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PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation later this evening with authors Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson of their book, KABUL. Here Jerry Dunleavy describes the ill-timed events that contributed to the chaos and tragedy of the withdrawal, August 2021.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation later this evening with authors Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson of their book, KABUL. Here Jerry Dunleavy describes the ill-timed events that contributed to the chaos and tragedy of the withdrawal, August 2021.


Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End Hardcover – by Jerry Dunleavy (Author), James Hasson (Author)


1820 British camp, Dakka, Afghanistan

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This is John Bachelor speaking with Jerry Dunleavy and James Hassan, their book Cabell, the untold story of

0:35.1

Biden's fiasco. Jerry gives us a definition terms of art and he sets the

0:41.2

landscape of Afghanistan in August of 2021 prior to the catastrophe of the evacuation.

0:50.0

He explains how the State Department and the Administration and the military all tried to adjust, but too late, to the obligation to evacuate or offer evacuation to the tens of thousands of

1:06.8

Afghans who had participated in the American and NATO effort over the decades, two decades, to help Afghanistan.

1:15.0

Jerry's very clear what went wrong.

1:18.0

This is from a much longer conversation later in the show

1:22.0

with Jerry Dunleavy and James

1:23.8

Hassan Cabell the untold story. Here is the State Department, S. I. V. The

1:30.3

military, Balgram Airport, and the rush to judgment of evacuating Afghanistan

1:38.0

with the Taliban holding the security of a small little airport in their gun sites.

1:45.0

Is Jerry?

1:46.0

In terms of a Neo, a Neo is a non-combatant evacuation operation.

1:50.6

That is what the State Department has to request from the military to conduct an

1:56.8

evacuation out of a country like Afghanistan.

2:01.1

And the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul should have been, should have known that a Neo would be necessary very early in 2021, but they were in the state of denial. The Biden

2:16.2

administration should have known that if they were going to do a Neo,

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