Speaker 1: All right, News round Up, Information Overload hour Sean Hannity Show,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine for one, Shawn, if you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of the program. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: the lie I inherited this plan. This is it wasn't
Speaker 1: my plan. I inherited this plan. I decided to withdraw
Speaker 1: because I was abiding by the Trump piece deal with
Speaker 1: the Taliban. Now we've interviewed Donald Trump, We've interviewed Mark Meadows,
Speaker 1: We've interviewed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Former Vice
Speaker 1: President Mike Pence is on record as saying this is
Speaker 1: not the Trump plan. It never was the Trump plan.
Speaker 1: The Trump Plan was predicated one on the understanding, first
Speaker 1: and foremost that if you do not abide by the agreement,
Speaker 1: every comma, every I, every T, every I dotted, every
Speaker 1: T crossed, every period, that you will be blown into
Speaker 1: another century. That was point one. In other words, when
Speaker 1: they got to two percent of the country, there would
Speaker 1: have been a massive military response like Donald Trump did
Speaker 1: with Caliphate in Syria. As he defeated them, he made
Speaker 1: sure before any further discussions continued, he said it to
Speaker 1: the leader of the Taliban. Now Joe can release that transcript.
Speaker 1: They love to release Donald Trump transcripts with bar and leaders.
Speaker 1: Release that one. I'd love for the world to see
Speaker 1: it and read it and understand it and know that
Speaker 1: Joe is lying. You'd never implemented the Trump plan, So
Speaker 1: stop saying like what you said here to ABC News
Speaker 1: and stop lying about it. Look, George, the reason why
Speaker 1: it has been stable for a year is because the
Speaker 1: last pressure said, we're leaving. And here's the deal I
Speaker 1: want to make with you, Taliban. We're agreeing to leave
Speaker 1: if you agree not to attack us between now and
Speaker 1: the time we leave on May the first. Thus, in
Speaker 1: two months after I am elected to office, I has
Speaker 1: sworn in all of a sudden, I am a May
Speaker 1: one deadline. I'm a May one deadline. I wanted two choices.
Speaker 1: Do I say we're staying and do you think we
Speaker 1: would have to put a hell of a lot more
Speaker 1: troops we had we had one hundreds, We had tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of troops there before tens of thousands. Do
Speaker 1: you think we would would have just said, no problem,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. We're not going to tack anybody.
Speaker 1: We're okay in the meantime. But Taliban was taken territory
Speaker 1: all throughout the country, in the north and down in
Speaker 1: the south and the Pashtu. Would you have withdrawn troops
Speaker 1: like this even if President Trump had not made that
Speaker 1: deal with the Taliban, I would have tried to figure
Speaker 1: out how to withdraw those troops. Yes, because look, George,
Speaker 1: there's no good time to leave Afghanistan. Fifteen years ago
Speaker 1: would have been a problem. Fifteen years from now. You
Speaker 1: could have planned for an orderly removal of Americans. First, Joe,
Speaker 1: you could have followed the Trump threat up because they
Speaker 1: didn't start advancing until you became president. Hadn't been an
Speaker 1: American killed in Afghanistan in a year and a half
Speaker 1: before you came into office. And and no good time, well,
Speaker 1: there's always a good time to have an orderly draw
Speaker 1: down and even withdrawal with conditions based on the ground,
Speaker 1: as President Trump told me this week, Mike Pompeo has
Speaker 1: told us, Mike Pence has said, and Mark Meadows has confirmed.
Speaker 1: So I believe that the worst part is the Pentagon
Speaker 1: spokesperson John Kirby. I don't know how many have no
Speaker 1: idea how many Americans are trapped in Afghanistan. Why not
Speaker 1: how many Americans, American citizens remain in and of course
Speaker 1: I don't know the State Department would be a better
Speaker 1: place to go for an estimate of how many Americans
Speaker 1: are Afghanistan or in and around Cobble. That is not
Speaker 1: a figure that the United States military would would know.
