
326 w/ Eli Lake "Afghan Withdrawal, Pandemic Surrender, Daddy Issues"
The Fifth Column
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Afghan Security Forces Run Through the Country Like a Knife Through Butter
The Taliban wasn't agreeing to the agreement, which if it was to work in theory was supposed to be conditional so that any withdrawal would be based on sort of Taliban meeting their obligations. And notice what happens as soon as the US does this rapid withdrawal, they run through the country like a knife through butter. So again, I would put it like this, the mission in Afghanistan for the last seven years or so was to prevent the Taliban from taking over and we just kind of lost patience with it. President Biden decided that's what he was going to do. And here we are.
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