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00:00:00.000President Biden triumphantly announces America's surrender in Afghanistan as the Taliban reimpose dystopian theocracy and murder our erstwhile allies.
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00:01:30.000We are watching, in real time, the worst American foreign policy debacle of my lifetime.
00:01:35.000Now, admittedly, I was born in 1984, so I do not remember the pullout from Saigon in 1975, but this is easily the worst foreign policy debacle since then.
00:01:44.000Probably it is worse than that, because, remember, At least it can be said of the Viet Cong that they didn't, you know, attack the Empire State Building in 1955.
00:01:52.000The Taliban sheltered the people who took down the World Trade Centers and attacked the Pentagon on 9-11, and now we are turning the country back over to them.
00:02:01.000And what's most incredible about this is that our doddering fool of a president, and he is a fool, He did this for no reason.
00:02:50.000Europe reacts to Biden's Afghanistan, quote, unquote, miscalculation.
00:02:53.000The first line of this piece reads, quote, Until Sunday, Europe thought Joe Biden was an expert on foreign policy.
00:02:58.000Well, I guess all I can take away from that is that Europe is filled with clinical morons.
00:03:03.000Because who in the world thought Joe Biden was an expert on foreign policy?
00:03:05.000He's not been right on a single major foreign policy issue for his entire career.
00:03:10.000And now that he occupies the Oval Office, that's a very dangerous thing.
00:03:13.000See, the thing is about the Presidency, the Presidency has to negotiate with Congress.
00:03:17.000The Presidency has to work through the Supreme Court.
00:03:19.000The Presidency on domestic policy has at least some checks and balances, including state-level authorities that come into conflict with the federal government.
00:03:26.000When it comes to foreign policy, the Presidency, the executive branch, has nearly plenary power.
00:03:30.000And that means that if the President of the United States decides to unilaterally undermine American foreign policy in unique and depressing ways, he can do it.
00:03:39.000Joe Biden was fully committed to the idea that he was going to pull out of Afghanistan, damned be the consequences.
00:03:45.000And the consequences are here and they are hideous.
00:03:47.000You're going to see tens of thousands of erstwhile American allies slaughtered in the streets in Afghanistan.
00:03:52.000You're going to see people who are abandoned to the predations of the Taliban.
00:03:55.000You're going to see a geopolitical collapse around this.
00:03:58.000There are real consequences to this that are not limited to Afghanistan.
00:04:23.000All he did over the weekend was release a photo of himself, a pathetic-looking photo of himself, alone in the Situation Room, talking via conference call with all of the generals who had already advised him not to do this.
00:04:33.000And then monitoring the collapse of Afghanistan in real time.
00:04:36.000Well, finally, he flew back to Washington, D.C.
00:04:39.000He did a little speech at the White House.
00:04:41.000And then he took like three questions and then he left.
00:04:45.000Because here's the thing about your caring, grandfatherly, empathetic, old man president.
00:04:50.000He does not give one damn about the people we made promises to.
00:04:55.000He doesn't care that Americans are still stuck in Afghanistan right now.
00:04:59.000Somewhere between five and ten thousand of them.
00:05:01.000He does not care that tens of thousands, when I say tens of thousands, I mean probably at least a hundred thousand people are connected To the Afghan government, who are our allies, people who worked on intelligence with us, people who served in the Afghan military, with the United States military, and their families.
00:06:02.000Hey, so he made the speech yesterday and it was notable for its complete lack of honesty.
00:06:07.000The number of lies that Joe Biden told in the speech, it beggars the imagination.
00:06:11.000The number of prevarications, the self-congrat.
00:06:15.000I've never seen a president congratulate himself on a greater failure than this.
00:06:19.000This is as though Gerald Ford had called the presser.
00:06:22.000After the abandonment of Saigon and then congratulated himself for his bravery in abandoning millions of people to the evils of the Viet Cong.
00:06:31.000Remember, Afghanistan, by the way, is 38 million people live in Afghanistan.
00:06:36.000But that's exactly what Joe Biden did.
