September 2, 2024 • 54 mins
We look at the abandoning of Bagram Airfield, Kabul, Afghanistan, our Afghan allies and United States citizens. We look at the civilian heroes who went to work to rescue people, the military heroes who died / injured and the hundreds of Afghans that were blown up. We discuss what kind of equipment was left to the Taliban and we also talk about the mysterious payments to the Taliban of multiple MILLIONS of TAXPAYER DOLLARS!
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https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-veterans-afghanistan-evacuation/
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/why-did-the-united-states-abandon-bagram-airfield/
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https://www.npr.org/2021/08/29/1032044382/what-we-know-about-the-13-u-s-service-members-killed-in-the-kabul-attack
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/why-did-the-united-states-abandon-bagram-airfield/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-09/us-military-leave-bagram-air-base-afghanistan-equipment-handover/100277452https://www.latimes.comworld-nation/story/2021-07-07/see-what-the-u-s-left-behind-at-bagram-airfieldhttps://globalnews.ca/news/8372881/taliban-military-parade-u-s-weapons-kabul/
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/waste-of-the-day-293-million-of-afghanistan-aid-may-have-funded-taliban/ar-BB1qXU1M
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Hey everybody, this is the Evercast. I'm your host, John Towers,
and we're going to be adding on to our herculean
collection of nine to eleven in Context episodes. I thought
we were done when I did the post mortem. I
thought we were done. But the fucking hits keep coming,
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so we got more. We got more shit to talk about.
This is going to be nine to eleven in Context
Part five. I'm not exactly sure what the subtitle or
whatever is going to be, but we're gonna be talking about,
you know, Afghan stand withdrawal. But that's just kind of
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where we're starting. What we're really gonna be talking about
is what we left behind and why are we sending
millions of dollars to the Taliban right now? And you're
gonna be like, well, well wait, wait, wait, doctor Towers,
excuse me, can you please repeat that last part? And
I'm like, yes, sure, I will repeat it. We're sending
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millions of dollars to the Taliban on top of the
billion or whatever dollars worth of state of the art
military equipment we left behind and all that other side,
and how kind of getting away from myself. We are
a little bit late. I have been doing really good
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with putting up episodes out and up until this point
they are all out on Sundays. However, we went camping
this weekend and we got a little bit of problems
because we were sleeping in a tent that was actually
a submarine during this marine storm. So it was an ordeal,
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but everybody survived. We're okay. Long drives, long drives and
lots of laundry to do, and I gotta buy a
new tent. So and also just a note, kind of
inside baseball housekeeping note or whatever. But Spreaker is again
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of ad advertisements that we have to put in the episodes.
And I was clicking through and they want like three
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the math is behind or whatever, but when this has
happened in the past, I went through and I found
spots to stick the ads in where they would be
as least offensive as possible. So if you go back
and you listen to anything any older show, like any
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show older than today, they might drop uh, they might
be dropping commercials in arbitrarily, which I fucking hate it.
I god damn fucking hate it. That drives me crazy.
They're like, hey, bro, you know inflation, we need to
sell more ads. I can't fucking stand it. So again
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we're gonna be having to, you know, add more fucking
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coming up. Anyhow, I got my vessel of the art here.
I'm thinking about building a store back out so you
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one would I pick? I like the big red logo
one's pretty good. This Abercast schedule the ones that I
wear the most oftened just in my everyday life. I
think the Satanic goat one and the Pentagram of Solomon,
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and I also have the magic circle. It's Ethnlemic magic circle.
I wear that one sometimes too, Beareth the Rider on
the Red Horse. Anyhow, Yeah, so let's get into let's
actually I'm bitching about commercials, and then I just fall
into my own commercial, but they won't count that one.
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And then I have my vight pin here for my
trauma coping. So we're gonna start out at a weird
place and pr dot org. Thirteen service members killed in
Kabul attack honored with Congressional Gold Medal. October twenty fifth,
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twenty twenty one, The US House of Representatives has voted
to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to thirteen American
service members killed in a bomb attack in Kabul this summer.
The Augus attack was one of the deadliest days for
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American forces in the past decade of the twenty year
war in Afghanistan. It took place just days ahead of
the US's planned full withdrawal from the country that had
been overtaken days earlier by the Taliban bill. The bill
to honor the fallen service members, was introduced by a
Michigan Republican, Lisa McLain, and was co sponsored by a
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bipartisan group of more than three hundred representatives. Now it's
funny because here Biden has called the Americans who lost
their lives in the bombing heroes who made the ultimate
sacrifice and service of our highest American ideals, and while
saving the lives of others, their bravery and their selflessness
has enabled more than one hundred and seventeen thousand people
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at risk to reach safety thus far. Biden ascendent statement
shortly after the attack, may God protect our troops and
those standing watch in these dangerous days. So you notice
the way he said this. He was like the service
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of our highest American ideals while saving the lives of others,
and he says their bravery and selflessness has enabled more
than one hundred and seventeen thousand people at risk to
reach safety thus far. So one of the I'm just
going to finish this real quick. But the point is
is that the United States government didn't help one hundred
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and seventeen thousand people at risk to reach safety thus far.
We'll see that there's a giant hole in that because
the private sector had to step up to get people
out of Kabul, the private sector. There are networks of
American veterans that went in to save their comrades, their interpreters,
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their allies, that we're now stuck in Taliban controlled country.
The we didn't do that. I mean we as a veteran,
I obviously I did not do that. The American government
didn't do that. People took it upon themselves to do
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it because we left a bunch of people fucked. We
left a bunch of people fucked. And also, you know,
well Biden, he's been on vacation now for like three weeks.
Who's fucking running this country? Are they trying to prove
to us that you don't need a president to run
the country, because it's kind of what it seems like.
But before he got the boot, whenever he talked about
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you know, hismistration, he would say, like, you know, no
American soldiers have lost their lives, you know, during my administration,
because he's forgetting totally about these thirteen service members that
got blown to fucking bits, you know, but we don't
we don't talk about that. Taskingpurpose dot com. The normal
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military rules are out. How veterans helped rescue scores of
people from Afghanistan. This is the most American thing that
has ever happened. This is written by Haley Britsky, August thirty, first,
twenty one. It was a global effort, one that would
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run twenty four hours a day for as long as necessary.
For many, it was a way of channeling feelings of
anxiety and rage, confusion and sadness into doing something, one
more active service, one more opportunity to help those who
had helped them. The war in Afghanistan had gone on
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for nearly twenty years without a clear mission, and now
there was one rescue as many people as possible. The
US government scrambled to get Afghan allies and Americans out
of Afghanistan. After the Taliban took the capital of Kabul
on August fifteenth, groups of US military veterans jumped into
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action and helped evacuate vulnerable Afghans and American citizens still
trapped in the city. The names of their operations ran
the Gamut, Pineapple Express, Team America, Fuck Yeah to Save
Our Allies, Allied Airlift twenty one, to name a few.
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The groups included more than just veterans, former intelligence officials, diplomats,
tech wizards, and everyday citizens who had the time and
the conviction to lend a hand pulled together to map
the evacuation routes, help Afghans around Taliban checkpoints, and coordinate
with US personnel on the ground to get people inside
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the airport. They had day jobs, but their rescue effort
took priority for many of the veterans who spoke with
task and purpose. People are working outside of their work hours.
They're giving every moment they have. You know, we're just
trying to do the right thing, like said Alex Plitsas,
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an Army combat veteran who worked with a group of
veterans and officials who had previously served in Afghanistan. And
I think for a lot of us, including me, having
post traumatic stress disorder for a number of years, this
may have been an opportunity to try to make something
positive out of the shit situation and get some closure.
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Mike Jason, retired Army colonel and interim executive director for
Allied Airlift twenty one, echoed this sentiment, saying it was
a way for some veterans to shift to their focus
from questioning their own losses in Afghanistan to helping others.
I lost my battalion, I lost my best friends over there.
