AFTER TWO DEBATES, NO EXPLANATION: 5/8: 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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🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show. Women and children were trampled to death outside the gates of the Kabul airfield. Desperate Afghans fell from the landing gear of departing planes. Taliban fighters mercilessly whipped and humiliated U.S. civilians trying to access the few square miles still controlled by American forces. Countless Afghan interpreters were abandoned to the mercy of the Taliban after risking their lives alongside American troops for years. And thirteen U.S. service members—eleven of whom were still in preschool on 9/11—were murdered in an ISIS suicide bombing that could easily have been prevented.
Still, the full story is worse than anyone imagined. Drawing from hundreds of hours of first-person interviews, investigative reporter Jerry Dunleavy and former Army Captain and Afghanistan veteran James Hasson provide an exclusive, no-holds-barred account of the disastrous events of August 2021. Kabul is packed with shocking and infuriating exclusive details about fatal politics and bureaucracy that contributed to the catastrophe. The authors also tell, for the first time, inspiring stories of the bravery and sacrifices exhibited by countless Americans on the ground.
Kabul's original reporting includes eyewitness accounts from servicemembers of all ranks who participated the rescue effort, inside information from senior intelligence officials, interviews with high-ranking members of allied governments, harrowing stories from Americans and Afghan allies willfully abandoned by craven officials in Washington, and exclusive details about veteran-led rescue missions that continue to this day. Chapter after chapter, Kabul depicts American government at its worst and “ordinary” Americans at their best.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the |
| 0:02.0 | the world. I'm John Batcher continuing my conversation with |
| 0:04.8 | Jerry Dunleavy and James Hassan, the authors of the new book Cabell, |
| 0:09.0 | the untold stories of Biden's fiasco and the American warriors who fought to the end. |
| 0:13.3 | Jared Dunleavy is helping the investigation of the House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| 0:18.1 | into the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and after. And James Hassan, former Army Captain, graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School |
| 0:27.0 | Bronze Star winner in Afghanistan. |
| 0:30.0 | James, to start with you because I want to do the physical layout of the airport that they've had. |
| 0:36.0 | Military improvisers. I understand that. You don't get, you go to war with the army you got. |
| 0:42.0 | Okay, so we have Abbey Gate is the important one because that's where the attack will happen on the 26th. |
| 0:48.0 | There's North Gate, there's East Gate, there's South Gate, and there's Black Gate. All of those gates had to be manned by the |
| 0:56.4 | arriving Marines and arriving 82nd Airborne. They're arriving not having really good information about what they're going to find. |
| 1:05.0 | Those gates, what did they look like, James? |
| 1:08.0 | How did they seal them or keep them so that there was a way passage way through but they could defend them what |
| 1:15.2 | did they look like? |
| 1:16.2 | Yeah I think it's important first to just give listeners and viewers a quick picture of what the airport as a whole looks like. |
| 1:28.0 | And it almost, I would describe it as like a fat cigar with you know just a very kind of long tip at the end of sticking out kind of on the eastern side. |
| 1:42.9 | And so obviously, kind of on that tip was Eastgate, |
| 1:47.9 | just a little to the west. |
| 1:51.3 | So if you're looking at the map kind of to the left was the Abbey Gate where the |
| 1:57.4 | suicide bombing attack happened and there was a main entrance to the gate as well, kind of further on the |
| 2:06.4 | on the south side. And that basically Southgate. And there was a, |
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