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Kabul Airport Situation begins crumbing fast as Biden says he plans to be OUT by the 31st...
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The clock ticks down on a 20 year war
as the doors at the airport, quickly
close stranding, tens of thousands
of Afghans who were fighting for
the Americans and NATO forces and
now fighting to leave the country.
And there's a highly likely
scenario that there'll be us.
British forces left behind.
Hey, it's Lucas robot.
And you're listening to the Lucas scrub
bot show where we uncover purpose, pursue
truth and own the future episode 252.
It is the late evening
of August 25th, 2021.
And as I said, the door
is quickly, quickly.
On, uh, evacuation flights.
It is not, it is not a good look for,
for those who've been desperately,
desperately trying to get out of
the country over the last week.
And that's not just, that's not
just for, uh, SIV applicants,
special, special persons applicants.
Who've worked with the us
military or British military.
As interpreters.
That's not just for, uh, for Afghans who
qualified under whether it's religious
minorities or, or other qualifications
to get out of the country in time.
There are thousands.
Pounding metaphorically speaking,
pounding on the gates of the airport.
Now trapped between two perimeters,
the perimeter of the U S military
and a perimeter of the Taliban
outside, you know, a far, a little
distance outside of the airport of
people trying to get in the airport.
They are not letting people in
the airport, except if you are us
citizens, us green card holders,
and a certain select number of SIV.
But even some of those SIV individuals,
uh, they are not looking like
they are getting in at the moment.
There are many conflicting reports
on the ground, but that, that window
of time is definitely closing.
The U S and Biden continue, continue to
hold onto their deadline of midnight, or
I guess it would be 11:59 PM on August 30.
First of giving getting everyone
out, all the troops out of Afghani.
Which means they have to start drawing
down those troops in stopping or, or
greatly reducing evacuation flights
before that time to get people out.
So that window is closing.
Some people yesterday said that
this was a 72 hour window reports.
I have heard that is an 18
hour window by the mint.
And that's coming from.
Uh, uh, time a timestamp of 9:30
PM, uh, here in the middle east.
So by the time that you're getting
this in the morning or evening,
wherever you are at that window
know is likely to be greatly
reduced to a number of hours hours.
Now that they have promised the
U S government has promised that
every American that wants to get
out is going to be able to get out.
They're not stranded,
they're not abandoned.
And yet.
There are many people who are feeling
stranded and abandoned us citizens.
In addition to that, there
are other people who even have
their names on flight manifests.
They have their names on flight
manifests, but reports are coming in
that even though they have their names,
even though they'd been approved.
Even though they have a seat on an
airplane promised to them they're
not getting through because there
there's just so many people that
need to be evacuated that they're
prioritizing only you as citizens.
Well, uh, great news.
If you're into that sort of thing, uh,
from the Taliban Taliban spokesperson
was recently interviewed and their second
press conference and had some really
warm and encouraging words to say, uh,
for the, for the Afghani people here
is the spokesperson for the Taliban.
There's a lot of discussion
in the west about the 31st.
Have you received any requests from
the Americans to extend the evacuation?
Uh, the evacuation
scheme beyond that data.
And are there any circumstances
under which you would agree
to extending that day?
were extended line 31st
is the American plan.
This was already according
to the agreement.
They have opportunity.
They have all the resources, they can
take all the people that belong to them.
We are not going to allow, I can't sleep
and we will not extend the deadline.
We will be deciding about this there.
And then we are not going
to allow Afghans to leave.
We're not gonna allow Afghans to leave.
Essentially.
Uh, I've gone.
Hassan has turned into a, a prison
we're Afghanis are, are kept in
the country and not allowed to
right now in this us evacuation.
So what they, they have done his
Afghan Taliban forces have set up
a perimeter around the airport.
Reports are seen that.
Foreigners are allowed through those
checkpoints, but Afghan citizens are not
now that the Taliban has also reported
that after us forces pull out all of
their people after everyone's gone, then
they will permit Afghans to leave the
country, which it sounds, I don't know, it
sounds a little bait and switch to meet.
