Aug. 31, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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I'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the military mission to evacuate American citizens, third-country nationals, and vulnerable Afghans. | |
| The last C-17 lifted off from Hamad Karzai International Airport on August 30th this afternoon at 3.29 p.m. | ||
| East Coast time. | ||
| And the last manned aircraft is now clearing the airspace above Afghanistan. | ||
| He saw a small group of Islamist fighters were able to push out the Soviet Union. | ||
| And he thought, why not take on the United States? | ||
| And right now, a larger group of Islamist fighters pushed out the United States. | ||
| So are we going to see the next Osama Bin Laden learning the lesson of what is happening right now? | ||
| This is a profound moment, a profound moment of change for the entire, for all of Central Asia. | ||
| There's a hole in the middle of Central Asia. | ||
| It has been filled right now by the Taliban. | ||
| But it is drawing in Iran. | ||
| It is drawing in Pakistan. | ||
| It is drawing in Central Asia. | ||
| Iran is already moving in. | ||
| They're trading oil with the Taliban already. | ||
| They're spreading their influence already. | ||
| China is trying to put more inroads into Afghanistan. | ||
| So this is a moment not just to think about what happened over the last couple of days and the chaotic withdrawal and all the airlift and the people left behind. | ||
| Tremendously important. | ||
| What has the legacy been of deployment after deployment? | ||
| At least a trillion, some say two trillion dollars spent on this war. | ||
| The casualties, the people who are going to need to be treated for injuries for the rest of their lives. | ||
| I want to thank Richard Engler for picking up the mantra of the War Room. | ||
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| Okay, it's Monday the 30th of August, the year of our Lord, 2021. It is the 245th anniversary of the first extraction under fire by the American army. | ||
| Today, as we've been walking through with Patrick K. O'Donnell, on Friday was the American Thermopylae, where a regiment of Marylanders held off a British expeditionary force in Brooklyn, New York, to give time to the Continental Army to retreat to Brooklyn Heights. | ||
| And today, 245 years ago, Starting on Sunday night but ending at 11 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time this morning was the first extraction under fire where Washington, General Washington showing true leadership was the one of the last individuals off from Brooklyn Heights across to Manhattan and save the Continental Army to fight another day. | ||
| 245 years later to the day we've now done an extraction from Afghanistan. | ||
| The retrograde process started over the weekend. | ||
| And the last combat troops pulled out with civilians. | ||
| General McKenzie then announcing, CENTCOM commander announcing, just minutes ago, really minutes before we came on the air. | ||
| So the combat operations have ended after 20 years. | ||
| And after 20 years, $9 trillion combined, Iraq and Afghanistan, so after 20 years, $9 trillion, what, 10,000 service members killed, KIAs of service members, another couple of thousand Contractors who are mainly pipe hitters, right? | ||
| Not simply logistics people. | ||
| Another couple thousand contractors. | ||
| What, 55,000 wounded. | ||
| PTSD everywhere. | ||
| What, 60, I don't know, the numbers 20 to 40 to 60 veterans a day committing suicide. | ||
| What have we done, right? | ||
| Remember, President Trump, America first is to end the forever wars. | ||
| But in ending a forever war, which just goes on and on and on if you're neocon, where you want to be everywhere, what you can't do is trigger World War III. | ||
| And the question is, it was Elon Musk. | ||
| Look, and I'm not a big Elon Musk fan in a lot of things, but I'm a big Elon Musk in certain things. | ||
| He's a very smart guy. | ||
| What did he tweet out the other day? | ||
| That amazing quote from the Guns of August, right? | ||
| And so have we triggered something bigger than what we're in? | ||
| And did we end this the right way? | ||
| We certainly didn't end it the way that President Trump wanted to end it. | ||
| We still ended with a show of strength. | ||
| We didn't do a conditions-based. | ||
| Remember, as we've been telling you since over the weekend, the economist, the tip sheet for the party of Davos, Headline, we're next for global jihad. | ||
| They haven't talked about that in a long time. | ||
| We're next for global jihad. | ||
| And as you know, the answer here in 23 pages is everywhere. | ||
| And of course, today we have now, after 20 years, 9 trillion dollars, 10,000 dead, and the last 13, or we hope the last 13, from the Afghanistan experience, we hope none of the people over at Walter Reed pass away. | ||
| But 10,000 dead, 9 trillion dollars, 55,000 wounded, PTSD for this new great generation, 60 suicides a day. | ||
| We've got a terrorist super state that is controlled by the Taliban, ISIS, and Al Qaeda. | ||
| Those names might be familiar. | ||
| You know the reason those names are familiar? | ||
| We've beaten the Taliban in six weeks back in 2001 with paramilitary troops. | ||
| We've beaten Al Qaeda. | ||
| We destroyed the caliphate of ISIS. | ||
| President Trump did. | ||
| It was a functioning caliphate between Syria and Iraq. | ||
| Made up of parts of Syria and Iraq. | ||
| Bigger and a more functioning state than Syria and Iraq. | ||
| We defeated that. | ||
| And so here we are today. | ||
| A historic day. | ||
| On the 245th anniversary. | ||
| Is that divine providence telling us something? | ||
| I don't believe in... Remember, there's no conspiracies, but there are also no coincidences. | ||
| How could it be actually to the day Of the 245th first extraction of the American military to save the Continental Army. | ||
| As I keep saying, hey, the Declaration of Independence, obviously a foundational document negotiated, you know, and signed and then read to the world on July 4th, right? | ||
| But that was a document. | ||
| It took eight years of combat. | ||
