Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino brief. I'm Dan Bongino.

All right, so a buddy, Michael Anton hits it again. Nails it again about what went wrong in

Afghanistan. Michael Anton's a very gifted writer. He's been a member of the national security

community for a long time, but unlike many members of the national security community,

he calls out the swamp. The swamp he knows he was in and says, here's the problems with Afghanistan.

He nails it in two specific ways. And then I'm going to place him a

audio of Donald Trump in a minute as well. And Trump basically says the same thing. And it's

kind of hilarious how the left is always calling out Trump, but he always seems to get it when they

don't. All of these disasters that have happened happen the minute Trump left office.

Right? All of them election debacles and flation open borders. I mean, the left, there's a

this is supposed to be the smart one. Correct. I'm not crazy. Right? The media has told us the left

it. They're the benign class. They're the smart ones. You know, tolerance coexists, bumper

stickers. This is all we've heard about these geniuses in academia. Hollywood elitist. There's

so much smarter than us, the little people, the smelly Walmart crowd. You know, the smelly. That's

what we've heard. Yet how is it that every time they're in charge and their leftist ideas are

implemented, right? When you get a Jimmy Carter, when you get a Michael do caucus, whether it's

in Massachusetts or elsewhere, how is it every time you implement there a these Joe Biden or

Barack Obama? Things collapse. How is that? Anton nails it in this piece. Afghanistan doomed from

the start. American mind Michael Anton. Michael Anton again has been a member of the national security

apparatus, whatever you want to call these fancy words for a long time. And he makes two point. He

makes a lot of points in this piece, but in the interest of time, I have to distill it down to two

hard takeaways. Part number one, he talks about how these liberal Americans and even so in

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