The Ben Shapiro Show - For Joe Biden, The Cruelty Is The Point | Ep. 1331

00:00:00.000 President Biden shows the world that his empathy is an act, with a blame-shifting, nasty, vindictive, and bloviating speech championing his Afghanistan withdrawal, and the fallout will be toxic.

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00:01:39.000 Alrighty, so remember that time that President Biden was supposed to be the king of empathy?

00:01:43.000 This was his entire pitch.

00:01:45.000 Sure, he's doddering.

00:01:46.000 Sure, he's not coherent.

00:01:47.000 Sure, he has nothing but bad ideas.

00:01:49.000 And even Barack Obama once said, don't underestimate Joe Biden's capacity to F things up.

00:01:53.000 But he's so empathetic.

00:01:55.000 I mean, he's just he's grandpa.

00:01:57.000 He's the guy that you want in a tragic scenario to put his arm around you and really make you feel better about life.

00:02:03.000 That's the guy you need.

00:02:04.000 Joe Biden.

00:02:06.000 It's bull.

00:02:07.000 It's bull.

00:02:08.000 Okay?

00:02:09.000 And this is becoming increasingly clear.

00:02:11.000 Because what true empathy is about, just interpersonally, is when you don't agree with the person that you are empathizing with.

00:02:19.000 And when you have to take the brunt of what they are saying and just internalize it.

00:02:24.000 Hey, if all your empathy really is, is performative, if all your empathy really is, is calling upon your own wellspring of personal grief in order to project it out to the world so that people will sympathize with you, that is not you acting empathetically, that is you being an actor.

00:02:40.000 And Joe Biden is an actor.

00:02:42.000 I don't know what else to tell you when it comes to his supposed compassion and his supposed empathy.

00:02:46.000 What we have watched over the past several weeks is the stripping away of the veil of empathy from Joe Biden.

00:02:52.000 It happened again last night.

00:02:53.000 It's been happening consistently over the past several weeks.

00:02:56.000 When asked tough questions about the suffering of the people being left behind in Afghanistan.

00:03:00.000 When he is asked about the people who are going to be living under the Taliban and the people who are going to be murdered by the Taliban, Joe Biden has shown no empathy.

00:03:08.000 When it comes to the American service people who came home in caskets from Afghanistan, Joe Biden has shown little or no empathy.

00:03:15.000 The only time Joe Biden ever seems to be able to muster up even an iota of empathy is when he invokes his son, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

00:03:24.000 And that has nothing to do with the soldiers who died in Afghanistan, for example.

00:03:30.000 It has nothing to do with the suffering of the people under the Taliban or the people who worked with us who will be undoubtedly executed.

00:03:35.000 That has nothing to do with anything.

00:03:37.000 It turns out that human beings all over the course of history have had personal tragedies in their family. 0.95

00:03:43.000 Okay, relying on that personal tragedy to suggest that you understand all grief everywhere or that your grief is suddenly akin to the grief of others who are experiencing completely different circumstances is quite foolish and quite empty. 0.81

00:04:00.000 And yet that's what Joe Biden does on a regular basis.

00:04:02.000 And I point this out only because the redeeming feature of Joe Biden, according to his greatest advocates, is this empathy.

00:04:09.000 And yet it's been not only not on display over the past several weeks, it is completely absent.

00:04:13.000 In fact, it's reversed. 0.51

00:04:15.000 Joe Biden is not only unempathetic to people who deserve his supposed empathy, he is downright cruel to them.

00:04:23.000 I give you a couple of examples to begin today because that's really what his speech was about last night.

00:04:28.000 It was about no empathy for the people left behind, no empathy for the people, the 38 million people now living under the predations of the Taliban.

00:04:35.000 It was about defensive, bloviating nastiness.

00:04:39.000 Which really is what Joe Biden is politically.

00:04:40.000 People have known this on Capitol Hill his entire career. 0.72

00:04:43.000 He's a know-nothing.

00:04:44.000 He has spent his entire career being wrong. 0.80

00:04:46.000 And when challenged, he gets incredibly combative and grumpy and nasty to people.

00:04:51.000 And you see it with the press all the time.

00:04:54.000 His empathy only extends so far as it is politically useful for it to extend.

00:04:59.000 That is the real story of Joe Biden politically.

00:05:02.000 And it is the story of him as President of the United States at this point.

00:05:06.000 His empathy extends to people who agree with him and who massage him.

00:05:09.000 Here's a couple of examples.

00:05:10.000 So, you'll recall that the President of the United States went to Dover Air Force Base to greet the incoming caskets of 13 service members who were killed in Kabul.

00:05:20.000 In large measure, thanks to his garbage policy of allowing the Taliban to provide security for people trying to get out of the country, and also of not holding Bagram Air Base so he had no actual security buffer, So the parents of many of these members, service members, went to Dover Air Force Base.

00:05:38.000 And Biden wanted to meet with them, and so they did.

00:05:40.000 Their stories are somewhat chilling on an emotional level.

00:05:45.000 Because George W. Bush, during the Afghanistan war, during the Iraq war, he routinely used to call parents of people who had fallen, service members who had fallen, given their lives in service of country.

00:05:56.000 He routinely used to go quietly to Dover Air Force Base without press coverage, without the media there snapping his photo.

00:06:02.000 He used to do that all the- and he used to take abuse from people.

00:06:05.000 He used to take all the understandable emotional rage that parents were directing against him, and he used to just take it.

00:06:11.000 Not so Joe Biden.

00:06:12.000 So here's the account of Mark Schmitt.

00:06:15.000 He's the father of Jared Schmitt, who died in this suicide bombing in Kabul, talking about his encounter with Joe Biden.

00:06:23.000 Well, initially I wasn't going to meet with him, but then I felt I owed it to my son to at least have some words with him about how I felt, and it didn't go well.

00:06:39.000 He talked a bit more about his own son than he did my son, and that didn't sit well with me.

00:06:46.000 According to Schmidt, Joe Biden started talking about Bo, and he said, I'm not really interested in hearing about Bo right now.

00:06:53.000 I want to talk about my son, since my son was the one who was just killed in the line of duty.

00:06:58.000 And instead of Biden understanding that, Biden actually got angry.

00:07:02.000 Instead of Biden saying, I hear you and you're right.

00:07:08.000 Instead, Biden got mad at him.

00:07:11.000 Same sort of story from Darren Hoover, the father of Marine Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover, another fallen service member.

00:07:18.000 He said that Joe Biden couldn't stop checking his watch over and over and over.

00:07:21.000 In reference to the checking of his watch, that didn't happen just once.

00:07:28.000 That happened on every single one that came out of that airplane.

00:07:34.000 It happened on every single one of them.

00:07:37.000 They would release the salute and he looked down at his watch.

00:07:42.000 On every last one, all 13, he looked down at his watch.

00:07:50.000 Schmitz seconded that motion.

00:07:52.000 The other father, he said, I actually leaned into my son's mother's ear and I said, I swear to God, if he checks his watch one more time, and that was only four times in, I couldn't look at him anymore after that, considering especially the time and why we were there, I found it to be the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen.

00:08:05.000 Jen Psaki, by the way, dodged when asked about whether Biden was looking at his watch.

00:08:08.000 She was asked directly about this yesterday.

00:08:10.000 Here was the press secretary of the United States, who essentially has become Joe Biden's night nurse.

00:08:14.000 Every evening, Joe Biden does something to crap the bed, and then every morning, Jen Psaki comes in and has to clean it up. 1.00

00:08:19.000 Here she was trying to dodge the question about whether Joe Biden was checking his watch.

00:08:22.000 Let's just remember for a second that if Donald Trump had done this, if he had gone to a ceremony for fallen service members with the caskets coming off the plane, and he had been checking his watch, Can you imagine the outcry and the justified uproar?

00:08:34.000 Here's Jen Psaki. 1.00

00:08:36.000 Is the president looking at his watch and does he have a message to those people who felt that they were offended?

00:08:44.000 Well, I would say his message to all of the family members who were there, those who were not even in attendance, is that he is grateful to their sons and daughters, the sacrifice they made to the country,

00:09:00.000 Okay, so they're just going to say empty words about all of this.

00:09:17.000 And this is what Joe Biden does all the time.

00:09:19.000 Something bad happens and then he talks about what it feels like to be in grief.

00:09:23.000 As though, somehow, this is supposed to make him empathetic.

00:09:27.000 He's going to talk about his own pain and this makes him empathetic.

00:09:30.000 No.

00:09:31.000 Talking about somebody else's pain makes you empathetic.

00:09:33.000 Talking about your own pain, especially as a politician, makes you selfish, and it makes you unlikable, and it makes you a user.

00:09:43.000 Which is what Joe Biden is.

