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Hey, welcome back to the Bill Bennett show.

Take a look at the news the day.

Good Lord.

This plenty thoughtful conversations.

We hope about things that matter.

Existential threats to America like loss of American power and prestige.

This is a mini episode of the show.

We will have a full conversation with I think the best informed person on Afghanistan.

And that's former ambassador Ryan Crocker.

That's coming up later this week.

But I want to share some thoughts on Afghanistan.

If you were to think today since this is a huge story and things are still breaking.

Before I do that, though, and I want to mention this a couple of times,

I would urge you for a very thoughtful discussion of Afghanistan to call it help me here.

I want folks to listen to the Bill Bennett, Victor Davis, Hanson, Conrad Black podcast.

What do they do?

Yeah, so it's called scholars and scents.

You can easily Google stuff scholars and scents podcast.

And I'll show up in your web browser.

You can show you the website, which is scholars and scents podcast dot bus sprout dot com.

Or you can get it easily wherever you listen to podcasts.

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