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4/8: Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author)

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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4/8: Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author)

2002 Kabul T-62

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0:00.0

I'm John Baxch who with Jared Dunleavy and James Hassan who's in a book I highly recommend.

0:10.0

It's a tough read, however, When you see what could have been done,

0:15.2

the untold story of Biden's fiasco,

0:16.9

it's August 15, 2021.

0:19.9

Gani, the president of the country,

0:22.4

a man who has been kept in power by the US and NATO for

0:26.1

some time with full understanding of his responsibilities, flees the country in the helicopter, and he now is in the Middle East, to my

0:37.2

understanding, and living out his life explaining himself. That event, however, means that there is no leadership in Kabul.

0:45.0

The police chief, the generals, they all flee,

0:48.0

grabbing helicopters from Hakia, the airport at the center of the city and fleeing.

0:54.0

So Jerry, I come to you at this point, we begin a crisis at Hakia.

1:00.0

We need to describe that airfield.

1:02.0

Where was it and why was it a catastrophe to choose Hakia for an evacuation Jerry? Yeah so the acronym H-K-I-A-K-I-A-K-I-A-A-A-A-A-A-K-A-K-A-A-K-A-A-K-A-A-K-A-A-K-A-A-K-A-A, the acronym. A-K-I-K-Ia, the Khmer-K-K-K-Ia. This is an airport in the middle of Kabul.

1:25.2

And this is the place that the Biden administration had chosen

1:29.8

to do its evacuation from.

1:32.0

So we should have chosen Bagram,

1:35.4

and the State Department, in fact, was warned

1:39.0

even by the Command Sergeant Major at Bagramram that to do a Neo and evacuation through

1:46.8

Kabul Airport would be a disaster that it should be done through Baghram but

1:51.2

because of President Biden's decisions we

1:54.2

shudder Bogram we have to do the evacuation through Kabul Airport.

1:58.2

Well now when Gani flees the Afghan government collapses and the Taliban walks into Kabul.

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