00:06:38.000Joe Biden did a press conference where he blamed every single person other than himself.
00:06:43.000He blamed everyone for the decision that he alone made in precipitous fashion against the advice of his generals, against the advice of his intelligence authorities, against the advice of all prior presidents.
00:06:55.000But he tried to blame everybody else and he patted himself on the back as a man of high moral character for having abandoned people the United States made commitments to.
00:07:04.000We're running out of allies to betray here.
00:08:37.000He didn't even come close to making contingency plans for this.
00:08:40.000Here is Joe Biden just lying right out the gate here.
00:08:44.000My national security team and I have been closely monitoring the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every constituency, including and contingency, including the rapid collapse we're seeing now.
00:09:03.000Okay, you had no plans for the rapid collapse we're seeing now.
00:09:05.000In fact, Joe Biden would later admit that.
00:09:07.000By the way, what were those plans exactly?
00:09:09.000I mean, let's go through what's exactly been happening in Afghanistan over the last several days.
00:09:15.000Remember, this administration said that the Taliban would not take over the country, period, as of July.
00:09:21.000Antony Blinken said, like a few weeks ago, there would be no situation in which the Taliban, over the course of a weekend, took over Afghanistan, which is basically what they did.
00:09:30.000Took about a week, like a week and a half.
00:09:32.000From them taking over the third biggest city in Afghanistan, to then taking over Kandahar, to then taking over Kabul.
00:10:42.000This entire debacle began with human beings jumping from the Twin Towers on 9-11 after Al-Qaeda, based in Afghanistan, harbored by the Taliban, hit the Twin Towers.
00:10:51.000And now this debacle ends with Afghans falling from the wheels of American planes.
00:10:55.000Those Afghans climbed into the wheels of the American planes to try and escape the theocratic tyranny of the Taliban.
00:11:03.000By the way, another story from Politico today.
00:11:05.000Body of dead Afghan found in landing gear of military jet leaving Kabul airport.
00:11:11.000The body of an Afghan so desperate to escape the country hours after Kabul fell to the Taliban was found in the landing gear of a C-17 transport aircraft hours after it hastily took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
00:11:25.000The body in the aircraft's landing gear has made it temporarily inoperable, the sources said.
00:11:28.000By the way, some seven people were killed on the tarmac because of the rush on the tarmac.
00:11:37.000Apparently, the Taliban are now going house to house and killing people.
00:11:42.000He's been receiving texts from people in Afghanistan.
00:11:44.000By the way, I'm getting emails from people desperately trying to get the Afghan interpreters they worked with, members of the military, who are now in the United States, trying to get members of the Afghan military who they worked with, their translators, people they worked with in the military, out of Afghanistan and receiving no support from the Biden administration in doing this.
00:12:01.000Bill Kristol tweeted out, I just got off the phone with somebody who recently returned from his third tour in Afghanistan.
00:12:06.000He emphasized we had a responsibility, not just to translators, but to Afghan troops, pilots and special forces in particular, who'd fought bravely by our side.
00:12:14.000And he continued by pointing out that he had received a text, quote, terrorists are going door to door and killing pilots and special operating forces, raping their families, taking their houses.
00:12:25.000Two of my friends were shot dead in Kabul.
00:12:29.000Meanwhile, just in case you didn't know what the Taliban are up to, they've also been painting out the images of women.
00:12:34.000If there are any images of women in Kabul, they're going around with white paints and they're painting over them to make sure that women are never seen again.
00:12:41.000That was the contingency plan from Joe Biden.
00:12:44.000He said that right out of the gate in this speech.
00:12:47.000That was his opening gambit, was we had a contingency plan.
00:12:51.000It's a hell of a contingency plan right there.
00:12:53.000That was just the beginning of the lies.
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00:15:04.000How about the fact that you just reconstituted the possibility of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?
00:15:08.000According to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, he informed Congress terror groups are likely to reconstitute in Afghanistan within the next two years.
00:15:16.000According to Dr. Sajjan Goho of the Asia Pacific Foundation, quoted by the BBC, there are some 250 to 500 members of Al-Qaeda in Kunar, which is a heavily forested valley region of Afghanistan.