We'll see what happens in
the coming weeks, but more
importantly, At that point.
If, if there are, if there are no one,
there is no one there to protect those
who partnered with us and NATO forces.
If there's no one there to protect
religious minorities who are under
threat, there's no one there to protect
journalists foreign journalists,
well, or, or Afghanis who worked
with foreign news sources or NGS.
It seems awful convenient where the
Taliban could then say, well, you
people who did everything right.
You can leave.
But, uh, all of you, other people
who we've given amnesty to, but
with that amnesty and goodness
comes certain stipulations.
You have to stay in the country.
You can't go.
You're now held prisoner.
Speaking of being held prisoner, the,
the Taliban also announced recently.
Within the last day that women should
stay inside until they figure out what
laws really should apply to women.
Because it's, you know, it's, it's
a dangerous, it's dangerous for
women to be outside the house.
It's dangerous.
It's better.
Just keep them inside.
Reports are, are, are flooding in on the.
Not mainstream news sources, but from
local news sources that I've been
following on, on Instagram and on
telegram, uh, one of the news sources
that I, I received, I'll just even read it
out to you right now was from Instagram.
Where one account said this just got news.
They will only open
schools until sixth grade.
That's not right.
We need schools to open until grade
12 for girls in Southern Afghanistan.
Another lady posted this is via Twitter.
My friend.
In the villages say that the boys
right now are told to join the
madrasa instead with madrasa means
school, but it's a religious school
instead of going to the local school.
And it's getting worse for girls who
haven't been able to receive an education.
So that's the, that's the news that's
happening outside in the villages from
local sources who are there on the ground.
Maybe not what we're seeing in the.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
That's what we can.
I think that's what we can expect.
That's what we should expect in anyone
expecting otherwise my word, you know,
we, I, I live here in the middle east
and when there is an issue surrounding
Palestine, what'd, we've covered be
here, be here before on the show, the
number of people who are so bold and.
It's just astounding that you can't,
you can't go two seconds on a social
media feed without it front and center.
But the silence around this issue,
you think that it would be more
prevalent as it's it's around issues
that very vocal people are very vocal
about frequently in this region.
One it's the denouncing
of, of groups like ISIS.
Or terrorist groups like
ISIS saying, well, they're,
they're not really part of us.
It's fighting for women's rights across,
across these nations in these regions.
But right now it's tremendously silent and
there my calculation, and maybe someone
else can, can prove and tell me wrong.
But even some of my local
friends that I've talked with.
Who are a little bit more vocal about
what's happening right now in Afghanistan.
They agree with me.
The reason that many people aren't
saying anything about what's happening
right now with the Taliban takeover
is because the Taliban and Hamas
they're cut from the same cloth.
They're cut from the same cloth.
And if you are pro Palestine in their
definition, I am, I am pro Palestine,
and I'm also against a call for Genesis.
But if you're most people here, if you're
pro Palestine, that means you're pro Hamas
and Hamas curious all of the same, nearly
all ensure there's some differentiation,
but nearly all of the same values in the
way that they see the outworking in the
outer plane of Sri a law in a society.
Now, not all, not all
nations in the region.
And very, very few, it's only a few
organizations like Hamas or the Taliban
or ISIS in the region that sees such
a fierce outplaying of Sharia law,
but we've even played clips in here of
foreign ministers from the United Arab
Emirates, denounced Hamas as a terrorist
organization, which I that's great.
I love, I love seeing that.
I love hearing that.
I'm glad that there are people who
are standing up an insane, what
only seems to be rationally true.
But the reason that there is not a
lot of push in this region right now,
vocally around this issue is because
if you condemn the Taliban, you're
condemning your, your, the, the people
that you side with with the same values
in Hamas, and they can't fully cheerful.
Even though there is a narrative of,
well, we finally have rid ourselves
from the imperialist oppressor and
many people see no difference between
what was taking place in Afghanistan.
And what is currently
taking place in Israel.
Israel is just a, an, an, a period
mystic Zionistic, oppressor oppressor.
