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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast today is Wednesday September 29th 2021.

I'm John Pudworth, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor

A Greenwald Hyde.

Hyde John, senior writer Christine Rosenhyte Christine,

Hyde John, and associate editor Noroth and Hinoa.

Hyde John? Yesterday the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Defense

Secretary testified before Congress and under oath revealed that Joe Biden

lied to the American people when he said that nobody told him that it was a bad idea to pull

all the troops out of Afghanistan. Apparently both men and others said leave 2500 men in

Afghanistan, Biden forces in Afghanistan, Biden said no. He had told George Stefanopolis

that there had been no no countervailing opinion inside his administration.

I don't know what the consequences of such a such a lie are.

We are now at the position where it is morally better for the president to be considered senile

because he forgot that they said they were against it or at least cognitively impaired.

That's an interesting twist in the garment of American history.

Let us assume that he is not cognitively impaired. What do we make of the lie?

Well, we can't actually like or did it's true. We can't actually know it's a lot.

He might generally not know what people told him, which is not comforting. It's not

exculpatory. It's just the truth. It's possible. But it's also an indictment of his leadership.

One of the more revealing things I thought that came out of this test amount yesterday was from

General Mark Milley who acknowledged some reporting back and earlier this year that in November

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