I spent a significant amount of my professional career worrying
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about being in that region in Afghanistan. But in the
end it gave us this focus to do something. At
the same time, we kind of had that gut punch. Hey,
it's over. It's not a win, it's not even fucking close.
How do we deal with that? Jason, a West Point graduate,
said he was texting with former Army War College classmate
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and Afghanistan military officer as kel Bull was collapsing. He
was working to get his friend out, which seemed and
was possible for the first few days. The possibility to
get others out, however, got slimmer and slimmer as time
went on. Soon he was roped into a network of
other West Point graduates who were working to get Afghan
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friends out of the country. The group grew into a
broader operation to get special immigrant visas applications out. The
organization expanded to include roughly three hundred volunteers working around
the clock. Another group, which was started with a former
US Army commando, reached out to a private equity investor
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for help in evacuating thousands of children in Kabul. The
Wall Street Journal reported the request for help resulted in
an operation called Commercial Task Force, which was carried out
with the help of United Arab Emirates as temporary host
nations for evacuees. Veterans, alongside with other volunteers, which included
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former diplomats, financial donors, nonprofit workers, helped coordinate evacuations and
direct Afghan citizens to safety from hotel conference From a
hotel conference room in Washington, d D. The journal reported,
Commercial Task Force dispatched former commandos to Kabul to retrieve evacuees.
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The journal reported Nick Palmascanio, an Army veteran and founder
of the lifestyle brand Ranger Up, was one of those veterans.
He explained that the group on the ground was just
a handful of people at first, but eventually grew to
include twelve members. They worked alongside the State and Defense Department,
he said, and were given their own ramp for charter
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flights and they paid they'd paid for evacuating Afghans to
the UAE. It wasn't normal for that to be able
to happen, he said, but with a lot of what
happened over the last two weeks. Was it normal? I'll say,
I want to know why we left the way we did.
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I want to know why no one got fired for
leaving the way we did. I want to know why
we left all that military equipment there intact, and we
know it's intact, and we'll get to how we know that.
And the dogs, the beautiful dogs, they were terrific. Left
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canine dogs there, who knows what the hell happened and
they probably got eaten or impregnated. It's the wild West,
he said. All the normal military rules are out, and
for the first time that I've ever seen it, everybody
is fine with it. Everybody was just like, yeah, we
know that there's usually a forty seven page form you
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have to fill out, but fuck it, just get these
people out of here. In total, they estimated over eleven
thousand people were evacuated through their operation. Like the way
that it was pulled. I mean, I'm not a military tactician,
but I mean it's like, hey, why don't we get
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our people and our friends out before we go wheels
up and let this whole shit house burned down? You know,
I guess we're gonna be talking about this forever because
it was just so retarded. It's just such a retarded
weight in to it. I was actually for ending the
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war because I'm like, well, it's not gonna get any better,
you know, but there's ways to have done it. I suppose,
way better than this, I mean, and then just be like, well,
we did what we did, so now you know, everyone
else has got to fucking clean up this mess. Like
that's some shitty, irresponsible, bullshit. Task Force Pineapple was made
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up of current and former US Specop guys, aid worker,
intelligence officer, intelligence officers, and others with experience in Afghanistan.
ABC News first reported as of last Thursday, a group
told ABC that the Pineapple Express had brought roughly five
hundred Afghans, five hundred Afghan Special Force operators, and other
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high risk individuals and their families into the Hamad Karzai
International Airport. Some members of that group were wounded in
the suicide bombing on Thursday morning that killed thirteen US
servicemen and hundreds of Afghans. This herculean effort couldn't have
been done without unofficial heroes inside the airfield who defied
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their orders not to help beyond the airport perimeter by
wading into sewage canals and pulling in these targeted people
who were flashing pineapples on their phones. Retired US Army
Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann and Army Special Force veteran who
led operation told ABC News. Because there were several operations
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happening at once, Sean Van Diver, Navy veteran and founder
of the San Diego chapter of the Truman National Security
Project and nonprofit focused on national security and US foreign policy,
stepped into the center of the web of organizations to
launch an operations center of sorts to streamline planning and
communication between the different organizations. Something that isn't noted here
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or certainly people don't talk about it anymore, but the
State Department was actually giving people shit about flying these
people out of the airplanes, not giving them clearance to
leave the country, not giving them a clearance to go
to the country. That they were gonna like babysit these
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people because they're not bringing everybody here, right, so, you know,
I'm like, they're just adding. It's just like when you're
trying to mop up a mess and someone just walks
up and just shits on the spot. You just mopped
up like that's what the State Department did. And you're
like you look at fucking puppet heads like Anthony Blincoln
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and you're like, who is in charge of this fucking
nonsensical you know, coster fuck Like I can't even imagine
the decision making process that happened. Somebody put there wasn't
a deal, like someone did something, pushed some buttons, and
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I mean, we lost we fucking lot, We lost the
whole thing twenty years. You can't look at what they
have got as far as Bogram and the money we're
sending them, And there's no metric, there's no criteria on
the face of the planet that says we won that war.
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That's what I'm saying. National Review dot Com. Why did
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the United States abandoned Bagram Airfield? This is written by
John McCormick August eighteenth, twenty twenty one. The bottom line
is that Biden didn't leave enough troops in Afghanistan for
an evacuation. The night on the night of July first,
the United States military departed from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan
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without notifying the basis. New Afghan commander who discovered America's
departure more than two hours after they left. The Associated
Press reported at the time as chaos erupted at Hamad
Karzai International Airport. Following the fall of Kabool to the
Taliban on Sunday, some members of Congress and the Afghanistan
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war experts were asking why the US didn't hold on
to its base of twenty years at Bagram, located about
thirty miles north of Kabol. Some people have said that
this is the most strategic piece of land in the
world because of its geographical location in the Middle East
and its distance away from China. China. Sorry, I digress.
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No one in the right mind, I gotta put this
thing down. No one in their right mind would have
closed Bagram Air Base while leaving behind the thousands of civilians.
Arkansas Senator and Afghanistan war veteran Tom Cotton wrote on Twitter,
if you want to conduct in a evacuation, you don't
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do it from an airport that's literally almost in the
heart of the city. Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at
the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, tells a National Review
a military planner would know that as soon as things
got started going south in Kabul, that the Taliban was
on the march and that the airport would be flooded.
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You can't support that secure You can't secure that airport properly.
He says. The fact was made all to apparent to
the people around the world on Monday evening when they
woke up to horrifying videos of Afghan civilians clinging to
a department of you departing US military aircraft and then
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following several hundred feet from the aircraft to their death.
Going back to the spring following Biden's withdrawal announcement, Rogio
says that he made a case for holding and evacuating
from Bog in conversations with the US military and intelligence
officials whose voices should have been heard by the upper
echelons of leadership. On Wednesday afternoon, at a joint press conference,
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Mark Milly, who's a shitbag, were asked
about their decision to evacuate from Karzai International Airport instead
of Bogram. Lloyd didn't address the question. Millie's answer was
a mouthful, but the bottom line was that there weren't
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enough troops. If we were to keep both Bogram and
the embassy going, Milly said it would require a significant
number of military forces, so you had to collapse one
or the other. Miley also said generals estimated that the
risk of going out of Bogram or Karzai International was
about the same, but he also acknowledged that President Biden
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did not leave enough troops for a scenario in which
an evacuation was necessary to hold Bogrum, protect the embassies,
and protect cars Im International. Milly said that the mission
was to keep the embassy open and get the level
of troops down to a six hundred to seven hundred number.
I believe they wanted as small as footprint as possible,
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and they also did not believe it would come to this.