00:15:26.000Right now, we were able to monitor that place and we were able to fight with them.
00:15:30.000Gohan now says the number is likely to increase, given the United States' lack of access to any intelligence network and its surrender of all air bases in Afghanistan.
00:15:39.000Also, Pakistan has now cut a quid pro quo with the Taliban to now reject U.S.
00:16:17.000I know we don't play this footage very often anymore.
00:16:25.000I know we're not supposed to, because it's upsetting, and disquieting, and shocking, still, 20 years later.
00:16:32.000That's the reason we went to Afghanistan.
00:16:34.000Because 3,000 Americans were murdered on September 11th by people the Taliban were harboring.
00:16:41.000Hey, that's why we were there in the damn first place.
00:16:43.000And those same people are just ushered back into power by Joe Biden.
00:16:47.000Ushered back into power with no capacity.
00:16:49.000The United States just destroyed its own capacity to wage war on these people.
00:16:55.000That's what the United States just did.
00:16:57.000By the way, the Taliban, you know, there's this myth out there being being portrayed and and perverted by the by the Biden administration that the Taliban is moderated.
00:17:06.000Really interesting, because like two years ago, the Taliban chief spokesperson was saying, you know, Al Qaeda wasn't even behind 9-11.
00:17:12.000This is on CBS this morning from just a couple of years ago.
00:17:15.000More stunning was Shaheen's refusal to accept Al Qaeda's responsibility for the September 11th attacks.
00:17:22.000So who's the real culprit behind that?
00:18:38.000And I will say it is not entirely Joe Biden's fault that there was mission creep here, right?
00:18:42.000I mean, there was mission creep from the very beginning, as we'll explore.
00:18:44.000Here is Joe Biden perverting what exactly the Afghan war was about in order to make the case for us withdrawing, even though there really is no logical reason for us to do what we are doing right now.
00:18:56.000Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building.
00:19:00.000It was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy.
00:19:05.000Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been.
00:19:11.000Preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland.
00:19:16.000OK, and then he, you know, he continued along those lines.
00:19:34.000Listen to how he describes the mission.
00:19:37.000The attack took place on American soil, but it was an attack on the heart and soul of the civilized world.
00:19:48.000And the world has come together to fight a new and different war.
00:19:53.000The first, and we hope the only one, of the 21st century.
00:19:59.000A war against all those who seek to export terror and a war against those governments that support or shelter them.
00:20:09.000Okay, now, the mission creep began pretty quickly, because the United States always has a tendency to move from realpolitik to sort of Wilsonian foreign policy.
00:20:16.000And immediately to move from, we need to take out the bad guys, to, well, what if we could also build democracy there?
00:20:21.000And historically speaking, one of the bulwarks that the United States has used to actually solidify places has been democracy, whether you're talking about Germany, whether you're talking about South Korea, whether you're talking about Japan, right?
00:20:30.000Very often, the United States does build democracies in its wake.
00:20:34.000In places that have not been hospitable to democracy before.
00:20:40.000Over the course of decades of occupation.
00:20:43.000But the mission creep itself opened the door to the counter argument, which is we shouldn't be there in the first place.
00:20:48.000Remember, we went there to fight terror, and then there was a bit of mission creep.
00:20:51.000And so people started defining the mission, not around fighting terror in the minds of the American public, but instead around the mission of fostering democracy in an inhospitable place.
00:21:00.000So listen to how George W. Bush in his farewell address, for example, in January of 2009, linked together these two things, right?
00:21:07.000Fighting Al Qaeda, and also at the same time, fostering democracy.
00:21:12.000Afghanistan has gone from a nation where the Taliban harbored Al-Qaeda and stoned women in the streets to a young democracy that is fighting terror and encouraging girls to go to school.
00:21:24.000Okay, now this opened the door, obviously, to counter-arguments, which is like, we shouldn't be in Afghanistan at all, we can't do a nation-building project there, which is not entirely incorrect.
00:21:34.000But that was an argument made by both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, right?