00:09:44.000 Let it not be said that his Afghanistan policy is rooted in any sort of empathy.

00:09:48.000 It's certainly not rooted in strength or in decency.

00:09:51.000 But the pitch, again, is that no matter what, Joe Biden is well-intentioned and empathetic.

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00:11:02.000 Okay, so...

00:11:04.000 This empathetic policy has now resulted in a wide variety of people being left behind in Afghanistan.

00:11:10.000 Those people include, apparently, 24 students from Sacramento who are still stranded in Afghanistan, according to the Sacramento Bay, quote, at least 24 Sacramento area students are confirmed to be stranded in Afghanistan as turmoil continues in Kabul, according to school officials.

00:11:24.000 San Juan Unified School District staff said 24 students, down from the initial estimate of 150 students, had not returned to campuses since the start of the 2021-2022 school year.

00:11:35.000 Apparently, staffers at the Sacramento Congressman Ami Berra's office contacted San Juan Unified and are working with the district to bring the students back safely, but they are still stuck there.

00:11:47.000 Meanwhile, it turns out that a three-year-old has been stranded there as well.

00:11:54.000 The three-year-old boy was born near Sacramento, according to ABC7 News.

00:11:57.000 His passport shows he's a U.S.

00:11:58.000 citizen.

00:11:59.000 He's going through a harrowing ordeal right now, unable to escape Afghanistan.

00:12:02.000 We're hiding his identity and that of his father, a social worker, and other family members who are all U.S.

00:12:06.000 permanent residents for fear of them being captured by the Taliban.

00:12:10.000 So, as we will learn pretty shortly from Joe Biden himself, probably what happened is that they called the three-year-old and he didn't pick up the phone.

00:12:16.000 So really, it's his own fault that he is stuck there.

00:12:18.000 Other people who are stuck there include an Afghan interpreter who saved Joe Biden's life, but now is stuck there.

00:12:23.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, 13 years ago, Afghan interpreter Mohammed helped rescue then-Senator Joe Biden and two other senators transit in a remote Afghanistan valley after their helicopter was forced to land in a snowstorm.

00:12:33.000 Now, Mohammed is asking President Biden to save him. 0.99

00:12:36.000 Hello, Mr. President.

00:12:37.000 Save me and my family.

00:12:38.000 Mohammed, who asked not to use his full name while in hiding, told the Wall Street Journal, Don't forget me here.

00:12:42.000 Mohammed, his wife, and their four children are hiding from the Taliban after his years-long attempt to get out of Afghanistan got tangled in the bureaucracy.

00:12:49.000 They are among the countless Afghan allies who were left behind when the U.S.

00:12:52.000 ended its 20-year military campaign in Afghanistan on Monday.

00:12:56.000 Asked about this?

00:12:58.000 Jen Psaki thanked the interpreter for his service and said the U.S.

00:13:01.000 remains committed to getting Afghan allies out of the country. 0.70

00:13:04.000 Yes, I'm sure.

00:13:06.000 I'm sure.

00:13:07.000 Meanwhile, the State Department is telling people, you know, just keep a low profile.

00:13:11.000 If you're a green card holder and you're still in Afghanistan, yeah, just keep your head down. 1.00

00:13:14.000 We'll probably be fine.

00:13:16.000 According to Jim Garrity reporting for National Review, the U.S.

00:13:19.000 Embassy in Kabul suspended operations on August 31, 2021.

00:13:21.000 While the U.S.

00:13:23.000 government has withdrawn its personnel from Kabul, they say, we will continue to assist U.S.

00:13:27.000 citizens and their families in Afghanistan from Doha, Qatar, which is like 600 miles away.

00:13:32.000 We will also continue our efforts to help lawful permanent residents.

00:13:35.000 They say that U.S.

00:13:36.000 citizens and their family members still in country should, quote, keep a low profile and notify a trusted person of your travel and movement plans and make contingency plans to leave when it is safe to do so that do not rely on U.S.

00:13:47.000 government assistance.

00:13:49.000 So yeah, that we're not leaving people behind at all.

00:13:51.000 Such empathy, such dramatic empathy.

00:13:53.000 Meanwhile, the Taliban continues to perform reprisals.

00:13:57.000 By the way, the U.S.

00:13:58.000 government left its own journalist behind in Afghanistan, according to Josh Rogin at the Washington Post.

00:14:03.000 The administration was warned early and often about the 600 or so employees, contractors, and family members who work for U.S.-sponsored news organizations under the umbrella of the U.S.

00:14:12.000 Agency for Global Media, a federal agency funded by Congress.

00:14:15.000 They include journalists working for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe who have worked in Afghanistan for years at great personal risk.

00:14:21.000 The Taliban has killed four RFE journalists since 2016 through suicide bomb attacks.

00:14:26.000 The company's journalists routinely receive death threats from the extremists.

00:14:29.000 Now, the leaders of these organizations say the State Department promised to get everybody out before August 31st, only to later renege on that promise amid the chaos and confusion at the Kabul airport.

00:14:38.000 By the way, I'm receiving notes from people who were actually at Kabul airport when all of this was happening, and there were apparently many situations in which the airport was filled with people ready to evacuate, and then they were just emptied out and handed over to the Taliban.

00:14:50.000 Senator Ben Cardin, Democrat of Maryland, he says it's disheartening so many professional journalists employed by American-funded news organizations have now been left behind with their families.

00:14:58.000 These Afghan allies are among the people most endangered at the present moment for the good work they have done over the course of the last two decades.

00:15:04.000 Meanwhile, the Taliban, of course, is going around and killing people.

00:15:08.000 According to the BBC, there's growing evidence that the reality on the ground is different than the rhetoric coming from the Taliban.

00:15:13.000 No shock.

00:15:14.000 Wow, I can't believe it.

00:15:16.000 You mean the Taliban has been lying to the international community about how they treat people?

00:15:19.000 That's crazy.

00:15:21.000 They're our friends now.

00:15:21.000 We trust those people.

00:15:24.000 Now, sources inside Afghanistan, as well as some who recently fled, have told the BBC Taliban fighters are searching for and allegedly killing people they pledged they would leave in peace.

00:15:32.000 Several sources confirmed Taliban fighters last week executed two senior police officials Haj Mullah Akhazqai, the security director of Badghis province, and Ghulam Sak Akhbari, the security director of Farah province, video footage shows Akhazqai was kneeling, blindfolded, his hands tied behind his back before he was shot and murdered.

00:15:52.000 So things are going great over there.

00:15:54.000 And this is all because of Joe Biden's empathy, you see.

00:15:55.000 He's really an empathetic dude.

00:15:57.000 So in one second, we're going to get to Joe Biden's speech last night, which was breathtaking in its arrogance, astonishing in its temerity.

00:16:03.000 And this is a president who apparently has never made a mistake, ever.

00:16:06.000 This whole thing was beautiful.

00:16:08.000 It's all Trump's fault, but it was beautiful.

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00:17:21.000 Alright, so, last night, more than 24 hours after we found out that the American military had left, Joe Biden decided to give a speech.

00:17:32.000 Joe Biden had basically been hiding in the basement.

00:17:36.000 Because the fallout from this is bad.

00:17:37.000 It's really bad.

00:17:38.000 It turns out that when you leave hundreds of American citizens behind, And then when you leave probably thousands of American green card holders behind, and tens of thousands of SIV holders behind, and a myriad number of Afghan allies who worked with us, and millions of people who actually don't want to live under the predations of the Taliban, it turns out you don't look empathetic.

00:17:55.000 It turns out you look like a piece of bleep. 1.00

00:17:57.000 That's what it turns out you look like. 0.99

00:17:59.000 And when you do so in absolutely cowardly fashion, refusing to answer questions from the press, giving mush-mouthed statements every couple of days, lying overtly throughout the entire process, talking about how everybody will get out, talking about how we're going to stay long enough to get everybody out, talking about how every contingency here was planned, it turns out people don't like you.

00:18:19.000 It turns out they think that your empathy is merely an act at that point.

00:18:24.000 And you can see this in Joe Biden's poll numbers, which have now sunk into the low 40s.

00:18:24.000 And they are right!

00:18:27.000 And after being dead solid at 50% his entire presidency, he is now down to about 40-41% in a lot of these polls.

00:18:35.000 And falling fast.

00:18:36.000 Because he is not competent, and he is not capable, and he is not the quote-unquote empathetic grandfather figure that so many people thought they were electing.

00:18:45.000 That is the takeaway.

00:18:46.000 So Joe Biden goes into hiding yesterday.

00:18:48.000 He doesn't come out.

00:18:50.000 He has his Secretary of State Tony Blinken give a full ridiculous speech in which he looked like he was delivering a hostage video.