Speaker 1: And I think, as you also know, not every American
Speaker 1: citizen in another country. There's no obligation that they register
Speaker 1: their presence and that we and that you can have
Speaker 1: a perfect accurate account. The same people that want to
Speaker 1: cite Farah laws and the Logan Act. Okay, anyway, joining
Speaker 1: US now, former Brigadier General Don Bullduck is with US
Speaker 1: Tory Richard's over at Washington Examiner had a great interview
Speaker 1: with the brigadier general. Sir, welcome to the program. Thank
Speaker 1: you for being with us. You did ten tours of
Speaker 1: duty in Afghanistan after nine to eleven, Sir, I did
Speaker 1: from two thousand and one twenty thirteen, ten tours, and
Speaker 1: I lost seventy two service members I did not bring home.
Speaker 1: So I have an idea what sacrifice was, and you
Speaker 1: know the successes, and I'm sad to see what we've
Speaker 1: done there, and I characterize it like you, sir, as
Speaker 1: an unmitigated disaster unparalleled political and military history. See five
Speaker 1: bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts. Before retiring in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: you're running for the Senate in New Hampshire. It's an
Speaker 1: honor to meet your general. I read your comments. I'll
Speaker 1: let you in your own words. You've described it similarly
Speaker 1: as I have as an Adam shift show, and that
Speaker 1: the and you know, tell me if I'm wrong in
Speaker 1: my assessment that right now where we are today, I
Speaker 1: don't see any military option because we know what the
Speaker 1: Taliban will do with fifteen thousand. According to Joe Americans
Speaker 1: behind enemy lines or around fifteen thousand. Well, yes, there's
Speaker 1: only one thing to do, and unfortunately it's a U turn.
Speaker 1: I agree with your assessment on President Trump's plan. I
Speaker 1: also know that seven years ago, the Obama administration, and
Speaker 1: if I'm correct, the Vice President was part of that,
Speaker 1: made a terrible decision to change our strategy from a
Speaker 1: counterinsurgency strategy bottom up that was being very successful. And
Speaker 1: we did have a mark on the wall of twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen where we would be completely done with the transition
Speaker 1: of that program and the Taliban and al Qaeda. We
Speaker 1: believe would have been successfully defeated. So when he says
Speaker 1: that he never heard of a plan or sorrow plant,
Speaker 1: he's absolutely wrong because as Vice President lasts Administration, Susan Rice,
Speaker 1: the President, the National Security Council, the Chairman of the
Speaker 1: Joint Chiefs Staff, the Secretary of Defense, and all the
Speaker 1: leadership in Afghanistan knew this to be true. And when
Speaker 1: we told him it was a bad idea to change strategy,
Speaker 1: they didn't listen. They went to non combat operations and
Speaker 1: that set in the Taliban taking over the rural areas,
Speaker 1: a reversal in the security situation which has led to
Speaker 1: this unmitigated disaster. And they used the two eleven Iraq
Speaker 1: Plan basically as the plan for for Afghanistan. They knew better.
Speaker 1: General Millie knew better, General Aston knew better, or Secretary Austin,
Speaker 1: they all knew better. I was a subordinate commander for
Speaker 1: them in twenty twelve and thirteen. They knew the deal,
Speaker 1: and they also knew that the assessment of the Afghan
Speaker 1: national security forces since two thousand and five has been
Speaker 1: that they cannot defeat the Taliban on their own. So
Speaker 1: given all the equipment they have and all the training
Speaker 1: they have and so on. So that's great, but they
Speaker 1: still in twenty twenty one could not defeat the Taliban.
Speaker 1: They own the rural areas, so it was just a hop,
Speaker 1: skip and a jump. So they know they're dealing with
Speaker 1: a weak administration. They know they're dealing with a with
Speaker 1: a pentagon that's in disarray, that's focusing more on teaching
Speaker 1: CRT and social emotional learning than they are on employing
Speaker 1: the men and the great men and women in our
Speaker 1: military to defeat our enemies. So, hey, what we need
Speaker 1: to do. We need to take back all our air fields.
Speaker 1: And that's all the air fields and I'll name them
Speaker 1: for you, the ones in Harah, in Marjar Sharif, the
Speaker 1: one in Kandus, the one in Kabul, the one in Kandahar.