| Remember, it took eight years of combat. | ||
| For these patriots and these farmers to fight against the greatest empire of the world for their freedom, eight years, and they almost got the tables run on a massive British expeditionary force that came and landed, had already left before the Declaration of Independence was signed. | ||
| Britain was not going to let go, which was the great- they knew the greatest potential continental expansion to an empire in world history. | ||
| They weren't just going to let go. | ||
| Sent the Royal Navy, sent an expeditionary force, and 245 years ago today, with real leaders, did a fighting retreat across the East River to Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights, and General Washington was the last- was essentially one of the last men off. | ||
| We've got a lot of veterans. | ||
| We're going to do two hours a day because the historic day want to thank real America's voice John Frederick's radio network all of our distribution partners for giving us the second hour today Okay, we've got a lot of veterans We have a lot of people that have fought in these wars and what we have is we decided what I want to do is get more junior and mid-level officers and enlisted right The tip of the spear, the people that really bore the combat throughout the world of this conflict, right? | ||
| I want to bring in first Tom Sauer from the Naval Academy. | ||
| Tom, the reason I want to get you on, Jack Posobiec has been forwarding me your Twitter feed. | ||
| I've been following it. | ||
| It's been absolutely fascinating about morale. | ||
| Remember, we played Colonel Scheller's audio from his LinkedIn page here at 10 o'clock on Friday. | ||
| Remember, 10 o'clock on Friday, we played Lieutenant Colonel Scheller's 1430, Lt. | ||
| Col. | ||
| Scheller, relieved for cause, he's fired. | ||
| The only person in the entire chain of command fired for this debacle. | ||
| The only person fired is Lt. | ||
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Scheller. | |
| Now he's out of the Marine Corps. | ||
| Now it's last night, he's out, punched out. | ||
| So, Tom Sauer, first I can't give your bona fides so the audience gets to meet you. | ||
| It's your first time on War Room. | ||
| Really excited to have you. | ||
| Walk us through your bona fides and then talk to us about your Twitter feed and what you're hearing from so many of your buddies that are still in the service. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, I'm 40 years old. | ||
| I joined the U.S. | ||
| Marine Corps when I was 17, pre-9-11. | ||
| I was a young kid. | ||
| I want, you know, patriotism, adventure, all the rest. | ||
| This is pre-9-11. | ||
| And I was pretty lucky, I suppose. | ||
| I did some of the right things and worked hard, got some lucky breaks. | ||
| I found my way into the Naval Academy. | ||
| Barely graduated, but I did okay. | ||
| I graduated in 2006, drove ships for a few years, and then found my way into Navy Special Operations, particularly as EOD, a little bit different from what the SEALs do. | ||
| And did that for a number of years. | ||
| Most of my time was actually spent in Asia Pacific. | ||
| Full disclosure, I did not go to Afghanistan. | ||
| Did a brief stint in Iraq. | ||
| That was pretty uneventful, but I got a lot of friends who did. | ||
| And for a long time, and I got to say, this is not necessarily a partisan thing. | ||
| For I'd say probably the past 15, 20 years, there has been a cynicism and a growing mistrust. | ||
| And I'm not talking about political leaders, Republican, Democrat, but of military leadership, senior military leadership. | ||
| Um, I think that Colonel Shellery guy mentioned in his video, he said, when I was a young guy, I could smell BS from mile away. | ||
| And as I got closer and closer and more senior, the longer I spent in, it smelled more like bacon and eggs. | ||
| I think that kind of happens. | ||
| And I'm noticing now, because I still keep in very, very close touch with all my Naval Academy classmates, guys enlisted in officers that I deployed with, worked with, and whatnot, including my little brother. | ||
| So my little brother is also a Naval Academy graduate. | ||
| He's in the same line of work that I used to do, and he's currently at another location in the Middle East, and he's been processing incoming refugees from Kabul and processing them and getting on a plane to the States. | ||
| And he did tell me that there's no more flights coming in, as you know. | ||
| But I think these events really solidified and brought everything to a head, the absolute lack of trust and confidence in military leadership. | ||
| And I think maybe that's almost a silver lining, I hate to say it, but they're no longer having this blind faith. | ||
| And we see it everywhere, not just in the military, but just in our institutions, the loss of faith, And a loss of confidence in our institutions, which is the media, academia, government, you know, everywhere where, hey, maybe this isn't as infallible as some people like to think that it is. | ||
| But particularly, I got to say, yeah, I put out a Twitter feed. | ||
| And those were all direct quotes from friends of mine who are currently overseas. | ||
| These are guys in special operations, the intelligence community, infantry, aviation, all over. | ||
| And most of them are very, very profanity laced. | ||
| Um, as far as, uh, what they had to say. | ||
| But it's a complete loss of confidence. | ||
| In fact, as I've been waiting for us to come on the air, I've gotten like five or six texts on Signal, uh, DMs, all sorts of people. | ||
| And it's, it all comes down to just the absolute loss of confidence. | ||
| And it is almost comically just awful that the only guy who's lost a job so far was uh a marine lieutenant colonel who is uh over the advanced infantry training battalion who uh put his you know put his uh oak leaves on the table uh and risked so so tom tom how's how's that resonating through the the junior officer and mid-level officer community because it is comically but until You think about, I guess it's the irony of it. | ||
| Here's a guy on Friday morning, and this is by the way, the power of the War Room audience. | ||