And that was the occupier.
And that is the same thing
that the U S forces were.
Afghanistan.
So seeing the Taliban take over
and, and seeing the Americans
run for some it's, and this is
assumptions that I'm, I'm reading
in between the lines for some it's.
Well, this is kind of what we want
to see happen in Israel anyway.
So yeah, this is what we want to see
in Palestine from the river to the sea.
Palestine will be free.
Well, I digress.
Back to the topic at hand, uh, Jen
Saki, us white house press secretary.
She commented on just this.
Th th the collapsing of, uh, foreigners
only being able to get through the
telephone checkpoints and the closing
window that people have to evacuate.
Afghanistan.
When do you need to start pulling
troops out of the cop airport?
To me to meet the occupiers 30 way time.
It's a great question, Steve.
I just don't want to get into
operational details that are under
the purview of the deferment.
Go ahead, but you are correct.
I will note that it would not be, it
would, there would have to be time
in advance of the 31st or in time,
time in advance of whatever the date
is in order to do that, but they can
give you the operational details.
Go ahead.
Does that mean that the evacuations
will stop before the actual 31st?
So then there is time to get
the troops and their machinery
and weaponry out of there.
Uh, that would be correct.
Yes.
That there would need to be
time to wind down the presence.
I will note though, that the purpose of
this statement is to provide additional
context of what the president conveyed
to the G seven and at the G seven mind
you, there was pushback against Biden
being hard, set on, getting everyone
out by the 31st and, and here they're
making the open confession of yes.
We in order to get all the
troops out by the 31st, we have
to stop evacuation flights.
Before that reports right now on the
ground is that there's 10,000 people well
inside of the airport walls right now
that need to be evacuated, not to mention
the thousands on the outside of the wall
that are trying to get in to be evacuated.
The likelihood that they're going
to continue to let more and more
people through those gates dwindled.
By the moment now to, to their
point, I understand that there's
increasing threats of terrorism
against us, NATO, UK forces from ISIS
K there, and those are real threats.
And so in some ways I have,
I have a sliver of empathy.
In in the rationality that, well,
if we, if we stay around and we stay
longer, we can increase a level of
threat of attacks against our forces
attacks against civilian forces.
And even maybe we'll end up
getting in some sort of retaliation
from the Taliban themselves.
If they're saying, no, you can't be here.
You're now invading our land.
And.
Attack the airport and fight that
the number of civilian casualties
could be through the roof.
And yeah, it would definitely turn
this into a bad to worst situation.
If all of a sudden we saw a full-out a
war between the airport and the Taliban
forces with thousands of civilians caught
in between and the cost of crossfire.
I mean, that would be disastrous.
Their hopes from my understanding,
their hopes is that okay?
Well, once we get the us forces out
commercial flights, we'll be able to
start back up and we will be able to
get whether it's the rest of our us
citizens out or, or SIV applicants or even
other Afghans, they will be permitted.
And we're gonna, we're gonna have
to work with it because that's what
the situation is on the ground.
The other side of that is there
are many Afghans who are saying
you've been here for 20 years.
I'm sure you can stay for one more week.
I'm sure you can hold this for one more
week and actually let people through.
Oh, Jen Psaki goes on.
Includes a number of very key
components as he assesses day by day.
And that includes the threat of ISIS.
Uh, which is of great concern,
understandably to the president, given
the threat, it poses to our military
who were on the ground, serving, uh,
proudly and bravely on the ground.
It also includes the essential, uh, aspect
of having the Taliban's coordination
continue over the coming days.
So we can facilitate as many
people as we've been going.
America has just full on capitulate.
To the Taliban just fight and just seems
to have full on capitulated to their
needs and understand technically now
they're unwelcomed in someone else's
country and they're yeah, they're not
welcome there at the same, the same.
You have to wonder what, what, what are
the stipulations that would cause them to
stay longer and will, will there end up
being greater loss of life by pulling out?
Or if they, they push on and stay
until they get all of our allies, all
of the people who fought alongside
us forces out well, uh, Fox news
has something to say about just the.