Speaker 1: And we need to take all those back, set up
Speaker 1: a set up a breakout and break out and take
Speaker 1: the presidential or excuse me, the provincial capitals back. And
Speaker 1: then we need to put our special ops guys on
Speaker 1: the ground and re establish the village stability Afghan local
Speaker 1: police and then push them out of the rural areas.
Speaker 1: Think short of a full engagement just keeps us in
Speaker 1: the in the current holding pattern, which is the Taliban
Speaker 1: controls the fate of fifteen thousand plus Americans. Never mind
Speaker 1: the afghanis exactly that we're interpreters and assisted us that
Speaker 1: we're promised safe haven if this day ever came exactly exactly,
Speaker 1: and we have people that are retired and we have
Speaker 1: people in him there that know how to do this.
Speaker 1: We need to put them in charge and leave them alone.
Speaker 1: Let him get this thing done. We beat him before
Speaker 1: in you know, two thousand and one, two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: we beat him again between twenty ten and twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: before he changed, before Obama changed strategy. We did it before.
Speaker 1: We can do it again. We know how to do it,
Speaker 1: and we just got to show them strength because right
Speaker 1: now they see weakness and they're not going to listen
Speaker 1: to us. It's and it's going to imperil American. You know,
Speaker 1: like so many Americans, I think these endless wars have
Speaker 1: to We can't do what we've been doing. Have kids
Speaker 1: go door to door in Baghdad. I think there's a
Speaker 1: lesson to be learned from the way that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: defeated the Caliphate which grew under Biden and Obama, and
Speaker 1: that is he systematically as they took over, for example, Syria,
Speaker 1: racket Syria, he just bombed them back backwards and he
Speaker 1: took over each piece of territory. The problem we now
Speaker 1: find ourselves immersed in is quite challenging, and that is
Speaker 1: we've got fifteen thousand or so American lives on the
Speaker 1: line and the risk that they will be used as
Speaker 1: human shields and b that they will you know, we
Speaker 1: know what they're capable of and what they would do
Speaker 1: and probably put that video out to the entire world
Speaker 1: without getting too graphic. General M. Yeah, well, you're absolutely right, Sean,
Speaker 1: and that's why Afghanistan, if we're going to do this
Speaker 1: right and it won't take forever again. But unfortunately we've
Speaker 1: done it wrong for so long, and we've done this
Speaker 1: wrong that we just can't go in and do the
Speaker 1: same kind of bombing that we did in Syria because
Speaker 1: of the collateral damage that you just talk to. You
Speaker 1: you're saying, short of this massive military presence and operation,
Speaker 1: you don't see any other way to successfully control the
Speaker 1: destiny of American citizens now that are ostensibly trapped or
Speaker 1: pretty much a hostage to the Taliban and the perimeter
Speaker 1: they created around Karzai International Airport unless the Taliban decide
Speaker 1: to completely allow them and support transportation of American citizens
Speaker 1: to Kabul to get them out. Absolutely not. And don't
Speaker 1: there any possibility that this promise that they're making America
Speaker 1: or that General Millie is repeating and our Defense Secretary
Speaker 1: and National Security advisers saying they have promised safe passage
Speaker 1: to Karzai International Airport. Is there any any any possibility
Speaker 1: you believe that to be true in any way, or
Speaker 1: you do not believe that's possible. I don't believe that's possible, sir.
Speaker 1: I you know my experience there, what I understand about it,
Speaker 1: How I have fought there, How I have employed other
Speaker 1: American service members to fight there, sitting across the table
Speaker 1: from the Taliban and negotiating deals with them in rural areas.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I don't believe that that can happen. I
Speaker 1: think it's irresponsible for any of them to tell the
Speaker 1: American people that that can happen, because if we're going
Speaker 1: to do a full withdrawal, there was a way to
Speaker 1: do it and identify where every American was, and before
Speaker 1: the Taliban advanced this far, we could have very safely,
Speaker 1: very securely extracted everybody, every American and everybody that we
Speaker 1: had promised safe haven too. Yes, President Trump had the plan,
Speaker 1: but instead of holding the airfields we had all over
Speaker 1: the country and bringing in the appropriate aircraft and the
Speaker 1: appropriate support, and then holding the Taliban off and bringing
Speaker 1: Americans and bringing our interpreters and other workers that we
Speaker 1: were going to get out of Afghanistan and then safely
Speaker 1: doing that and then saying, Okay, Afghanistan government, figure out
Speaker 1: what kind of government you want here, and then we
Speaker 1: wouldn't have this mess. But we didn't do that, sir,
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, I'm speaking to the choir here.
