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The Erick Erickson Show

S12 EP138: Hour 1 - Biden’s Second Afghanistan

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News Commentary, News

4.5876 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Biden’s anemic response to Maui is only made worse by his instance in making himself part of the story with insane personal stories plus California is killing itself with insane climate change regulations.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One.

0:12.7

Hello, America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the nation. The phone number

0:16.7

8779773-745. Should you wish to be on the program happy to have you as always text

0:24.9

Eric E-R-I-C-K to 33-777 you can get the link to all the interviews of the gathering the

0:31.4

podcast the show notes you name it it's all right there text Eric to 33777 we have to

0:37.2

begin in Hawaii.

0:40.8

To begin in Hawaii, we need to go back two years. This week, two years ago.

0:50.2

Americans were fleeing Afghanistan. In the scramble to get out of Afghanistan,

0:58.0

men, Afghan refugees trying to flee the Taliban.

1:04.0

They tried to climb aboard the planes, climb into the wheel wells,

1:09.0

they were falling from the sky to their deaths as the planes evacuated.

1:16.5

13 American soldiers, the first American soldiers to die in Afghanistan in several years, died there at the gates by the airport.

1:24.8

It was a disaster. It was a mess.

1:26.7

It is important to understand why no American

1:30.8

has been fired for bungling that. And you need to understand why. The reason not a single

1:38.8

American diplomat, member of the military, or advisor to the president was fired because of how we

1:47.3

bungled the evacuation of Afghanistan is because all of them advised against it.

1:54.0

It was Joe Biden himself who decided to do it.

1:59.6

All of his advisors in the State Department,

2:03.1

in the Defense Department, in the White House,

2:06.5

and on the ground in Afghanistan,

2:08.1

told him not to do it this way.

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