It would come to this quickly, says Roggio, who writes
in depth about Afghanistan and other fronts in the War
on Islamist Terror at Long War Journal. Abandoning Bogrum, he adds,
is the perfect example of the generals just saluting and
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saying yes, sir, and can do and not standing up
and saying this is madness and I can't execute this
because I'm putting lives of Americans at risk and you
need to find someone else to do this. Even as
order was restored at the military side of the car
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international chaos was chaos reigned on the civilian side. On
early Thursday morning, Kaboul time at the Kaboyl Airport, civilian
side more chaos than before. ABC Senior senior foreign correspondent
in Panel reported on Twitter evacuees unable to get through
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hashtag Taliban wild and dangerously firing and beating civilians. While
Bogrum would be more secure than Karzai International, simply by
holding onto the base would not have solved problems that
some Americans and Afghan allies were facing right now of
the Taliban not letting them through the checkpoints. This was
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kind of why they couldn't let Kabole fall to begin with,
says Rogio. Eventually, you've got to organize somewhere. Establishing a perimeter.
A perimeter around Kabol, however, would have taken many more
troops than Biden wanted to leave in country. But it's hard.
It's hard to dismiss how helpful it would have been
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and still would be, to have a second airport that
was not partially controlled by the Taliban. Biden administration officials
told Senate AIDS on Wednesday that they are thinking about
and discussing air bridges to exfiltrate Americans trapped in places
outside Kabul. At the end of Wednesday's press conference, Dan
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Lamothy of The Washington Post asked Millie if the military
is considering retaking Bogram. Karzai International Airport has a single
runway with a commercial airport, making it much more difficult
to defend that runway. We've already seen that this week.
Bogram has two runways and would have been a lot
easier to protect people once inside. He noted, is there
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any thought of retaking Bogram in order to exped this evacuation?
Good question, great question, tremendous question, is the best question.
I'm not gonna discuss branches and sequels off our current operation,
Millie replied, and I'll just leave it at that. Why
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the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was so quick and why
they left so much behind. This is from ABC net
dot a U Unrest Conflict in War, Thursday, July eighth,
twenty twenty one. I was going to try to do
this thing in an Australian accent, but I'm not going
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to put you guys through that. Sorry. The US military
departed from Bagra Air Base in Afghanistan last week in
a remarkably unceremonious way. The Americans had been using the massive,
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heavily fortified facility the size of a town for twenty years,
but the Afghan general who took over the place found
out that the Americans were gone after two hours after
they turned off the electricity. There was no set what
a shitty thing to do. There was no ceremony, no handover,
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No here's the keys, good luck. Many of the vehicles
were actually left behind with no keys. So why did
the US military slip away without telling anyone? This is?
Is this a normal way to end wars? And why
did it leave so much stuff behind? What does the
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departure from Bogram Air Base mean? The departure from the
Bagram Air Base effectively ended the United States and Australia's
longest war. The Pentagon says the withdrawal of US forces
from Afghanistan is ninety percent complete. An unusually large US
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security contingent of six hundred and fifty troops based at
the US Embassy compound will continue to protect American diplomats
and potentially help secure Kabul International Airport, but the US
troops will no longer be there to train or to
advise Afghan forces. Afghanistan's district administrator for Bogram dwarvish Rufe
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Dharwahi Rufi darwaish Rufe. There it is dharwayish Rufe totally
associated press that. Unfortunately, the Americans left without any coordination
with Bogram district officials or the governor's office. The Pentagon
spokesman John Kirby said this week the US military had
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told the Afghans they were leaving, but they didn't want
to give an exact time for security reasons. The final
conversations were about foty eight hours before the departure on
July second. What I would say is the exact hour
of departure was not divulged for operational security purposes. Mister
Kirby said, when we talk about this draw down, we
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talk about it being safe and orderly. Safe is the
first word. The US Central Command described the withdrawal as
orderly and responsible. That's why you're dropping hundreds of people
off of fucking airplanes. Let's try to take off. Mister
Kirby didn't address why the electricity was turned off, but
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NPR reported that the shutoff was a result of miscommunication.
According to a senior anonymous source in the military, is
this a normal way to end this? Is it normal
to end war this way? Not necessarily? Unlike Afghanistan. Some
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American wars have ended with the flourished. World War One
was over with the armistice signed with Germany on November eleventh,
nineteen eighteen, now a national holiday in the US, and
the later signing of the Treaty of Versailes. World War
II saw duel celebrations in forty five, with Germany surrender
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marking the victory in Europe and japan surrender a few
months later following the US atomic bombing of Horotia, Hiroshima,
and Nagasaki in Korea, and armistice signed July nineteen fifty
three ended the fighting, although technically the war was only
suspended because no peace treaty was ever signed. Other endings,
like the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, have been less
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clear cut, and they have a picture of w and
the mission accomplished sign Oh my God. When a convoy
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of US troops drove out of Iraq in twenty eleven,
ceremony marked their final departure, but just three years later,
American troops were back to rebuild Iraq Iraqi forces that
collapsed under the attacks of the Islamic State militants. Peter Jennings,
an executive director of Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said a
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withdrawal from Afghanistan reminded him of the US leaving Vietnam,
which is the crux of the show. I believe it
was Joe Biden's eternal recurrence of Joe Biden where we
talked about We just talked about how the it was similar,
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you know, So why was so much stuff left behind
in Afghanistan? The speed of exit seems to be a
major factor, and why so much is being left behind.
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US Central Command said that it left no less than
seventeen thousand and seventy four pieces of equipment in Afghanistan.
There's just pictures here of just civilian looking trucks and
vans and jeeps and shit just sitting in a parking lot.
Most of the equipment is not defensive articles or considered
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to be major equipment, it said US officials. While organize
about that, the US officials have been secretive about exactly
what stays and what goes some equipment including you know, helicopters,
military vehicles, weapons and ammunition is to be handed over
to the after and military, which you know, what does
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that mean? Everything's controlled by that Taliban Equipment of vehicles
that can neither be repaired nor transferred to Afghanistan security
forces because of poor conditioning will be destroyed. I think
the priority has to be to get out as fast
as you can, mister Jennings of the ASPI said, Biden
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has been very clear that this is what he thought
should have happened in Afghanistan a decade ago. Washington agreed
to withdraw from Afghanistan in a deal negotiated last year
under mister Biden's Republican predecessor, Donald Trump. Biden overruled military
leaders who wanted to keep a large presence to assist
Afghan security forces to prevent Afghan Afghanistan from becoming a
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staging ground for extremist groups. Well, he initially set a
deadline for September eleventh for the US four is to
be out of Afghanistan. Now he has brought that forward
to August thirty first. And why would you even choose
September eleventh, It's what can we expect to happen next. Lately,
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violence in Afghanistan has escalated. Taliban attacks on Afghan forces
and civilians have intense, testified, intensified, and the group had
taken control of more than one hundred district centers. Pentagon
leaders have said there's medium risk that Afghan government and
its security forces collapse within the next two years, if
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not sooner. The US troops withdraw doesn't mean the end
of the war on terrorism. The US has made it
clear that it retains the authority to conduct strikes against
Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups in Afghanistan if they
threaten the US homeland. But because the US has pulled
its fighter and surveillance aircraft out from the country, it
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must now rely on manned and unmanned flights from ships
at sea and air bases in the Gulf regions such
as Al Dafra Air Base in the United Emirates, Globalnews
(38:23):
dot CA, Gilbrain, Gilbrand, Naiir, Peshiam Pessia Mam. November fourteenth,
twenty twenty one, Taliban staged parade with US made military
gear and show of strength Taliban forces held. I mean,
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this is so outlandish, like what even happened. Taliban forces
held a military parade in Kabul on Sunday, using captured
American made armored vehicles Russian helicopters in display that showed
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their ongoing transformation from insurgent force to a regular standing army.
The Taliban operated as insurgent fighters for two decades, but
have used the large stockpile of weapons and equipment left
behind when the former Western back government collapsed in August
to overhaul their forces. The parade was linked to the
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graduation of two hundred and fifty freshly trained soldiers. Defense
Ministry spokesman boy en Ya tula Quasami said the exercise
involved dozens of US made M one seventeen armored security
vehicles driving slowly up and down major Copol Road, with
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MI seventeen helicopters patrolling overhead. Many soldiers carried American made
M four assault rifles. Most of the weapons and equipment
that Taliban forces are now using are those supplied by
Washington to American bad government in Gabul and a bid
to construct the Afghan National Force capable of fighting the town.
