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Slack.com slash DHQ. The war in Afghanistan is officially over. The last American military

plane has left the country and yet the last American plane did not take the last American

out. According to reports, there are hundreds of Americans left in Afghanistan if not more.

And yet when you ask the Pentagon, just how many Americans remain, this is the sort of

non-answer you get. So you can't ask why would the Pentagon know? Why would we have

any of you got to talk to the State Department? Then yes, the State Department, they don't

really know either. A perfectly botched end to a perfectly botched withdrawal. But I

would not hold my breath for answers or accountability. While Republicans are ready to impeach the

government, this government, Afghanistan's new Taliban government is vowing to fight climate

change. And public school teachers in New York City of all places are waking up and protesting

the government's incompetence and power grab. I'm Michael Noles, this is the Michael Noles

show.

Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Sunshine Cool Water,

who says, isn't it ironic that Joe is now the world's number one issuer of actual assault

weapons without background checks? That is ironic. It's ironic and yet maybe it's not.

And maybe that's just the way it works. We go around the world, arming all sorts of groups

of people, some of whom are our allies at least for a time, and then they're not our allies,

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