| His thing was already going big, we made it just explode. | ||
| Because this audience is so engaged. | ||
| And so, so active. | ||
| Here's the thing. | ||
| In his, we had had other officers come on here, General Flynn and others said, hey, guys, if nobody's throwing their stars in the middle of the table, right? | ||
| It's the saying that, I'll put it on the line to tell it like it is. | ||
| He says, I'm prepared to do it. | ||
| I'm prepared to walk away. | ||
| You know he's a hot runner. | ||
| I'm prepared to walk away right now from all of it, right? | ||
| From the pension, from basically becoming a flag officer, from all of it, right? | ||
| I'm prepared to walk away from all of it. | ||
| I'll throw mine into the middle of the table. | ||
| In the entire debacle, the entire debacle, in the after-action reports here, and what's going to come out from real stories, is going to shock this audience about what happened. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And I tell you what, the worst thing is what happened to those 13 heroes. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Those 13 heroes at Abbey Gate. | ||
| And we've played the thing of Moulton. | ||
| We've played the thing of the General. | ||
| We've played it from Jane Ferguson from PBS. | ||
| You see what they were actually doing. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| How could it be? | ||
| What is these junior officers and middle officers and senior enlisted think when Scheller's the only person to be really... I mean, even if they hated what Scheller was doing, Why would you relieve him for cause given the fact you haven't fired anybody else? | ||
| Tom Sauer? | ||
| I tell you what they think about it is I can tell you right now is everyone I know who is thinking about sticking around They're getting out. | ||
| They were I mean everyone I know there are and we've seen this for a while to a lot of the really talented junior officers and senior enlisted Many of them really get to a point, and it's not even about just what's happening in world politics. | ||
| They just look at the machine itself and they're like, there's no, I don't have as much of a future here. | ||
| This isn't worth me sticking around another eight, 10, 12 years just so I get that brass ring and I can get that pension. | ||
| It's just not, it's not worth it to them. | ||
| And even today, I'll tell you right now, I own a company right now, I own a mental health care and addiction treatment company that specializes in veterans care, right? | ||
| So all the guys who are suffering from PTSD, addiction, and all sorts of stuff right there. | ||
| And I've got about nearly 50 employees right now. | ||
| If I were to hire a veteran, I'd want to hire the sharp junior officers, the sharp NCOs. | ||
| I would probably never hire an O6, which would be equivalent to a colonel or a captain. | ||
| I just wouldn't because... Hey, Tom, hang on for one second. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| We're taking a short break. | ||
| We'll be back in a minute. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| War Room Extraction Under Fire. | ||
| This is a special two-hour special. | ||
| I want to thank everybody, Real America's Voice, John Frederick's Radio Network, all of it, for helping us get up here for the two hours. | ||
| I want to turn now to Tom Sauer. | ||
| Remember, we started the show, we've ended, formally, combat operations in Afghanistan on the 250th, 45th anniversary of the first extraction under fire. | ||
| The Continental Army under General Washington at Brooklyn Heights in New York City. | ||
| Today we did 245 years later and boy I gotta tell you if you talk to that army with their back to the wall with the British largest empire in the world with the greatest Navy in the world in a pretty good army. | ||
| Crushing us across Long Island to then retreat across Manhattan to then retreat across the Hudson to then retreat all the way down through New Jersey to cross and get into Pennsylvania before he stood and really punched back hard. | ||
| If you told those guys 245 years ago that We would build the greatest army in the world, the greatest military in world history. | ||
| We would free Europe twice. | ||
| We'd do all this. | ||
| The greatest force for good in the world, freed more people. | ||
| After that, on the 245th anniversary of what you're doing here to save yourselves and save your country and save this small entity that's just six or eight weeks, has been birthed six or eight weeks ago. | ||
| To save it? | ||
| With all the agony and turmoil that you had in this fight with the British? | ||
| That we would be retreating like we did 245 years ago? | ||
| They couldn't believe it. | ||
| They wouldn't believe it. | ||
| It's not believable. | ||
| And we're not forever war guys. | ||
| We don't have Darren Beattie in here. | ||
| This is this globalist American empire aspect of it. | ||
| And you saw the results of that, those 13 young people. | ||
| It's not that we don't have to fight. | ||
| By the way, we're in it now. | ||
| You're going to have the western front of this is going to be our ally India. | ||
| They've got Kashmir. | ||
| Up in Kashmir, they've got every bad actor. | ||
| They've got the Persians. | ||
| You've got now a terrorist super state. | ||
| You've got the Pakistanis. | ||
| You've got ISI. | ||
| They've got the nuclear weapons. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Right there in Central Asia, that's the western front and the eastern front right there in the South China Sea in Taiwan. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And the Chinese Communist Party, the head of the criminal element, Is calling the shots now, and they're going to run the tables, and we're going to have to stand up to it. | ||
| We told you this, that we're going to get into a kinetic war. | ||
| If you don't stand up to them, if you don't stand up to them in information warfare and cyber warfare, and particularly economic warfare, which we have the advantage, you can bring them to their knees. | ||
| If you don't do it, you're going to inexorably slide into a kinetic war, and it's coming. | ||