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These forces melted away with the fleeing of Afghan President
Arafagahani from Afghanistan, leaving Taliban to take over major military assets.
Taliban officials have said that pilots, mechanics and other specialists
from former Afghan National Army would be integrated into a
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new force. Oh my god, clown World's we're living in
a clown world, American military news US military weapons from
Afghanistan may have been used to kill Americans in Israel.
At least nine Americans were killed in the Hamas terror
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attacks on Israel over the weekend in the United States Department.
The US State Department confirmed on Monday the rising death
toll amid reports that American weapons left behind in Afghanistan
ended up at the Gaza Strip and concerns that those
weapons may have been used to kill Americans in Israel.
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According to a Newsweek report that flew under the radar
earlier this year, in Israeli commander warned that the US
weapons abandoned in Afghanistan during Joe Biden's deadly withdrawal were
seen in the hands of Palestinian groups in Gaza. The
report resurfaced amid criticisms targeting the Biden administration's decision to
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release six billion dollars in frozen funds for Iran, which
supports Hamas. Administration officials have rejected the condemnation, arguing that
the funds had not been released yet and we're only
for humanitarian purposes. Well, we're only for humanitarian purposes. The
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six billion has not been accessed completely by Iran yet.
But the fact of the matter is that you have
a credit on your account for six billion. Typically people
count that as access available today, tomorrow, whenever. So you
start reworking your spending budget, GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott
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told Breitbart News. And by doing so, you're putting yourself
in a position to use that money even though you
have not had access to it yet, he argued, So
the six billion that they know they're getting, they're using
it already. In September, former President Trump predicted the Biden
administration six billion dollar deal with Iran would lead to
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quote terrible things unquote. H So I'm saving this last
segment here to actually talk about us physically funding the Taliban,
sending them money. So stay tuned, we'll wrap this fucker up.
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MSN dot com Waste of the Day two hundred and
ninety three million of Afghan aid may have funded the
Taliban story. By Adam ad or Zazwinski. I don't know.
One month ago, two bureaus of the United States Department
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failed to properly track two hundred and ninety three million
dollars of the humanitarian aid delivered to Afghanistan, meaning the
funds could have ended up supporting the Taliban terrorist group,
according to a new federal audit. So you know, I
was I want to stop and just point out like
the mass of incompetency of our government, But I mean
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two hundred ninety three million, you know, might have accidentally
we failed to track it. Who knows where it's at
the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. The Bureau
of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs could not prove
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that they performed require background checks on Afghanian nonprofits before
giving them federal funds. That means there is an increased
risk that US taxpayer money went to groups who send
cash to the Taliban or supported missions, according to the audit. Huh,
I wonder what really happened with money. Over one thousand
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new nonprofits have been registered in Afghanistan since the Taliban
took over in August twenty twenty one, and US officials
say that they've heard rumors that many of them have
connections to violent to the Violent Extremist Group. Auditors asked
the two agencies to show documents demonstrating that they properly
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vetted nonprofits who received the usaid. The INL only had
documents for three of twenty two who require background jects.
The DROL could only show three of seven documents. Either
the agencies never performed the required risk assessment HUH, or
they did not keep the record of the assessment, which
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auditors said could violate Federal Records Act. It's possible that
even more than two hundred and ninety three million was
improperly tracked. The audit only covers spending between March and
November of twenty twenty two. Auditors said three other State
Department bureaus working in Afghanistan are following proper protocols. This
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is far from the first time auditors have raised concerns
over the one over the seventeen point nine billion dollars
the US has sent to Afghanistan since twenty one. That
includes the two point six billion that the Nation the
United Nations had sent the manitarian groups, which a March
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Inspector General report found yielded a profit for the Taliban
when the US currency gets exchanged for Afghani currency. One
month later, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Spco
testified to Congress that he could not guarantee that US
aid was not being diverted to fucking terrorists. Okay, I
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mean all I could do is laugh. All you can
do is laugh, like you shake your fist at the sky.
Be're like, where's my two hundred and ninety three million
dollars you're sending to the terroris? Next one MSN dot
Com fed send millions of taxpayer dollars to the Taliban.
This is written by Casey Harper I guess two months
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ago the Center Square. After two decades at war with
the Taliban, the US government is now sent millions of
tax payer dollars to the terrorist group. The Taliban resumed
power in Afghanistan immediately after the chaotic and deadly withdrawal
of US troops earlier in the in the Biden administration
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supported so weird. A recently released federal watchdog report shows
that the US government has sent at least eleven million
to the Taliban since twenty twenty one. Withdrawal of US troops,
but experts and even the Federal watchdogs estimate the number
is much higher. The US government has continued to be
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the largest international donor supporting the Afghan people since the
former Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban returned to power
in August twenty twenty one, the federal watchdog Cigar wrote
in its report since then, since then, the US government
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has provided more than two point eight billion in humanitarian
and development assistance to help the people of Afghanistan. Cigar
says the eleven million figure is likely only a fraction
of taxpayer dollars actually going to the Taliban. Singer also
found that the ten point nine million paid by thirty
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eight US Department of State, US Agency for International Development,
US Agency for Global Media Implementing Partners is likely only
a fraction of the total amount of US assistance funds
provided to the Taliban and taxes, fees, duties, and utilities
because UN agencies receiving US funds did not collect data
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or provide relevant information about their stewardes payments. The report said,
much of the taxpayer funding is transferred to the Taliban,
going through non governmental organizations receiving foreign aid to carry
out their programs. US agencies rely heavily on non governmental
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organizations and public international organizations such as the UN to
implement humanitarian and developmental assistance. The report said both the
former Ghani administration and the current Taliban control government benefited
from USAID by imposing taxes, fees, duties, and utilities on
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implementing partners as a condition of operating in Afghanistan. In fact,
the right leaning legal group Judicial Watch released an investigation
recently showing that the Taliban has created fake NGOs deciphon
away tax dollars. Judicial Watch estimates the actual taxpayer dollars
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received by the Taliban is much higher than eleven million.
Although the Taliban has banned an education for girls, US
continues to send hundreds of millions of dollars to Afghanistan
for education. Since the Tira's group returned to power in
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August twenty twenty one, Uncle Sam has continued to fund
Afghanistan's education sector through six programs that cost one hundred
and eighty five point two million dollars, even though the
Taliban has issued decrees drastically limiting access to education for
girls and women, as well as restricting women's ability to
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work and other basic freedom. Nevertheless, the American taxpayer dollars
keep flowing. In fiscal year twenty twenty three, which ended
in September, the US sent Taliban ruled Afghanistan over fifty
or sorry, five hundred and sixty six million inhumanitarian assistance.
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Most of it was for emergency food, but a chunk
of it was classified as going to general humanitarian and health.
More than fifteen million went to the cause that is
labeled redacted on government records. So I mean that what
the fresh hell is that besides the terrorst past, the
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Taliban also severely oppresses women and girls and denies a
wide ray of human rights. SIGUR reported the importance of
US funds being sent on US priorities and not in
ways that benefit the Taliban, which represses women, girls, denies
human rights to the Afghan people, and remains unrecognized as
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a legitimate government by the US government and the international community.
The report said, you know there's a besides this. There's
stories and rumors and report I just I didn't find one.
There's a podcast called The Sean Ryan Show where he's
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been talking to spies and other experts about weekly millions
of dollars weekly being delivered to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
If you haven't checked out the Seaun Ryan Show, I
suggest you do that, especially if you're interested on why
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we're sending. I think it's like between seventeen and fifty
something million dollars a week to the Taliban, if that's concerned.
If that isn't concerning enough enough, so I'm John. This
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and we're going to be adding on to our herculean
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thought we were done. But the fucking hits keep coming,
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so we got more. We got more shit to talk about.