00:18:55.000 He's looking slightly off camera at his cue cards.

00:18:58.000 You had the CENTCOM commander, Kenneth McKenzie, go out there and humiliate himself by saying a bunch of stuff like the Taliban are now our best friends and we handled this beautifully.

00:19:08.000 And finally, Joe Biden emerges after delaying his speech.

00:19:10.000 He was supposed to give a speech yesterday about 1.30 Eastern time, and then it was about 2.45 Eastern time he was supposed to speak.

00:19:15.000 And then finally, he came out after three o'clock, which is his normal way.

00:19:20.000 I don't know what's going on behind the scenes over there, but they have not hit a time for him to, like they're much better about hitting timelines in coordination with the Taliban than they are with actually keeping their schedule with regard to the press.

00:19:30.000 They routinely call a time when he's going to speak to the press and then they just kind of blow right through it.

00:19:35.000 So finally he emerges and he proceeds to give a 30 minute diatribe.

00:19:40.000 And it really was a diatribe.

00:19:42.000 He is angry.

00:19:43.000 He is grumpy.

00:19:45.000 He's pissed off that you've questioned his obviously wonderful strategy.

00:19:50.000 He blames every single person but himself.

00:19:52.000 He has done everything absolutely perfectly. 1.00

00:19:55.000 This thin-skinned buffoon. 1.00

00:19:57.000 Everything he has done here was part of the plan, except when it wasn't part of the plan, and if it wasn't part of the plan, that's everybody else's fault but his. 0.98

00:20:04.000 Joe Biden has said repeatedly the buck stops with him.

00:20:06.000 The American public are holding him to that right now.

00:20:09.000 But he doesn't want to be held to that.

00:20:10.000 He's lying.

00:20:11.000 He wants the buck to stop with Trump.

00:20:12.000 He wants the buck to stop with the Afghan military.

00:20:14.000 He wants the buck to stop with his own military commanders. 0.97

00:20:18.000 He's hiding behind everybody for the one decision that he made and only he made, which was pull out right now, damn the consequences. 0.96

00:20:27.000 Everybody else is to blame. 0.98

00:20:28.000 Everybody.

00:20:29.000 The people who are stuck in Afghanistan are to blame. 0.99

00:20:31.000 They're the ones.

00:20:32.000 They should have just gotten out earlier, obviously. 0.99

00:20:35.000 The President of the United States is a pathetic spectacle at this point in time. 0.90

00:20:40.000 And once again, The key to all of this is understanding that it has utterly undercut his image of himself and his image on the world stage. 0.97

00:20:49.000 Not because everyone thought he was an expert.

00:20:52.000 Not because everybody thought that he was fluent in foreign policy.

00:20:54.000 That was a creation of the press.

00:20:56.000 It was always a myth.

00:20:57.000 Joe Biden was never fluent at anything.

00:20:59.000 The man's terrible at everything.

00:21:01.000 He hasn't made a good foreign policy decision his entire career.

00:21:04.000 He's so bad on foreign policy, he opposed the bin Laden raid.

00:21:08.000 Now, of course, he uses the bin Laden raid as an excuse to get out of Afghanistan, but he opposed it at the time.

00:21:13.000 If you had watched Joe Biden his entire career, no one was under the impression that this guy was any sort of Einstein.

00:21:19.000 I mean, the guy wasn't even a sixth grade science student.

00:21:23.000 Joe Biden has always been horrific in terms of policy.

00:21:27.000 Okay, but the one thing that was said for him, and this was, again, his entire pitch against Donald Trump, his entire pitch.

00:21:34.000 It was not, my policy is going to be better than Trump, because his policies were not going to be better than Trump.

00:21:38.000 Polls showed Americans actually liked Trump's policies better than Biden's.

00:21:41.000 His entire pitch throughout 2020 is, I am a nice person.

00:21:45.000 I am an empathetic person.

00:21:46.000 I am a person who cares.

00:21:48.000 Donald Trump, the cruelty is the point, as Adam Serwer famously said.

00:21:51.000 The cruelty is the point with Trump.

00:21:53.000 But I, Joe Biden, I am the repository of all good, humane, compassionate feeling.

00:21:59.000 That has been completely exploded over the course of the last four weeks.

00:22:03.000 He ain't getting that back.

00:22:05.000 The impression that Joe Biden is somebody who cares deeply about America, about American citizens, that this is somebody who, you know how many times over the course of his campaign, He tweeted that he's going to build a society where we leave no one behind.

00:22:18.000 And now he is physically leaving behind Americans with the worst people on Earth, the Taliban. 0.99

00:22:24.000 And actually, I should say like the second or third worst people on Earth, because actually the Taliban is not even as bad as Al Qaeda or ISIS, which the Taliban is currently hosting. 0.53

00:22:33.000 This is a guy who posed as he was going to unify America around solidarity.

00:22:38.000 And instead, he has been divisive.

00:22:40.000 Instead, he has been awful.

00:22:41.000 And again, his compassion only extends as far as the front of his face.

00:22:46.000 That is it.

00:22:47.000 It extends as far as a mirror.

00:22:50.000 Joe Biden is compassionate to one person and one person only, Joe Biden, which is why when he speaks about grief, he doesn't speak about anybody else's grief.

00:22:57.000 He speaks about his own personal experiences of suffering and grief.

00:23:01.000 He did it again in his speech last night.

00:23:04.000 So, take that for what you will.

00:23:07.000 But if a politician has one pitch, and a pitch ain't competence, and the pitch is not coherence, the pitch is, I'm a nice person, and then that falls apart, you have to ask yourself, what exactly is his pitch for staying president at this point?

00:23:20.000 What is the pitch?

00:23:21.000 And the answer is, there is no pitch.

00:23:24.000 He proved that last night in Extremis.

00:23:26.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:23:28.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:24:33.000 Okay, so as I've mentioned before, when it comes to politicians, I don't think you should look to them for empathy.

00:24:36.000 I don't think policy should be rooted in empathy.

00:24:38.000 I think it should be rooted in what is the most practical, what is the most practicable, and what is most in America's interest.

00:24:44.000 But Joe Biden doesn't believe that.

00:24:46.000 Joe Biden believes that policy should be rooted in empathy.

00:24:48.000 So if he is unempathetic, he has nothing else to back his policy.

00:24:52.000 Because his policy is obviously not pragmatic.

00:24:54.000 His policy is obviously not effective.

00:24:56.000 It is not useful.

00:24:57.000 And so he is left spinning in circles.

00:24:59.000 And that's what we saw last night.

00:25:00.000 So the president toddles out to the microphone and he proceeds to declare that what he has done is triumphant.

00:25:07.000 He's triumphant about all of this.

00:25:10.000 And we've been giving you the updates.

00:25:12.000 I mean, we gave tens of billions of dollars in American military equipment to the Taliban.

00:25:17.000 We've got thousands of Americans and American green card holders who are stranded behind enemy lines.

00:25:21.000 We have China and Russia on the move. 0.90

00:25:25.000 Quick note, yesterday the Taliban were not apparently hanging somebody from a helicopter.

00:25:28.000 It was just somebody taking a joyride beneath the helicopter.

00:25:30.000 We'll wait for a couple of weeks for them to actually hang people beneath the helicopters. 0.89

00:25:32.000 In any case, here was Joe Biden yesterday, beginning with a triumphal announcement of what he, Joe Biden, had done.

00:25:40.000 Last night in Kabul, The United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history.

00:25:51.000 We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history, with more than 120,000 people evacuated to safety.

00:25:59.000 That number is more than double what most experts thought were possible.

00:26:04.000 No nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all of history.

00:26:10.000 That's how good this was.

00:26:11.000 It was a historic win for the United States to turn over the country back to the people who committed 9-11 or provided cover for those people. 0.86

00:26:18.000 It's a historic win.

00:26:19.000 You know how many people we evacuated from the Titanic here?

00:26:22.000 Man, we are good at evacuating people from the Titanic.

00:26:25.000 What a plan.

00:26:25.000 What a masterfully conceived plan.

00:26:28.000 Well, what about, you might be asking yourself, what about the 13 dead service people because you decided to hand security over to the Taliban?

00:26:35.000 Joe Biden has an answer for you.

00:26:37.000 They did it facing a crush of enormous crowds seeking to leave the country.

00:26:43.000 And they did it knowing ISIS-K terrorists, sworn enemies of the Taliban, were lurking in the midst of those crowds. 0.70

00:26:52.000 20 service members were wounded in the service of this mission.

00:26:56.000 13 heroes gave their lives.

00:26:59.000 I was just at Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer.

