1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:07,320 The clock ticks down on a 20 year war as the doors at the airport, quickly 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:13,740 close stranding, tens of thousands of Afghans who were fighting for 3 00:00:13,740 --> 00:00:17,820 the Americans and NATO forces and now fighting to leave the country. 4 00:00:18,060 --> 00:00:23,010 And there's a highly likely scenario that there'll be us. 5 00:00:24,020 --> 00:00:26,840 British forces left behind. 6 00:00:28,180 --> 00:00:29,620 Hey, it's Lucas robot. 7 00:00:29,620 --> 00:00:34,060 And you're listening to the Lucas scrub bot show where we uncover purpose, pursue 8 00:00:34,090 --> 00:00:40,269 truth and own the future episode 252. 9 00:00:40,690 --> 00:00:46,120 It is the late evening of August 25th, 2021. 10 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,120 And as I said, the door is quickly, quickly. 11 00:00:51,810 --> 00:00:54,210 On, uh, evacuation flights. 12 00:00:54,450 --> 00:01:01,670 It is not, it is not a good look for, for those who've been desperately, 13 00:01:02,060 --> 00:01:05,960 desperately trying to get out of the country over the last week. 14 00:01:06,530 --> 00:01:12,320 And that's not just, that's not just for, uh, SIV applicants, 15 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:15,470 special, special persons applicants. 16 00:01:15,470 --> 00:01:18,620 Who've worked with the us military or British military. 17 00:01:19,875 --> 00:01:20,774 As interpreters. 18 00:01:21,195 --> 00:01:28,845 That's not just for, uh, for Afghans who qualified under whether it's religious 19 00:01:28,845 --> 00:01:33,495 minorities or, or other qualifications to get out of the country in time. 20 00:01:33,495 --> 00:01:34,845 There are thousands. 21 00:01:36,030 --> 00:01:41,580 Pounding metaphorically speaking, pounding on the gates of the airport. 22 00:01:41,580 --> 00:01:46,160 Now trapped between two perimeters, the perimeter of the U S military 23 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,990 and a perimeter of the Taliban outside, you know, a far, a little 24 00:01:50,990 --> 00:01:55,039 distance outside of the airport of people trying to get in the airport. 25 00:01:56,260 --> 00:02:00,300 They are not letting people in the airport, except if you are us 26 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:04,950 citizens, us green card holders, and a certain select number of SIV. 27 00:02:04,950 --> 00:02:13,320 But even some of those SIV individuals, uh, they are not looking like 28 00:02:13,380 --> 00:02:15,720 they are getting in at the moment. 29 00:02:15,930 --> 00:02:21,300 There are many conflicting reports on the ground, but that, that window 30 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:22,860 of time is definitely closing. 31 00:02:24,135 --> 00:02:32,234 The U S and Biden continue, continue to hold onto their deadline of midnight, or 32 00:02:32,325 --> 00:02:36,195 I guess it would be 11:59 PM on August 30. 33 00:02:36,195 --> 00:02:43,635 First of giving getting everyone out, all the troops out of Afghani. 34 00:02:44,965 --> 00:02:50,035 Which means they have to start drawing down those troops in stopping or, or 35 00:02:50,185 --> 00:02:54,525 greatly reducing evacuation flights before that time to get people out. 36 00:02:54,525 --> 00:02:55,785 So that window is closing. 37 00:02:55,995 --> 00:03:01,665 Some people yesterday said that this was a 72 hour window reports. 38 00:03:01,875 --> 00:03:05,385 I have heard that is an 18 hour window by the mint. 39 00:03:05,445 --> 00:03:06,225 And that's coming from. 40 00:03:07,350 --> 00:03:14,150 Uh, uh, time a timestamp of 9:30 PM, uh, here in the middle east. 41 00:03:14,299 --> 00:03:17,510 So by the time that you're getting this in the morning or evening, 42 00:03:17,510 --> 00:03:21,260 wherever you are at that window know is likely to be greatly 43 00:03:21,260 --> 00:03:24,230 reduced to a number of hours hours. 44 00:03:24,650 --> 00:03:28,430 Now that they have promised the U S government has promised that 45 00:03:28,519 --> 00:03:31,730 every American that wants to get out is going to be able to get out. 46 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:33,709 They're not stranded, they're not abandoned. 47 00:03:33,740 --> 00:03:34,040 And yet. 48 00:03:34,740 --> 00:03:39,720 There are many people who are feeling stranded and abandoned us citizens. 