And I just got an email from someone
who's talking directly with the team
leader on the ground, uh, uh, trying to
get people out and I'll just read, we'll
put up some pictures from the airport,
FYI, from my evacuation team leader.
One hour ago, we have people on the ground
at the airport waiting for a new update.
Any minute we have a team
on the ground running.
Evac evacuation operations.
So this Intel is as real as it gets.
This might help you
understand what's happening.
Basically the U S is refusing
to take any more Afghan locals.
And as a us citizen, only
policy in play, this is correct.
That's all my sources have confirmed.
This is correct.
There's many rumors saying, oh, we're
still taking, we're still taking people.
We're taking 5,000 people a day, but the
real numbers that I've heard from on the
ground, They're only taking 1,500 people
a day and they have stopped taking all.
All non us citizen green card holders
or embassy staff stated that once August
31st hits, they will help nobody else.
U S or Afghan.
These are the Taliban checkpoints
or hearing that a deal has been
done with the Taliban and that the
U S is expediting the withdrawal
and wants to be out in 72 hours.
Anybody left is on their own.
President Biden, disregarding
all sound, military advice.
It's expected that he will continue
to push ahead and ignore the
military either today or tomorrow.
According to the source on
the ground, they believe the
airport gates will be sealed.
They've already destroyed
the only road out the age.
65 destroyed the tunnel effectively,
effectively cutting off that route
out the UK pulled out already
due to a Kia killed in action.
In short, the Polish
troops also have pulled up.
For the county and any us citizen,
the country, and any us citizen
in the country have been sold out.
Uh, Taliban have total control
of the city now are telling women
and children's stay in the house.
And anybody else is fair game,
including all military personnel.
Um, the person on the ground is
a foreman, former Navy pilot,
uh, running the point operation.
Now I am so grateful.
I'm so grateful.
Every man and woman in uniform
that is quite they're pulling
insane hours, putting their lives
at risk, working hard to get our
allies that fought alongside us.
And we fought alongside
for years in Afghanistan.
Where we made commitments
to, and I am, I am glad I am.
I, I am so grateful for each person
that is putting their life on the line.
Now, these, these commands are
coming down from the U S state.
Of who is being able to let through
and who is not, there are reports.
Uh, some that I'm sure are verified.
Some that are unverified of planes
that are leaving, that are mostly empty
because they're not letting people
through because there are these flight
manifests that were filled with Afghans
who did not meet special qualifications.
And so they weren't
permitted through the gate.
And so these flights are taking
off some photos show, whether
they're verified or not.
I do not know a hundred percent,
but her taking off, not full,
but with a lot of capacity left.
And that is coming down from, from
a us state department decision.
But it's causing.
In my opinion, uh, a deep betrayal
of, of people that we had have a
duty to, which would be us citizens
or UK citizens and people that we
have a responsibility to, that we
made a commitment to to honor those.
Would you be all those that fought
along side us on the native form?
Throughout 20 years.
Well, here is a, a clip from ITV news.
They had this brilliant report.
Uh, from outside the airport
wall, Syrah is a British citizen.
Who's been denied entry into the airport.
I'm a British citizen and
I've got my kids operation.
They stock here, they closed the door
on us and they're shooting back at
us while the message for the prime
minister is just to get us out from here.
Otherwise, our kids are smuggling
all in a big mass here under the
British army is right behind this.
They closed the gate and
not, they're not let it slip.
They don't let me know when it, if
this is, if this is a British citizen,
he's holding a British passport and not
being allowed in what, what good would
be with those SIV, the translators, the
people that worked with armed forces be,
are they going to get in highly doubt?
Jen Saki in that same presser was I
believe the day before it was saying, oh,
people were w no one's being stranded.
No one's being abandoned.
We're not going to strand anyone ever
we're in contact with all of our people.
They're going to be in just fine.
We're going to get them through.
Well, uh, apparently.
This man, whether he's gotten
through or not, I don't know.
But at this time the door
was being shut on him.
It seems that people are
going to get stranded there.