| And it's your sons and daughters. | ||
| It's your sons and daughters. | ||
| The sons and daughters of the deplorables are going to pay the price. | ||
| Let's go to Tom Sauer of People Who Have Already Paid the Price. | ||
| Tom, I know you're in the mental health business with veterans now. | ||
| The PTSD, how much is being triggered by this thing of, was it worth it? | ||
| With my buddies, what was the purpose of it all? | ||
| You know, you said about all the guys you know trying to punch out. | ||
| I don't know an active duty service member today, and these are people that have done 8, 9, 10, 11 deployments, right? | ||
| That would not do it again and go back in, except for the fact it's not about the physical danger. | ||
| It's about what's the purpose of it all. | ||
| Tom Sauer. | ||
| I definitely agree with that. | ||
| It's the purpose. | ||
| It feels like we It was all in vain. | ||
| I can tell you right now, from my company right now, I mean, I made a phone call to my clinical director, you know, a few days ago, said, hey, let's make sure we're talking to these guys about this, because I know there's a number of folks who, you know, for lack of a better word, are being a little triggered by this. | ||
| And I think that's pretty justified in doing that. | ||
| But here's the really interesting thing. | ||
| I've got a lot of friends of mine who are not in any sort of a mental health treatment center of any kind, folks who are still have jobs. | ||
| And they're saying for their own mental health currently, That they're doing everything they can to try to get guys out of there. | ||
| So I mean, right now, there's like 20 different threads I have on signal emails of folks who are in the intelligence community or special operations world, or currently out of it. | ||
| We're doing everything they can to get their former interpreter, their interpreters, with their families out of the country. | ||
| And obviously that's ended now, and it's going to be much more difficult to do so. | ||
| To them, that's the only thing they can do to make them feel like they're actually doing something. | ||
| Otherwise, they feel it's all in vain. | ||
| I have friends who are in wheelchairs, We've had their eyeballs blown out, we've had their legs blown off, who aren't around anymore. | ||
| And it's everyone saying it was for what? | ||
| To supply a massive military industrial complex to support an empire? | ||
| And so much of this can be laid at the feet, not just of the politicians, but to the generals and the admirals Who kept feeding the American people lies, like, yes, it's going fine. | ||
| It's going fine. | ||
| Oh, we're getting there. | ||
| And a lot of them, I don't think, truly, when you get right down to it, were really thinking about what was right. | ||
| They were thinking about their own careers. | ||
| They're thinking about that board seat that they were going to get when they retire. | ||
| Take a look at former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dunford, Joe Dunford. | ||
| You know, I mean, he's, you know, what, two months after he Left the military sitting on the board of, was it Northrop Grumman, I think? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Anyways, all those things right now, it's like, they're really, we feel as though we have many, many feckless leaders out there and it is really, really discouraging. | ||
| But again, I got to say that one silver lining of this is we're losing that blind faith in institutions. | ||
| It's not, like I said, it's not just the military. | ||
| You can see it here at home with COVID because they're all lying to us. | ||
| And it's, it's pretty sad. | ||
| And now what I do, at least, is I know that I'm not going to be able to change the world myself, but at least I'm changing the worlds of different people, or at least helping or enabling my team to do that, to at least heal them and make them better. | ||
| So that's what we're doing on our side. | ||
| But I'm talking to my classmates right now. | ||
| I'm talking to my little brother. | ||
| He's exhausted. | ||
| He's been sleeping about two hours a night for the past week, trying to get the poor people Out of Afghanistan, no matter how you think about the refugee thing, it's that, you know, he told me he was flying, you know, a flight came in and a family's there and he watched a baby die right in front of him. | ||
| And all these people, they're wounded. | ||
| And everyone's looking at this and nobody really wants to say it out in the open. | ||
| And all the guys who are still wearing the uniform, they can't really say it without getting in trouble. | ||
| Ask Lieutenant Colonel Scheller. | ||
| And they're quietly behind closed doors. | ||
| Everyone's just very, very demoralized. | ||
| And Tom, how do people find your, what's your Twitter feed? | ||
| People got to follow this Twitter feed. | ||
| You want to see what people are saying? | ||
| Tom Sauer's putting it up. | ||
| At Thomas B. Sauer, T-H-O-M-A-S-B as in boy, S-A-U-E-R on Twitter. | ||
| That's really the only social media I use. | ||
| I can't handle anything else. | ||
| Tom, thank you very much. | ||
| I appreciate you coming on. | ||
| We look forward to having you back. | ||
| Tom Sauer, Naval Academy grad, former Marine infantryman, and telling it like it is. | ||
| I want to go now to... Thank you, sir. | ||
| Jake Beckett. | ||
| Jake, 101st Airborne, had deployed and is now back in the United States. | ||
| He's running for the Senate down in Arkansas. | ||
| Jake, give me your thoughts and observations of this historic day in America. | ||
| Not just military history, but American history. | ||
| Well, Steve, I'm so glad that you brought up that vignette from the Battle of Long Island. | ||
| I mean, I think Tom really hit the nail on the head. | ||
| We really have an adverse selection problem in our military and our federal bureaucracy today. | ||
| You know, a lot of the more talented junior officers and CEOs get out at a younger age. | ||
| And the people who rise, who become flag officers today, are the people who can survive in a bureaucracy in a swamp for 25, 30 years. | ||
| That's who's leading us now. | ||