00:21:38.000It was an argument that was commonly made.
00:21:41.000We can't be there for nation building, but here is the difference between Barack Obama and Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:21:46.000Barack Obama and Donald Trump both had a baseline understanding that a precipitous pullout from Afghanistan was a foolish thing to do.
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00:23:16.000Okay, so as I say, Joe Biden says, well, you know, we were here to fight terrorism.
00:23:21.000Except that both Barack Obama, who is pretty anti-war, and Donald Trump, who is also pretty anti-war, at least understood you couldn't fully pull out of Afghanistan and remove all the military advisors and remove all the military support and remove everything without collapsing the country.
00:23:35.000So in May 2014, Barack Obama announced that we were going to be drawing down our troops and redefining the mission in Afghanistan pretty dramatically.
00:23:42.000But notice how he redefines the mission.
00:23:43.000He says we're going to continue to be there, right?
00:23:46.000I've made it clear that we're open to cooperating with Afghans on two narrow missions after 2014.
00:23:54.000Training Afghan forces and supporting counter-terrorism operations against the remnants of Al-Qaeda.
00:24:35.0009-11, 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.
00:24:51.000A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists, including ISIS and Al Qaeda, would instantly fill, just as happened before September 11th.
00:25:05.000Okay, that is a difference in kind from the moronic idiocy of Joe Biden, who's like, let's just take out all the troops.
00:25:12.000Both Barack Obama on the left and Donald Trump on the right, both of whom had isolationist tendencies with regard to Afghanistan, both of them at least recognized you needed some base of operations against the terrorists.
00:25:23.000Okay, so then Joe Biden makes another excuse.
00:25:26.000He says, well, you know, there are other places in the world that have terrorists too.
00:25:29.000This is so, again, it boggles the mind how foolish the man, he's just a fool.
00:25:34.000I mean, I keep repeating myself, but it is astonishing to realize that a man who's been working in Washington for 50 years, and was purported to be some sort of foreign policy expert, is this empty-headed?
00:25:47.000Today, the terrorist threat has metastasized well beyond Afghanistan.
00:25:53.000Al-Shabaab in Somalia, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Nusra in Syria, ISIS attempting to create a caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and establishing affiliates in multiple countries in Africa and Asia.
00:26:10.000Okay, but we do have military presence.
00:26:12.000What's our military presence in Afghanistan going to be now?
00:27:09.000The other, the Afghan military for what just happened.
00:27:11.000Okay, so he starts by blaming Trump by basically lying about the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and the deal that Trump tried to cut with the Taliban.
00:27:20.000When I came into office, I inherited a deal that President Trump negotiated with the Taliban.
00:27:38.000forces had already drawn down during the Trump administration from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops and country.
00:27:51.000And the Taliban was at its strongest militarily since 2001.
00:27:57.000The choice I had to make as your president was either to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season.
00:28:44.000And if he had been withdrawing the troops, he would have been with more planning than this.
00:28:48.000Hey, by the way, the notion that there was this false choice between we had to withdraw completely or we had to watch the Taliban go to war in May is nuts.
00:28:55.000We would have just had the status quo, which was American forces in Afghanistan continuing to provide logistical and air support to the Afghan military.
00:29:07.000When he says, by the way, right there, he says, our choice was to be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season.
00:29:14.000Um, strange, because one thing I noticed is that winter is coming up.
00:29:20.000The Afghan government explicitly asked, explicitly asked the Biden administration, if you're going to pull out and delay it until winter.
00:30:05.000I spoke about this during the Trump administration.
00:30:07.000I think that any deal you attempt to cut with terrorists is idiotic, whether you're talking about Hezbollah or Hamas or Al Qaeda or the Taliban.
00:30:14.000Anyway, even even with that said, the Trump deal is not what Biden did here.
00:30:17.000And by the way, since when is Biden bound by deals made by Trump?
00:30:21.000He's pulled out of every single deal Trump ever made.
00:30:24.000He's undermined most of the deals Trump ever, like since when does he have to respect those deals?
00:30:29.000Remember that that Barack Obama did the same thing.
