PREVIEW: From a two hour interview about the withdrawal from Afghanistan, August 2021, Author Jerry Duleavy analyzes the consequences of abandoning Bagram airbase fr the airport in central Kabul.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Kabul-Untold-Bidens-American-Warriors/dp/1546005307/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1701296521&sr=1-1
1928, Ataturk with the King of Afghanistan
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| 0:00.0 | Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Estriagalicia, |
| 0:05.6 | Cervessa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out. |
| 0:09.4 | In the Penlyown and brooding Alithia since 1906, 100% authentic. But not all Spanish beers are what |
| 0:18.8 | they seem, a bit like me. I'm not Carlos from Acrounia. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estriagalicia. |
| 0:27.0 | Spanish. Not Spanish. |
| 0:30.0 | This is John Batche, from a much longer conversation, a two-hour book interview with the authors Jerry Dunleavy and |
| 0:36.8 | James Hasn, their new book is Cabell. |
| 0:39.4 | The Untold Story of Biden's fiasco and the American warriors who fought to the end. I include |
| 0:46.1 | Jerry's identification of the airport choice and how that led to catastrophe, not the Kefaya in the middle of the city of Kabul, |
| 0:59.0 | but Baghram, the airport 40 kilometers or so outside of town, it would have been secure to evacuate as many people |
| 1:06.0 | as possible. |
| 1:07.0 | The Taliban would not have been able to penetrate it even slightly, a very secure base and what the opening up of Bagram to the Taliban and the |
| 1:18.0 | releasing of the prisoners who were held there meant was the man who would carry out the suicide bombing that killed American soldiers |
| 1:27.6 | and many, many, many, many Afghanistan citizens trying to get away. |
| 1:33.0 | That man, well, you'll hear it. |
| 1:36.0 | He would never have been there. |
| 1:38.0 | If Bagram had been kept for the American evacuation, |
| 1:42.0 | here's Jerry Dunleavy explaining there's much more to the story |
| 1:45.3 | but this is especially deeply sad |
| 1:49.9 | yeah so the acronym H-K-I-A-K-I-A-A-A-K-A-H-K-A-A-K-A-A-K-A-A-A-K-A-A-K-A-A-A-K-A, K-A-K-A, K-A, K-A, K-A-KIa, a-K-K-K-Iaya. This is an airport in the middle of Kabul and this is the place that the |
| 2:10.4 | Biden administration had chosen to do its evacuation from. |
| 2:14.4 | So we should have chosen Bagram and the State Department in fact was warned even by the Command sergeant major at Bagram that to do a Neo and |
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