The Incriminating Cable, The Stranded Americans, Charging for Evacuations

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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It's another day with no good martinis in sight. Join Jim and Greg as they react to reports of a diplomatic cable in July that said the Afghan government was likely to fall shortly after the U.S. withdrawal. They also hammer a key Democrat in Congress for saying the military should not be helping Americans get to the Kabul airport and and the White House Communications Director for suggesting our Afghan allies only have until August 31st to get out. And they rant about the government charging Americans up to $2,000 to be evacuated.

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0:00.0	Sarah, where's the car? It's gone. It's not gone. It's with fixer. Since you never got
0:04.5	Ranta servicing it, I took care of it. Fixed up. Fixed up. Fixed is great. They pick
0:08.2	up your car, drive it to the garage, handle the service, then drive it straight back
0:11.1	to you. Sounds expensive. Don't worry. They negotiate their prices with their partner
0:14.8	garages and the car pickup services included. So since that's all handled, how about you
0:18.9	take a look at that leaky tab or do you need me to fix that too? For easy car maintenance,
0:23.3	head to fixter.co.uk. We'll pick up your car and take care of all the rest. Fixed up
0:28.6	and you'll back on track.
0:30.4	Welcome to the 3-Martini lunch. Grab a stool next to Greg Corumpus of Radio America and
0:38.1	Jim Garrity of National Review. 3-Martini's coming up.
0:43.9	Really glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the 3-Martini lunch. We've made it through
0:48.3	this week, which is quite an accomplishment. It was one week ago where we said this weekend,
0:53.6	meaning last weekend, was going to be very, very rough in Afghanistan, unfortunately.
0:58.4	It was, and it's been ugly in so many different ways ever since. Not only the conditions on
1:02.6	the ground, but the administration's response, the Biden speech, so many different things,
1:07.0	but we've got three more martinis for you today, all on this subject. Jim, I got a tweet
1:11.9	from a listener yesterday saying, there really aren't any good martinis anymore. I don't
1:16.2	know if I'd go that far, but on this story, it's definitely hard to find any good martinis.
1:21.0	So there are none again in this edition, but we have three very critical stories to talk
1:25.6	about today, starting with this one from the Wall Street Journal. An internal State Department
1:31.1	memo last month warned top agency officials of the potential collapse of Kabul soon after
1:37.2	the US's August 31st troop withdrawal deadline in Afghanistan, according to a US official
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