00:27:05.000 Yeah, checking her watch every five seconds and insulting the military parents. 1.00

00:27:08.000 By the way, does he ever mention here why it was that they were facing a crush of enormous crowds seeking to leave the country?

00:27:14.000 And why they had to face down ISIS-K terrorists? 0.88

00:27:17.000 At no point does he actually mention this.

00:27:18.000 The reason this happened is because he gave up Bagram Air Base, which exists outside of Kabul.

00:27:23.000 The reason that this happened is because he decided to hand over local security directly to the Taliban, the Washington Post has reported, instead of taking the Taliban's own offer of allowing the United States to maintain control of Kabul at least long enough to evacuate our people.

00:27:38.000 At no point is he going to take the blame for that, even though this is, again, a complete Biden policy.

00:27:42.000 See, everything was masterfully handled.

00:27:45.000 And the military's challenge is, well, those were natural.

00:27:47.000 Those are just how things were going to be.

00:27:49.000 Okay, then he starts the blame game.

00:27:52.000 So remember, Captain Compassion over here, the blame game is, so normally, if you're a compassionate, you normally say, you take the hit, you move on.

00:27:59.000 Not Joe Biden.

00:28:01.000 This is everybody's fault but his.

00:28:02.000 So he starts by ripping into the collapse of the Afghan government and lying about it.

00:28:06.000 He says that he had contingency plans for the collapse of that government, and it was sort of foreseen.

00:28:12.000 We know that's a lie.

00:28:13.000 In July, he was explicitly telling people it would not be like the fall of Saigon, that the Taliban did not have the ability to take over the entire country quickly.

00:28:20.000 He himself said that.

00:28:21.000 By the way, he was lying at the time.

00:28:24.000 He was lying at the time.

00:28:24.000 There's another story from the Daily Mail today, July 23rd, that That Biden actually called the now departed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and he saw that the Taliban had been making gains and he asked Ghani to lie about it.

00:28:40.000 He asked Ghani to say to everybody that everything is going fine, apparently.

00:28:46.000 It's not a great phone call, guys.

00:28:47.000 I've noticed that impeachment happens over phone calls these days.

00:28:49.000 So that's not a great phone call.

00:28:51.000 Biden apparently said to Ghani that he wanted Ghani to lie to people.

00:28:57.000 He said, quote, I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan is things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban.

00:29:03.000 There is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.

00:29:10.000 So he knew things were going badly and he told Ghani to lie about it.

00:29:13.000 Here is Joe Biden explaining, however, that, you know, we had an assumption about the Afghan military holding.

00:29:18.000 It turned out not to be accurate.

00:29:19.000 No one could have predicted this, but we had contingency plans.

00:29:22.000 Number one, a lot of people did predict it.

00:29:23.000 Number two, he knew what was going on.

00:29:25.000 And number three, he did not have a good contingency plan.

00:29:29.000 That assumption that the Afghan government would be able to hold on for a period of time beyond military drawdown turned out not to be accurate.

00:29:40.000 But I still instructed our national security team to prepare for every eventuality.

00:29:46.000 Even that one.

00:29:47.000 And that's what we did.

00:29:50.000 They did.

00:29:51.000 They prepared for every eventuality.

00:29:52.000 So many eventualities.

00:29:53.000 Now, who are you going to believe?

00:29:54.000 Joe Biden or your own eyes?

00:29:57.000 Clearly, they did not prepare for these eventualities.

00:30:00.000 Clearly, he was putting artificial constraints on his own military.

00:30:02.000 I mean, Mark Milley said as much.

00:30:04.000 He said, we were told that we could have six to seven hundred troops.

00:30:07.000 If, by the way, their contingency plans have been so excellent, why did we have to re-insert thousands of troops on the ground in order to effectuate this evacuation?

00:30:15.000 And if there were such a great contingency, why are there still literally tens of thousands of people we made promises to still stuck there?

00:30:23.000 Okay, so he continues along these lines.

00:30:25.000 We made contingency plans.

00:30:26.000 This was so incoherent.

00:30:27.000 On the one hand, it's the Afghan military's fault.

00:30:29.000 On the other hand, we made contingency plans.

00:30:32.000 On the one hand, it's Trump's fault.

00:30:33.000 On the other hand, I deserve all the credit.

00:30:34.000 Like, he was all over the place because when you don't have an actual defense, you just have to throat at the wall.

00:30:41.000 And that's what Joe Biden is doing right here.

00:30:42.000 Okay, so he continues along these lines.

00:30:45.000 So we were ready when the Afghan security forces, after two decades of fighting for their country, And losing thousands of their own did not hold on as long as anyone expected.

00:30:59.000 We were ready when they and the people of Afghanistan watched their own government collapse and the president flee amid the corruption and malfeasance, handing over the country to their enemy, the Taliban, and significantly increasing the risk to U.S. 0.62

00:31:15.000 personnel and our allies.

00:31:19.000 Okay, so again, everybody's to blame. 0.99

00:31:21.000 It was all part of the plan, but the Afghan military completely collapsed, and that's because they're corrupt and terrible. 1.00

00:31:26.000 So I just have a question for Joe Biden.

00:31:27.000 At any point here, are you going to mention the fact that you completely withdrew close air support, as well as all American military contractors from Afghanistan, and destroyed the military from the within, and announced that we were going to leave?

00:31:38.000 At any point?

00:31:38.000 No, of course not.

00:31:40.000 But don't worry.

00:31:41.000 According to Joe Biden, there was not only a plan to deal with the complete collapse of the country.

00:31:45.000 There was an extra, an excellent plan for the evacuation, which doesn't explain why we have all these people still stuck on the ground over there and no personnel.

00:31:52.000 But according to Joe Biden, all part of the plan. 0.99

00:31:56.000 And you have to be a moron to believe him. 1.00

00:31:57.000 You really do. 1.00

00:31:58.000 You have to be a clinically stupid person in order to believe this stuff. 1.00

00:32:02.000 Here is Joe Biden talking about the wonders of his plan. 0.99

00:32:06.000 As a result, To safely extract American citizens before August 31st, as well as embassy personnel, allies and partners, and those Afghans who had worked with us and fought alongside of us for 20 years, I had authorized 6,000 troops, American troops, to Kabul to help secure the airport.

00:32:30.000 As General McKenzie said, this is the way the mission was designed.

00:32:36.000 It was designed to operate under severe stress and attack.

00:32:40.000 And that's what it did.

00:32:43.000 Okay, so if you designed the mission, then who's to blame for leaving the Taliban in control of security and getting 13 American service members killed?

00:32:50.000 Well, it's either your plan or it ain't your plan.

00:32:51.000 Which is it?

00:32:53.000 Okay, but then this also leaves a question.

00:32:55.000 If this was such a well-designed and brilliant plan, why are there so many people left behind enemy lines, right?

00:32:59.000 A normal plan, you said you were going to take care of every contingency, a normal plan would have, you know, dealt with the fact that we now have at least hundreds of American citizens behind enemy lines and an unspecified number of green card holders.

00:33:11.000 By the way, remember how at the very beginning of this, they were saying there were 10,000 to 15,000 Americans in Kabul?

00:33:15.000 Remember how that shrunk all the way down to 6,000?

00:33:17.000 You wonder how that happened?

00:33:18.000 It's because they started excising anybody who's a green card holder.

00:33:21.000 If you're an American green card holder, you no longer count.

00:33:24.000 If you're somebody with legal papers, you're no longer counted.

00:33:27.000 So they just redefined who got to count as an American for purposes of getting them out, even though green card holders have the same rights from the U.S.

00:33:33.000 Embassy as American citizens proper. 0.92

00:33:36.000 That's how they played the statistical game.

00:33:38.000 Anyway, you might be wondering, if it was such a great plan designed by this brilliant piece of human genius, then why are so many people left behind?

00:33:47.000 Joe Biden has an answer.

00:33:48.000 The collapse of the country was the Afghan military's fault, not his.

00:33:51.000 He had a plan.

00:33:52.000 And the evacuation, if it was unsuccessful with regard to these people, that is their fault.

00:33:55.000 That three-year-old we talked about earlier, that three-year-old, we told them over and over, you need to come to the airport.

00:34:00.000 And the three-year-old just kept crying and watching Elmo.

00:34:03.000 Nothing we can do about that.

00:34:04.000 Here is Joe Biden blaming the people who got left behind.

00:34:06.000 Since March, we reached out 19 times to Americans in Afghanistan.

00:34:13.000 What's he so pissed about, by the way?

00:34:15.000 With multiple warnings.

00:34:17.000 and offers to help them leave Afghanistan all the way back as far as March.

00:34:23.000 After we started the evacuation 17 days ago, we did initial outreach and analysis and identified around 5000 Americans who had decided earlier to stay in Afghanistan but now wanted to leave.

