The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - Aug 28, 2021

Aug. 28, 2021 - The Dan Bongino Show

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The Bongino Brief - Aug 28, 2021

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	Dan Bongino.
	Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
	I'm Dan Bongino.
	You know, I was thinking that maybe this was time for some Thomas Sowell motivation.
	Because whenever you think of policies like Joe Biden, even though Thomas Sowell is more of an economist and a philosopher than anything, he didn't cover foreign policy much.
	He was more of a domestic policy analyst.
	The great Thomas Sowell always had a way of looking at things.
	And usually when it comes to Medicare, Social Security, other stuff, he would have this, he had this thing where he'd say, listen, you know, whenever you're analyzing a leftist policy, say compared to what, at what cost and what's the hard evidence.
	Matter of fact, here's him saying it here.
	And I want you to listen to this and think of Afghanistan the whole time.
	Biden's choice to evacuate, dump Bagram Air Base in the mountains and try to secure an airport in the middle of the city with a mass evacuation while giving up all your weapons to the Taliban.
	Evaluate that in the context of the three questions here Thomas Sowell asked.
	Check this out.
	I've often said there are three questions that I think would destroy most of the arguments on the left.
	And the first is, compared to what?
	The second is, at what cost?
	And the third is, what hard evidence do you have?
	Now, there are very few ideas on the left that can pass all three of those kinds of things.
	There's almost, I'd make the case to you strongly, there's almost no idea on the left that can pass all three of those test questions.
	None.
	But although he, again, he wasn't, you know, he was very smart.
	He knew a lot about foreign policy.
	A lot.
	Matter of fact, he wrote about foreign countries a lot in his books on economics.
	But I want you to evaluate for a second Biden's decision-making chain on Afghanistan in light of Thomas Sowell's three questions.
	So evacuate Bagram Air Base first, giving you no effective vehicle For air transporting people out of Afghanistan, right?
	You have to air transport.
	Afghanistan is landlocked.
	There's no oceanfront.
	There was no port to get people out.
	There were liberals listening, so they don't get that.
	You understand that, right?
	The only way out was in the air.
	That was it.
	You can't walk out, or at least for the overwhelming majority of people, and you can't swim out.
	You had to fly out, meaning you needed a runway.
	We had two runways in Bagram Air Base, a 20-minute helo ride, helicopter ride out of Kabul.
	Joe Biden abandoned that first.
	I have not had one serious military professional tell me that was a sound decision, including General Jerry Boykin, a real American hero.
	I'm hoping to get him on my Fox show this weekend.
	Yes sir, I asked him this question.
	Can you tell me one reason we would abandon a fortified military facility with two air runways, with two of them, why we would abandon that first, trying to defend a runway in the middle of a city of four million people where we don't know who's friend or foe?
	No one has given me a satisfactory answer.
	So ask that question in light of Thomas Sowell's question number one.
	Compared to what?
	Well, Joe Biden said, abandon Bagram first, compared to what?
	Well, compared to, don't abandon Bagram first!
	Fortify Bagram, get everyone out of Kabul, fly them to Bagram, where it's a fortified military facility in the mountains with almost no one around, and fight there rather than fighting in a city surrounded by 4 million people.
	So when you say, oh, the decision to abandon Bagram was necessary, compared to what?
	Compared to the decision to fortify it and use it as a base that was reinforced?
	So, fails question number one, Biden's decision-making shade.
	Question number two, hastily withdraw from Afghanistan and abandon Bagram.
	Ask Thomas Sowell's question number two, at what cost?
	Well, we're seeing the cost now.
	Explosion outside Kabul airport, tens of thousands of American citizens, SIVs and green card holders left behind.
	A human crisis, a hostage crisis like we haven't seen in years.
	The weapons, good point, 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 small arms left behind, a fleet of Black Hawk helicopters.
	At what cost?
	At a significant cost.
	We now have one of the most well-armed armies in the world, the Taliban, because of your tax dollars.
	So abandon Bagram at what cost?
	At significant cost.
	Fails question number two.
	Third question from Thomas Sowell.
	What hard evidence do you have that abandoning this way is going to work?
	The answer is none!
	What example do you have?
	Saigon?
	That's your example?
	What hard evidence do you have?
	The Taliban, a terrorist group of medieval animal savages, and that's an insult to animals.
	What evidence do you have the Taliban was going to be some kind of efficient, effective governing body?
	The answer is you have no evidence.
	Zero.
	None.
	You just made that up.
	All three questions failed.
	Compared to what?
	At what cost?
	And what hard evidence do you have?
	But folks, you can't negotiate with these people.
	I'm talking about the Biden administration.
	Can't negotiate with the Taliban either, although the Biden administration seemed to think that.
	You can't negotiate with leftists because they are lost.
	They are the program.
	You know what?
	Hey, Jim, for the radio show, we need that Yuri Bezmenov clip again about the one we used last week.
	Yuri Bezmenov, KGB defector.
	Saying how the effective way to dismantle a country from within is to program idiots.
	Program idiots with propaganda.
	Once they're programmed, you cannot break them.
	There is no amount of evidence you can show them.
	You can show them the concentration camps in front of their eyes and they will not believe it.
	That's a quote from Besmanov.
	Because leftists have been gaslighted to death.
	You doubt me?
	Listen to this.
	This is the Canadian Minister for Women and Gender Equality.
	Keep in mind, she's talking about the Taliban that rape children, subjugate women, Torture and kill their political opponents and impose Sharia law.
	This is Maryam Mansaf.
	This is real.
	Talking about the Taliban.
	I want you to pay very specific attention how this Canadian minister refers to the Taliban in this clip and why you can never negotiate with the left.
	They need to be fully defeated.
	Check this out.
	I want to take this opportunity to speak to our brothers, the Taliban.
	We call on you to ensure the safe and secure passage of any individual in Afghanistan out of the country.
	He said it right.
	He's like, this show is just depressing today.
	But it's real.
	And unlike the leftists, we're not going to run away and we're not going to program ourselves.
	Gaslighting?
	Gaslighting involves lies, lying often, lying confidently, and isolating people from the truth.
	I refuse to isolate you from the truth, however hard it is to hear.
	These are the kind of leftists you're dealing with who are dealing with the Taliban.
	Our brothers.
	Our brothers in the Taliban.
	You mean the child rapists, murdering, terrorist thugs?
	Those people?
	They're your brothers?
	They're not my brothers.
	They may be your brothers, but they certainly ain't mine.
	The Dan Bongino Show.

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