The ‘Untold Story’ Of Kabul’s Collapse

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Jerry Dunleavy, an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and James Hasson, who received the Bronze Star Medal for his time in Afghanistan, join Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to recount the United States' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, share the harrowing details about what happened on the ground in Kabul, and explain how the catastrophe will affect the nation's foreign policy for years to come.

You can find Dunleavy and Hasson's book "Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End" here.

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0:00.0	We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:20.3	I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.
0:23.2	As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com.
0:26.3	Follow us on Twitter at FDR, LST.
0:29.0	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts into the premium version of our
0:32.7	website as well.
0:33.7	It is the two-year anniversary as you may have heard of our disastrous withdrawal from
0:39.2	Afghanistan.
0:40.4	On that note, I am very honored to be joined by the authors of a new book documenting
0:45.6	the scope of that disaster, cobbled the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the American
0:51.3	warriors who fought to the end.
0:53.4	I'm joined by those authors that would be Jerry Dunleavy, who actually just left his
0:57.8	job at the Washington Examiner recently to become an official investigator on the House
1:02.9	Foreign Affairs Committee's Afghanistan probe.
1:06.6	So, you're going to be helping people look into all of this, wrote the book in his personal
1:10.4	capacity.
1:11.4	Of course, with James, and James Hassan is an Afghanistan veteran who received the bronze
1:15.8	star and assisted in veteran led evacuation efforts to people who know this story so well.
1:22.1	And again, the book is called Kabul, the untold story of Biden's fiasco, and the American
1:26.0	warriors fought to the end.
1:27.6	So, I'm going to send you guys a question first, and you both may have different answers.
1:32.3	You may have similar answers, but it's both a big question and a small question at the
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