49 00:03:40,710 --> 00:03:44,040 In addition to that, there are other people who even have 50 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,380 their names on flight manifests. 51 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:50,070 They have their names on flight manifests, but reports are coming in 52 00:03:50,070 --> 00:03:53,730 that even though they have their names, even though they'd been approved. 53 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,080 Even though they have a seat on an airplane promised to them they're 54 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,860 not getting through because there there's just so many people that 55 00:04:01,860 --> 00:04:06,540 need to be evacuated that they're prioritizing only you as citizens. 56 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:08,940 Well, uh, great news. 57 00:04:09,765 --> 00:04:14,535 If you're into that sort of thing, uh, from the Taliban Taliban spokesperson 58 00:04:15,105 --> 00:04:20,595 was recently interviewed and their second press conference and had some really 59 00:04:20,595 --> 00:04:26,925 warm and encouraging words to say, uh, for the, for the Afghani people here 60 00:04:27,225 --> 00:04:29,955 is the spokesperson for the Taliban. 61 00:04:30,065 --> 00:04:32,915 There's a lot of discussion in the west about the 31st. 62 00:04:34,115 --> 00:04:38,525 Have you received any requests from the Americans to extend the evacuation? 63 00:04:39,135 --> 00:04:42,335 Uh, the evacuation scheme beyond that data. 64 00:04:42,335 --> 00:04:45,825 And are there any circumstances under which you would agree 65 00:04:45,825 --> 00:04:47,355 to extending that day? 66 00:04:52,655 --> 00:04:56,015 were extended line 31st 67 00:04:59,185 --> 00:05:00,215 is the American plan. 68 00:05:01,325 --> 00:05:06,005 This was already according to the agreement. 69 00:05:07,050 --> 00:05:08,700 They have opportunity. 70 00:05:09,420 --> 00:05:15,750 They have all the resources, they can take all the people that belong to them. 71 00:05:16,890 --> 00:05:23,250 We are not going to allow, I can't sleep and we will not extend the deadline. 72 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:26,700 We will be deciding about this there. 73 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:32,360 And then we are not going to allow Afghans to leave. 74 00:05:33,344 --> 00:05:34,935 We're not gonna allow Afghans to leave. 75 00:05:35,265 --> 00:05:36,015 Essentially. 76 00:05:36,525 --> 00:05:37,164 Uh, I've gone. 77 00:05:37,164 --> 00:05:45,195 Hassan has turned into a, a prison we're Afghanis are, are kept in 78 00:05:45,195 --> 00:05:48,455 the country and not allowed to right now in this us evacuation. 79 00:05:48,455 --> 00:05:55,924 So what they, they have done his Afghan Taliban forces have set up 80 00:05:55,924 --> 00:05:57,304 a perimeter around the airport. 81 00:05:58,015 --> 00:05:58,984 Reports are seen that. 82 00:05:59,910 --> 00:06:05,160 Foreigners are allowed through those checkpoints, but Afghan citizens are not 83 00:06:05,340 --> 00:06:12,330 now that the Taliban has also reported that after us forces pull out all of 84 00:06:12,330 --> 00:06:19,290 their people after everyone's gone, then they will permit Afghans to leave the 85 00:06:19,290 --> 00:06:23,850 country, which it sounds, I don't know, it sounds a little bait and switch to meet. 86 00:06:23,850 --> 00:06:27,180 We'll see what happens in the coming weeks, but more 87 00:06:27,180 --> 00:06:29,835 importantly, At that point. 88 00:06:29,865 --> 00:06:34,845 If, if there are, if there are no one, there is no one there to protect those 89 00:06:34,845 --> 00:06:38,055 who partnered with us and NATO forces. 90 00:06:38,055 --> 00:06:41,595 If there's no one there to protect religious minorities who are under 91 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:46,815 threat, there's no one there to protect journalists foreign journalists, 92 00:06:48,315 --> 00:06:54,105 well, or, or Afghanis who worked with foreign news sources or NGS. 93 00:06:56,220 --> 00:07:00,870 It seems awful convenient where the Taliban could then say, well, you 94 00:07:00,870 --> 00:07:03,300 people who did everything right. 95 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,020 You can leave. 