00:34:41.000 Our Operation Allied Rescue ended up getting more than 5,500 Americans out.

00:34:50.000 Okay, so here he says, well, you know, in March we were telling people to leave.

00:34:53.000 Yeah, and in July you were saying the country definitely was not going to fall.

00:34:56.000 So which is it, dude?

00:34:57.000 Okay, so then he gets to the people who are still left.

00:35:00.000 And he says, you know what?

00:35:02.000 Their fault.

00:35:03.000 They wanted to stay probably.

00:35:04.000 All these people trying to get out, probably their fault. 1.00

00:35:07.000 Everybody's fault except for this doddering fool. 0.97

00:35:12.000 Now we believe that about 100 to 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan with some intention to leave. 0.98

00:35:20.000 Most of those who remain are dual citizens, longtime residents who had earlier decided to stay because of their family roots in Afghanistan.

00:35:32.000 The bottom line, 90% of Americans in Afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave.

00:35:41.000 And for those remaining Americans, there is no deadline.

00:35:46.000 We remain committed to get them out if they want to come out.

00:35:51.000 If they want to come out, but they don't want to come out, right?

00:35:52.000 It's their fault.

00:35:53.000 They're stuck there, obviously.

00:35:54.000 I mean, that's clearly what's happening right there.

00:35:57.000 By the way, I do love when he uses stats like 90% of Americans, we got them out.

00:36:00.000 Now they're saying it's 98% of Americans, right?

00:36:01.000 Because they're trying to downgrade the number of Americans who are actually stuck there, even though they still don't have exact numbers.

00:36:08.000 90% of Americans.

00:36:08.000 Well, you know what's unbelievable?

00:36:10.000 Here's an unbelievable stat for you.

00:36:11.000 You ready?

00:36:14.000 On 9-11, 99.99... 9, I believe.

00:36:17.000 99.999% of Americans were not killed by terrorists on 9-11.

00:36:20.000 Isn't that amazing?

00:36:21.000 Wow, what an amazing success story that was.

00:36:24.000 Incredible.

00:36:25.000 Like, truly inspiring.

00:36:28.000 The President of the United States here.

00:36:30.000 Okay, in a second, we'll get to him continuing to make excuses, him continuing with his false binaries and his straw men. 0.97

00:36:37.000 This is a pathetic spectacle for the United States. 0.69

00:36:39.000 He's completely destroyed American interests in the Near East and in Central Asia. 0.82

00:36:43.000 And he has done so while destroying his own reputation, by the way.

00:36:48.000 Whatever was left of that is now in tatters. 0.70

00:36:50.000 We'll get to more of the President of the United States making a fool of himself on national television yesterday.

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00:39:14.000 All righty, so Joe Biden continues along these lines.

00:39:22.000 He has to find more people to blame, right?

00:39:24.000 So he's already blamed the Afghan National Army.

00:39:27.000 He's blamed the Afghan government.

00:39:28.000 He's blamed the Americans themselves for being stuck in Kabul.

00:39:31.000 And now he is going to blame everybody who doesn't trust the Taliban.

00:39:35.000 We really should trust the Taliban. 1.00

00:39:36.000 It's very important to trust the Taliban. 1.00

00:39:38.000 You might be wondering, you know, OK, fine.

00:39:39.000 So you're blaming the Americans sort of left behind.

00:39:41.000 But what are you going to do about them?

00:39:42.000 Joe Biden's answer is we're going to trust the international community and the Taliban.

00:39:45.000 What a joke this human being is.

00:39:48.000 Just yesterday, The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution that sent a clear message about what the international community expects the Taliban to deliver on moving forward.

00:40:00.000 Notably, freedom of travel, freedom to leave.

00:40:05.000 And together, we are joined by over 100 countries that are determined to make sure the Taliban upholds those commitments. 0.90

00:40:15.000 Those countries do not include Russia or China, as I have noted, but nobody else seems to care.

00:40:19.000 And you're asking yourself now, why would we trust the Taliban? 0.90

00:40:22.000 Why?

00:40:23.000 And Joe Biden says, well, they did make public comments.

00:40:26.000 And I mean, there's one thing that's clear.

00:40:27.000 The Taliban are people who keep their word.

00:40:29.000 They would never lie about anything.

00:40:31.000 And if they do lie, man, we will punish them using this fluffy bunny right here.

00:40:36.000 We will threaten to withhold this fluffy bunny.

00:40:38.000 We have made it with our own American hands.

00:40:41.000 This fluffy bunny.

00:40:43.000 And we will not give it to them if they do not let the Americans out. 1.00

00:40:47.000 Or alternatively, we'll just send them bags of cash.

00:40:49.000 Here's the President of the United States talking about why we can rely on the Taliban. 0.99

00:40:53.000 The Taliban has made public commitments broadcast on television and radio across Afghanistan on safe passage for anyone wanting to leave, including those who worked alongside Americans.

00:41:09.000 We don't take them by their word alone, but by their actions.

00:41:14.000 And we have leverage to make sure those commitments are met.

00:41:18.000 The leverage comes in the form of our massive military power we just withdrew, and also the incredible leverage we have over the money that we hold.

00:41:27.000 You know, we have capacity to hold their bank accounts, and we can totally withhold those bank accounts if they, oh wait, they have American citizens over there. 0.99

00:41:36.000 So yeah, we are kind of going to do whatever they want to do.

00:41:40.000 Okay, then Joe Biden had to spread the blame around because it turns out that no matter how much horse manure he tries to turn into gold, it's still horse manure.

00:41:47.000 So he's got to spread it around, right?

00:41:48.000 Everybody's got to get dirty.

00:41:49.000 So again, just to recap, the people who are to blame are Americans stuck in Kabul, the Afghan National Army, Let me be clear.

00:41:58.000 Leaving August the 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline.

00:42:00.000 It was designed to save American lives.

00:42:01.000 his own military commanders. Everyone is to blame except for the only one who made the call this jackass. And so here he was going after going after Donald Trump. 0.99

00:42:12.000 Let me be clear. Leaving August the 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. It was designed to save American lives. My predecessor, the former president, signed an agreement with the Taliban to remove U.S.

00:42:31.000 troops by May the 1st, just months after I was inaugurated.

00:42:36.000 The previous administration's agreement said that if we stuck to the May 1st deadline that they had signed on to leave by, the Taliban wouldn't attack any American forces.

00:42:48.000 But if we stayed, all bets were off.

00:42:52.000 He continued along these lines and then he laid out the false binary.

00:42:55.000 Either we left in ignominious defeat and left a bunch of Americans behind and rushed out of there.

00:43:00.000 Based on a deadline set by only one person, Joe Biden.

00:43:03.000 Or we're gonna have to go to total cataclysmic war.

00:43:06.000 There's no evidence to suggest this is the case. 1.00

00:43:09.000 He's just pulling this directly out of his ass. 0.99

00:43:10.000 This is the same exact sort of logic that was used with regard to Barack Obama's Iran deal, which was, there are only two choices, nuclear annihilation with Iran, or this crappy deal I bring you, right? 1.00

00:43:21.000 Joe Biden is doing the same thing here.

00:43:22.000 Our only two options were not to maintain the status quo with every so often a ratchet up of troops, a ratchet down of troops.

00:43:29.000 No, there are only two options, either complete pullout Or, complete, utter warfare.

00:43:33.000 Tens of thousands of Americans dead in the streets.

00:43:37.000 It's just nonsense. 0.74

00:43:38.000 It's just nonsense. 0.83

00:43:39.000 But, again, this is his schtick.

00:43:41.000 So we're left with a simple decision.

00:43:44.000 Either follow through on the commitment made by the last administration and leave Afghanistan, or say we weren't leaving, and commit another tens of thousands more troops going back to war.

00:43:58.000 That was the choice.

00:44:00.000 The real choice.

00:44:02.000 Between leaving or escalating, I was not going to extend this forever war.

00:44:10.000 And I was not extending a forever exit.

00:44:15.000 Okay, that one is going to come back to bite him.

00:44:17.000 I was not extending a forever exit because I promise you we're going to be carrying out operations in Afghanistan for some time to come if he plans on keeping any of his commitments.

00:44:23.000 The only way that the quote unquote forever exit is over is if he really does mean to abandon all of these people.

00:44:30.000 Okay, so he wasn't done spreading the blame.

00:44:32.000 So it's Trump's fault, even though, again, the Trump deal with the Taliban was conditional.

00:44:36.000 And I was not a fan of the Trump deal with the Taliban.

00:44:38.000 I thought it was crappy at the time.

00:44:39.000 I spoke out about it at the time.

