How We Failed Afghanistan (And Ourselves) with HR McMaster

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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How did this happen? How did we spend 20 years, over 2 trillion dollars and over 2,000 American lives to wind up losing Afghanistan to the Taliban in under two weeks? Was the mission doomed from the start? Was it political incompetence? Or was it the fault of the military brass who refused to be honest about what it would take to win? Today, a frank and wide-ranging conversation with H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor and three-star general. We talk about Obama, Trump, Biden; the corruption and incompetence of our elites; rising isolationism; and why he’s still bullish about America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Hi it's Barry. This is honestly and I don't know about you but I've been completely glued to my phone for the past week.
0:34.0	I am just absolutely unable to stop taking in the news out of Afghanistan.
0:39.0	It's devastating. I don't think there's another word for it.
0:41.0	And I'm watching all of this and I'm thinking,
0:44.0	how the hell did this happen?
0:46.3	How did we spend 20 years, more than $2 trillion,
0:50.5	more than 2,300 American lives and something like 50,000, 60,000 Afghan lives only to wind up like
0:58.0	this with this catastrophe.
1:00.6	So that's one thing I've been thinking about.
1:03.0	The other thing that I'm noticing is the way that the events of this past week feel like
1:06.7	they've solidified what's been an emerging isolationist consensus, a consensus that's bringing together people on the right and the left.
1:15.4	I'm stunned that Joe Biden is the president to be truly the best anti-war president in the last 20 years.
1:22.9	There's just really no other way to say it.
1:24.1	You have to probably say of our lifetime.
1:26.2	Here's what I mean.
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