The Bongino Brief - Aug 28, 2021
Joe Biden's decision-making on Afghanistan withdrawal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug. 28, 2021 - The Dan Bongino Show
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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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