will do extraordinary things when they know that they have air support and if they get wounded they're going to get to a hospital. He's unbelievable what what the would you know. The the capability the afghan minimizing the capability or. They're very impressive. Fighters i never underestimated the afghan national police or the afghan national army to fight incredible fighters. Well what do you think happens next. I mean in terms of our next year. We we know it's going to be terrible for them. You're getting those messages but From an american standpoint. Anthony bilk the Us secretary state says we had no national security interest in stain there What what do you think happens next for us..
77WABC Radio
Sen. Tom Cotton Says Biden Left Afghan Military Unprepared
"In this withdraw, We pulled our air support. We pulled our intelligence. We shut down our main base. We pulled out the contractors. And General Keane has said, you know when you do that. After your teaching. This army have taught this army as weak as it is. That you need the fusion of these various activities in order to fight and then you pull all those out and you leave our main base without even telling them. He said That insignificant part completely undermine them. You agree with that? Yes, I do. Mark. I mean, the Afghan army is not 101st airborne. Let's be clear. But President Biden kneecap them in every way. Um, they weren't even really that all that reliant on American air power in recent years Mark they have their own air force that we have helped stand up. Primarily helicopters were close air support. But we pulled out so many of the civilian contractors who just do the basic maintenance and logistics work for them over the last few months that those helicopters couldn't fly anymore. And if you train an army to be reliant on and to conduct operations in conjunction with close air support, and all of a sudden that air support is not available. Guess what? They're not going to be nearly as Well trained and not going to operate as effectively as it could have. I mean, it'd be like taking American rains or soldiers who have been trained for decades to rely on highly networked operations. With support from artillery and airpower and to say Okay, now you have no radios. You have no sat. Com You have no artillery. You have no air sports. We'd be better than the Afghan National Army, Of course, but it was. It is not the way they were trained to
Morning Edition
Afghanistan Government Reaches out to Former Warlords to Defend the North
"President, Ashraf Ghani landed in Mazar e Sharif in the country's north to rally troops attempting to beat back out Taliban offensive. Ghani has been meeting with local leaders and former warlords during his visit. The BBC's on bar Asan at Ruth and John has more As the Taliban continue their advance. The Afghan president is reaching out to former warlords to defend the not previously a stronghold of anti Taliban militia 40 years, Mr Ghani tried to sideline the warlords in an attempt to boost the Afghan National Army now is turning to them in this hour of need. Earlier this week, he also agreed to armed pro government militia. The loss of Missouri Sharif would be a significant blow for Kabul in yet another blow for the government reports that several soldiers were drawn from Kunduz city to the airport outside have surrendered to the militants following a sustained onslaught.
The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"afghan national army" Discussed on The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"Did not translate well to your civilian roles. Either bridgewater or vm. Ware that you learned in the military was must like a necessary skill. Well you know. Mark if i can take the liberty of flipping that question and say what doesn't translate in the military that happens in the civilian world after i have a good example to do with outweigh in. It's in the book but I came from the white house. And so when i when i went to afghanistan i had just been in the sit room. The previous two years creating afghanistan policy. So i wasn't like your average over five commander running a task like and so So i had maybe a little bit. Maybe even too much confidence on on how everything works but We we we as a nation created a policy called boots on the ground. Bda battle damage assessment for a reason like i was the last person as the commanding officer to decide. What operations are people went on in when we drop bombs on on buildings or people. It's not Proud to say we never harmed anybody. We shouldn't have harmed and the This particular evening or the there was a policy. Where we you know we drop bombs on a bunch of taliban. They were stopped them from doing bad things to good people and the leadership the head general staff called said. Hey you have to go through your boots on the ground battle damage assessment to prove that. You didn't kill anybody that you weren't supposed to you know and i fully support that. Of course i do. It's a smart alessi however comma. No policy can be enforced. One hundred percent of the time. You need judgment to be Happening on the ground. And on this particular night i said. Hey doesn't make any sense to go back in there. I know for a fact. It's a single chokepoint road. It's got the improvised explosive devices in. I'm going on too long on the story but the punchline is this the i said no i told the general. No i'm not. I'm not gonna do that. And that's great personal risk when you're a commanding when you're no five in the oath eight. The the the general is telling you to do something but what happened was he. He said look. We'll deal with that no later. I'm going to tell the afghan national army to go do the the assessment and check out. And and get that done. I was gonna say. Check that box because that's what it was the. It's really sad but three vehicles went in the two vehicles got vaporized in and we lost like afghans lost four or five guys in mark. I've had a bunch of emotional days in the seals but but one certainly one of the top ten or twenty or top one for all. I know the flying the next day by helicopter out to that station which was an oca team a special four army special forces team closing the door with these guys just me in a i don't know ten or so with them and in having them say hey. Hey boss you know. There aren't too many leaders in the military that would have said no to the general most of just would have sent us back in and Quite legitimately quite legitimately five or six of us. Wouldn't have been here today if you didn't make that decision and Those are the kinds of days when you're like wow. I'm glad i did what i did. And so that's the point that you're raising is. We need to be agile in our decision making also in. That's what i wrote about the book never enough you brought up. Afghanistan's had a big part in that war. I'm gonna ask a question that kind of veers off topic. But it's been puzzling me. Is you know we're pulling out now. And we have twenty years of treasure and blood and sweat and tears. And i'm away from families. I'm not gonna ask. was it worth it. It just happened. And i it. It is what it is right. We did it and now we're moving on but what good came out of that for us from your perspective. Well let's return on investment. Always something is always. Those people aren't going to be able to see it and i. I think we could use some help from you. Thank you mark. And i wrote an op. Ed that was published in time about a month ago. Supporting president biden's decision to to end the war. And i think you know one of the main. There are a couple of premises of the why number one is not in our strategic interest anymore. You know we went into afghanistan because it was trans-national threat Central and while there certainly is a local component. In the the the transnational threat is not really there anymore. It's in so many different spots and in a thing that we're really good but you know you're very Studious man the remember opportunity cost you know i. It's the principal. Some cost is look. If i spent twenty bucks to go to some event and i would later on decided rather be on my couch and stay home and chill out but i i. I should stay home and just that twenty dollars. Is the sunk cost to do whatever gives me the most happiness in the moment and so that concept of cost when you're looking at afghanistan lives is really hard to walk away from because when you got three thousand americans who've given their lives there you tend to make a decision that's backward-looking the truth. Is you have to make decisions that are looking at. Are that consider the past for sure. But that are forward looking and And so it's just really hard when these are literally friends and brothers that that have have given their lives there but it was it. My opinion is it was time to move on. Your question was what good came from it. We we did A indescribable amounts of good. Bye bye liberating areas. That did not have the ability to to have on peace and prosperity and happiness. Prosperity of course is a different standard there than here. But i'm but when you when you give a village the ability for the women and children and young young girls to be educated for example that feels great knowing the the the best gift. One of the best gifts i ever received was a fruit basket from a village elder. That said thank you for clearing. The taliban out of this village now are are women and children can come out and play in the streets and we can we can..
