This is Talk Radio across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker,

the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on talk radio.

It is, of course, the home of common sense.

It's all looking a bit grim over in Afghanistan as we awake this morning to news of panicked evacuations,

peaceful transitions of power, I don't think so, threats of Sharia law

being imposed on an increasingly frightened population, and suggestions of Taliban partnerships

with the possibility of Pakistan, China, Russia, possibly Iran, as the Islamic fundamentalist took

over Afghanistan's capital city Kabul yesterday, seemingly without much of a fight, millions of people

were cowering for their lives as thousands headed for the airports to scramble onto planes,

heading back to Europe and the United States. Just one month after President Joe Biden assured

the world that there was no chance of the terrifying Taliban taking over the country,

that is exactly what they have done. And largely, without a shot being fired, it would seem worse.

They now have control of all the former US military bases, filled with hardware and embassies in the country,

are now at risk of being ransacked for sensitive documents.

Really, it couldn't have gone any worse for the Biden administration, and it's not going to get better any time soon.

It seems remarkable, does it not?

The one administration makes a decision, does a deal with the Taliban, expects the Taliban

to honour that deal, which is pretty much hope over experience, then leaves all of the troops

out of the country, takes all of the troops out of the country, leaving behind diplomats,

leaving behind interpreters, leaving behind interpreters,

leaving behind people who would have helped the Allied forces to defeat the Taliban back

in the early part of this century.

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