This is going to be nine to eleven in Context
Part five. I'm not exactly sure what the subtitle or
whatever is going to be, but we're gonna be talking about,
you know, Afghan stand withdrawal. But that's just kind of
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where we're starting. What we're really gonna be talking about
is what we left behind and why are we sending
millions of dollars to the Taliban right now? And you're
gonna be like, well, well wait, wait, wait, doctor Towers,
excuse me, can you please repeat that last part? And
I'm like, yes, sure, I will repeat it. We're sending
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millions of dollars to the Taliban on top of the
billion or whatever dollars worth of state of the art
military equipment we left behind and all that other side,
and how kind of getting away from myself. We are
a little bit late. I have been doing really good
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with putting up episodes out and up until this point
they are all out on Sundays. However, we went camping
this weekend and we got a little bit of problems
because we were sleeping in a tent that was actually
a submarine during this marine storm. So it was an ordeal,
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but everybody survived. We're okay. Long drives, long drives and
lots of laundry to do, and I gotta buy a
new tent. So and also just a note, kind of
inside baseball housekeeping note or whatever. But Spreaker is again
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up to their level of or their limit or whatever
of ad advertisements that we have to put in the episodes.
And I was clicking through and they want like three
more mid level commercials in the shows that run just
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a little bit over an hour. I don't know what
the math is behind or whatever, but when this has
happened in the past, I went through and I found
spots to stick the ads in where they would be
as least offensive as possible. So if you go back
and you listen to anything any older show, like any
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show older than today, they might drop uh, they might
be dropping commercials in arbitrarily, which I fucking hate it.
I god damn fucking hate it. That drives me crazy.
They're like, hey, bro, you know inflation, we need to
sell more ads. I can't fucking stand it. So again
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we're gonna be having to, you know, add more fucking
ad breaks in. Sorry, I don't know why I'm so
emotional right now. We got an emotional show coming and
coming up. Anyhow, I got my vessel of the art here.
I'm thinking about building a store back out so you
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guys would be able to get those again maybe along
with I have people reaching out to me asking me
where they can get my tarot cards, and I don't
have a point of purchase anymore for any of that stuff.
But however, T shirts and stickers and mugs and all
that stuff is available that goes. You can hear website.
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So we got Moses shirts, Moloch the Bull good shirts,
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the solar Man shirt, Abercast, the Abercast fuck Off Sigil shirt.
You can get any of these as stickers to the
Osculum in Fame. You know all the kids are doing
that these days. You can get that on a shirt.
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The Yeldo bo f the Satanic Goat, the Six Books
of Moses. I like that one. I like these, all
the tear card shirts, the Alchemical Process shirt, It's all
about the Earth Chicks shirt, the Pentagram of Solomon shirt.
I think that you can get that one on a
COVID mask too. Oh look, I'm just looking at this
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and they're actually all on sale. The sixteen bucks for
all these for these shirts down from twenty something for
another ten hours or so. So I'm gonna stop talking
about this and get going. You guys can get it fine.
Go to tea Public or go to abercast dot com
and find them. If I had to pick one, which
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one would I pick? I like the big red logo
one's pretty good. This Abercast schedule the ones that I
wear the most oftened just in my everyday life. I
think the Satanic goat one and the Pentagram of Solomon,
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and I also have the magic circle. It's Ethnlemic magic circle.
I wear that one sometimes too, Beareth the Rider on
the Red Horse. Anyhow, Yeah, so let's get into let's
actually I'm bitching about commercials, and then I just fall
into my own commercial, but they won't count that one.
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And then I have my vight pin here for my
trauma coping. So we're gonna start out at a weird
place and pr dot org. Thirteen service members killed in
Kabul attack honored with Congressional Gold Medal. October twenty fifth,
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twenty twenty one, The US House of Representatives has voted
to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to thirteen American
service members killed in a bomb attack in Kabul this summer.
The Augus attack was one of the deadliest days for
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American forces in the past decade of the twenty year
war in Afghanistan. It took place just days ahead of
the US's planned full withdrawal from the country that had
been overtaken days earlier by the Taliban bill. The bill
to honor the fallen service members, was introduced by a
Michigan Republican, Lisa McLain, and was co sponsored by a
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bipartisan group of more than three hundred representatives. Now it's
funny because here Biden has called the Americans who lost
their lives in the bombing heroes who made the ultimate
sacrifice and service of our highest American ideals, and while
saving the lives of others, their bravery and their selflessness
has enabled more than one hundred and seventeen thousand people
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at risk to reach safety thus far. Biden ascendent statement
shortly after the attack, may God protect our troops and
those standing watch in these dangerous days. So you notice
the way he said this. He was like the service
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of our highest American ideals while saving the lives of others,
and he says their bravery and selflessness has enabled more
than one hundred and seventeen thousand people at risk to
reach safety thus far. So one of the I'm just
going to finish this real quick. But the point is
is that the United States government didn't help one hundred
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and seventeen thousand people at risk to reach safety thus far.
We'll see that there's a giant hole in that because
the private sector had to step up to get people
out of Kabul, the private sector. There are networks of
American veterans that went in to save their comrades, their interpreters,
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their allies, that we're now stuck in Taliban controlled country.
The we didn't do that. I mean we as a veteran,
I obviously I did not do that. The American government
didn't do that. People took it upon themselves to do
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it because we left a bunch of people fucked. We
left a bunch of people fucked. And also, you know,
well Biden, he's been on vacation now for like three weeks.
Who's fucking running this country? Are they trying to prove
to us that you don't need a president to run
the country, because it's kind of what it seems like.
But before he got the boot, whenever he talked about
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you know, hismistration, he would say, like, you know, no
American soldiers have lost their lives, you know, during my administration,
because he's forgetting totally about these thirteen service members that
got blown to fucking bits, you know, but we don't
we don't talk about that. Taskingpurpose dot com. The normal
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military rules are out. How veterans helped rescue scores of
people from Afghanistan. This is the most American thing that
has ever happened. This is written by Haley Britsky, August thirty, first,
twenty one. It was a global effort, one that would
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run twenty four hours a day for as long as necessary.
For many, it was a way of channeling feelings of
anxiety and rage, confusion and sadness into doing something, one
more active service, one more opportunity to help those who
had helped them. The war in Afghanistan had gone on
(12:06):
for nearly twenty years without a clear mission, and now
there was one rescue as many people as possible. The
US government scrambled to get Afghan allies and Americans out
of Afghanistan. After the Taliban took the capital of Kabul
on August fifteenth, groups of US military veterans jumped into
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action and helped evacuate vulnerable Afghans and American citizens still
trapped in the city. The names of their operations ran
the Gamut, Pineapple Express, Team America, Fuck Yeah to Save
Our Allies, Allied Airlift twenty one, to name a few.
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The groups included more than just veterans, former intelligence officials, diplomats,
tech wizards, and everyday citizens who had the time and
the conviction to lend a hand pulled together to map
the evacuation routes, help Afghans around Taliban checkpoints, and coordinate
with US personnel on the ground to get people inside
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the airport. They had day jobs, but their rescue effort
took priority for many of the veterans who spoke with
task and purpose. People are working outside of their work hours.
They're giving every moment they have. You know, we're just
trying to do the right thing, like said Alex Plitsas,
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an Army combat veteran who worked with a group of
veterans and officials who had previously served in Afghanistan. And
I think for a lot of us, including me, having
post traumatic stress disorder for a number of years, this
may have been an opportunity to try to make something
positive out of the shit situation and get some closure.
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Mike Jason, retired Army colonel and interim executive director for
Allied Airlift twenty one, echoed this sentiment, saying it was
a way for some veterans to shift to their focus
from questioning their own losses in Afghanistan to helping others.
I lost my battalion, I lost my best friends over there.
I spent a significant amount of my professional career worrying
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about being in that region in Afghanistan. But in the
end it gave us this focus to do something. At
the same time, we kind of had that gut punch. Hey,
it's over. It's not a win, it's not even fucking close.