And we do not know the fate from that
point on here is another clip from that
same, uh, interview from I T V news.
Oh, the British interpreter.
And I worked for one year in
Natalie in Helaman with the Marines.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yesterday night, I was here.
You've been here all night,
all night in my children.
This is my children.
She is my wife.
And I need help from you.
Okay.
If you notice you say yesterday
night, I've been here.
There are thousands of people who have
gone to the airport realizing that
because of their status, because of how
they've partnered with the U S forces
in the past, they doubt that their law.
Well, one be respected
underneath the new rule.
After the NATO forces leave.
And two, they doubt that they doubt
that they want to live the sort of life
that would be led underneath Taliban
rule, not just under the underneath
tree law, but underneath there's strict
and stringent enforcement of those
laws that deny rights to, to girls.
And religious minorities.
So these thousands of people.
Have left their homes with a backpack
and are camping out around the airport.
And now with the perimeter that the
Taliban has set up in the announcement
that we're not letting any Afghanis
through, they are stuck there within that
perimeter in, in the hopes and the vein
hopes that the airport doors will open.
And so people are sleeping out there for
two, three days, 4,000 people sharing one
Porter, potty that's overflowing sewage
and septic flowing all over the place.
This is the situation.
This is the catastrophe that
has, is taking place right now.
That is inexcusable and
was completely avoided.
Completely avoidable here is
another clip of the scenes.
Now I'm sure these scenes
are there's hundreds of them.
I'm sure these are not just isolated,
isolated moments or instances
of, of chaos or of kids getting
separated from their parents.
Uh, I just on, on thinkable things that
people are going through right now and
their parents aren't insight into till
dinner outside of the children right here.
He standing right here.
Amid the chaos.
We were shown two children apparently
left behind when their parents were
among the few to be admitted here, Mr.
Biden, you did this, you planned this,
you made the deal with the dollar bonds.
This is the consequences of it.
This is the ramifications of it.
Mr.
Biden, as your L calculation,
you will, or against shrimp.
Now we are against Shu.
Here that this, this
gentleman is so upset.
You made a deal with the Taliban.
You're the, you're the
one that planned this.
You're the one that planned
this, this withdrawal.
You're the one that thought, ah, you
know what, before, before we might have
to evacuate the entire city before we do
that, let's just shut down our biggest.
Airport or biggest military base that
could maybe even probably would have
facilitated many of these evacuations.
We're just going to give up one
of our greatest assets first
before pulling people out.
So he's he's right.
He's right.
And, uh, again, for, and I said
this in the previous episode, for
all those people who are saying.
We don't want to take these
people into our country.
First shame on you.
These are people who fought
alongside you as an American.
If you're an American
saying that shame second.
If you are, if you are right
leaning, conservative you, for sure
want these people in your country,
you want them as your neighbor.
I guarantee it.
I guarantee you want these people as your
neighbor and the alternative to them being
your neighbor makes makes you something.
Uh, let's just put it this way.
The betrayal.
Of our, our, our friends
and our allies in this hour.
That is not something that I
would, I would care to have.
Uh, my hands here's the final
clip, the final clip, uh,
from ITV there's desperation.
I'm betrayal on show yet.
Again, many of these men, sir.
Today we're slamming the gates
on them and their families.
It doesn't feel great to be British
on this side of the fence today.
And that's absolutely how I feel.
There's, there's so many of
these people who have served us.
And now it seems as if the Biden
administration is saying, Nope, we
are going to be out on the 31st.
Maybe we'll have some contingencies.
If there are certain qualifications
that are not met, that might be
contingencies to extend that.
But right now the U S military is
beginning to wind, wind up and wind
down evacuations and begin to withdraw
all of their troops in machinery,
which will take a number of days.
Yeah.
Th th the scenes from on the ground,
the stories from on the ground, children
being shot, even just today, uh, reports
coming in from across the country, people
being beaten and Australian citizen beaten
at a checkpoint because he was mistaken
for being Afghani for being an Afghan.