Speaker 1: We can see we didn't do that. There was a
Speaker 1: right way to do it. We didn't do it the
Speaker 1: right way. So now we're stuck with the harder way.
Speaker 1: And this isn't Iraq, this isn't Syria. It's much different.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't trust the Taliban as far as I
Speaker 1: could throw one of those guys. I mean, that is
Speaker 1: the great danger. I know that the Department of Defense
Speaker 1: generals knew in two thousand and five there was a
Speaker 1: problem with the military. You created a program that involved
Speaker 1: local police in the villages and that they were trained
Speaker 1: to combat the Taliban specifically now by the way, now
Speaker 1: the Taliban has equipped with billions of dollars of American
Speaker 1: technology and weaponry general. That scares me too. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: scares me too. When I when I saw the mpors
Speaker 1: on the shelves and I saw all that equipment there,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I just uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: obviously had to shake my head, uh and go wow, um,
Speaker 1: this is but it's not unexpected. And to stand there
Speaker 1: and say that they were that they had the capability
Speaker 1: to beat the Taliban, they didn't. The Afghan local police
Speaker 1: routinely beat the Taliban in the village areas. Why because
Speaker 1: that's where they worked, that's where they lived, that's where
Speaker 1: their family was, and they didn't want the Taliban and
Speaker 1: Alocada to hurt their family. Different investment in mindset, in
Speaker 1: will right, the Afghan National Police, in the Afghan National Military,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a national organization that completely excluded
Speaker 1: the idea of regionalism. So they had they had uh
Speaker 1: you know Afghans in the north who are Uzbek and
Speaker 1: Taji descent down in the southern portion, which were postures
Speaker 1: they didn't even speak the language, do anything. They weren't
Speaker 1: best to stay there. That's why a wall rates were
Speaker 1: so high. Leadership, you know, I mean they they would
Speaker 1: stop fighting, right, They would literally stop fighting because they
Speaker 1: didn't want to shoot other Muslims. Another thing the leadership
Speaker 1: knew about that. You know a lot of Americans don't.
Speaker 1: They would stop shooting, and our guys would come out
Speaker 1: of their cover and concealed positions and go grab them
Speaker 1: and say, oh, hey, get up, come on, come on fight,
Speaker 1: and then our guys would get hit. Um. And so
Speaker 1: it's it's not it shouldn't be a surprise that any
Speaker 1: of this happened based off of the way they did it. Sure,
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough. I mean, you're you know,
Speaker 1: five Bronze stars speak for themselves. Your two Purple Heart
Speaker 1: speak for themselves. Your ten towards of duty in Afghanistan
Speaker 1: speaks for itself, sir. And it's a chilling, chilling scenario
Speaker 1: you're describing. Thank you for your service, thank you for
Speaker 1: your time, thank you for being with us. Good luck
Speaker 1: in your race. We're going to follow it closely in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire. We really appreciate you being on the program today, sir.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on the program. God bless you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for what you do to bring the truth
Speaker 1: to the American people, and God bless our fellow citizens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, sir. We'll continue when we come back straight
Speaker 1: to the phones eight hundred and nine four one sean,
Speaker 1: as we continue our coverage of this unmitigated disaster of
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's making in Afghanistan, straight Ahood twenty five until
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Eight hundred and nine four
Speaker 1: one sean is our number. You want to be a
Speaker 1: part of the program, you know, I know that in
Speaker 1: certain there's things in life. You know, Linda, you can
Speaker 1: relate to this as a parent. You got a six
Speaker 1: year old, right that are out of your control. You know.
Speaker 1: I kid around with my daughter and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I liked it so much better when I had complete
Speaker 1: and total control of everything. I say that to both
Speaker 1: my kids. I mean, it may sound a little mean,
Speaker 1: but I like the feeling of being in control of things.
