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The John Batchelor Show

PREVIEW: Taliban continue to host Al Qaeda. Bill Roggio, FDD

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi Anna!

0:01.0

Hi Anna!

0:02.0

Do you have a dilemma that makes you feel totally alone?

0:05.3

Well, the good news is, it's not just you.

0:08.7

I'm earning more money than him now and I don't think he likes it.

0:11.5

We've been sleeping together for the past few weeks, but she has a boyfriend.

0:14.9

I am a virgin, I'm 25 and I'm just not sure if it's normal.

0:19.6

I'm Anna Richardson and this is it can't just be me when no topic is off limits.

0:25.1

Find it wherever you're listening to this or on it can't just be me.co.uk

0:30.0

This is John Bachelor, with a preview of tonight's show, by conversation with Bill

0:38.9

Rajo of the Foundation for the Defensive Democracy in Assayna County of the Hudson Institute.

0:45.0

Look at the claim, the assertion, the remark, by David Ignatius and other distinguished commentators

0:52.4

that the Taliban are at odds with Al-Qaeda, even that the Taliban have driven Al-Qaeda

0:58.1

almost entirely out of Afghanistan.

1:01.1

Bill makes it very clear that this opinion does not reflect the facts of the matter in Afghanistan.

1:11.0

He goes through the litany of connections between them, including of course that they've

1:15.5

never been alienated and these assertions by Bill are so convincing, so comprehensive

1:23.4

from years of watching the foundation for the defense of democracy's long war journal.

1:29.0

It is a puzzle why distinguished commentators such as David Ignatius of the Washington Post

1:34.8

are still eager to enjoy this conversation by saying the Taliban has left Afghanistan.

1:44.3

It's integrated.

1:45.3

They're training camps.

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