And, uh, This is all completely avoidable.
All completely avoided.
And the situation is collapsing quickly.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
In a post truth society where we have
exchanged the truth for a lie and breathe.
For postmodern irrationality,
the absurd finally make sense.
And the absurd today is this meme
that I found, um, the interweb, uh,
scrolling through my Instagram feed.
If you're listening on a podcast
and certified 2.0 app, which can
show chapters and pictures in the
art as you listen, then you will
see if you look down at your.
You will see this image and it's
the classic meme with, with three
different slides on that first slide.
There's someone standing in front
of a podium asking a question.
He says, who likes the Taliban?
And everyone's raising
their hand really high.
Next question.
Who wants to live under the Taliban?
No, one's raising their hand.
Everyone's quiet.
Third question.
Who wants to live in the west?
Everyone's raising your hand.
This is what's happening.
There is an enormous, enormous amounts
of Taliban propaganda, or pro Taliban
people coming out of the woodworks.
People who don't live in Afghanistan,
people who don't live under shrill.
Not just trail law, but the way that
the Taliban wants to execute that it's
not Sharia law in and of itself because
there's multiple expressions of that.
As we've covered before on the show,
there are multiple expressions.
I believe in, in the UAE,
their cabinet is 50% women.
They've made sure that half of their,
their positions are being filled by women.
That.
And that is a nation
that's under Sharia law.
So you can't just flat out say across
the board because it's it's law,
it's their interpretation of it.
But there are people who are coming out in
the droves saying, oh, give them a chance.
Oh, they're not so bad.
Oh, they finally have law
and order in the city.
And yet those, the majority
maybe there, there are.
But all of the Afghans that I have
been following and listening to on
social media, they are, are so upset.
They're are so upset by all of
these people posting insane.
Oh, it's not really that bad
people are just overreacting.
People are just being fearful and
they're all in the comments sections
that I've been reading, all of their
reactions are well, then you come later.
If, if, if you love it so much, then
move, you're welcome to live here.
If this is the life that you want to live.
And, uh, that's the thing.
Excuse me.
It's okay.
There are tens of thousands
of people who are saying, this
is not the life that we want.
There've been photos posted, right?
The inter world of, uh, Afghanistan in
the 1970s, where women are wearing shorter
skirts and, uh, uncovering their hair.
And many people are railing against
that saying, well, don't, you sh people
should stop showing these photos.
It's, it's demoralizing to women.
It's suggesting that it's, it's
better than women covering their head.
These are.
Muslims who are mostly posting us in
that this is just objectifying women.
This shouldn't be the, we shouldn't
be wanting the Western standard.
And I, I definitely
understand that argument.
I've, I've heard it multiple times and I
understand why they're making the argument
that because they're making the argument
because in places like France, There are
laws against women covering their faces.
So the re there's a reaction to say, well,
Hey, in France, we're not Muslim women.
Aren't allowed to cover
their freight faces.
But here in Afghanistan, we at least
are allowed to cover our faces.
Why should w there's a, there's
a mismatch of comparison there.
The issue that I have is
one society, not France.
But at least how it was underneath
that the old Afghan government was,
if you want to cover your face,
you have the freedom to do so.
If you don't, you have
the freedom to do so.
And this is where we're, it comes back.
It comes back to personal
liberties and us being able to make
decisions of how we want to walk
out our, our life and our faith.
There's a quote in the Gulag archipelago
talking about the USSR and in it, it
says you can pray to any God you want.
You can have, you can keep your faith, you
can have your religion, but just praise.
The only God can hear is that
really, is that really freedom?
Is that really freedom?
And so when we look towards.
Building a society that defends
and protects people's Liberty and
the right to do freedom to choose.
We need to strike a balance.
So we can't go all the way to say,
well, you actually aren't allowed to
practice your faith in the way that you
believe honors God at the same time.
There shouldn't be oppressive rules and
laws placed on people which force the
way that they have to live their lives
in a way such as covering someone's
face, which is what is happening,
which is what will happen and what is
happening, uh, in Afghanistan right now.