96 00:07:04,590 --> 00:07:09,480 But, uh, all of you, other people who we've given amnesty to, but 97 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,920 with that amnesty and goodness comes certain stipulations. 98 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:14,080 You have to stay in the country. 99 00:07:14,570 --> 00:07:15,350 You can't go. 100 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,330 You're now held prisoner. 101 00:07:18,260 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaking of being held prisoner, the, the Taliban also announced recently. 102 00:07:24,710 --> 00:07:29,030 Within the last day that women should stay inside until they figure out what 103 00:07:29,060 --> 00:07:31,010 laws really should apply to women. 104 00:07:31,580 --> 00:07:34,700 Because it's, you know, it's, it's a dangerous, it's dangerous for 105 00:07:34,700 --> 00:07:36,050 women to be outside the house. 106 00:07:37,830 --> 00:07:38,789 It's dangerous. 107 00:07:39,750 --> 00:07:40,190 It's better. 108 00:07:40,210 --> 00:07:41,159 Just keep them inside. 109 00:07:42,270 --> 00:07:45,390 Reports are, are, are flooding in on the. 110 00:07:46,815 --> 00:07:51,855 Not mainstream news sources, but from local news sources that I've been 111 00:07:51,855 --> 00:07:56,835 following on, on Instagram and on telegram, uh, one of the news sources 112 00:07:56,835 --> 00:08:05,115 that I, I received, I'll just even read it out to you right now was from Instagram. 113 00:08:07,365 --> 00:08:10,065 Where one account said this just got news. 114 00:08:10,395 --> 00:08:13,215 They will only open schools until sixth grade. 115 00:08:13,305 --> 00:08:14,115 That's not right. 116 00:08:14,235 --> 00:08:19,935 We need schools to open until grade 12 for girls in Southern Afghanistan. 117 00:08:20,895 --> 00:08:24,285 Another lady posted this is via Twitter. 118 00:08:24,585 --> 00:08:25,185 My friend. 119 00:08:26,175 --> 00:08:30,165 In the villages say that the boys right now are told to join the 120 00:08:30,195 --> 00:08:35,085 madrasa instead with madrasa means school, but it's a religious school 121 00:08:35,235 --> 00:08:37,485 instead of going to the local school. 122 00:08:37,485 --> 00:08:42,105 And it's getting worse for girls who haven't been able to receive an education. 123 00:08:43,395 --> 00:08:47,385 So that's the, that's the news that's happening outside in the villages from 124 00:08:47,385 --> 00:08:50,385 local sources who are there on the ground. 125 00:08:52,215 --> 00:08:53,355 Maybe not what we're seeing in the. 126 00:08:55,020 --> 00:08:55,230 Aye. 127 00:08:55,270 --> 00:08:55,420 Aye. 128 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:55,740 Aye. 129 00:08:55,950 --> 00:08:56,730 That's what we can. 130 00:08:56,910 --> 00:08:58,350 I think that's what we can expect. 131 00:08:58,980 --> 00:09:06,690 That's what we should expect in anyone expecting otherwise my word, you know, 132 00:09:06,690 --> 00:09:13,200 we, I, I live here in the middle east and when there is an issue surrounding 133 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:18,760 Palestine, what'd, we've covered be here, be here before on the show, the 134 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:22,470 number of people who are so bold and. 135 00:09:23,610 --> 00:09:28,890 It's just astounding that you can't, you can't go two seconds on a social 136 00:09:28,890 --> 00:09:32,370 media feed without it front and center. 137 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:37,470 But the silence around this issue, you think that it would be more 138 00:09:37,470 --> 00:09:43,860 prevalent as it's it's around issues that very vocal people are very vocal 139 00:09:43,860 --> 00:09:45,810 about frequently in this region. 140 00:09:46,020 --> 00:09:50,700 One it's the denouncing of, of groups like ISIS. 141 00:09:51,825 --> 00:09:54,825 Or terrorist groups like ISIS saying, well, they're, 142 00:09:54,885 --> 00:09:56,175 they're not really part of us. 143 00:09:56,505 --> 00:10:02,444 It's fighting for women's rights across, across these nations in these regions. 144 00:10:02,715 --> 00:10:08,955 But right now it's tremendously silent and there my calculation, and maybe someone 145 00:10:08,955 --> 00:10:11,025 else can, can prove and tell me wrong. 146 00:10:11,385 --> 00:10:14,475 But even some of my local friends that I've talked with. 147 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,930 Who are a little bit more vocal about what's happening right now in Afghanistan. 