Speaker 1: When you have a six year old, you were in control,
Speaker 1: but you're not totally control, right, Okay. Now that's gonna
Speaker 1: be these intervening years and you're gonna realize you control
Speaker 1: pretty much everything. All you gotta do is say okay,
Speaker 1: I'm taking your iPhone, I'm taking your iPad, I'm taking
Speaker 1: your computer, and you're gonna have to stay in your
Speaker 1: room and guess what you'll get full compliance. Those are
Speaker 1: the good years and they begin to drift off into
Speaker 1: their own independence in life. And it gets a little
Speaker 1: more difficult in the world in which there is horrific evil,
Speaker 1: where there are people that are fanatics, we call them
Speaker 1: Islamic fundamentalists. Now we're looking at the Islamic Emirate of
Speaker 1: Afghanistan and to not completely prepare for logistically the extraction
Speaker 1: of our fellow Americans and then get to the point
Speaker 1: where all of it is now out of our control. Well, Hannity,
Speaker 1: you just had on General bull Duck, a brigadier general,
Speaker 1: and he just said he's saying that either the Taliban cooperates,
Speaker 1: which is always a possibility, won't be because of anything
Speaker 1: Joe Biden does or did, or even threatens. If they
Speaker 1: decide to let the Americans makes a safe passage to
Speaker 1: the Ahmed Karazani International Airport, then okay, this issue will
Speaker 1: be resolved, but it's not in our control anymore. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden gave up all leverage, all power, that he inherited
Speaker 1: every bit of it, and that is the tragedy, that
Speaker 1: is this and takes no responsibility, claims it was inevitable,
Speaker 1: and claims it was factored in. That is all a lie.
Speaker 1: We had full, complete, total command and control over this situation,
Speaker 1: but he gave it away. And then they're like surprised. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to see what was happening. It
Speaker 1: wasn't hard to see. And that is that, you know,
Speaker 1: Joe is telling us, you know, just a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. No, No No, this is one of the best
Speaker 1: trade and militaries in the face of the planet, three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand strong, and they even have an air force
Speaker 1: and the Taliban only has seventy five thousand fighters. That's it,
Speaker 1: is it? No, under no circumstances. Well, we see helicopters
Speaker 1: on top of embassies rescuing people. You know, it's how
Speaker 1: do you not see it? How do you not understand it?
Speaker 1: You know, we know about the Taliban, We've known all
Speaker 1: about them. It's madness, all out of our control at
Speaker 1: this point. The situation then now, is therefore dire the
Speaker 1: Taliban or brutal, evil terrorists. We've been showing you the pictures.
Speaker 1: Last night. A woman murdered by the Taliban, but the
Speaker 1: crime of not wearing a head covering. Another woman had
Speaker 1: a guy eyes gouged out. We know all about the Taliban. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she had a job as a police officer. Taliban fighters
Speaker 1: caught off one woman's ears and nose after she attempted
Speaker 1: to flee from her husband, who she was forced to
Speaker 1: marry when she was only a child. Taliban just today
Speaker 1: and yesterday fighters going door to door. They now enslaving
Speaker 1: young women and forcing them and little girls to be
Speaker 1: their sex slaves. And the interpreters former Afghani military personnel.
Speaker 1: Other families now being executed, some hung, some dismembered, some shots,
Speaker 1: some beheaded, even opened fire. And a group of protesters
Speaker 1: that flew the Afghan flank. You see that they've They're
Speaker 1: not stupid, you know. Militarily you know they did they
Speaker 1: did something. You know, if you want control and you
Speaker 1: want power. They surrounded the perimeter Ofhammed Karzai International Airport,
Speaker 1: and our own State department is saying, we advise you
Speaker 1: now to begin to make your way to the airport,
Speaker 1: but we cannot ensure your safety. How comforting. One Taliban
Speaker 1: fighter pictured whipping people trying to get to the airport.
Speaker 1: Man was kicked in the face, abducted on the back
Speaker 1: of his pickup truck. It's happening to media people as well,
Speaker 1: and not agree with their coverage, but they're Americans, and
Speaker 1: I want them home safely so they can write how
Speaker 1: horrible I am. I want our fellow Americans home. We
Speaker 1: lost contact with people that we've been in touch with. Linda,
Speaker 1: you saw Sarah Cardil last night breaking down on TV.
