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the Independent Republic of Mike Graham, on Talk Radio.

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.

We've reached the end of a pretty shameful week, ladies and gentlemen, in the history of Western diplomacy.

Tragically, it's resulted in a deadly attack on US troops, Afghan civilians, and even members of the Taliban as well.

Al-Qaeda, offshoot ISIS-K, claimed responsibility last night for two terrorist attacks at Kabul airport which killed at least 108 people and for which

the death toll is almost certain to rise. And it wasn't even as if it wasn't expected because for two

whole days, Western intelligence had been told that this attack was imminent and very, very serious.

13 American lives had been lost. President Joe Biden threatened to hunt down those responsible

that US troops and everyone else at the airport are still vulnerable to suicide attacks,

as they are almost impossible to prevent in crowded areas where thousands of people are still awaiting rescue.

This morning, Ben Wallace

Defence Secretary announced that Britain will end the evacuation effort in hours after presumably

working out that our troops cannot guarantee the safety of people on the ground or even their

own presence there. And I'd have to say, thank goodness for Ben Wallace, thank goodness for British

ingenuity in this area, because Britain is far better at dealing with

this kind of thing, clearly, than the Biden administration. And thanks to the abject failure

of Biden's US policy, which left 100,000 people stranded and at the mercy of the bloodthirsty

Taliban, by the end of this week, he's now had to rely on their fighters to safeguard his own

forces. What an absolute shambles and how preventable was it all.

This morning we will be asking the question.

What exactly was the point of any of it?

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