Former DIA official: Afghanistan failed when US decided to nation build
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John Solomon
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
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Summary
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer discusses the failures of the US attempt to nation build in Afghanistan, stating that after the ‘assassination of Bin Laden’ the US should have departed as we held the ‘upper-hand over the Taliban and our allies’. He goes on to explain that the Trump-Pompeo withdrawal plan, would have allowed for ‘the Government of Afghanistan, the tribes, the warlords, and the Taliban….to sort it out, with specific, achievable objectives and military over watch by United States'. This way he explains ‘we would have ensured that American citizens were protected, and more importantly, all parties were brought back together, for the Afghan people to to work out their differences’.
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| 0:37.9 | Hello America, and welcome to the Tuesday edition of John Solomon Reports. |
| 0:42.0 | The podcast from Justin News, we're going to step back. |
| 0:45.1 | It's been about two weeks now since the Afghan debacle unfolded in front of our eyes. |
| 0:50.0 | So many things still happening. |
| 0:51.6 | So many tragedies still ahead. |
| 0:54.4 | But I wanted to take someone who played an important role on the ground in Afghanistan. |
| 0:59.1 | By the way, with General Lloyd Austin, now our defense secretary, with General Mike Flynn, |
| 1:05.1 | our good friend who was on the show last week, with General McChrystal, whose work played a major role |
| 1:11.9 | in turning the war around in Afghanistan when it ran into bumps. |
| 1:15.9 | And in looking back, Tony Schaefer has one of the best lenses on what happened. |
| 1:22.4 | He was a lieutenant colonel on the ground in Afghanistan. |
| 1:25.9 | He later stirred some controversy by coming forward with some allegations about what the |
| 1:30.4 | government knew about 9-11 before it happened. |
| 1:33.1 | And then speaking out in some of the strategies, if you were to go back and look at his comments |
| 1:38.4 | from 06 or 708 or 9, they were prophetic to the moment we find ourselves in right now in America. |
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