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We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Charlie Kirk here. And I've warned you about home title theft, where cyber thieves remove you from your home's title and you become the owner. I said you better get home title locked because it's coming. Well, if you're on Facebook, that big breach is here. Facebook had 500 million accounts exposed to cyber thieves. And according to a retired FBI cybercrime expert, everything thieves need to take over as the new owner of your home was leaked. Name, address, personal information. It's out there. The thief forges your signature on a quit claim deed stating you sold your home to him. He'll leave you in debt or he'll even have you evicted. Do what I did and protect your home's title. With home title lock, go to hometitlelock.com and register your address to see if you're already a victim. Then Sign up for 30 free days of protection during this high risk breach. Then sign up for 30 free days of protection again. Hometitlelock.com promo code radio that's hometitlelock.com promo Code radio I took Friday to spend some time with my friends at the Claremont Institute, diving into great books and, and timeless ideas and to try to always make sure that I am presenting the best ideas to all of you. And what a mess, what a mess that we have to talk about today. You know, I've done a lot of prep for this show today and a lot of thinking and a lot of praying about how to approach this. It's hard to even find the words to describe the set of circumstances that we've seen over the last couple days. So I remember 9 11. I was in second grade on September 11, 2001. I remember what class I was in. Remember how the class reacted. I was at Quest Academy actually in Palatine, Illinois. I remember from that point forward, the nation had a war posture and mentality. We were told that Al Qaeda was to blame for 9 11, which was true. We were told that we had to go into Afghanistan with special forces and targeted strikes and find the people who did this. Now, that I totally agreed with. Well, I was in second grade. I agree with. Looking back then, we got into the ground war business, trying to build an empire in a part of the world that did not want it. Trying to westernize Afghanistan that was sympathetic after 10 years, maybe 15 years. But eventually we started to ask ourselves the question. As we were facing a $25 trillion debt, rapid inflation, our own citizens were not being prioritized first. Why are we empire building in Kabul when we do not have, when we have citizens in Baltimore that can't read? Why are we building schools in rural Afghanistan when we have our own voters that are seeing their standard of life go down. So President Trump was the first president since the start of the Afghan war, that includes Barack Obama, by the way, to say maybe we should come to some sort of an agreement, some sort of a path forward to end the war in Afghanistan, but end it correctly. Now, remember, President Trump dropped the MOAB, the mother of all bombs in 2017. President Trump did a drone strike against Kassam Soleimani. President Trump did Tomahawk missile strikes in Syria. He was unafraid to use force when necessary. He was not a dove when it came to foreign policy. But he also was not a neocon empire building hawk. In principle, I believe that the war in Afghanistan needed to be scaled down, that the Afghan government had received hundreds of billions of our dollars and it was long past time for them to be able to defend themselves. If they wanted to be a sovereign nation, then you're going to have to handle the Taliban yourself. Here's a tough realization for a lot of us. Nation building does not work. You are not going to turn Afghanistan into Alabama. You're not going to turn Afghanistan into Arkansas. This is the lie of the neoconservative project. Now a lot of the neoconservative writers and kind of jerks on Twitter are saying, oh, see, Afghanistan has fallen. This is why we needed to occupy it for another hundred years. That's a ridiculous thing to say. I think you can have a very nuanced, moderate and common sense and dare I say, prudent approach to this, that you wanted to see the war in Afghanistan be scaled down eventually, correctly, while honoring our promises to the Afghan government and to the people there, while also understanding that we are not going to have Afghanistan as the 51st state, our nation, that we do have a moral obligation to look after our citizens and our nation. It takes generations to modernize society. You just can't purchase it and write a check to accomplish modern society. Western civilization was the work of hundreds of years of thinking, of writing, of dialogue. Yet the pride and the hubris of the neoconservative right and the war hawkish left, that they could come into Afghanistan and all of a sudden they're going to turn it into this beautiful pinnacle of Western society. That was foolish from the beginning. So Joe Biden then announces that he is going to withdraw all troops on