| And compare and contrast that with George Washington, a man who led from the front, who faced the guns. | ||
| If a campaign went wrong, he was going to get himself killed or hanged as a traitor. | ||
| And so he still led, and he led us to ultimate victory. | ||
| And that's why he was first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. | ||
| And our leadership today just simply doesn't get it. | ||
| We've seen that through this debacle in Afghanistan. | ||
| The Biden administration is just totally feckless. | ||
| I think that's the perfect word to describe Joe Biden. | ||
| He's incompetent. | ||
| He's not able to rise to the level of events. | ||
| And it's dangerous. | ||
| It has real world consequences. | ||
| We've warned about it for a long time. | ||
| But we're seeing those consequences today. | ||
| It looks like dead American soldiers, Marines and Navy corpsmen. | ||
| Let me ask you, talk about your journey because you were a football player at one of the great football programs in the country and then went into the military. | ||
| What inspired you to do that? | ||
| And you think that inspiration is still there? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So I come from a bit of a football family here in Arkansas. | ||
| My grandfather, dad, and uncle all played football at the University of Arkansas before me. | ||
| I'm a third generation Arkansas Razorback. | ||
| I was very blessed. | ||
| To be a team captain up there on some really good teams back when I played in Fayetteville. | ||
| I continued my football career in the NFL with the New England Patriots. | ||
| I was a small part of a Super Bowl championship team there in 2015. | ||
| But the real honor of my life was serving my country in uniform with the 101st Airborne Division. | ||
| I went through Ranger School, commissioned as an entry officer, deployed to Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division. | ||
| And I see this campaign as a continuation and extension of my military service, of the oath that I swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, because we need real leadership. | ||
| I mean, Washington is failing America. | ||
| Part of the problem, of course, are the radical Marxists in the Democrat Party, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the Squad. | ||
| We all know that. | ||
| But also part of the problem, and your listeners and viewers understand this, the other part of the problem are the invisible establishment career politicians in the Republican Party. | ||
| Okay, who simply refuse to stand up and fight for what's right. | ||
| That's why I'm in this race. | ||
| I'm not a career politician. | ||
| I'm an outsider. | ||
| I'm an athlete. | ||
| I'm a soldier. | ||
| I'm a leader. | ||
| And I'm going to stand up and fight for the conservative values that millions of Arkansans and Americans truly care about. | ||
| That's why I'm doing this. | ||
| Let me ask you, we'd love to have you stay over the break. | ||
| By the way, we have Darren Beattie. | ||
| We're trying to get some people from in-country that have been left behind. | ||
| They're going to try to call in. | ||
| We're going to try to talk to them. | ||
| We've got a packed show here. | ||
| Michael Yan is going to try to join us. | ||
| Jake, we've got about a minute in this segment and I want to bring you back. | ||
| In particular, the guys you served with and the men you led, there is no question ever about their valor and about their commitment under fire. | ||
| But you have to wonder, this is the way countries die. | ||
| This is the way that when people lose faith, when they lose faith in their leadership that are actually going to make the ultimate commitment, that's when it's all over. | ||
| Jake Beckett. | ||
| Well, you're exactly right. | ||
| Real leadership is having skin in the game. | ||
| It's putting yourself on the line. | ||
| It's taking risks. | ||
| It's taking responsibility for the actions. | ||
| That's one of the first things they teach you in the Army Infantry about being a platoon leader. | ||
| You're responsible for everything your platoon does or fails to do. | ||
| You're responsible for the lives of the men you lead. | ||
| And that was the greatest honor of my life, and I want to keep serving in the U.S. | ||
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Senate. | |
| Jake, hang on. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We've got Darren Beeb. | ||
| I'm supposed to have Vernon Jones. | ||
| Vernon's going to be with us tomorrow talking about what's happening in Georgia. | ||
| Today we're focused on the extraction under fire from Afghanistan, the 20-year war. | ||
| Did it end? | ||
| Or we just pulled down the curtain on the end of the beginning? | ||
| Because now we have a jihadist super state created right in front of our eyes. | ||
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We'll be back in the War Room with Jake Beckett in just a moment. | |
| Okay, we're back in the War Room. | ||
| It's a War Room special, Extraction Under Fire, a historic day, 245 years ago. | ||
| Today, the first extraction of the American Army across the East River from Brooklyn Heights to Manhattan, 245 years to the day. | ||
| The extraction of our troops, at least ending this moment of the Afghan campaign. | ||
| And now three, what, three great armies have left there. | ||
| Alexander the Great's, the British Army, I guess four, British Army, the Soviet Union, Russia at the top of their game, British at the top of their game, Alexander the Great at the top of his game. | ||
| And the United States of America. | ||
| I want to go back to Jake Beckett. | ||
| He's running for the United States Senate from Arkansas. | ||
| Jake, any closing thoughts here? | ||
| You left a football career with the Super Bowl championship, with the Patriots, obviously a great career, captain of the football team down at With the great folks, a great program down in University of Arkansas as a Razorback, and then went to serve your country as a, and by the way, Ranger, 101st Airborne, the best of the best. | ||
| What does it feel like for you today? | ||
