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Welcome to the commentary magazine,

Jilly Podcasts today is Monday, September 20, 2021. I am John Pagno,

it's the editor of Commentary Magazine. Today our October issue will be up online.

It is a pretty spectacular one, I have to say. We have a package called Recklium for a super power,

lead articles by Brett Stevens called the Post-Pax Americana World,

which details the potential horrific consequences of our shameful bug out from Afghanistan.

It is followed by a remarkable piece by Yolei Lake on what was accomplished in Afghanistan

that we threw away and a piece by Jonathan Schanzer about the deranged idea that we can somehow

find an ally in the Taliban against ISIS-K. We also have a piece by Adam White on the Texas abortion case,

a whole bunch of really terrific stuff. I will start with my colleagues here,

senior writer, Christine Rose of Hykristine, and associate editor, Noah Rothman,

Hainoa, with a piece, Matt Kometti is written in his Washington Commentary column,

which we call Bidenian Component. We reflected on this a couple of days last week,

but Friday afternoon was a doozy for the administration and for the United States

in suggesting that there is a very, very shaky hand on the tiller in the country, in the White House,

and in the general decision-making practices of the executive branch. We have this horrible

acknowledgement after weeks of press reporting by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the

supposed strike against those who terribonged and killed 13 American servicemen that that strike

went awry, that it in fact hit someone who was not a nice-ass-k-member, and it killed 10 people

around about the same moment on Friday afternoon, the FDA refused or made a strong recommendation

that third booster shots for COVID should not be extended to everyone, but only to those

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