How do we deal with that? Jason, a West Point graduate,
said he was texting with former Army War College classmate
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and Afghanistan military officer as kel Bull was collapsing. He
was working to get his friend out, which seemed and
was possible for the first few days. The possibility to
get others out, however, got slimmer and slimmer as time
went on. Soon he was roped into a network of
other West Point graduates who were working to get Afghan
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friends out of the country. The group grew into a
broader operation to get special immigrant visas applications out. The
organization expanded to include roughly three hundred volunteers working around
the clock. Another group, which was started with a former
US Army commando, reached out to a private equity investor
(15:26):
for help in evacuating thousands of children in Kabul. The
Wall Street Journal reported the request for help resulted in
an operation called Commercial Task Force, which was carried out
with the help of United Arab Emirates as temporary host
nations for evacuees. Veterans, alongside with other volunteers, which included
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former diplomats, financial donors, nonprofit workers, helped coordinate evacuations and
direct Afghan citizens to safety from hotel conference From a
hotel conference room in Washington, d D. The journal reported,
Commercial Task Force dispatched former commandos to Kabul to retrieve evacuees.
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The journal reported Nick Palmascanio, an Army veteran and founder
of the lifestyle brand Ranger Up, was one of those veterans.
He explained that the group on the ground was just
a handful of people at first, but eventually grew to
include twelve members. They worked alongside the State and Defense Department,
he said, and were given their own ramp for charter
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flights and they paid they'd paid for evacuating Afghans to
the UAE. It wasn't normal for that to be able
to happen, he said, but with a lot of what
happened over the last two weeks. Was it normal? I'll say,
I want to know why we left the way we did.
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I want to know why no one got fired for
leaving the way we did. I want to know why
we left all that military equipment there intact, and we
know it's intact, and we'll get to how we know that.
And the dogs, the beautiful dogs, they were terrific. Left
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canine dogs there, who knows what the hell happened and
they probably got eaten or impregnated. It's the wild West,
he said. All the normal military rules are out, and
for the first time that I've ever seen it, everybody
is fine with it. Everybody was just like, yeah, we
know that there's usually a forty seven page form you
(17:39):
have to fill out, but fuck it, just get these
people out of here. In total, they estimated over eleven
thousand people were evacuated through their operation. Like the way
that it was pulled. I mean, I'm not a military tactician,
but I mean it's like, hey, why don't we get
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our people and our friends out before we go wheels
up and let this whole shit house burned down? You know,
I guess we're gonna be talking about this forever because
it was just so retarded. It's just such a retarded
weight in to it. I was actually for ending the
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war because I'm like, well, it's not gonna get any better,
you know, but there's ways to have done it. I suppose,
way better than this, I mean, and then just be like, well,
we did what we did, so now you know, everyone
else has got to fucking clean up this mess. Like
that's some shitty, irresponsible, bullshit. Task Force Pineapple was made
(18:47):
up of current and former US Specop guys, aid worker,
intelligence officer, intelligence officers, and others with experience in Afghanistan.
ABC News first reported as of last Thursday, a group
told ABC that the Pineapple Express had brought roughly five
hundred Afghans, five hundred Afghan Special Force operators, and other
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high risk individuals and their families into the Hamad Karzai
International Airport. Some members of that group were wounded in
the suicide bombing on Thursday morning that killed thirteen US
servicemen and hundreds of Afghans. This herculean effort couldn't have
been done without unofficial heroes inside the airfield who defied
(19:35):
their orders not to help beyond the airport perimeter by
wading into sewage canals and pulling in these targeted people
who were flashing pineapples on their phones. Retired US Army
Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann and Army Special Force veteran who
led operation told ABC News. Because there were several operations
(19:57):
happening at once, Sean Van Diver, Navy veteran and founder
of the San Diego chapter of the Truman National Security
Project and nonprofit focused on national security and US foreign policy,
stepped into the center of the web of organizations to
launch an operations center of sorts to streamline planning and
communication between the different organizations. Something that isn't noted here
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or certainly people don't talk about it anymore, but the
State Department was actually giving people shit about flying these
people out of the airplanes, not giving them clearance to
leave the country, not giving them a clearance to go
to the country. That they were gonna like babysit these
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people because they're not bringing everybody here, right, so, you know,
I'm like, they're just adding. It's just like when you're
trying to mop up a mess and someone just walks
up and just shits on the spot. You just mopped
up like that's what the State Department did. And you're
like you look at fucking puppet heads like Anthony Blincoln
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and you're like, who is in charge of this fucking
nonsensical you know, coster fuck Like I can't even imagine
the decision making process that happened. Somebody put there wasn't
a deal, like someone did something, pushed some buttons, and
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I mean, we lost we fucking lot, We lost the
whole thing twenty years. You can't look at what they
have got as far as Bogram and the money we're
sending them, And there's no metric, there's no criteria on
the face of the planet that says we won that war.
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That's what I'm saying. National Review dot Com. Why did
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the United States abandoned Bagram Airfield? This is written by
John McCormick August eighteenth, twenty twenty one. The bottom line
is that Biden didn't leave enough troops in Afghanistan for
an evacuation. The night on the night of July first,
the United States military departed from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan
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without notifying the basis. New Afghan commander who discovered America's
departure more than two hours after they left. The Associated
Press reported at the time as chaos erupted at Hamad
Karzai International Airport. Following the fall of Kabool to the
Taliban on Sunday, some members of Congress and the Afghanistan
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war experts were asking why the US didn't hold on
to its base of twenty years at Bagram, located about
thirty miles north of Kabol. Some people have said that
this is the most strategic piece of land in the
world because of its geographical location in the Middle East
and its distance away from China. China. Sorry, I digress.
(23:40):
No one in the right mind, I gotta put this
thing down. No one in their right mind would have
closed Bagram Air Base while leaving behind the thousands of civilians.
Arkansas Senator and Afghanistan war veteran Tom Cotton wrote on Twitter,
if you want to conduct in a evacuation, you don't
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do it from an airport that's literally almost in the
heart of the city. Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at
the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, tells a National Review
a military planner would know that as soon as things
got started going south in Kabul, that the Taliban was
on the march and that the airport would be flooded.
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You can't support that secure You can't secure that airport properly.
He says. The fact was made all to apparent to
the people around the world on Monday evening when they
woke up to horrifying videos of Afghan civilians clinging to
a department of you departing US military aircraft and then
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following several hundred feet from the aircraft to their death.
Going back to the spring following Biden's withdrawal announcement, Rogio
says that he made a case for holding and evacuating
from Bog in conversations with the US military and intelligence
officials whose voices should have been heard by the upper
echelons of leadership. On Wednesday afternoon, at a joint press conference,
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Mark Milly, who's a shitbag, were asked
about their decision to evacuate from Karzai International Airport instead
of Bogram. Lloyd didn't address the question. Millie's answer was
a mouthful, but the bottom line was that there weren't
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enough troops. If we were to keep both Bogram and
the embassy going, Milly said it would require a significant
number of military forces, so you had to collapse one
or the other. Miley also said generals estimated that the
risk of going out of Bogram or Karzai International was
about the same, but he also acknowledged that President Biden
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did not leave enough troops for a scenario in which
an evacuation was necessary to hold Bogrum, protect the embassies,
and protect cars Im International. Milly said that the mission
was to keep the embassy open and get the level
of troops down to a six hundred to seven hundred number.
I believe they wanted as small as footprint as possible,
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and they also did not believe it would come to this.
It would come to this quickly, says Roggio, who writes
in depth about Afghanistan and other fronts in the War
on Islamist Terror at Long War Journal. Abandoning Bogrum, he adds,
is the perfect example of the generals just saluting and
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saying yes, sir, and can do and not standing up
and saying this is madness and I can't execute this
because I'm putting lives of Americans at risk and you
need to find someone else to do this. Even as
order was restored at the military side of the car
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international chaos was chaos reigned on the civilian side. On
early Thursday morning, Kaboul time at the Kaboyl Airport, civilian
side more chaos than before. ABC Senior senior foreign correspondent
in Panel reported on Twitter evacuees unable to get through
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hashtag Taliban wild and dangerously firing and beating civilians. While
Bogrum would be more secure than Karzai International, simply by
holding onto the base would not have solved problems that
some Americans and Afghan allies were facing right now of
the Taliban not letting them through the checkpoints. This was
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kind of why they couldn't let Kabole fall to begin with,
says Rogio. Eventually, you've got to organize somewhere. Establishing a perimeter.