Speaker 1: You know how often she was there. You were part
Speaker 1: of all of this. Yeah, it's I mean, I think
Speaker 1: the hardest part for all of us right now is just,
Speaker 1: you know, no control, control, and also just the fact
Speaker 1: that there's just it. It's this group of people who
Speaker 1: are so concerned with the way things look as opposed
Speaker 1: to the way things are, and that doesn't help anybody
Speaker 1: who's trying to save themselves from what is actually happening
Speaker 1: on the ground. I mean, we've got little kids and women,
Speaker 1: and if you look at the people that are being evacuated,
Speaker 1: it's not the little kids and women. It's not the
Speaker 1: American citizens. It's not the civilians. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're doing. They don't know what they're doing. But you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get to the point. I know people have wanted
Speaker 1: me to say that they all have to go, they
Speaker 1: all have to be fired. They do Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: not capable of being president. I actually thought watching the
Speaker 1: Stephanopolo's interview, and I do agree. I want to see
Speaker 1: the unedited version. They need to release the entire video online.
Speaker 1: I want to see the whole thing. There has been
Speaker 1: calls for that because I suspect that's the best they
Speaker 1: got from Biden in terms of supporting him politically. Let's
Speaker 1: get to our busy telephones here. Uh, let's say hi
Speaker 1: to Lee Is in Florida. Lee, glad you called, sir.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. Hey, thanks Sean, Thanks for
Speaker 1: taking my call. Thanks for everything you do. There's only
Speaker 1: a few of you out there that we hear from you,
Speaker 1: Laura Ingram and Chuck cars Carlson. I'd like to know
Speaker 1: where everybody else is on this. You're not hearing anything
Speaker 1: from anybody everything I wanted to say. You need to
Speaker 1: keep playing the track back from last night that Mark
Speaker 1: Levine said he couldn't say it any better than anybody else.
Speaker 1: I watched your show last night. He was dead on
Speaker 1: and you need to keep playing that track over and
Speaker 1: over and over. There is a reason I've nicknamed him
Speaker 1: the great One. There's not a It's not by accident,
Speaker 1: trust me. I thought it was great last night too.
Speaker 1: Lara Logan has been great, Laura Trump. When we did
Speaker 1: a segment on what can Women Now Expect? Did you
Speaker 1: see Lee the story? Did you see the video of
Speaker 1: women taking their children, their young babies, and and trying
Speaker 1: to throw them over a barbed wired wall and fence
Speaker 1: to British soldiers because that's the only hope for their
Speaker 1: children they feel they have. Do you know what it
Speaker 1: must take for a loving mother to do that? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't, I don't know. It's insane. And
Speaker 1: one other thing I want to get to before before
Speaker 1: I know you're very busy, but let me say this,
Speaker 1: and then one other thing. I'd like to see Pelosi
Speaker 1: and all the women AOC and her squid squad get
Speaker 1: on a plane, go over there, sit on with a
Speaker 1: taliban and talk to them about women's rights. I want
Speaker 1: to well, I think the silence and I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: Thank you the silence. You know, women's rights groups, where's
Speaker 1: the me too movement. You know, where's there are they
Speaker 1: using the Taliban using the proper pronouns movement which we
Speaker 1: had been following for example of the military and wokeness, etc.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying things aren't important in terms of respect,
Speaker 1: but women are going to be oppressed. They're going to
Speaker 1: be taken as sex slaves. Young girls will be married
Speaker 1: off to these Taliban fighters. If you want to call
Speaker 1: it that, it's not. In my mind. It's called rape
Speaker 1: and kidnapping. And no, we don't hear about that part. Sad,
Speaker 1: so hypocritical. Michael, New York, Michael, glad you called hello, Sean.
Speaker 1: My heart's troubled. Michael, lift up, my heart lifted up,
Speaker 1: helping out. I can't. I'm a Vietnam vet. Five years ago.
Speaker 1: We left the blood and guts and the Bryce patties,
Speaker 1: only to leave a disgrace. This is just so outrageous.
Speaker 1: This Afghanistan, this is so outrageous. And this Millie, he
Speaker 1: uh disgraces the stores on his shoulder. This guy's got
Speaker 1: to go, That's my point. I don't disagree. I can't
Speaker 1: believe he said we're nowhere, dear that this was happening.