And that is deeply troubling.
And many, many lives are on the line.
Now, whether or not.
More lives will be, would, would be
lost if the U S forces stayed and there
a full-on, uh, exchange of fire and,
and fighting back and forth between
the U S and telephone forces in the
coming weeks, whether that would
result in a greater loss of life or.
Whether then the U S NATO forces totally
just pulling out and saying you're
on your own in the, the catastrophe
in the fallout that might follow from
that we will never know because we'll
only see one of those two sides.
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closing Weaver and loom segment.
Welcome back to Weaver pneuma, part
of the show where we take ancient
wisdom and we weave it in with our
everyday lives so that we can own
our future and weave our destiny.
Today's quote is actually just
hold heritage that, uh, I wish.
That we would all live by and
it is practice what you preach,
practice, what you preach.
And this is a kickback to the previous
meme, where there are a whole bunch
of people out there right now, seeing
the praises of how, how great life
could be underneath Taliban rule.
There is a massive push in the media.
And yet most of those people do not
live underneath the Taliban's rule.
And likewise, there are a lot of people,
as we mentioned on the previous episode
saying, well, I hope they're okay.
It's a shame what's happening.
I can't believe this is happening.
We can't let this happen.
And yet, have you.
Given of their life resources
to help people who have fled,
who currently have nothing.
So my charge to you today, no matter
which side you're on, if you're
on the side of like go tolerable.
Which I, I mean, maybe you are, I got
some people listening to this show that
definitely are, um, not just in the
middle east, uh, in, in the west, the
number of extreme right-wingers that
sometimes tune into the show and the
comments that I get are unbelievable.
So, you know, maybe, maybe that's you.
Well, we'll think about it and ask
yourself, is that where if, if you are
so stoked on that, is that where you
would want to live and raise your family?
And if so, I'm sure you can
arrange for that to happen.
Second.
For those of us who are saying
this is just so horrible.
This is just such a travesty shame.
It's so shameful be, uh, to be an
American or a Brit right now we're
slamming the doors on our allies.
How shameful.
This is what the admissions . This
was just a total mess up by America.
This was totally voidable.
If that is you, if that's you
raise your hand, that's me.
I'm raising my hand, right?
Let's do something about it.
Let's go beyond just what we speak and
what we preach and saying, oh, it's a
travesty and let's actually do something.
Finding out how to help those refugees who
are coming to your nation, whether it's
giving to two different organizations who
are helping people in danger, get out or
helping people, resettle who have gotten
out, there are many, many causes that
you can be giving to right now, whether
that's in 80, whether it's in Lebanon or
whether that's for this crisis, that's
happening right now in Afghanistan.
I know we've been, we there's
a lot of other things going
on in the world right now.
There are things happening, crazy
things that are happening in Australia
and New Zealand with total lockdowns.
After one case, uh, of, of the Rona
virus popping back up again, there
there's so much that's happening.
Uh, this one.
This crisis has been
particularly close to home.
And, uh, I've been working tirelessly
on doing something beyond just
pontificating about it on this show.
So forgive me if this, this episode
wasn't as meaty and detailed as maybe you
would have liked, but, um, I'm sick and
tired and working diligently to actually.
Do this to practice what I preach in and
to do something beyond just breathe, hot
air all over, all over is my microphone
and all over you about this crisis.
So please join by
helping, uh, helping them.
People who are in dire need, who are
leaving behind their homes and everything
that they've known with just a backpack.
And they're grateful to
have their lives intact.
Let's help these people
in any way that we can.
That's all for today's episode.
Again, forgive me for maybe
having a little lighter, uh
content-wise than normal.
Uh, hopefully we will
be getting out of that.
Sooner than later, uh, Bye.
I thank you for your grace and
your patients, uh, in that.
Well, you are someone very special
because God don't make no junk is
someone who goes out and seeks truth,
perceives the truth, because that is what
opens up our ability to see the world.
And if we can see the world, then we
can know how to walk rightly in it.
That is our purpose.
And that enables you.
And I.
The future.