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Exiting Afghanistan: The Untold Story of America's Failed Withdrawal | 8.20.23

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🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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It’s been two years since the deadly suicide attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. service members. Now an investigative journalist and an Afghanistan veteran detail the failures in the weeks and months leading up to the failed withdrawal. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's been two years since the deadly suicide attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan that

0:09.0

killed 13 U.S. service members.

0:12.0

Now a new book hopes to shed light on what went wrong that day and in the weeks and months

0:16.8

leading up to it.

0:17.8

None of this would have happened if President Biden had made smart decisions.

0:23.5

In this episode we do a deep dive on the Afghanistan withdrawal and we hear from the authors

0:28.2

of that book an investigative journalist and a decorated Afghanistan military veteran

0:33.0

about their thoughts on the failed evacuation.

0:36.0

I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe, it's August 20th and

0:40.3

this is a Sunday edition of Morning Wire.

0:47.7

Georgia did some background for this episode, speaking with investigative reporter Jerry

0:51.5

Dunlivi and Afghanistan war veteran James Hassan.

0:55.1

Under the co-authors of the book, Kabul, the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the American

1:00.2

warriors who fought to the end.

1:02.2

Now Georgia first, can you give us a quick recap of what happened two years ago?

1:06.8

Sure, so two years ago, almost exactly to the day, the U.S. was in the midst of a rushed

1:12.5

and by most accounts extremely disorganized retreat from Afghanistan.

1:17.2

The U.S. had been there for nearly two decades, making it the longest war in U.S. history.

1:22.5

The seminal moment of that withdrawal came on August 26th, 2021, and that's when a suicide

1:27.9

bombing at a major gate entry to the Kabul airport in Afghanistan called Abbey Gate claimed

1:33.4

the lives of 13 American service members and nearly 200 civilians.

1:38.6

In the aftermath of that bombing, many observers blamed the attack on the collapse of the U.S.-backed

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