Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban, with Sean Parnell and Charles C.W. Cooke | Ep. 146

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Sean Parnell, military veteran and Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, and Charles C.W. Cooke, senior writer for National Review, to talk about Afghanistan falling to the Taliban, President Biden's lack of response to the debacle, the still-unanswered questions regarding the foreign policy ramifications of what's happening in Afghanistan, the mixed feelings the military veterans of the war in Afghanistan feel, what might happen next in Afghanistan with the Taliban in charge, the political ramifications for the Democrats and Republicans, and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.4	Well, we had a different show planned today, but we switched it up because we need to talk
0:19.7	about Afghanistan.
0:21.2	The Taliban is now saying the war in Afghanistan is over and that they won.
0:28.6	They're backing control nearly 20 years after we first went into that country in the wake
0:34.5	of 9-11.
0:36.0	It was October 7, 2001 that President Bush announced air strikes on the Taliban, on al-Qaeda
0:41.1	targets in Afghanistan, and about a month later that the Taliban forces lost control of
0:46.8	the capital city of Kabul, which they now control again.
0:52.7	They've taken over all the major cities in Afghanistan.
0:55.2	They've taken over our bagram air force base.
0:58.5	They are letting al-Qaeda prisoners out by the day.
1:02.5	The Afghan security forces are surrendering in droves or simply taking off their uniforms.
1:07.8	There is terror among those who helped us in Afghanistan, the civilian population that
1:13.2	helped us as translators or helped us navigate the roads or navigate food supplies and so
1:17.9	on and so forth.
1:19.0	The journalists, Afghan journalists who took up pens and pencils and paper and tried
1:25.1	to document what was happening over there, are writing now of their feelings of betrayal
1:30.2	that they were promised that they would be helped out of the country and we've abandoned
1:34.7	that promise.
1:35.7	It's not going to happen.
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