00:30:31.000Barack Obama, after he took over, he blamed George W. Bush for the status of forces agreement in Iraq and suggested that that required him to pull out of Iraq, which was eminently untrue.
00:30:44.000I wouldn't have let my 10-year-old son get away from this kind of pathetic blame-shifting.
00:30:49.000He should be less focused on trying to blame this on someone else than to solving the problem of making sure that we protect and defend American security.
00:30:57.000Go read the conditions that were built into the deal.
00:32:55.000I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth.
00:33:00.000After consulting closely with our allies and partners, with our military leaders and intelligence personnel, with our diplomats, And our development experts, with the Congress and the Vice President, as well as with Mr. Ghani and many others around the world, I've concluded that it's time to end America's longest war.
00:33:19.000It's time for American troops to come home.
00:33:23.000Okay, and then he pledged that there would be continued American support for, for example, the Afghan Air Force.
00:33:30.000As reported by the Wall Street Journal, when he, I mean, the reason the Afghans turned tail and ran is because they did not, their entire operational structure was built around American support.
00:33:41.000Quote from the Wall Street Journal, the Afghan army fighting alongside American troops was molded to match the way the Americans operate.
00:33:47.000military, the world's most advanced, relies heavily on combining ground operations with air power, using aircraft to resupply outposts, strike targets, ferry the wounded, and collect reconnaissance and intelligence.
00:33:57.000In the wake of President Biden's withdrawal decision, the U.S.
00:34:00.000pulled its air support, intelligence, and contractors servicing Afghans' planes and helicopters.
00:34:06.000That meant the Afghan military simply could not operate anymore.
00:34:11.000In other words, the force stopped existing when the United States, which had built the entire force around U.S.
00:34:27.000withdrawal took hold, the Biden administration refused to allow contractors into the country to service the aircraft, effectively grounding some of the Afghan air force at the same time as the U.S.
00:34:34.000had withdrawn direct air support to Afghan forces.
00:34:37.000Afghan officials had hoped to draw back time at the beginning of winter, could buy them more time to strengthen defense against the Taliban.
00:34:42.000The Biden administration ignored and pushed ahead with its own timeline.
00:34:45.000So just to get this straight, We didn't only remove our own Air Force from the place.
00:34:50.000We also refused to allow civilian contractors into the country to help the Afghans handle their own Air Force malfunction issues.
00:35:00.000The Afghans were literally on Zoom calls, pointing their laptops at the helicopters, being like, guys, can you help us?
00:35:35.000The number of lies, the number of lies here.
00:35:38.000And by the way, the biggest lie here, it really is an insane lie.
00:35:42.000And he says it over and over, as we'll get to in just a second, is that because the Afghan military collapsed, this proves we needed to leave.
00:35:50.000Okay, that is sort of like arguing that because the murder rate rose after the police stopped policing in America's major cities, this is a great argument for defund the police.
00:35:59.000Yeah, no bleep, when you remove America's support, it turns out terrorists take over.
00:36:04.000Is this an argument for removing America's support?
00:36:10.000Again, if the idea is that you remove the people who stand between the good guys and the bad guys, and then the bad guys take over, this is an argument for removing the people who stand between?
00:36:26.000And by the way, he doubled down on this too, right?
00:36:28.000He said, you know, it's, if we, no matter when we left, this would have happened.
00:36:32.000There's some very brave and capable Afghan special forces units and soldiers.
00:36:37.000But if Afghanistan is unable to mount any real resistance to the Taliban now, there is no chance that one year, one more year, five more years, or 20 more years of U.S.
00:36:52.000military boots on the ground would have made any difference.
00:37:01.000It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghanistan's own armed forces would not.
00:37:08.000So I'm left again to ask of those who argue that we should stay, how many more generations of America's daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghanistan's civil war when Afghan troops will not?
00:37:27.000How many more lives, American lives, is it worth How many endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery?
00:38:05.000And again, the idea that a little more time wouldn't have mattered at all?
00:38:08.000Well, it certainly would have mattered in the sense that we maybe could have helped them restructure their military to the point where they weren't completely reliant on American air support.
