Taliban Makes Gains in Afghanistan

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

As the Biden administration seeks to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September, the Taliban is already on the offensive. How should the United States respond? And how should the United States take care of the thousands of Afghans who have aided the United States against the Taliban? The gang discusses. Then, David brings up interesting statistics regarding how often each Supreme Court justice is part of the majority. Does this undermine the traditional categorization of justices along the ideological spectrum? Plus, they talk about the preliminary results in the New York Democratic primary, in which crime was the top voter issue according to opinion polls. What does this mean for the 2022 elections and beyond? Lastly, our hosts discuss the recent backlash from the left against musical actor Lin-Manuel Miranda. Show Notes: -FDD’s Long War Journal on the Taliban offensive -Thomas Joscelyn on Al-Qaeda’s presence in Afghanistan -Thomas Joscelyn on the Taliban gains -Adam Liptak on Supreme Court justices’ proportions in majority Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch podcast.
0:02.1	I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Jonah Goldberg, Steve Hayes, and David French.
0:08.2	This week we are going to start with what is happening in Afghanistan, a little Supreme
0:13.8	Court roundup, which you know David and I are excited about.
0:18.2	The New York City mayors race and the role that crime is going to play in the 2022 midterm
0:23.1	elections and will end with a little musical called In The Heights.
0:42.6	Let's dive in, Steve.
0:43.6	Kick us off.
0:44.6	I want to start with a story that virtually nobody is talking about and many, many more people
0:50.0	should be.
0:51.8	When Joe Biden announced months ago that US troops were going to be leaving Afghanistan
0:56.4	by September 11th of 2021, critics, including some of us here, responded with warnings
1:02.8	that the US retreat would lead to a brutal and bloody fighting post withdrawal as a Taliban
1:10.7	fought its way back to power.
1:13.0	It turns out that those critics, including us, were optimistic about what's happening.
1:21.2	The Taliban isn't waiting.
1:22.7	Their offensive is underway.
1:24.5	Afghan government forces are reluctant to fight.
1:27.3	The Taliban is overrunning districts and cities throughout the country.
1:32.1	There is a broad offensive taking place in northern Afghanistan, fueled by al-Qaeda fighters
1:39.8	aligned with the Taliban, even though we were told that al-Qaeda and the Taliban were
1:45.2	going to split.
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