I'm John Baxter with Jared Dunleavy and James Hassan, whose new book I highly recommend.

It's a tough read, however.

When you see what could have been done, the untold story of Biden's fiasco, it's August 15, 2021.

Ghani, the president of the country, a man who has been kept in power by the U.S. and NATO for some time with full understanding of his responsibilities,

flees the country in a helicopter, and he now is in the Middle East, my understanding, and living out his life

explaining himself. That event, however, means that there is no leadership in Kabul, the police

chief, the generals, they all flee, grabbing helicopters from Hakea, the airport at the center

of the city, and fleeing. So, Jerry, I come to you at this point.

We begin a crisis at Hakea.

We need to describe that airfield.

Where was it?

And why was it a catastrophe to choose Hakea for an evacuation, Jerry?

Yeah.

So the acronym H-K-I-A, H-K-I-A, Hamid Karzai International Airport, often called H-K-K-K-A. This is an airport in the middle of Kabul,

and this is the place that the Biden administration had chosen to do its evacuation

from.

So we should have chosen Bogram, and the State Department, in fact, was warned even by the

command sergeant major at Bogram that to do a neo an evacuation through Kabul airport would be a

disaster that it should be done through Bogram. But because of President Biden's decisions,

we shudder Bogram. We have to do the evacuation through Kabul airport. Well, now when Ghani flees, the Afghan government collapses and the Taliban

walks into Kabul, now we have to do an evacuation through Kabul airport, but we have to do it

with the Taliban in charge and with reliance on the Taliban right outside the gates of H. Kaya. And so this we so and keep in mind

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