148 00:10:18,930 --> 00:10:19,680 They agree with me. 149 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:24,480 The reason that many people aren't saying anything about what's happening 150 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,990 right now with the Taliban takeover is because the Taliban and Hamas 151 00:10:28,140 --> 00:10:29,850 they're cut from the same cloth. 152 00:10:30,660 --> 00:10:31,920 They're cut from the same cloth. 153 00:10:32,130 --> 00:10:38,939 And if you are pro Palestine in their definition, I am, I am pro Palestine, 154 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,530 and I'm also against a call for Genesis. 155 00:10:45,740 --> 00:10:50,420 But if you're most people here, if you're pro Palestine, that means you're pro Hamas 156 00:10:51,110 --> 00:10:59,120 and Hamas curious all of the same, nearly all ensure there's some differentiation, 157 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:05,300 but nearly all of the same values in the way that they see the outworking in the 158 00:11:05,330 --> 00:11:08,930 outer plane of Sri a law in a society. 159 00:11:09,050 --> 00:11:12,770 Now, not all, not all nations in the region. 160 00:11:13,825 --> 00:11:19,245 And very, very few, it's only a few organizations like Hamas or the Taliban 161 00:11:19,245 --> 00:11:25,775 or ISIS in the region that sees such a fierce outplaying of Sharia law, 162 00:11:26,375 --> 00:11:31,255 but we've even played clips in here of foreign ministers from the United Arab 163 00:11:31,255 --> 00:11:37,775 Emirates, denounced Hamas as a terrorist organization, which I that's great. 164 00:11:37,775 --> 00:11:39,785 I love, I love seeing that. 165 00:11:39,995 --> 00:11:41,045 I love hearing that. 166 00:11:42,675 --> 00:11:49,095 I'm glad that there are people who are standing up an insane, what 167 00:11:49,095 --> 00:11:50,834 only seems to be rationally true. 168 00:11:50,954 --> 00:11:55,064 But the reason that there is not a lot of push in this region right now, 169 00:11:55,395 --> 00:12:01,305 vocally around this issue is because if you condemn the Taliban, you're 170 00:12:01,305 --> 00:12:05,145 condemning your, your, the, the people that you side with with the same values 171 00:12:05,145 --> 00:12:09,944 in Hamas, and they can't fully cheerful. 172 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:15,689 Even though there is a narrative of, well, we finally have rid ourselves 173 00:12:15,689 --> 00:12:21,569 from the imperialist oppressor and many people see no difference between 174 00:12:21,930 --> 00:12:24,449 what was taking place in Afghanistan. 175 00:12:24,449 --> 00:12:26,280 And what is currently taking place in Israel. 176 00:12:26,339 --> 00:12:31,439 Israel is just a, an, an, a period mystic Zionistic, oppressor oppressor. 177 00:12:31,439 --> 00:12:33,270 And that was the occupier. 178 00:12:33,270 --> 00:12:35,579 And that is the same thing that the U S forces were. 179 00:12:37,475 --> 00:12:38,135 Afghanistan. 180 00:12:38,135 --> 00:12:42,305 So seeing the Taliban take over and, and seeing the Americans 181 00:12:42,305 --> 00:12:47,255 run for some it's, and this is assumptions that I'm, I'm reading 182 00:12:47,285 --> 00:12:50,935 in between the lines for some it's. 183 00:12:51,085 --> 00:12:55,225 Well, this is kind of what we want to see happen in Israel anyway. 184 00:12:55,245 --> 00:12:59,845 So yeah, this is what we want to see in Palestine from the river to the sea. 185 00:12:59,845 --> 00:13:01,045 Palestine will be free. 186 00:13:02,365 --> 00:13:04,075 Well, I digress. 187 00:13:05,025 --> 00:13:10,935 Back to the topic at hand, uh, Jen Saki, us white house press secretary. 188 00:13:11,355 --> 00:13:13,725 She commented on just this. 189 00:13:13,725 --> 00:13:18,345 Th th the collapsing of, uh, foreigners only being able to get through the 190 00:13:18,345 --> 00:13:26,055 telephone checkpoints and the closing window that people have to evacuate. 191 00:13:27,150 --> 00:13:27,689 Afghanistan. 192 00:13:28,380 --> 00:13:31,710 When do you need to start pulling troops out of the cop airport? 193 00:13:31,710 --> 00:13:34,350 To me to meet the occupiers 30 way time. 194 00:13:34,670 --> 00:13:36,319 It's a great question, Steve. 