Speaker 1: I'm like Okay, that's just unacceptable to me. It's unacceptable.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I love you. Keep up what
Speaker 1: you're doing, baby, keep it up, Michael, thank you, appreciate
Speaker 1: the call. Deborah Florida. Hei Deborah. How are you, Hi, Starren?
Speaker 1: I'm great, How are you? I'm good? Thank you. My
Speaker 1: question is I wanted where's our Republican leadership in the
Speaker 1: House and in the Senate. Where are they? Where's their
Speaker 1: collective outrage whom? Why are they not standing on the
Speaker 1: White House floor demanding answers and more importantly, actions being
Speaker 1: taken to get our people out that. I want to
Speaker 1: be fair because I think the Republicans are weak and
Speaker 1: feckless and spineless and visionless. So I'm not disagreeing with
Speaker 1: the premise of what you're saying. Uh. There have been
Speaker 1: many that have been very outspoken, but it's not a
Speaker 1: lot of it's not been covered in fairness to some
Speaker 1: of them, um, but all of them know. Um the
Speaker 1: fact that there listen, we've paid it, we've been paying
Speaker 1: attention to this a lot of there. There have been
Speaker 1: even some Democrats saying the Intel is saying don't do this,
Speaker 1: don't do this. They've been staunch, stern warnings to the
Speaker 1: to the Biden White House, don't do it, and they
Speaker 1: didn't listen. And now look behind those podiums. Yeah, look,
Speaker 1: you know, and I would cover that more if I
Speaker 1: thought it would help. I'm just I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how in God's name do you know what
Speaker 1: is the answer? How do we get every single person
Speaker 1: out of there safely, every one of our fellow citizens,
Speaker 1: And how do we get the people out that we
Speaker 1: know we're going to be murdered there. They're known in
Speaker 1: Afghanistan as having helped the US military and allied forces.
Speaker 1: These people will die horrific desks. They will, They will
Speaker 1: be tortured, they will be murdered. It will be probably
Speaker 1: you'll see internet videos popping up here, there and everywhere.
Speaker 1: I've watched those videos in the past. Ever watch it
Speaker 1: be heading I have. It's that dark, it is that evil,
Speaker 1: It is that insidious, and it is done sadly by
Speaker 1: fanatics with abandoned That kind of evil exists in the world,
Speaker 1: and this is the evil that is radical Islam, Fascism, Nazism,
Speaker 1: Imperial Japan, Mao's China, Stalin's Russia. One hundred million souls
Speaker 1: died in the last century alone wrote a whole book
Speaker 1: about delivering us from evil. You know, the Lord's prayer
Speaker 1: lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Speaker 1: Powerful words. If you believe it, I do. Amen, all right,
Speaker 1: appreciate it, Deborah. We're praying for them. Fortunately, I wish
Speaker 1: I had a better solution. Let's just just walk through
Speaker 1: the walk through. What what options do our military have here? Now?
Speaker 1: I really did like Brigadier General Don Bullduck, who we
Speaker 1: had on But he's saying, either we go in full
Speaker 1: force again, well, there's no operational control whatsoever. And that
Speaker 1: would then send the message that if you dare put
Speaker 1: harm a single American, the price you pay is going
Speaker 1: to be massive. Okay. I don't see that as an
Speaker 1: option that anybody's considering in the administration, but I listened
Speaker 1: to everybody views because nobody really has an answer at
Speaker 1: this point any military presence. I just knowing the brutality
Speaker 1: of the Taliban and what they're capable of and how
Speaker 1: many lives are at stake, you know that then limits
Speaker 1: almost eliminates a military option. And then we're back to
Speaker 1: where I said we are, which is that every American
Speaker 1: There is now there at the mercy of the Taliban
Speaker 1: that the Biden administration is telling us has promised to
Speaker 1: assist the safe passage to Karzai International Airport where we
Speaker 1: started the shop. I don't have a lot of confidence
Speaker 1: in that plan could happen. I hope it happens. It happens,
Speaker 1: it won't be because of anything Joe Biden did. We'll
Speaker 1: continue