A perimeter around Kabol, however, would have taken many more
troops than Biden wanted to leave in country. But it's hard.
It's hard to dismiss how helpful it would have been
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and still would be, to have a second airport that
was not partially controlled by the Taliban. Biden administration officials
told Senate AIDS on Wednesday that they are thinking about
and discussing air bridges to exfiltrate Americans trapped in places
outside Kabul. At the end of Wednesday's press conference, Dan
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Lamothy of The Washington Post asked Millie if the military
is considering retaking Bogram. Karzai International Airport has a single
runway with a commercial airport, making it much more difficult
to defend that runway. We've already seen that this week.
Bogram has two runways and would have been a lot
easier to protect people once inside. He noted, is there
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any thought of retaking Bogram in order to exped this evacuation?
Good question, great question, tremendous question, is the best question.
I'm not gonna discuss branches and sequels off our current operation,
Millie replied, and I'll just leave it at that. Why
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the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was so quick and why
they left so much behind. This is from ABC net
dot a U Unrest Conflict in War, Thursday, July eighth,
twenty twenty one. I was going to try to do
this thing in an Australian accent, but I'm not going
(29:43):
to put you guys through that. Sorry. The US military
departed from Bagra Air Base in Afghanistan last week in
a remarkably unceremonious way. The Americans had been using the massive,
(30:06):
heavily fortified facility the size of a town for twenty years,
but the Afghan general who took over the place found
out that the Americans were gone after two hours after
they turned off the electricity. There was no set what
a shitty thing to do. There was no ceremony, no handover,
(30:32):
No here's the keys, good luck. Many of the vehicles
were actually left behind with no keys. So why did
the US military slip away without telling anyone? This is?
Is this a normal way to end wars? And why
did it leave so much stuff behind? What does the
(30:56):
departure from Bogram Air Base mean? The departure from the
Bagram Air Base effectively ended the United States and Australia's
longest war. The Pentagon says the withdrawal of US forces
from Afghanistan is ninety percent complete. An unusually large US
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security contingent of six hundred and fifty troops based at
the US Embassy compound will continue to protect American diplomats
and potentially help secure Kabul International Airport, but the US
troops will no longer be there to train or to
advise Afghan forces. Afghanistan's district administrator for Bogram dwarvish Rufe
(31:41):
Dharwahi Rufi darwaish Rufe. There it is dharwayish Rufe totally
associated press that. Unfortunately, the Americans left without any coordination
with Bogram district officials or the governor's office. The Pentagon
spokesman John Kirby said this week the US military had
(32:03):
told the Afghans they were leaving, but they didn't want
to give an exact time for security reasons. The final
conversations were about foty eight hours before the departure on
July second. What I would say is the exact hour
of departure was not divulged for operational security purposes. Mister
Kirby said, when we talk about this draw down, we
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talk about it being safe and orderly. Safe is the
first word. The US Central Command described the withdrawal as
orderly and responsible. That's why you're dropping hundreds of people
off of fucking airplanes. Let's try to take off. Mister
Kirby didn't address why the electricity was turned off, but
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NPR reported that the shutoff was a result of miscommunication.
According to a senior anonymous source in the military, is
this a normal way to end this? Is it normal
to end war this way? Not necessarily? Unlike Afghanistan. Some
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American wars have ended with the flourished. World War One
was over with the armistice signed with Germany on November eleventh,
nineteen eighteen, now a national holiday in the US, and
the later signing of the Treaty of Versailes. World War
II saw duel celebrations in forty five, with Germany surrender
(33:32):
marking the victory in Europe and japan surrender a few
months later following the US atomic bombing of Horotia, Hiroshima,
and Nagasaki in Korea, and armistice signed July nineteen fifty
three ended the fighting, although technically the war was only
suspended because no peace treaty was ever signed. Other endings,
like the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, have been less
(33:55):
clear cut, and they have a picture of w and
the mission accomplished sign Oh my God. When a convoy
(34:15):
of US troops drove out of Iraq in twenty eleven,
ceremony marked their final departure, but just three years later,
American troops were back to rebuild Iraq Iraqi forces that
collapsed under the attacks of the Islamic State militants. Peter Jennings,
an executive director of Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said a
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withdrawal from Afghanistan reminded him of the US leaving Vietnam,
which is the crux of the show. I believe it
was Joe Biden's eternal recurrence of Joe Biden where we
talked about We just talked about how the it was similar,
(35:01):
you know, So why was so much stuff left behind
in Afghanistan? The speed of exit seems to be a
major factor, and why so much is being left behind.
(35:23):
US Central Command said that it left no less than
seventeen thousand and seventy four pieces of equipment in Afghanistan.
There's just pictures here of just civilian looking trucks and
vans and jeeps and shit just sitting in a parking lot.
Most of the equipment is not defensive articles or considered
(35:43):
to be major equipment, it said US officials. While organize
about that, the US officials have been secretive about exactly
what stays and what goes some equipment including you know, helicopters,
military vehicles, weapons and ammunition is to be handed over
to the after and military, which you know, what does
(36:04):
that mean? Everything's controlled by that Taliban Equipment of vehicles
that can neither be repaired nor transferred to Afghanistan security
forces because of poor conditioning will be destroyed. I think
the priority has to be to get out as fast
as you can, mister Jennings of the ASPI said, Biden
(36:25):
has been very clear that this is what he thought
should have happened in Afghanistan a decade ago. Washington agreed
to withdraw from Afghanistan in a deal negotiated last year
under mister Biden's Republican predecessor, Donald Trump. Biden overruled military
leaders who wanted to keep a large presence to assist
Afghan security forces to prevent Afghan Afghanistan from becoming a
(36:50):
staging ground for extremist groups. Well, he initially set a
deadline for September eleventh for the US four is to
be out of Afghanistan. Now he has brought that forward
to August thirty first. And why would you even choose
September eleventh, It's what can we expect to happen next. Lately,
(37:16):
violence in Afghanistan has escalated. Taliban attacks on Afghan forces
and civilians have intense, testified, intensified, and the group had
taken control of more than one hundred district centers. Pentagon
leaders have said there's medium risk that Afghan government and
its security forces collapse within the next two years, if
(37:39):
not sooner. The US troops withdraw doesn't mean the end
of the war on terrorism. The US has made it
clear that it retains the authority to conduct strikes against
Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups in Afghanistan if they
threaten the US homeland. But because the US has pulled
its fighter and surveillance aircraft out from the country, it
(37:59):
must now rely on manned and unmanned flights from ships
at sea and air bases in the Gulf regions such
as Al Dafra Air Base in the United Emirates, Globalnews
(38:23):
dot CA, Gilbrain, Gilbrand, Naiir, Peshiam Pessia Mam. November fourteenth,
twenty twenty one, Taliban staged parade with US made military
gear and show of strength Taliban forces held. I mean,
(38:45):
this is so outlandish, like what even happened. Taliban forces
held a military parade in Kabul on Sunday, using captured
American made armored vehicles Russian helicopters in display that showed
(39:06):
their ongoing transformation from insurgent force to a regular standing army.
The Taliban operated as insurgent fighters for two decades, but
have used the large stockpile of weapons and equipment left
behind when the former Western back government collapsed in August
to overhaul their forces. The parade was linked to the
(39:30):
graduation of two hundred and fifty freshly trained soldiers. Defense
Ministry spokesman boy en Ya tula Quasami said the exercise
involved dozens of US made M one seventeen armored security
vehicles driving slowly up and down major Copol Road, with
(39:52):
MI seventeen helicopters patrolling overhead. Many soldiers carried American made
M four assault rifles. Most of the weapons and equipment
that Taliban forces are now using are those supplied by
Washington to American bad government in Gabul and a bid
to construct the Afghan National Force capable of fighting the town.