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00:42:16.000Well, after Joe Biden finished blaming the Afghan military for its own collapse and and blaming Donald Trump, he then just started saying very silly things.
00:42:30.000So this, I think, was the silliest thing that he said in his entire ridiculous submission speech here.
00:42:35.000He said that our enemies would have been very upset if we'd stayed in Afghanistan.
00:43:07.000Our true strategic competitors, China and Russia, would love nothing more than the United States to continue to funnel billions of dollars in resources and attention into stabilizing Afghanistan indefinitely.
00:43:24.000China and Russia want us to want us to stay.
00:43:27.000So what they would really hate is if we were to leave, right?
00:43:30.000That's when that's when they would be like right now they're quaking in their boots because we pulled out of Afghanistan and abandoned hundreds of thousands of people to the tender mercies of the worst people on earth.
00:43:38.000And we not only abandoned our allies and completely undercut our allies, we then celebrated ourselves in doing so.
00:43:44.000Probably, like, nothing has made them tremble and quake in their boots more than this.
00:43:48.000Unless it was us abandoning parts of the Ukraine to Russia, or abandoning Hong Kong to China.
00:43:54.000The United States, over the last 20 years, has become very good at abandoning allies.
00:44:10.000This is so easily debunkable, but we'll do it anyway.
00:44:13.000Joe Biden says right there that China and Russia wanted us to stay in Afghanistan and that they would be upset with us leaving Afghanistan.
00:44:20.000Weird, because China immediately seized on us leaving to say that they will recognize the Taliban and will now work with the Taliban to increase Chinese influence in the region via their Belt and Road Initiative.
00:44:31.000According to Foreign Policy Magazine, China hopes to get its hands on Afghanistan's trillion-dollar rare earths metal.
00:44:37.000They have mountains made of rare earths over there, which is the rarest minerals.
00:44:41.000For their part, the Taliban are already saying they're happy to work with the Chinese.
00:44:44.000They don't give a crap that the Chinese are imprisoning a million Muslim Uyghurs in Chongqing.
00:44:50.000China's embassy in Afghanistan, by the way, our embassy is getting invaded.
00:44:53.000China's embassy is still open over there.
00:44:55.000So everything is going great with the Taliban, with China.
00:44:58.000China has also solidified relations with Pakistan, presenting a solid face against India.
00:45:02.000So the possibility of conflict with India has increased.
00:45:05.000Also, just to add some insult to injury, the Chinese Global Times, which is an official CCP outlet, is an official Chinese Communist Party outlet, CCP outlet.
00:45:15.000They tweeted out, from what happened in Afghanistan, those in Taiwan should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island's defense will collapse in hours.
00:45:40.000Their goal here is to threaten Taiwan into basically electing friendly governments the way that happened in Hong Kong.
00:45:48.000They're hoping to do this without having to fire a shot, but if they have to fire a shot, they're really not particularly afraid of the United States.
00:45:53.000They added, quote, once a cross straits war breaks out, while the mainland seizes the island with forces, the US would have had to have a much greater determination than it had for Afghanistan, Syria, and Vietnam if it wants to interfere. Sounds an awful lot like Osama bin Laden in the aftermath of the USS Cole, right?
00:46:09.000The United States is a paper tiger, it is a weak horse, I can do whatever I want, and the US won't do anything.
00:46:15.000See, betraying weakness on the global stage is a horrible idea.
00:46:21.000It's not just completely sound and fury.
00:46:23.000Apparently, The People's Liberation Army, Eastern Theater Command, on Tuesday dispatched warships, aircraft, and fighter jets for joint live-fire assault drills in the southwest and southeast areas off the island of Taiwan as a response to recent moves by the U.S.
00:46:39.000So China is already militarily threatening Taiwan in order to presumably get them to elect some sort of conciliatory government that will allow Taiwan to be subjected to the same tyranny as Hong Kong.
00:49:02.000If you send them a really pissed off missive, the Taliban are like, whoa, you know, when you had actual air bases here and you're dropping bombs on us, that was one thing.
