Scramble to Evacuate Afghanistan

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Today, the gang leads the podcast with yet another conversation about the crisis in Afghanistan. As they tick through all the bad takes floating around the internet surrounding the situation one by one, it’s clear the main takeaway is that it’s still really bad and sad to watch. Plus, more infrastructure talk! Has Nancy Pelosi lost her political touch? The Dispatch Podcast team breaks down how the political maneuvering of infrastructure will affect 2022. And for dessert: the California gubernatorial recall election. Show Notes: -Can the Taliban become a reliable partner to the U.S.? Only time will tell. - David Ignatius -History of the Dunkirk evacuation -David subs for Jonah on The Remnant -TMD tries to explain the House infrastructure rule -TMD on California recall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the dispatch
0:02.0	podcast. I'm your host, Sarah
0:03.6	Isger joined by Jonah Goldberg,
0:05.6	David French and Steve Hayes.
0:07.8	We are going to do Afghanistan
0:09.6	infrastructure 2022 midterms
0:12.6	and the recall effort in California today.
0:29.6	Let's dive right in. Steve, once again, we start with you.
0:34.3	David directly to you, Joe Biden has said that the United States is going to try to abide by
0:40.7	his administration's self-imposed August 31st deadline, which has now, we hear from
0:46.6	Taliban spokesman, become a red line for the Taliban.
0:50.5	Yet, if you believe the reports coming out of briefings to members of Congress,
0:57.1	several senior members of the Biden administration, including uniform military
1:02.2	secretary of state, believe that that won't be possible.
1:07.3	We will not be able to get all of the Americans in Afghanistan out by August 31st
1:13.4	to say nothing of the Afghan allies to whom we've promised a safe extraction.
1:19.8	What is Joe Biden thinking?
1:23.6	You know, it's so hard to say. I mean, it is so hard to say.
1:30.0	I mean, it's absolutely clear that he is dead set, that he is totally determined, that
1:35.4	he's going to get us out of Afghanistan, and that he is not going to be swayed apparently
1:41.6	too much even by events on the ground in meeting his self-imposed deadlines.
1:46.3	He is getting out.
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