00:44:41.000 I think there are a bunch of things that the Trump administration did with the Taliban that were frankly unconscionable. 0.95

00:44:45.000 I think the release of 5,000 prisoners at the behest of the Taliban was insane and ridiculous and unrooted, unmoored from reality. 0.57

00:44:54.000 But there's only one person who decided to surrender the country in its totality. 0.88

00:44:57.000 That's Joe Biden.

00:44:57.000 By the way, Joe Biden blaming Trump is kind of amazing considering last week he said himself no matter what Trump had done, he would have done this.

00:45:05.000 Once again, Joe Biden speaking out of both sides of his mouth, but that may just be because he has lost all elasticity in his face at this point.

00:45:12.000 In any case, Joe Biden then decided it's not enough to blame Trump.

00:45:16.000 He's also going to blame his own military advisors.

00:45:19.000 If you're blaming me, blame the military too.

00:45:21.000 What a man he is, standing for his own strategy and his own plan, standing for his principles this way.

00:45:27.000 What a brilliant orator and an incredible leader.

00:45:30.000 Here he is just crapping all over his own military advisors.

00:45:34.000 The decision to end the military lift operations at Kabul Airport was based on the unanimous recommendation of my civilian and military advisors, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and all the service chiefs and the commanders in the field.

00:46:00.000 Nope.

00:46:00.000 Maybe based on the artificial conditions you put on them.

00:46:03.000 But I love how everybody else advised him to do this, you see.

00:46:06.000 It really wasn't his call.

00:46:07.000 It was his call, because he's so smart, and because it was such a great move.

00:46:10.000 But also, it was Trump's fault, and the Afghan military's fault, and the Americans stuck in Afghanistan's fault, and his commanders told him to do it.

00:46:16.000 So really, the buck stops with all of them, unless you like the decision, in which case the buck stops with Biden.

00:46:20.000 Captain Empathy over here.

00:46:21.000 So empathetic.

00:46:22.000 And then, he says, and now, join me in grateful prayer.

00:46:26.000 To me, since I'm the one who made the decision.

00:46:31.000 For now, I urge all Americans to join me in grateful prayer for our troops and diplomats and intelligence officers who carried out this mission of mercy in Kabul and at tremendous risk with such unparalleled results.

00:46:52.000 When he says, I want you to give a prayer for the troops and diplomats and intelligence officers, what he really means, and we all know it, is I wish for you to give a grateful prayer to me.

00:47:00.000 I'm the master of this policy.

00:47:02.000 I was the creator of this policy, unless you don't like it, in which case it was really everybody else, but it was so brilliant and so well done.

00:47:07.000 I mean, it kind of failed, but true. 0.98

00:47:10.000 He's all over the damn place. 0.98

00:47:11.000 And the reason he's all over the place is because this is a bad policy and he refuses to own it. 0.99

00:47:16.000 And it didn't spring from empathy. 1.00

00:47:17.000 It sprang from bullheaded stupidity. 1.00

00:47:20.000 Which really should be the name of his next autobiography. 1.00

00:47:22.000 Bullheaded Stupidity would be an excellent name for an autobiography by the current president of the United States. 0.95

00:47:28.000 Now, in just a second, we'll get to his actual justification for the decision. 0.99

00:47:31.000 Not the strategic decision, but the geo-strategic decision.

00:47:35.000 Why was it necessary that we pull out of Afghanistan right now?

00:47:39.000 Okay, so, Joe Biden's speech.

00:47:41.000 Continues, and here he really gets to the meat.

00:47:43.000 After he's done blaming everybody else, here he gets to the meat.

00:47:45.000 This is why Joe Biden had to make the decision to leave Afghanistan now, when we had 2,500 troops on the ground, zero combat casualties since February of 2020, a foothold to fight terrorists, Al Qaeda and ISIS, to prevent the retaking of the country by the terror-housing Taliban.

00:48:03.000 Here is why it was necessary that we pull out, and also how he made no mistakes.

00:48:08.000 Right, so first of all, let's just start with this.

00:48:10.000 A lot of people were asking, Joe Biden, why didn't you pull people out sooner?

00:48:15.000 If you thought that we needed to get out and August 31st was the deadline, why didn't you start the evacuation sooner?

00:48:20.000 According to Joe Biden, Joe Biden has never made a mistake.

00:48:22.000 That is the answer.

00:48:23.000 Compassionate, empathetic Joe Biden.

00:48:25.000 He has never made a mistake.

00:48:26.000 Here he was.

00:48:28.000 I take responsibility for the decision.

00:48:32.000 Now, some say we should have started mass evacuation sooner.

00:48:37.000 And couldn't this have been done in a more orderly manner?

00:48:42.000 I respectfully disagree.

00:48:45.000 Imagine if we had begun evacuations in June or July, bringing in thousands of American troops and evacuating more than 120,000 people in the middle of a civil war.

00:48:59.000 There still would have been a rush to the airport, a breakdown in confidence and control of the government.

00:49:06.000 And it still would have been very difficult and dangerous mission.

00:49:10.000 Okay, so now he's gonna rely on counterfactuals.

00:49:14.000 What if there had been, like, a massive civil war, and we had evacuated people, there would have been a rush to the- like, he has no proof of any of this.

00:49:20.000 Here's what we do know.

00:49:21.000 You collapsed the Afghan government from within.

00:49:22.000 You collapsed the Afghan military from within.

00:49:24.000 You handed over Kabul to the Taliban. 0.95

00:49:26.000 You allowed the Taliban to control security, and you left a bunch of Americans behind.

00:49:30.000 And if you're asking him, could you have done it any better?

00:49:32.000 It was inevitable.

00:49:32.000 No way, man.

00:49:34.000 Inevitable.

00:49:35.000 Okay, so here's where he gets to the justification for his grand strategy, his geostrategic thinking.

00:49:40.000 And what it really comes down to, his geostrategic thinking is, I wanted to do it, so I did it.

00:49:45.000 That is his geostrategic thinking.

00:49:48.000 Because all he can pose as an alternative is straw men.

00:49:53.000 A giant field of straw men burning to light up the night. 0.94

00:49:57.000 Here is the President of the United States explaining that there is no way to get out without it being really rough.

00:50:02.000 But also, you know, if you wanted to stay for years on end, what would have been enough?

00:50:06.000 You know what would have been enough?

00:50:07.000 What was going on right then?

00:50:08.000 The status quo was a lot better than this.

00:50:10.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:50:12.000 The bottom line is there is no evacuation.

00:50:17.000 From the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challenges, threats we faced, none.

00:50:26.000 There are those who would say we should have stayed indefinitely for years on end.

00:50:33.000 They ask, why don't we just keep doing what we were doing?

00:50:37.000 Why do we have to change anything?

00:50:40.000 The fact is, everything had changed.

00:50:46.000 My predecessor had made a deal with the Taliban.

00:50:50.000 When I came into office, we faced a deadline, May 1.

00:50:54.000 The Taliban onslaught was coming. 0.92

00:50:58.000 Okay, that is not what the intelligence sources were saying.

00:51:00.000 That we are on the verge of a giant Taliban Tet offensive? 0.72

00:51:03.000 Nope!

00:51:04.000 Because you know what?

00:51:04.000 The Afghan military had been taking 10-15,000 casualties a year.

00:51:08.000 They had close American air support.

00:51:10.000 So the evidence of this is pretty much non-existent.

00:51:13.000 But Joe Biden continues to rely on this in the same way that, again, the Obama administration relied on the lie that there were moderates in Iran who were emboldened by our nuclear deal with them.

00:51:21.000 To those asking for a third decade of war in Afghanistan, I ask, what is the vital national interest?

00:51:25.000 this old man is truly.

00:51:26.000 So he says that, you know, our national interest had been fulfilled in Afghanistan.

00:51:32.000 Which is frankly a completely insane thing to say.

00:51:35.000 Here he was continuing.

00:51:36.000 To those asking for a third decade of war in Afghanistan, I ask, what is the vital national interest?

00:51:46.000 In my view, we only have one.

00:51:50.000 To make sure Afghanistan can never be used again to launch an attack on our homeland. 0.99

00:51:56.000 Thank you.

00:51:57.000 Remember why we went to Afghanistan in the first place?

00:52:01.000 Because we were attacked by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda on September 11th, 2001. 0.76

00:52:11.000 And they were based in Afghanistan.

00:52:14.000 We delivered justice to bin Laden on May 2nd, 2011, over a decade ago. 0.90

00:52:23.000 Al-Qaeda was decimated.

00:52:26.000 Okay, there's something that I've noticed in the recent past.

00:52:29.000 Al-Qaeda is back, you doof! 0.97

00:52:32.000 We had the President of the United States saying that the only reason we're there is to prevent terrorists from taking over Afghanistan.

