Joe Biden's policies in Afghanistan have been so disastrous. They've imposed so much damage on the United States and so much advantage to the Taliban that you have to ask, was this just stupidity or was a deliberate?

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Joe Biden's policies in Afghanistan have been so disastrous, so catastrophic. They've imposed so much damage on America and so much advantage to the Taliban that you have to ask, what really has driven this?

It's almost like you couldn't have planned worse. If you were just careless, if you were just like a daisicle, presumably you'd forget some things, you'd miss some things. But to plan something to cause, you may almost call it optimum disaster, to leave thousands of Americans behind, to leave equipment that you could have easily taken with you, to not do any kind of advanced organization for Afghans that you really wanted to get out and announce that you're not going to be able to do anything.

You're going to have to get out and announce stranded under Taliban control. How can you be this inept?

You might say, well, Joe Biden, hello. But remember that it isn't just Biden who's steering the canoe here. Biden has a whole bunch of Obama leftovers who are advising him, calling the shots. They're the ventriloquist. He's the puppet.

So you can't merely put this down to a kind of sonility at the top level because there are all kinds of other people involved. Now, because Biden thinks he's doing an amazing job, he thinks history will look back and just see this was a statesman-like withdrawal.

And Jen Socky, of course, is sort of parrot style repeating the same nonsense. But it's still not clear what has driven the Biden decision to be so bad. Is it the case that these people are just terrible at what they do?

Is it about failure of understanding or is it the case that there's something more in videos? Was it in some sense deliberate? Was it in some sense part of a continuation of the Obama anti-colonial approach?

I want to explore this not just by advancing and arguing for theory, which would be easy to do. But over the next couple of segments, I want to lay out two rival theories side by side and make my case for what I think is better. So I'm going to start by advancing the America just doesn't understand theory, which is by the way the theory that most conservatives, most Republicans are putting forward.

Here is a very good argument by Lee Smith in Tablet magazine. And he's talking about the fact that you here have two mismatched adversaries. He goes, on the face of it, you might think, how can a kind of primitive force like the Taliban beat out the most advanced army in the world?

Lee Smith goes easy. The Taliban is united. They have what the Muslim writer, Ibn Kaldun called Ashabia, which is tribal solidarity. They have a clear sense of purpose. They have a clear understanding of the struggle. America is the imperialist outsider. We Muslims need to unite and get rid of them.

They're willing to fight guerilla war and they're willing to take heavy casualties and they're also willing to be patient. So according to Lee Smith, and he's advancing here, the Ibn Kaldun theory. Ibn Kaldun basically said that the reason that the Muslims were so successful in the Middle Ages, they were able to conquer really large parts of three continents, Africa, Europe, Asia, is because they had two things.

They had the solidarity of the Bedouins, the Taliban has that, and then they had the Muslim faith, which kind of united them in a kind of singular fanaticism. And Ibn Kaldun's theory is it's hard to beat people who are unified like that.

Now Lee Smith goes on to argue, we're the opposite. We're divided. We're a divided country. We have a military that's trying to make itself woke. They're focused on domestic adversaries. So they don't really know what they're doing.

And this is the, I would call it the ignorance argument. I see it also in another article, by the way, in American greatness. This is an article by Kyle Schiddler. It's divided into two parts.

The inability to understand the nature of the enemy. In other words, we Americans, the Biden people in particular, but we in general, we don't get how cultures far away work.

We don't understand the tribal bases of those societies. We don't understand that you can't just march in there and go, all the girls are going to get an education or even we can't put up, you know, the rainbow flag, which is actually what the US Embassy in Kabul did.

Hey, guys, we're all for gaze around here. You don't realize the Afghans really aren't. They don't see it the same way. And so number one, the failure to understand the enemy.

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