Hello ladies and gentlemen this is the Victor Davis Hanson show the traditionalist this is a special

episode we are recording on the east coast in the late afternoon of Monday August 16th today Victor will

be discussing exclusively discussing what is happening and has happened in Afghanistan and a little

different than our regular shows Victor I think the thing I'll do is lay out a few topics to discuss

and then we'll take our little commercial break a little bio stuff give you a little time to see

what's coming at you from me so Victor the president gave a speech this afternoon his speech blamed

Donald Trump blamed the Afghan military admitted to surprise at how quickly events were unfolding

and the collapse of the government in Afghanistan then about our policy American policy of leaving

Afghanistan in general is that good bad etc third topic how we executed the departure from

Afghanistan to me that seems to be the crux of this insanity that has rolled out in the last

few days but you're you are a military historian and your thoughts on how we and America's ace

military leadership executed the departure couple of the topics Victor what are America's interests

in Afghanistan or at least a week ago when we still had some degree of power or some

modicum of authority there what were they and what are they two other topics Victor what are the

consequences to American security from this what's happened in the last few days and not only to

American security but to the security of other nations those in the Middle East Taiwan maybe

other nations who exist in the shadows of hostile powers those nations who look to America

for protection so what are the consequences of Afghanistan how might they affect that and the

final thing Victor has to to me you're gonna have to light these down and read and I'll do one

at a time and then hit me with machine guns I will question okay I will I just I just well you know

what's happening what's gonna be happening the final thing will be images and we've seen already

some dreadful images and how powerful are they are they just pictures are they pictures that are

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