00:52:36.000 Hmm!

00:52:37.000 Hmm.

00:52:38.000 I've noticed the people you just handed Afghanistan to are the exact same people we fought in 2001.

00:52:43.000 And I've also noticed that all the terrorists who were there in 2001 are rushing back in.

00:52:48.000 That ISIS-K carried out a terror attack on American targets in Kabul in the middle of your garbage evacuation plan. 0.91

00:52:55.000 I noticed that the Al Qaeda leaders have been re-arriving in Afghanistan.

00:53:00.000 By the way, every major defense official understands that we have just reconstituted a terrorist state in Afghanistan.

00:53:05.000 Joe Biden's like, yeah, we had to leave because it was over.

00:53:07.000 There was no more terrorism problem.

00:53:09.000 Now we left and the terrorism problem is back. 0.98

00:53:10.000 There's a damned shocker. 0.97

00:53:13.000 And then he just starts pulling non-sequiturs off the trees. 0.99

00:53:16.000 I mean, this is just bizarre.

00:53:17.000 He starts talking about, well, why aren't we in Yemen?

00:53:19.000 I mean, we're not in Yemen because we weren't attacked from Yemen.

00:53:23.000 And if we had not been attacked from Afghanistan and it had not been a terror haven, we wouldn't have attacked Afghanistan. 0.93

00:53:29.000 Your answer is, like, so?

00:53:31.000 So?

00:53:32.000 And?

00:53:32.000 Here's Captain Incoherence.

00:53:36.000 I respectfully suggest you ask yourself this question.

00:53:40.000 If we'd been attacked on September 11, 2001 from Yemen instead of Afghanistan, would we have ever gone to war in Afghanistan?

00:53:51.000 Even though the Taliban controlled Afghanistan in the year 2001?

00:53:58.000 I believe the honest answer is no.

00:54:00.000 We succeeded in what we set out to do in Afghanistan over a decade ago.

00:54:06.000 Then we stayed for another decade.

00:54:09.000 It was time to end this war. 0.90

00:54:13.000 Who was president for most of that decade, or a large part of that decade?

00:54:16.000 That would have been Barack Obama, was it not?

00:54:17.000 By the way, you know who opposed the OBL raid?

00:54:19.000 That would have been this guy. 1.00

00:54:20.000 This idiot. 1.00

00:54:22.000 Again, I'm spending a lot of time on this because I think this is the only true justification for what Joe Biden just did that we are going to get, which is he has a pig-headed, stubborn, and idiotic view of how world affairs works, and he's going to cram it down, and he does not give a damn who pays a price for that. 1.00

00:54:38.000 He doesn't care how many Americans will have to die in Afghanistan to make that happen. 0.99

00:54:41.000 He doesn't care how many Americans will die here if the terrorists come back.

00:54:44.000 He doesn't care about any of that.

00:54:46.000 He had in his mind that he was going to do this, and that was it.

00:54:50.000 It was going to get done.

00:54:52.000 We will maintain the fight against terrorists in Afghanistan and other countries.

00:54:54.000 We just don't need to fight a ground war to do it.

00:54:57.000 The speech is all over the place.

00:54:59.000 He actually, in the middle of the speech, he's like, we're out, we're never going back.

00:55:02.000 Also, we might go back.

00:55:04.000 That was this portion of the speech.

00:55:06.000 We will maintain the fight against terrorists in Afghanistan and other countries.

00:55:12.000 We just don't need to fight a ground war to do it.

00:55:17.000 We have what's called over the horizon capabilities, which means we can strike terrorists and targets without American boots on the ground, or very few if needed.

00:55:27.000 you We've shown that capacity just in the last week.

00:55:33.000 We struck ISIS-K remotely days after they murdered 13 of our service members and dozens of innocent Afghans. 1.00

00:55:45.000 And to ISIS-K, we are not done with you yet. 1.00

00:55:52.000 So I noticed that one of those really, really great drone strikes may have killed an entire family.

00:55:59.000 And that might be because we didn't have eyes on the ground and we were relying on the Taliban to do our spotting for us.

00:56:03.000 Maybe that was part of the problem.

00:56:06.000 Also, it turns out that launching a drone attack from six hours away in Qatar is not exactly the same as having close air support with Americans on the ground and American contractors on the ground and American allies on the ground.

00:56:17.000 Afghanistan is going to turn back into the black box that it was in 2001, and it's going to be Joe Biden's fault.

00:56:21.000 But I am enjoying the irony of Joe Biden saying, we've withdrawn.

00:56:24.000 It's over.

00:56:25.000 And also, we're going to fight you to the ends of the earth, ISIS-K. 1.00

00:56:29.000 All righty.

00:56:30.000 Then he continues and he says, you know what?

00:56:32.000 The really important thing is that in withdrawing from Afghanistan, we've done severe damage to China and Russia. 0.61

00:56:37.000 This may be the most delusional thing in the speech, and this is a speech filled with delusion. 0.92

00:56:40.000 It's a speech filled with crazy.

00:56:42.000 He says, you know, China and Russia, they wanted us to stay in Afghanistan.

00:56:46.000 Really?

00:56:46.000 Because they seem pretty enthusiastic about us leaving.

00:56:49.000 The U.N.

00:56:49.000 Security Council resolution calling for free travel was not joined by China and Russia.

00:56:53.000 Because they're like, yeah, man, U.S.

00:56:55.000 is out.

00:56:56.000 Let's make friends with the Taliban. 1.00

00:56:57.000 Got some rare earth minerals.

00:56:58.000 They're providing us another Belt and Road target.

00:57:00.000 They humiliated the Americans. 0.98

00:57:01.000 We're up for this.

00:57:03.000 And Joe Biden's like, you know who's really upset today?

00:57:04.000 The Russians and the Chinese. 0.97

00:57:06.000 And Vladimir Putin is sitting up in his Bond villain mansion going, ah ha ha ha.

00:57:10.000 Here is Joe Biden. 1.00

00:57:11.000 Idiot. 1.00

00:57:13.000 And here's a critical thing to understand. 1.00

00:57:16.000 The world is changing.

00:57:20.000 We're engaged in a serious competition with China. 0.96

00:57:23.000 And there's nothing China or Russia would rather have, would want more, in this competition in the United States to be bogged down another decade in Afghanistan. 0.61

00:57:36.000 Mm. So, yes, that's exactly what China and Russia wanted was for us to stay. Weird, because they're pretty happy that we left. Okay, finally, Joe Biden gets to the sort of Biden doctrine.

00:57:46.000 Okay. The problem is that he's lying. So he says that there are only two principles that should guide American foreign policy. And it is difficult to argue with these two principles.

00:57:54.000 The problem is that Joe Biden doesn't actually hold by any of these principles. Here we go.

00:57:57.000 As we turn the page on the foreign policy that has guided our nation the last two decades, We've got to learn from our mistakes.

00:58:08.000 Thank you.

00:58:09.000 To me, there are two that are paramount.

00:58:13.000 First, we must set missions with clear, achievable goals, not ones we'll never reach.

00:58:22.000 And second, we must stay clearly focused on the fundamental national security interests of the United States of America.

00:58:31.000 Okay, so a couple of things here.

00:58:32.000 One, he says we have to set missions with clear, achievable goals.

00:58:34.000 Oh, I've noticed that you have been saying that equity should be the guiding principle of all American domestic policy.

00:58:41.000 Also, you want to sign on to climate change agreements that have no clear, definable goals, end dates, or actual strategies involved.

00:58:47.000 And also, you say that you want to stay clearly focused on the fundamental national security interests of the United States.

00:58:51.000 Would that involve handing over Afghanistan to the Taliban and the Chinese, or would it not? 0.89

00:58:57.000 What do you define as the clear national security interest of the United States?

00:59:01.000 The reality is Joe Biden's actual policy is weakness at home and bloated incompetence, well, weakness abroad and bloated incompetence at home.

00:59:07.000 That's the actual Biden doctrine.

00:59:08.000 Surrender abroad and then get fat and suicidal at home.

00:59:12.000 That's the plan for Joe Biden. 0.65

00:59:15.000 He sets up a couple more straw men here.

00:59:18.000 He talks about how we're ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries.

00:59:24.000 And then he says, don't worry, we're still going to be at war with terrorists.

00:59:26.000 So again, it's this incoherent back and forth.

00:59:30.000 It's utterly nonsensical.

00:59:32.000 And he talks about how, you know, we're going to support the Afghan people through diplomacy, because again, squeaky bunnies are going to make this happen when military force has not.

00:59:42.000 But perhaps the most galling line in all of this, he talks about the spending in Afghanistan.

00:59:49.000 Understand, this is coming from a president who has proposed 10 to 12 trillion dollars in new spending in the United States.