00:49:10.000But now that Joe Biden is going to say things, the guy who just withdrew and let us take over, he's going to say stuff.
00:49:16.000And because he says stuff, we've decided women can go to school again.
00:49:20.000We will lead with our diplomacy, our international influence, and our humanitarian aid?
00:49:24.000Who are you going to send the humanitarian aid to?
00:50:34.000We're really making clear that our plans are in place.
00:50:37.000We were a little surprised by how fast this went, but we're evacuating everybody.
00:50:42.000Our troops are working to secure the airfield and ensure continued operation of both the civilian and military flights.
00:50:52.000We're taking over air traffic control.
00:50:55.000We have safely shut down our embassy and transferred our diplomats.
00:51:01.000Our diplomatic presence is now consolidated at the airport as well.
00:51:07.000Operation Allies Refugee, which I announced back in July, has already moved 2,000 Afghans who are eligible for special immigration visas and their families to the United States.
00:51:43.000State Department sent out a tweet yesterday, I kid you not, in which they said, make sure you file your paperwork properly.
00:51:48.000Then they took down the tweet because they realized how dumb that sounded.
00:51:51.000The people are going to be filing their paperwork to get out of Afghanistan as the Taliban take over and start shooting people.
00:51:58.000According to the Washington Post editorial board, the State Department and Defense Department basically now have two options.
00:52:04.000Negotiate safe passage for American citizens with the Taliban, if possible, or send the U.S.
00:52:07.000military out in the city to bring Americans back to the airport before the Taliban gangs find them.
00:52:14.000Officials working on these cases inside the government told me they have no clear guidance from the White House and not enough support.
00:52:20.000Also, the State Department is dealing with more than 80,000 visa applications for Afghans who worked with the United States government or find themselves at risk.
00:52:27.000By the way, that is a very low estimate.
00:52:29.000That's just the number of people who have applied in the last, like, couple of weeks.
00:52:33.000If they could apply, I am sure hundreds of thousands of more people would want to get out.
00:52:38.000In a joint statement, the State Department and Pentagon said, well, you know, our big mission is to secure the Kabul airport there.
00:52:44.000When Biden says our troops are working to secure the airfield, you know, you might want to think of that before you pulled out all the troops, you dope.
00:52:51.000You might want to think of it before, you know, the Afghans were actually jumping onto the wheels of planes to escape.
00:52:56.000You might have wanted to think about all of that.
00:52:58.000That might have been a thing we're thinking about.
00:53:01.000The statement said, quote, tomorrow and over the coming days, we will be transferring out of the country thousands of American citizens who have been resident in Afghanistan, as well as thousands of Afghans who are in danger.
00:53:11.000But even the mission to secure the airport is going to rise, says The Washington Post.
00:55:37.000I know there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating Afghans civilians sooner.
00:55:44.000Part of the answer is some of the Afghans did not want to leave earlier, still hopeful for their country.
00:55:52.000And part of it because the Afghan government and its supporters discouraged us from organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, a crisis of confidence.
00:56:07.000He says, you know, the Afghan government and its supporters, they told us not to organize the mass exodus because it would trigger a crisis of confidence.
00:57:31.000Yes, because, well, I'm not afraid to use force, says the man who just pulled out 2,500 troops for no reason and then has to send in 7,000 troops to secure the surrender of the 2,500 troops who are leaving.
00:58:38.000I am president of the United States of America and the buck stops with me.
00:58:46.000I'm deeply saddened by the facts we now face.
00:58:51.000But I do not regret my decision to end America's warfighting in Afghanistan and maintain a laser focus on our counterterrorism missions there and other parts of the world.
00:59:02.000I cannot and will not ask our troops to fight on endlessly in another country's civil war, taking casualties, suffering life-shattering injuries, Leaving families broken by grief and loss.
00:59:18.000This is not in our national security interest.
00:59:22.000It is not what the American people want.
00:59:26.000It is not what our troops who have sacrificed so much over the past two decades deserve.
00:59:33.000Okay, our troops, by the way, I hope you've talked to somebody who served in Afghanistan.
