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Slack.com slash DHQ. There are good predictions and there are bad predictions. And there are terrible

predictions. And there are terrible predictions. And then there are the Biden administration's

predictions about Afghanistan, which were given to us by Biden Secretary of State, Anthony

Blinken just days ago. I don't think that the fact that our forces are withdrawing, one,

we're not withdrawing, we're staying. The embassy is staying. Our programs are staying. We're

working to make sure that other partners stay. We're building all of that up. And whatever

happens in Afghanistan, if there is a significant deterioration in security, that could well

happen. We've discussed this before. I don't think it's going to be something that happens

from a Friday to a Monday. So I wouldn't necessarily equate the departure of our forces

in July, August or by early September with some kind of immediate deterioration in the

situation. In case you missed it this weekend, between Friday and Monday, Afghanistan fell

to the Taliban. It is actually impressive how perfectly wrong the prediction of the

Biden administration was this after Joe Biden said it was not inevitable that the Taliban

would come back also just days ago, completely wrong. Republicans are blaming Biden. Democrats

are blaming Trump. Biden's blaming Trump. Trump is blaming Biden. And once blamed Obama,

Obama blamed Bush. The problem though goes a lot deeper than Democrats versus Republicans.

Afghanistan is not just a God for Satan desert and the graveyard of empires. Afghanistan

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