00:59:56.000 To be clear, this year.

00:59:57.000 That's what he has proposed.

00:59:59.000 He's seeking to pass a $3.5 trillion budget right now, on top of a $1.1 trillion infrastructure plan, on top of a $2 trillion stimulus plan earlier this year.

01:00:09.000 But he's really upset about spending, guys.

01:00:10.000 This guy is a fiscal hawk, Joe Biden.

01:00:13.000 After more than $2 trillion spent in Afghanistan, costs that researchers at Brown University estimated would be over $300 million a day for 20 years in Afghanistan, for two decades.

01:00:30.000 Yes.

01:00:32.000 The American people should hear this.

01:00:34.000 $300 million a day for two decades.

01:00:38.000 You take the number of $1 trillion, as many say, that's still $150 million a day for two decades.

01:00:47.000 What have we lost as a consequence in terms of opportunities?

01:00:52.000 I mean, that's an enormous amount of spending, you know, like $300 million a day for two decades, that $2 trillion spent over the course of 20 years.

01:01:00.000 That's a lot of money.

01:01:01.000 And it is a lot of money.

01:01:03.000 It also happens to be a fraction of what he has proposed to spend this year alone Fiscal hawk Joe Biden coming in from the sidelines here.

01:01:12.000 Okay, he concludes his little speech, of course, with a reference to Boe.

01:01:15.000 Because after all, it's all about the empathy, guy.

01:01:19.000 Everybody else is to blame.

01:01:20.000 We're leaving people behind.

01:01:21.000 People can get slaughtered in the streets.

01:01:22.000 It's about the empathy.

01:01:23.000 And how do you know he's empathetic?

01:01:24.000 Because his son died.

01:01:25.000 That's how you know that Joe Biden is empathetic.

01:01:27.000 Because how many times can he lean on a tragic story, and it is a tragic story, in order to show that he's empathetic?

01:01:35.000 At a certain point, when you just keep invoking your dead child in order to get past political hurdles, it seems opportunistic and gross.

01:01:44.000 We passed that point long ago with Joe Biden.

01:01:47.000 A long time ago.

01:01:48.000 Here he was invoking Beau Biden, who did not die in combat.

01:01:52.000 Beau Biden, who died at the age of 46, tragically, from brain cancer.

01:01:56.000 And Joe Biden's had plenty of tragedy in his life, right?

01:01:58.000 He lost his first wife and his baby daughter in a car crash.

01:02:02.000 There's no question.

01:02:03.000 But what does that have to do, as they say, with the price of tea in China?

01:02:07.000 It has nothing to do with anything.

01:02:09.000 When in doubt, Joe Biden goes to the, my son died of brain cancer, and so you should feel bad for me.

01:02:15.000 Well, guess what?

01:02:15.000 I don't feel bad for the president of the United States.

01:02:18.000 He's the decision maker. 1.00

01:02:19.000 His decision making is garbage. 1.00

01:02:20.000 He deserves all of the blame. 1.00

01:02:22.000 He deserves all of the blowback.

01:02:24.000 And inevitably, the consequences of this will be felt for decades.

01:02:28.000 As those consequences become clear, he ain't gonna be able to rely on the fact that people feel bad for him because of what happened to his son to get him out of it.

01:02:35.000 Here is Joe Biden invoking Beau, cynically, I mean just cynically.

01:02:40.000 We've been a nation too long at war.

01:02:42.000 If you're 20 years old today, you've never known an America at peace.

01:02:48.000 So when I hear that we could've, should've, Continue the so called low grade effort in Afghanistan at low risk to our service members at low cost.

01:03:03.000 I don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on, willing to put their lives on the line in defense of our nation.

01:03:17.000 Maybe it's because my deceased son, Bo, served in Iraq for a full year.

01:03:23.000 Oh, he's gonna bring out Beau here.

01:03:24.000 I'll just note here, there have been 35,000 calls to Veterans Affairs about suicidal veterans since the beginning of this pullout.

01:03:32.000 If you talk to veterans of the Afghan war, you're gonna be hard-pressed to find any of them who agree with Joe Biden's policy here or think it's good or are going to be sympathetic to Joe Biden because his son served in Iraq and then died years later of brain cancer.

01:03:45.000 It's so opportunistic, it's so cynical, and it's so unempathetic.

01:03:50.000 It's fundamentally off-putting.

01:03:52.000 And then, of course, Joe Biden left without taking any questions.

01:03:54.000 Because that's what this man does.

01:03:56.000 He will not take questions.

01:03:57.000 He will not answer questions.

01:03:58.000 You have challenged him.

01:03:59.000 He got angry at you.

01:04:00.000 The old man yelled at you and the clouds and blamed everybody but himself.

01:04:04.000 And in the end, the media will end up kissing his feet because this is what they do. 0.99

01:04:06.000 They're lapdogs. 0.97

01:04:06.000 They'll come back. 0.97

01:04:07.000 Don't worry.

01:04:08.000 Here is Joe Biden leaving.

01:04:11.000 Thank you and may God bless you all.

01:04:14.000 And may God protect our troops.

01:04:19.000 Troops, by the way, that he refused to protect.

01:04:22.000 You think he's going to come back and answer questions?

01:04:23.000 Nope.

01:04:24.000 He forgot his mask.

01:04:26.000 He forgot his mask.

01:04:27.000 So he came back for that.

01:04:29.000 What a grand and glorious president we have right now.

01:04:33.000 Well, the media is already rushing to Joe Biden's defense.

01:04:35.000 I already have some members of the media who are doing it.

01:04:37.000 Naturally.

01:04:39.000 You have people like Chris Cuomo, who's tweeting out in defense.

01:04:42.000 I mean, he can't find a despicable human being he won't defend, Chris Cuomo. 0.79

01:04:46.000 He tweeted out, Trump handed the keys to a bunch of barbarians.

01:04:48.000 Biden extended months from this original date.

01:04:51.000 Biden didn't play cards well enough, but he was given a bad hand from Trump.

01:04:55.000 None of these angry patriots on the right were as bothered then as they are now.

01:04:57.000 You wonder why?

01:04:59.000 Well, because this hadn't materialized then.

01:05:01.000 Some of us were not happy with the Taliban negotiations, right?

01:05:04.000 I was pretty clear about that at the time.

01:05:05.000 Go back and listen.

01:05:07.000 Here's a disastrous withdrawal.

01:05:08.000 coming out in strong defense of Biden is the most predictable move of the day. Meanwhile, MSNBC's Rick Stengel was out there defending the president along the most bizarre lines.

01:05:17.000 Here was Rick Stengel defending Joe Biden.

01:05:19.000 Here's a disastrous withdrawal. When the British left Afghanistan in 1842, 4,500 troops left Kabul and one Englishman 11 days later arrived in Jalalabad.

01:05:34.000 That was a disastrous evacuation.

01:05:37.000 Here's another one.

01:05:38.000 When the British left India in 1947-1948, just pulled out, over the next few years, 2 million people died as that country was divided in half.

01:05:54.000 And?

01:05:55.000 And so the idea is here that this was a big success.

01:05:57.000 By the way, the British withdrawal from Afghanistan that ended with that disastrous withdrawal was 1842.

01:06:01.000 Don't remember a lot of airplanes in 1842.

01:06:04.000 These are the geniuses in the media coming to the defense of Joe Biden, like the good little lapdogs they are.

01:06:08.000 NBC News doing it too.

01:06:10.000 They tweeted out earlier today.

01:06:13.000 That, you know, the real problem here is, of course, you wait for it, Republicans weaponizing it.

01:06:17.000 It's that Republicans have kept weaponizing this thing.

01:06:19.000 NBC News actually had the temerity to tweet that out, quote, And here's the reality.

01:06:23.000 wielding the issue as a political weapon against President Biden in the hope it will damage the Democratic Party and help them recapture control of Congress.

01:06:30.000 But will Afghanistan matter to voters?

01:06:31.000 Experts doubt it.

01:06:32.000 Well, you know, if you quote a couple of experts, then probably it won't matter at all.

01:06:37.000 And here's the reality.

01:06:38.000 Maybe Joe Biden's right.

01:06:40.000 Maybe it won't matter at all.

01:06:41.000 But if it doesn't matter to Americans that Joe Biden abandoned, abandoned human beings to the Taliban for no reason other than his own pride and vanity, then we deserve whatever we get.

01:06:52.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

01:06:54.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Knowles show today.

01:06:57.000 He discusses the story of the GOP congressman missing in Afghanistan.

01:07:00.000 You can hear more details about that over on Michael's show that is available right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 01, 2021

For Joe Biden, The Cruelty Is The Point | Ep. 1331

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