| Today, when you see, and I know you served in Iraq, but it's a kind of a common war over there, right? | ||
| We spent nine trillion dollars on it. | ||
| People cycled in and out. | ||
| What are your feelings today that you walked away from one career to pursue another career Well, the events of the past few weeks and years, quite frankly, demonstrate that leadership matters. | ||
| It has real-world consequences. | ||
| We need better leadership in Washington. | ||
| I'm not a career politician. | ||
| We need people from outside the establishment political class. | ||
| We need warriors. | ||
| We need champions. | ||
| We need difference makers. | ||
| People who aren't going to Washington to go along, to get along, to hide under their desk and vote the right way some of the time. | ||
| People who aren't looking to make a career out of it. | ||
| We need people who are servant leaders, you know, people like our founding generation, like George Washington, you know, who believed in, you know, the ideal of Cincinnatus, the man who left his plow to go save Rome and then returned to his plow after his duty was done. | ||
| We need more leaders like that. | ||
| I'm going to be that kind of a leader. | ||
| And look, if your viewers, your audience want to support me, you can go to my website, jacobbeckett.com. | ||
| It's B-E-Q-U-E-T-T-E. | ||
| Look, donate, support us. | ||
| We're taking on the establishment. | ||
| We need all the help we can get. | ||
| We're off to a great start. | ||
| We've got a long way to go. | ||
| Jake, thank you. | ||
| A voice of the modern Trump movement. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here, brother. | ||
| Jake Beckett from Arkansas. | ||
| Let's go to Darren Beatty now, one of the smartest guys out there. | ||
| Darren, you and I have talked so much about ending the forever wars, right? | ||
| I may be a little aggressive in the next one we've got to take on, but you've done an amazing job as a revolver. | ||
| You've got a stunning new piece up. | ||
| I want to talk about that, because you take on one of the problems, and not just the individual, but what that individual represents. | ||
| Darren Beattie, what do you got for us? | ||
| We got a hot new piece right off the press, published five minutes ago, and addresses precisely this problem, this symbol, and what it represents. | ||
| That's H.R. | ||
| McMaster's comments. | ||
| I don't know if your audience is able to catch this, but right after the Bombing attacks days ago. | ||
| McMaster went on the news to say this bears all the hallmarks of a Taliban attack. | ||
| Now we found that interesting. | ||
| We found that interesting for a couple reasons. | ||
| We found it interesting because he seems to conflate the interests and the nature of Taliban and ISIS-K when actually they're two very different organizations with different interests and he conflates them | ||
| And also we noticed the point, the phraseology he uses, all the hallmarks, and we trace that exact specific phrase to countless other instances in which national security state apparatchiks, just like McMaster, use that precise phrase to con the American people into more war. | ||
| It goes from the Assad case to the the chemical weapons attack, supposedly, to the Russian bounties, which was another lie that the media used to prolong the war in Afghanistan. | ||
| And so we basically take this charlatan, this joke, this dangerous joke McMaster's remarks immediately after the attacks, and contextualize them in relation to a series of lies that the government has told us in order to extend these forever wars that only enrich the power pockets of people like McMaster, the defense contractors, and so forth, and everybody else loses, including the American people. | ||
| Yeah, and particularly this younger generation. | ||
| Here's the thing he's been saying, and this is one of the things I'll talk to you offline, but he's been saying that Trump was the problem. | ||
| He actually said the whole Trump deal, the Trump's construct, he compares it back to 2017. | ||
| The mentality was not just to extend the forever war, but to increase the forever war. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It's not that we don't have war now, and I've been saying this, and Darren, you know, reasonable men can disagree. | ||
| You know my obsession with the Chinese Communist Party, and it's that. | ||
| We're in it now. | ||
| We're in it. | ||
| That's why Elon Musk, and by the way, since somebody pulled up the Elon Musk quote from the, he pulled from the Guns of August. | ||
| Elon Musk got it, right? | ||
| We're in it now. | ||
| There's a Western front to this war, which is in India with our ally there. | ||
| In Central Asia, and all the bad units with 9 trillion dollars in 20 years, now we got the Haqqani Network, Pakistan, you know, the Taliban, you got them all. | ||
| Every devil on earth, with the Persians, right? | ||
| Throwing Iran in there. | ||
| On the Eastern Front, the CCP, Taiwan, South China Sea. | ||
| And the forever wars, these things just go on, and on, and on, and on, and it eats up kids. | ||
| You gotta throw money, blood and treasure, blood and treasure. | ||
| I mean, Darren, I've got to ask you a question, but I mean to do this, so we'll do it normally. | ||
| Normally, I don't just throw things out there on the show, but there's been a number of people I respect, really respect, that have come on here the last week or so and say, Steve, I understand you're attacking the party of Davos and the globalists and they're totally incompetent and this is the way the system is, no conspiracy, but they make a pretty cogent argument that | ||
| They're not that incompetent, that you couldn't get here unless they're actual acts of commission, and that this is partly, and some people are more aggressive, this is actually to break the spirit of the American people. | ||
| This is actually to break the spirit of the American people. | ||
| I know you've got very, because you've been all over the national security state and the intelligence apparatus and all of it as really a threat to our freedom here in the United States. | ||
| What are your thoughts on that? | ||
| How did we get here after 20 years? | ||
