Americans Stuck, How the U.S. Surrendered Kabul, Sullivan's September Delusion

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Join Jim and Greg as they process the latest difficult news out of Afghanistan. First, they discuss the American citizens who are trying to get out and can't get to the airport while the U.S. government pretends it's not happening. They also fume over a Washington Post story that the Taliban offered to give the U.S. control of Kabul until the withdrawal deadline and Biden turned them down. And they shake their heads as White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan insists we'll have all sorts of leverage to get citizens and allies out of Afghanistan, even after our military leaves.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
0:04.9	Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.8	Three Martini's coming up.
0:14.2	Really glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.
0:17.9	We'd love to tell you we've got a good Martini.
0:19.9	We've got two great sponsors today.
0:21.4	We can talk about those a little bit later.
0:23.8	But Jim, we're all Afghanistan again today and today is obviously August 30th.
0:29.0	Tomorrow's the deadline, Afghanistan's several hours ahead of us or several hours and a half,
0:34.0	which shows you how screwed up things are over there.
0:37.7	So let's just get right into it.
0:40.2	Right now the administration is claiming that there's not that many Americans left, maybe
0:45.6	just a couple hundred.
0:47.0	A lot of people are disputing that and what they're also very much disputing is whether
0:50.9	those Americans can get out, yes, yes, the ones that want to get out to talk about
0:57.0	that phrase that we heard so much over the past couple of weeks, but there are people
1:01.1	in line.
1:02.1	They're being stopped at the gates and Clarissa Ward, who did a very good reporting
1:06.5	from Afghanistan at the time that Kabul fell.
1:09.5	She's now out of Afghanistan reporting today from Pakistan talking to the folks on CNN's
1:14.8	morning show about the Americans who just can't get through.
1:19.1	I have Americans reaching out to me all the time at the moment who are in Afghanistan.
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