Today, we're going to talk about the US pulling out of Afghanistan amid the country's fall

to the Taliban, the media dropping the ball, and Fox News playing both sides of the coin.

I interview Congressman Joaquin Castro from Texas and his brother, former housing and

urban development secretary Julian Castro, from my first in-person interview in Texas,

where we talk about the infrastructure package, Governor Abbott's positive COVID results,

and their message to the Texas Democrats who fled the state for Washington, D.C.

Also joining me to chat in Texas is San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who spoke about Governor

Abbott's restrictions on his city and what the locals are doing to push back, and the

results delivered to the people of San Antonio thanks to the White House.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

So in the last week, we washed as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, effectively ending

our 20-year war in the country.

And I think it's important to start with some context here because it seems like some

people are trying really, really hard to will into existence this idea that this 20-year

war somehow started and ended in the seven months that Joe Biden became president.

But what facilitated the Taliban's rise, or re-rise, is a so-called peace deal that

was struck a few years ago.

Starting in 2018, the Trump administration began working out a peace deal with the Taliban,

which wasn't so much an actual peace deal as it was with Jarl Agreement.

It basically stipulated that we'd be out of Afghanistan in 14 months, and the Taliban

would agree not to let the country become a haven for terrorists and to start peace talks

with the Afghan government.

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