| How do you spend 9 trillion dollars? | ||
| How do you kill 10,000 young people? | ||
| The best we've got, the best of the best. | ||
| How do you have wounded 55,000? | ||
| How do you have the PSD? | ||
| How can something that calls himself a hegemon or superpower, how can your geniuses in the think tanks on Wall Street, at the corporations, at the Defense Department, you know, the defense contractors, all the think tanks around town, all the guys in Atlantic, all the guys on Morning Joe, all these geniuses of both political parties, how can we get here to something that now we may have metastasized, literally a third World War? | ||
| That's a great question and I think, you know, obviously to address it in full would require a lot of time, but I think there are a number of dimensions that are relevant to what you're talking about. | ||
| I think we see profound incompetence on two levels. | ||
| First of all, you have this utopian vision. | ||
| Utopian in the sense that it can't be realized, not even in the sense that it's desirable. | ||
| And that is this kind of democracy building emphasis on using human rights terminology to advance our supposed geopolitical objectives. | ||
| That's the utopian and misguided vision that played a part in this. | ||
| But then you also have the incompetent Execution and implementation. | ||
| So you have an incompetent implementation of a misguided utopian vision. | ||
| And so it's doubly incompetent and it's doubly doomed to fail. | ||
| But there's a third dimension of this that I think is important to introduce. | ||
| And that is failure with respect to what? | ||
| Certainly, the United States has been humiliated by this. | ||
| Certainly, many of our young and best people, our brave warriors died over this. | ||
| And also, you know, Afghanis too. | ||
| A lot of people died over this. | ||
| So we didn't win. | ||
| The American people didn't win. | ||
| Our strategic interests didn't win. | ||
| So it's a failure, right? | ||
| Well, it's a failure in that sense. | ||
| But it's not a failure for the defense contractors with big houses. | ||
| It's not a failure for Lockheed Martin, for Raytheon, and for people like McMaster, who go on to continue to pontificate With lies, misdirection, and collect a paycheck for it. | ||
| So, in relation to the people who are perpetrating these lies, it's not actually a failure. | ||
| They're extremely comfortable, they only fail upwards, and they continue to collect paychecks while they lead the American people from one humiliation to the next. | ||
| And that's really the problem, is that it's not a failure from their perspective. | ||
| And this is, listen, for folks out there, and if you saw these young Marines in the Corpsman, the Devil Doc, and the member from the United States Army, and of course the wounded, the young female Marine that's at Walter Reed, this young generation has such amazing leadership and grit and determination, okay? | ||
| Darren, how do we regenerate? | ||
| That's why I'm a populist and a nationalist, right? | ||
| Because we can regenerate, but we can't keep going down the path we're going. | ||
| Now you're seeing it, and Scheller's a trigger for this. | ||
| You're seeing, and that's why I started today, you're seeing a revolt by the best we have. | ||
| They're saying, no, I'm just not going to do this anymore. | ||
| You're seeing a revolt of that. | ||
| How do we regenerate? | ||
| How do we get back to core principles and regenerate around that and say, no more, we're not doing that? | ||
| Darren Beattie. | ||
| It's a great question. | ||
| If that's not adequately solved, where can it continue to go in the same direction? | ||
| It's really a question of accountability. | ||
| And accountability requires that our just anger over these failures and humiliations be channeled appropriately, be directed appropriately. | ||
| And this is why I say, for instance, in the aftermath of the terror attack, which is outrageous and tragic on every level, and of course, it generates a lot of anger. | ||
| One response is to say, OK, let's go back in and start bombing even more, which probably won't lead to the best conclusions. | ||
| Another option is to take that just anger and say, why isn't John Bolton in jail? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why aren't the people who actually orchestrated this incompetence in jail? | ||
| Because that's actually Delivering accountability for the lost soldiers and for the lost treasure far more than going back in and bombing some more. | ||
| And as we just saw, I can't confirm this, but I've seen reports that seem legitimate, that our recent retaliatory bombing actually didn't hit ISIS at all. | ||
| It just hit another innocent family, which is now dead. | ||
| So instead of doing things like that, Why don't we have the courage and the intelligence and the discernment to look at the criminals who are inside our own house, inside our own country, running our country and running the country into the ground? | ||
| Why aren't these people in jail? | ||
| Why aren't these people suffering? | ||
| Why are they sitting comfortably in their big houses, continuing to collect paychecks off of the misery and failure and humiliation of the American people? | ||
| Okay, Darren Beatty is our guest. | ||
| Darren, can you please stay over through the break? | ||
| I want to bring you back. | ||
| I've got a couple questions to ask you about the direction of this. | ||
| Darren Beatty is the founder and publisher, senior editor at Revolver.News. | ||
| Those are the sites you have to be hitting. | ||
| National Pulse, Revolver, the human events now under Jack Posovic. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| This is the cutting edge of the kind of the modern conservative, the modern populist, the modern nationalist movement, the Trump movement, MAGA, America First. | ||
| It's upon that that we're going to regenerate this. | ||
| And here's the good news. | ||
| I like who's on our side of the football. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| The grit, the determination, the indefatigability. | ||
| AMC Marine is going to join us next with Darren Beatty in the War Room. | ||
