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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sometimes I dream |
0:05.0 | dream about Afghanistan still it haunts my dreams whether it's waking up in the middle of night and remembering some of the |
0:15.8 | soldiers that lost their lives or the people that I met along the way or the children that played in the Salon River or the horror of what |
0:26.8 | happened on that last day of withdrawal where I think the entire world and especially American troops and intelligence officers and people who were very connected to the region, journalists like me, woke up and realized, |
0:48.0 | oh my God, President Biden is pulling everyone and everything out. |
0:54.6 | He's turning over Afghanistan to the Taliban |
0:59.5 | and to the Hakanis and to the terrorists |
1:02.4 | after more than 20 years of war. |
1:07.6 | There wasn't a better way to handle this. |
1:10.4 | Of course there was. |
1:16.0 | Is America weaker now than it was four years ago? We are. |
1:18.0 | Have the dominoes fallen all across the globe? |
1:22.0 | They have. |
1:23.8 | Have the terrorists reconstituted themselves back in a region |
1:28.8 | that I can only describe, I can only describe as being 2,000 years old, like going back in history, like |
1:41.6 | seeing something that you can't even imagine, a place where time has stood |
1:50.3 | still in some areas. |
1:55.4 | Our people in America forgetting |
2:00.6 | about the |
2:05.0 | these extremist organizations, |
2:08.0 | because we haven't really seen a massive attack |
2:12.0 | like we saw in September 11th and frankly so many people are young now. |
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