Our Worst Fears For Afghanistan Realized - ZBT #380

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Nearly two decades after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, the nation's capital fell back under Taliban control. The ZBT squad sat down to record this episode and talk about the events that transpired and President Biden's speech to address the Nation. To quote Chaps, "It was emotional, all over the place, and raw ... and that's okay." FIND ZBT: https://linktr.ee/ZeroBlog30

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0:00.0	Hey, Zero Block 30 listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Friday on Apple Podcasts,
0:05.0	Spotify and YouTube. Pride members can also listen ad-free on Amazon music.
0:09.9	Revely, Revely, Revely!
0:11.7	Welcome back to another edition of Zero Block 30. This is an episode that none of us wanted to record.
0:32.3	We didn't want to talk about the fall of Afghanistan. We didn't want to talk about how the Taliban was
0:36.2	back in charge. We definitely didn't want to talk about how there was graven images that were coming
0:42.0	out this morning of people trying to flee Afghanistan on the backs of planes, not even being inside
0:47.7	and dropping. It was just as horrific as an experience that you could possibly imagine for people who
0:54.2	are trying to escape the Taliban's grips once again after they had to leave the country 20 years ago.
0:59.7	Now, September 11, 2001, obviously kicked off the whole new chapter of America because of the things
1:05.7	that we went through. And now it seems like it's invoked really to go back and hindsight bias
1:11.5	everything and say that we weren't in Afghanistan for just purposes. I'm not a believer in that at all.
1:18.8	I look back at what happened on September 11th, knowing full well that Al Qaeda was responsible.
1:24.4	The Taliban was in charge of Afghanistan and the Taliban let Al Qaeda basically run around
1:30.4	Afghanistan with impunity. They had all different types of camps. They set up communication. They did
1:35.0	all types of things from Afghanistan and really the Pakistan border as well. So Afghanistan, we had to
1:41.6	go there. We had to disrupt that terror network. And that's what we did. We went in there in September
1:46.8	or in October of 2011 or 2001. God damn, seems like that's crazy. 2001, 20 years ago, and we
1:54.9	disrupted it and we ended them fast and in a hurry. They were scattering whenever we came in at the
2:01.3	beginning. And then things changed, right? Okay. Yeah. So by December, we went in there in October.
2:07.1	Basically, it was all those images. All of bomb in the caves, the special forces on horseback
2:11.2	going up into the mountains, just weeding them the fuck out of there. And by December, US and
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