September 11th about three weeks from now. Now, very fair question should be Joe Biden, why that day? That's kind of weird. Why? First of all, you shouldn't broadcast your plans to the enemy. That's the simple piece of feedback that a Lot of people give. But what's the wisdom of that day? Is that the best military decision, Are you just going to give the entire country to the Taliban? Is the Taliban then just going to run the country? Now, that was a fair question. And again, I want to just re emphasize this. This is not a warhawk show. This is not a neoconservative show. We believe that American force strategically used against our enemies is proper and can be prudent. Nation building, empire building, and trying to change entire civilizations to fit our own is a fool's errand. I'm not really sure that the people in charge of our military thought all of this out completely. Remember when President Trump withdrew from the Iran deal, they said there would be war with Iran. Well, that wasn't true. The experts were wrong. Remember when President Trump moved the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? They said there would be war. They were wrong. Remember when they said that when President Trump killed Qassam Soleimani, it wasn't him, but it was a drone strike through the United States military, There would be war. And they were wrong. And the experts, the military generals like Mark Milley, who was too busy talking about critical race theory at a congressional hearing while the Taliban was plotting a takeover of Kabul. They said that if Biden withdrew from Afghanistan, the Taliban would not sweep back into power. They were wrong. Has our foreign policy intelligentsia been right about anything in the last 10 years? Have the people that make millions of dollars to write these articles in the New York Times that have these think tanks that are well funded by Raytheon and Northup, Grumman and Lockheed Martin, have they predicted anything correctly? The foreign policy experts said, well, you know, Biden withdrawal, that's going to be perfectly fine. The way he's doing it is great. Now, President Trump had negotiated and put forward a withdrawal plan that had the Taliban afraid that if they would have crossed a certain line, there'd be disproportionate force used against them. And instead, Joe Biden says, we're getting out. And not only did the Taliban take back the country, they took it back so quickly and overwhelmed the 300,000 Afghan soldiers that we were not even able to load up our planes in time. By the time the Taliban had retaken the government, 75,000 Taliban fighters, 300,000 Afghan government fighters, they barely even fought. I don't even know if there was a shot fired. And what does the president of Afghanistan do? He flees the country. Who's in charge here? The United States military is the most well funded enterprise in the history of organization. We spend a trillion dollars in Afghanistan, we leave our weapons behind for the Taliban to take up and use against the Afghan soldiers. Just leave them behind. Don't even destroy the weapons. The president we put in place flees the country and there wasn't even a shot fired by the Taliban before they took Kabul. I was just in Oklahoma this last weekend at Enid, Oklahoma. It's a great church. Emmanuel, Enid. Tell you that's those folks love America, wouldn't you say, Jake? They love America still. It's a great place. Not too far from Oklahoma City. Actually gave me hope. A lot of military people there, and they were really upset. In fact, some military Air force people came up and said, charlie, why don't I just do. The last decade, my whole life was about serving in Afghanistan, persuading the people in Afghanistan to fight with us. We told them we would never betray them. We told them that if they fought alongside of us, we'll hold the Taliban at bay. So I think this actually warrants a little bit of an explanation, which is, who are the Taliban? Well, the Taliban, they were removed from power in Afghanistan by us in 2001, and they have been displaced from power over the last 20 years and obviously they have seized power again. Taliban, or otherwise known as students in the Pashto language, emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. It is believed that the predominantly Pashtun movement first appeared in religious seminaries. I'm reading from BBC.com mainly mostly paid for by money by Saudi Arabia, which preached a hardline form of Sunni Islam. The promise made by the Taliban in Pashtun areas to straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan was to restore peace and security and enforce their own very austere version of sharia, or Islamic law. Their political office is in Doha right now, and they will return back to Afghanistan very soon. Ahead of the Taliban is this guy. Holy moly. Good luck Pronouncing this Malwali, Hipatullah Aga Sagadzara. He's the former Taliban chief justice leader since 2016. There's a senior judge, political deputy, deputy and deputy. And they're from southwestern Afghanistan. The