Plus: Salon Owner Who Exposed Pelosi’s Maskless Visit Fights for Small Businesses
August 19 2021
Good morning from Washington, where hardly anyone thinks President Biden did a good job managing the U.S. exit from Afghanistan. We’ve got three candid commentaries from Jim Carafano, James Phillips, and Jarrett Stepman. On the podcast, a 10-tour veteran of the Afghanistan War shares thoughts about this unhappy ending. Plus: Texas’ highest court OKs a roundup of “fugitive” Democrats; a college president minimizes the harm of critical race theory; and “Problematic Women” catches up with the salon owner who blew the whistle on Nancy Pelosi’s maskless appointment. On this date in 1964, The Beatles perform a 12-song set at the Cow Palace in San Francisco to begin their first concert tour of America and Canada.
There is every expectation that Afghanistan will again become a sanctuary for terrorists. After all, the Taliban controls more territory, more weapons, and more money than it did on 9/11.
Erica Kious says she now lives part-time in Tennessee “because I'm safe here,” adding that “they're not going to shut me down. … It’s crazy that I had to leave [California].”
Although the fall of Kabul has been compared to the fall of Saigon, a better comparison is the 2014 collapse of the Iraqi army in the face of the ISIS onslaught.
Afghans “loved us because we weren't trying to change them, we were trying to facilitate their success using their culture ... The Taliban destroyed their family,” says retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc.
