#311: A Dark Day in American History
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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It's been one of the darkest days for America in recent memory. Storm and Matt discuss the terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in more than a decade. They also give their thoughts on the Biden administration's lack of leadership and response and break down what may happen next.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everybody and welcome back for another episode of Trigger. This is Triggerups number 311. |
| 0:05.0 | We're coming to you on Thursday, August 26th. And unfortunately, today is one of the darkest days in recent American history. |
| 0:12.0 | We had at least 13 American service members, mostly Marines, I think 12 of them were Marines,illed in suicide bombings outside of the airport in Kabul. |
| 0:24.4 | The attack was supposedly perpetrated by ISIS K, which is the group from Khorasan, |
| 0:31.5 | which is a region outside to the east of Kabul, an affiliate of the main branch of ISIS. |
| 0:38.3 | And it's been a long day, tough day. |
| 0:41.3 | We're recording this late. |
| 0:43.3 | There's a lot to get through. |
| 0:45.3 | A lot to get through. |
| 0:46.3 | We wanted to wait to see what President Dementia would say, |
| 0:50.3 | which it was as disappointing as you would expect. |
| 0:53.3 | So we have a situation here where they now |
| 0:56.8 | say that they anticipate more attacks yeah but this it's the wild west out there i mean i mean it's |
| 1:02.0 | just this is exactly yeah what we said was going to have yeah and it wasn't you know hard to see |
| 1:08.9 | coming yeah and at when you go back to o'clipse, you can see that maybe Joe kind of knew, too. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, no one's being killed right now. |
| 1:18.9 | And then he knocks on wood, literally, which was disgraceful. |
| 1:21.7 | Well, then if that's the case, I'm pretty sure somebody in your International Security Council, |
| 1:26.9 | in National Security Orbit, was telling you maybe we should expand the security perimeter beyond the airport. |
| 1:32.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.1 | It should be wider. It should have been wider. |
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