Taliban began quickly extending their influence in September of 95 and captured the province of Herat bordering Iran. Now, the Taliban, the actual Pashtun people, they have a history going back hundreds of years, well over a thousand years. They own those hills, the Taliban, they have banned music, television, cinema that disapproved of girls over 10 going to school they have been accused of various human rights and cultural abuses. And in fact, the Taliban destroyed the famous Bimin Buddha statues in central Afghanistan. Pakistan has repeatedly denied that it was the architect of the Taliban enterprise. You cannot trust Pakistan, by the way. That's a great lesson for life. The Pakistani government cannot be trusted. They have the isi. Watch out for those people. And so the reason why the neoconservatives wanted to invade Afghanistan was they said that it was a sanctuary for Al Qaeda. Now, this argument never made a lot of sense to me because it ended up being Pakistan that was the sanctuary for Osama bin Laden. That's not a good reason for a long protracted ground invasion in a project in colonialism and imperialism. I think special forces and airstrikes would have been sufficient to be able to find the exact targets in the hills of Afghanistan, not hundreds of thousands of ground troops and $1 trillion spent. And I'm going to ask this question and we're going to keep on diving into this. What did we get for $1 trillion spent and thousands of lives lost and tens of thousands of soldiers with PTSD and tens of thousands of soldiers with injuries? What do we have to show for it? A Taliban that is stronger than when we first came. Our generals like Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley who are in charge of the Department of Defense. Instead of wondering about what is the prudent and wise way to withdraw from Afghanistan and make sure we're good on our promise to the people Afghanistan, they were too busy talking about critical race theory in anti American philosophy. They're too busy mandating how to be an anti racist to our generals. Remember this narrative we've talked about here in our program and our podcast about how the military has gone woke. Well, as the military goes woke, the Taliban takes over. Big tech platforms would not be what they are today. Would it not be for content creators? Even though these platforms would be empty without great content, they have ultimate control over the newsfeed and what members see and do not see. Locals.com thinks this as well. Nuts. So they set out to build the first social media platform that champions the true heroes of the social media world, the creators. Where creators have total ownership and control over their content. A platform doesn't subject everyone to BS algorithms that prioritize the platform's need and politics over speech. The phrase isn't power to the platforms, it's power to the people. We like Locals a lot and I want to. I want you to check out our locals feed@charliekirk.locals.com that's charliekirk.locals.com you could check it out. This is a way to be able to see our uncensored content and supporters can post it too. It's a direct line to us, so check it out. Right now, I'm excited to see you at charliekirk.locals.com Charlie Kirk.locals.com where is Joe Biden? Joe Biden is vacationing, eating ice cream at Camp David, silent as the 20 year war turns into a total public spectacle of humiliation. This is humiliating, everybody. It's humiliating to see overweight, goat herding perverts storm the capital of Afghanistan that was funded by our own dollars and our blood over the last 20 years. It's humiliating. People are saying we lost the war. Hard to disagree with that. Ending the war the way President Trump wanted to was the right call. With force as a threat, with negotiation bilaterally. And now we're seeing the consequences of that. China is partnering with the Taliban. Dr. Keith Rose, a friend of mine, we're going to be doing an event with him this weekend actually at Calvary Chapel, Godspeak, my Pastor's Church. Rob McCoy, he said, when we came to Afghanistan, I remember reading that Afghanistan was finally liberated from regime that imposed mandatory face coverings, destroyed statues and promoted the genital mutilation of children. Sadly, that could also be said as we leave. So we used to attack the Taliban for mandatory face coverings, destroying statues and promoting the genital mutilation of children. We now do all three of those things in the United States of America. You have chemical castration in states across the country and Republican governors like Asa Hutchinson who support it. We are taking down statues all across the country and you can't walk into a restaurant in LA Vegas, New York without a face covering. Seems that we took the Taliban values here and allowed the Taliban to take over Afghanistan. Joe Biden promised us this would never happen. Joe Biden said there would be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the embassy or of the United States from Afghanistan. Play cut three.