SOFREP Radio
U.S. Special Forces Battle Against ISIS Turns to Containment, and Concern
"Story came to me from sources within the special forces community, and they told me the story about how they were on a operated in two thousand and ten who's Marsha Afghanistan. There's a huge clearing operation was a big deal in the press at the time, and obviously, a big deal for the military as well that they were clearing through this insurgent stronghold in Afghanistan. It was considered the insurgent capital at the time and a special forces OD, a special forces team from third special forces group was working with the Kanak commandos, who are Afghanistan's national counterterrorism force. They are like they're kind of like their version of tier one their premier counterterrorism team. And Afghan, government of Afghantistan will deploy Kanak and their special forces advisers with them wherever they're needed around the country, then, you know, they're kind of like an you. They could be a quick reaction force. They can go they can go put out fires wherever they need to do that. Well said, so they are down there. Of course, for this big operation down in Marsha. They can't Moorhead they go down to camp bastion, and stage out of there, where the special forces piece of that mission is being run out of the AO be at that camp. It's a obese the advanced operating base, and that's where all the staff officers are where the logistical hub is going to run the whole operation so attached to the ODA that's going out to hit a objective. The objective is thunderdome. They have an attachment to them, and because the ODA's are working on these big large scale operations with the Afghans. They sometimes get attachments, basically there to help them out. And in this case, it was a navy seal a seal sniper, and they told me that it was Gallagher. Okay, gone on this operation with them. So the joint Afghan-American force, they push up to this road intersection, which is objective. Thunderdome. And capture a house there that they're going to use as kind of their staging ground out in the field for this operation, so they come in and captured this area. And chief Gallagher. I'm told was up on the roof with other special forces members. And there's a lot of Afghan national army an guys driving down the road through this road. Intersection to participate in the operation. And they said that chief Gallagher popped off shot at an and one round actually went through the rear window of a high locks embedded in the dashboard, which. Not a great start now. And then throughout the that that day and into the next morning. There was a farmer nearby kind of middle aged guy and whenever there was a lull in the firefight. Whenever there's a low and fighting this farmer would come out with his ho and it start working his land. Farming farming waits for no man war be damned. Yeah. In other another day in Afghanistan, and the interpreter for the team kept telling this civilian like go back inside. It's not safe out here. Of course. Not, and he'd keep coming back out, anytime. There's a law when fire according to my sources.
The John Batchelor Show
Afghanistan: Taliban rejects ceasefire extension offer
"And net two phone world news report brought to you with important headlines from political and battlefronts around the world in berlin the ceo of audi a very good german carmaker was arrested for his part allegation in fraud about emission standards these last years he's under arrest in volgograd this headline is very important if your team england or its rooster reuters england defeated tunisia this is the world cup match volgograd used to be called stalingrad in washington the inspector general of the of the department of justice fbi mr horowitz and the director of the fbi mr ray both testified to a senate committee about the about the repeated instances of bias in the horowitz report that was summed up as saying there was no bias in the decisions made by the players in the horowitz report there were instances however that were mind numbing the comments especially by peter strock disdaining people who shopped at walmart and supported donald trump i'm sure this will come up again because these are political matters as well as legal matters i turn now to the war fighting bill roggio and tom joscelyn of the foundation for the defense of democracy or here because much of the action in these last weeks has been in afghanistan you will recall the trump administration is committed itself yet again after the obama administration after the bush administration to solving afghanistan it is discouraging however to read these headlines i start with tom to report on the taliban rejecting a ceasefire extension it was controversial to begin with whether there was a ceasefire whether the government was insisting upon this ceasefire for what you'd have to say negotiations or taking time off for a religious holiday but now the taliban is rejecting the ceasefire tom a very good evening to you the taliban is resuming and i'm following reporting that you and bill have done a tax on the state on the afghan national army on the on the nato contingent the isaf contingent is there any significance to the taliban and the and the central government trading these barbs does this does this proven advance is this some kind of new relationship or is this typical.