(40:18):
These forces melted away with the fleeing of Afghan President
Arafagahani from Afghanistan, leaving Taliban to take over major military assets.
Taliban officials have said that pilots, mechanics and other specialists
from former Afghan National Army would be integrated into a
(40:42):
new force. Oh my god, clown World's we're living in
a clown world, American military news US military weapons from
Afghanistan may have been used to kill Americans in Israel.
At least nine Americans were killed in the Hamas terror
(41:04):
attacks on Israel over the weekend in the United States Department.
The US State Department confirmed on Monday the rising death
toll amid reports that American weapons left behind in Afghanistan
ended up at the Gaza Strip and concerns that those
weapons may have been used to kill Americans in Israel.
(41:26):
According to a Newsweek report that flew under the radar
earlier this year, in Israeli commander warned that the US
weapons abandoned in Afghanistan during Joe Biden's deadly withdrawal were
seen in the hands of Palestinian groups in Gaza. The
report resurfaced amid criticisms targeting the Biden administration's decision to
(41:51):
release six billion dollars in frozen funds for Iran, which
supports Hamas. Administration officials have rejected the condemnation, arguing that
the funds had not been released yet and we're only
for humanitarian purposes. Well, we're only for humanitarian purposes. The
(42:11):
six billion has not been accessed completely by Iran yet.
But the fact of the matter is that you have
a credit on your account for six billion. Typically people
count that as access available today, tomorrow, whenever. So you
start reworking your spending budget, GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott
(42:32):
told Breitbart News. And by doing so, you're putting yourself
in a position to use that money even though you
have not had access to it yet, he argued, So
the six billion that they know they're getting, they're using
it already. In September, former President Trump predicted the Biden
administration six billion dollar deal with Iran would lead to
(42:55):
quote terrible things unquote. H So I'm saving this last
segment here to actually talk about us physically funding the Taliban,
sending them money. So stay tuned, we'll wrap this fucker up.
(44:00):
MSN dot com Waste of the Day two hundred and
ninety three million of Afghan aid may have funded the
Taliban story. By Adam ad or Zazwinski. I don't know.
One month ago, two bureaus of the United States Department
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failed to properly track two hundred and ninety three million
dollars of the humanitarian aid delivered to Afghanistan, meaning the
funds could have ended up supporting the Taliban terrorist group,
according to a new federal audit. So you know, I
was I want to stop and just point out like
the mass of incompetency of our government, But I mean
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two hundred ninety three million, you know, might have accidentally
we failed to track it. Who knows where it's at
the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. The Bureau
of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs could not prove
(45:08):
that they performed require background checks on Afghanian nonprofits before
giving them federal funds. That means there is an increased
risk that US taxpayer money went to groups who send
cash to the Taliban or supported missions, according to the audit. Huh,
I wonder what really happened with money. Over one thousand
(45:31):
new nonprofits have been registered in Afghanistan since the Taliban
took over in August twenty twenty one, and US officials
say that they've heard rumors that many of them have
connections to violent to the Violent Extremist Group. Auditors asked
the two agencies to show documents demonstrating that they properly
(45:54):
vetted nonprofits who received the usaid. The INL only had
documents for three of twenty two who require background jects.
The DROL could only show three of seven documents. Either
the agencies never performed the required risk assessment HUH, or
they did not keep the record of the assessment, which
(46:15):
auditors said could violate Federal Records Act. It's possible that
even more than two hundred and ninety three million was
improperly tracked. The audit only covers spending between March and
November of twenty twenty two. Auditors said three other State
Department bureaus working in Afghanistan are following proper protocols. This
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is far from the first time auditors have raised concerns
over the one over the seventeen point nine billion dollars
the US has sent to Afghanistan since twenty one. That
includes the two point six billion that the Nation the
United Nations had sent the manitarian groups, which a March
(47:02):
Inspector General report found yielded a profit for the Taliban
when the US currency gets exchanged for Afghani currency. One
month later, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Spco
testified to Congress that he could not guarantee that US
aid was not being diverted to fucking terrorists. Okay, I
(47:29):
mean all I could do is laugh. All you can
do is laugh, like you shake your fist at the sky.
Be're like, where's my two hundred and ninety three million
dollars you're sending to the terroris? Next one MSN dot
Com fed send millions of taxpayer dollars to the Taliban.
This is written by Casey Harper I guess two months
(47:51):
ago the Center Square. After two decades at war with
the Taliban, the US government is now sent millions of
tax payer dollars to the terrorist group. The Taliban resumed
power in Afghanistan immediately after the chaotic and deadly withdrawal
of US troops earlier in the in the Biden administration
(48:16):
supported so weird. A recently released federal watchdog report shows
that the US government has sent at least eleven million
to the Taliban since twenty twenty one. Withdrawal of US troops,
but experts and even the Federal watchdogs estimate the number
is much higher. The US government has continued to be
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the largest international donor supporting the Afghan people since the
former Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban returned to power
in August twenty twenty one, the federal watchdog Cigar wrote
in its report since then, since then, the US government
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has provided more than two point eight billion in humanitarian
and development assistance to help the people of Afghanistan. Cigar
says the eleven million figure is likely only a fraction
of taxpayer dollars actually going to the Taliban. Singer also
found that the ten point nine million paid by thirty
(49:26):
eight US Department of State, US Agency for International Development,
US Agency for Global Media Implementing Partners is likely only
a fraction of the total amount of US assistance funds
provided to the Taliban and taxes, fees, duties, and utilities
because UN agencies receiving US funds did not collect data
(49:49):
or provide relevant information about their stewardes payments. The report said,
much of the taxpayer funding is transferred to the Taliban,
going through non governmental organizations receiving foreign aid to carry
out their programs. US agencies rely heavily on non governmental
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organizations and public international organizations such as the UN to
implement humanitarian and developmental assistance. The report said both the
former Ghani administration and the current Taliban control government benefited
from USAID by imposing taxes, fees, duties, and utilities on
(50:30):
implementing partners as a condition of operating in Afghanistan. In fact,
the right leaning legal group Judicial Watch released an investigation
recently showing that the Taliban has created fake NGOs deciphon
away tax dollars. Judicial Watch estimates the actual taxpayer dollars
(50:51):
received by the Taliban is much higher than eleven million.
Although the Taliban has banned an education for girls, US
continues to send hundreds of millions of dollars to Afghanistan
for education. Since the Tira's group returned to power in
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August twenty twenty one, Uncle Sam has continued to fund
Afghanistan's education sector through six programs that cost one hundred
and eighty five point two million dollars, even though the
Taliban has issued decrees drastically limiting access to education for
girls and women, as well as restricting women's ability to
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work and other basic freedom. Nevertheless, the American taxpayer dollars
keep flowing. In fiscal year twenty twenty three, which ended
in September, the US sent Taliban ruled Afghanistan over fifty
or sorry, five hundred and sixty six million inhumanitarian assistance.
(51:54):
Most of it was for emergency food, but a chunk
of it was classified as going to general humanitarian and health.
More than fifteen million went to the cause that is
labeled redacted on government records. So I mean that what
the fresh hell is that besides the terrorst past, the
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Taliban also severely oppresses women and girls and denies a
wide ray of human rights. SIGUR reported the importance of
US funds being sent on US priorities and not in
ways that benefit the Taliban, which represses women, girls, denies
human rights to the Afghan people, and remains unrecognized as
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a legitimate government by the US government and the international community.
The report said, you know there's a besides this. There's
stories and rumors and report I just I didn't find one.
There's a podcast called The Sean Ryan Show where he's
(53:02):
been talking to spies and other experts about weekly millions
of dollars weekly being delivered to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
If you haven't checked out the Seaun Ryan Show, I
suggest you do that, especially if you're interested on why
(53:24):
we're sending. I think it's like between seventeen and fifty
something million dollars a week to the Taliban, if that's concerned.
If that isn't concerning enough enough, so I'm John. This
is been the Abercast nine eleven in context, Part five.
Still don't know what I'm gonna call it, but there
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it is. Have a good week.
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