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| It's extraction under fire today, historic day. | ||
| The American military presence in Afghanistan ended with the final extraction, the retrograde out of troops in the last flight that left at 339 Eastern Daylight Time today, as announced by the Pentagon. | ||
| We've got tons of guests. | ||
| We're in Ghetto Mall, but I want to bring you a very special individual live from Kabul right now from Afghanistan. | ||
| Sir, I understand we don't want to give your name because we want to help protect you, but can you walk through What are you doing in Afghanistan? | ||
| What is the job you've been working on? | ||
| And who are you helping over there? | ||
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Thank you so much. | |
| Up to now, there is no one help me. | ||
| I'm working with the one of international NGO as a educational trainer. | ||
| And also I'm working of worker at organization country representative. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Can you tell us what, now that the Americans have left, can you tell us the condition, what's happening in the city, to the best of your knowledge, and what is the, so far, what's the Taliban been like? | ||
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Yes, there is a live fighting, and all of the people are awake, and they cried. | |
| Because they don't know why they are firing, but... And every viewer in Kabul city around the Kabul International Airport are firing, live firing, small gun or big gun. | ||
| Is that what you anticipate what's happened over the last couple of days? | ||
| Do you think that will continue that live firing and and a lot of anarchy and chaos? | ||
| Is this what you anticipate as a citizen of Kabul will continue on? | ||
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But the clear we cannot talk clear because there is no any way. | |
| Now they pay a lot of attention to the Islamic and they don't understand other areas like technology or relation with the other countries people and they only emphasize and focus on Islamic | ||
| Is your belief, here in the West and here in the United States, we're being told non-stop by the media that this is a softer, kinder Taliban, this is Taliban 2.0, and that although ISIS and Al-Qaeda might be bad, that the Taliban are much friendlier, they're going to really try to be good citizens so they can get international recognition. | ||
| Is that at least what you've seen so far, your belief? | ||
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Yes, because they have no organization behavior and they cannot make a good government because they don't know. | |
| And now the Afghanistan border is open for everyone. | ||
| Everyone can come to Afghanistan without anything like visa or permission. | ||
| What do you anticipate in your own personal life? | ||
| What do you anticipate is going to happen over the next few days and weeks? | ||
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We don't know because they have no any plans. | |
| Everyone, especially who work with the international NGOs or the high-level government seats, they don't know because they have no They don't know about what will happen and what will plan for the next days because everything is wrong and if they want everything they can do. | ||
| Sir, we all obviously, our audience prays for the safety of the people in Kabul. | ||
| Here, a lot of people have been talking, there's a fear of genocide, particularly amongst people that help the Americans. | ||
| Do you have any fear of that right now from what you've seen or what you've witnessed? | ||
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Yes, they told You are spay for who work with the angels, Americans or other variants. | |
| They told they are spay worker and you are opposite work for Islam or your country, your people. | ||
| They don't like like this people. | ||
| Sir, I want to thank you very much. | ||
| I know it takes a lot of bravery to try to call out and connect with us. | ||
| I want to thank you. | ||
| We've got your access points. | ||
| We'll reach out to you again. | ||
| I really want to thank you and for the people who helped set this call up. | ||
| So thank you very much for joining us here in the war room. | ||
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Thank you so much. | |
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Darren Beattie. | ||
| By the way, I want to bring on AMC Marine after the break. | ||
| Darren, and I'd love you to hold over also. | ||
| Darren, for us to leave, if there is a genocide against those who helped the West, give me your thoughts on that. | ||
| We've got about a minute and thirty. | ||
| Well, obviously that would be a terrible thing, but I do think we need to be careful about prioritizing Americans, American citizens. | ||
| It's one of the many failures of this whole evacuation effort, that it seemed that there was no strong priority and preference given to Americans over non-Americans. | ||
| And that's certainly a basic thing that one would expect, especially from an America First position, but simply from a common sense position as well. | ||
| I think as to the fate of those in Afghanistan, there's this You know, phrase invade the world, invite the world. | ||
| And sure, it would be nice to be able to save anyone, everyone who's in danger. | ||
| But there have to be questions about what's the limiting principle on this? | ||
| And how can this be practically implemented? | ||
| Given the disastrous failure of implementation of the withdrawal, can we expect any degree of competency in terms of vetting Hundreds or thousands or more of people coming from this and implanting them into a community near you in Wisconsin? | ||
| I doubt that. | ||
| Darren, hang on for one second. | ||
| We're taking a short commercial break. | ||
| We're in turn with Darren Beatty of Revolver. | ||
| We've got AMC Marine from the Ape Nation on Wall Street. | ||
| We have Frank Wuko, a specialist in Islam. | ||
| A helicopter pilot, young helicopter pilot from Afghanistan. | ||
| All of it next! |
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