00:59:37.000There is no one more devastated today by what Joe Biden has done than the people who served in Afghanistan.
00:59:42.000Who spent their lives, who left their limbs in Afghanistan, in order to preserve America against terrorists taking over that place?
00:59:50.000This ass just pulled everybody out to let the Taliban take over in the name of those soldiers?
01:01:01.000Now, it's exactly like Saigon, and he's happy about it.
01:01:06.000I made a commitment to the brave men and women who serve this nation that I wasn't going to ask them to continue to risk their lives in a military action that should have ended long ago.
01:01:18.000Our leaders did that in Vietnam when I got here as a young man.
01:01:32.000Right, what happened in Saigon, the Democratic Congress defunded the South Vietnamese government.
01:01:38.000It took four and a half months after that defunding, against the advice of Gerald Ford, for the Viet Cong to overrun Saigon, and for us to have to evacuate our embassy, and for hundreds of thousands of people to float off the coast in boats, and for two million people to be killed in Cambodia.
01:01:52.000In the end, after all of this, after all of this, after he said this wasn't going to be like Saigon, it wasn't going to be like Vietnam, it wasn't going to be like any of that, he says, you know what?
01:02:02.000Because Vietnam, for so many people like Joe Biden, the Vietnam syndrome is not something to be avoided, it is something to be championed.
01:02:10.000A weak America on the foreign policy stage is good.
01:02:14.000Joe Biden does not see America's interests as interests to be pursued by a variety of ends, ranging from the diplomatic to the military, and sometimes in tandem.
01:02:22.000Instead, he sees diplomacy as the end in and of itself, Military force is always bad.
01:02:30.000And I'm seeing a lot of people on the right today saying things like, well, you know, now that we're bringing these military, we're not spending 40 billion bucks in Afghanistan every year, and we're not having the American military in Afghanistan, this will allow us to redeploy.
01:02:40.000Show of hands, who thinks we're going to redeploy to the southern border?
01:02:54.000Now, who thinks that what Joe Biden just did is going to be the predicate for a series of regional surrenders around the globe to other heterogeneous powers who are interested in seizing power against the interests of the United States?
01:03:09.000This is the same administration that is busily working to surrender to China.
01:03:13.000This is the same administration that is busily working to grant power to Russia by greenlighting the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
01:03:19.000This is the same administration that is attempting to currently negotiate a deal with the malocracy in Iran.
01:03:47.000Because he thinks this is a victory for him.
01:03:49.000And there are members of the press who are already championing it.
01:03:51.000You're already starting to see editorial boards from the left going, oh, well, you know, it is heroic after all.
01:03:55.000I mean, that speech, I mean, that really was an amazing speech.
01:03:59.000And if people on the right fall for this crap, seriously, if they fall for the idea that this was somehow good for the United States, I don't know what to tell you.
01:04:07.000The world has a habit of clocking American isolationist tendencies.
01:04:12.000In the aftermath, like, one of the things that Joe Biden said here, and he continues to say it, is that the United States basically has no interest in the outcome of wars in other countries.
01:04:24.000Well, we kind of do when it turns out that they have an impact on us.
01:04:27.000It's happened many, many times in American history, where sort of non-interventionist policy ends up bearing some pretty rotten fruit.
01:04:34.000Ranging all the way back to America's non-intervention in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1918, where we basically just stood aside and let the communists take over with like a skeleton force.
01:04:44.000That only led to 70 years of Cold War.
01:04:47.000Or where the United States did not actually leave any sort of troops in Europe in the aftermath of World War I, leading to the rise and reconstitution of the Nazi power.
01:04:57.000See, the thing is this, when it comes to foreign policy, foreign policy is very often about the risk that you take to stop things that have not yet materialized.
01:05:06.000And so it's very easy for people who are isolationists to say, well, nothing's materialized.
01:05:29.000With all that blood and treasure, that's what we got.
01:05:31.000And people, on the isolationist right, and on the far left, they will say things like, Well, you know, maybe that wasn't gonna happen anyway.