195 00:13:36,319 --> 00:13:38,660 I just don't want to get into operational details that are under 196 00:13:38,660 --> 00:13:39,470 the purview of the deferment. 197 00:13:40,890 --> 00:13:41,880 Go ahead, but you are correct. 198 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,880 I will note that it would not be, it would, there would have to be time 199 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,870 in advance of the 31st or in time, time in advance of whatever the date 200 00:13:48,870 --> 00:13:51,840 is in order to do that, but they can give you the operational details. 201 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:52,140 Go ahead. 202 00:13:52,310 --> 00:13:56,540 Does that mean that the evacuations will stop before the actual 31st? 203 00:13:56,570 --> 00:13:59,690 So then there is time to get the troops and their machinery 204 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:00,920 and weaponry out of there. 205 00:14:02,220 --> 00:14:03,630 Uh, that would be correct. 206 00:14:03,630 --> 00:14:04,050 Yes. 207 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,410 That there would need to be time to wind down the presence. 208 00:14:07,439 --> 00:14:10,830 I will note though, that the purpose of this statement is to provide additional 209 00:14:10,830 --> 00:14:16,220 context of what the president conveyed to the G seven and at the G seven mind 210 00:14:16,220 --> 00:14:23,060 you, there was pushback against Biden being hard, set on, getting everyone 211 00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:29,360 out by the 31st and, and here they're making the open confession of yes. 212 00:14:30,435 --> 00:14:33,844 We in order to get all the troops out by the 31st, we have 213 00:14:33,964 --> 00:14:36,125 to stop evacuation flights. 214 00:14:36,214 --> 00:14:41,645 Before that reports right now on the ground is that there's 10,000 people well 215 00:14:41,675 --> 00:14:46,655 inside of the airport walls right now that need to be evacuated, not to mention 216 00:14:46,775 --> 00:14:50,435 the thousands on the outside of the wall that are trying to get in to be evacuated. 217 00:14:51,425 --> 00:14:55,535 The likelihood that they're going to continue to let more and more 218 00:14:55,535 --> 00:14:57,935 people through those gates dwindled. 219 00:14:58,725 --> 00:15:06,705 By the moment now to, to their point, I understand that there's 220 00:15:06,735 --> 00:15:14,325 increasing threats of terrorism against us, NATO, UK forces from ISIS 221 00:15:14,325 --> 00:15:17,865 K there, and those are real threats. 222 00:15:17,865 --> 00:15:22,965 And so in some ways I have, I have a sliver of empathy. 223 00:15:24,334 --> 00:15:30,935 In in the rationality that, well, if we, if we stay around and we stay 224 00:15:30,935 --> 00:15:36,515 longer, we can increase a level of threat of attacks against our forces 225 00:15:36,964 --> 00:15:39,395 attacks against civilian forces. 226 00:15:39,694 --> 00:15:43,464 And even maybe we'll end up getting in some sort of retaliation 227 00:15:43,495 --> 00:15:45,204 from the Taliban themselves. 228 00:15:45,204 --> 00:15:47,064 If they're saying, no, you can't be here. 229 00:15:47,064 --> 00:15:48,324 You're now invading our land. 230 00:15:48,324 --> 00:15:48,505 And. 231 00:15:49,485 --> 00:15:53,235 Attack the airport and fight that the number of civilian casualties 232 00:15:53,505 --> 00:15:55,574 could be through the roof. 233 00:15:55,605 --> 00:16:00,944 And yeah, it would definitely turn this into a bad to worst situation. 234 00:16:00,944 --> 00:16:09,765 If all of a sudden we saw a full-out a war between the airport and the Taliban 235 00:16:09,765 --> 00:16:14,625 forces with thousands of civilians caught in between and the cost of crossfire. 236 00:16:15,255 --> 00:16:17,025 I mean, that would be disastrous. 237 00:16:17,940 --> 00:16:21,750 Their hopes from my understanding, their hopes is that okay? 238 00:16:22,020 --> 00:16:27,330 Well, once we get the us forces out commercial flights, we'll be able to 239 00:16:27,330 --> 00:16:31,020 start back up and we will be able to get whether it's the rest of our us 240 00:16:31,020 --> 00:16:37,230 citizens out or, or SIV applicants or even other Afghans, they will be permitted. 241 00:16:38,310 --> 00:16:42,150 And we're gonna, we're gonna have to work with it because that's what 242 00:16:42,150 --> 00:16:43,410 the situation is on the ground. 243 00:16:43,590 --> 00:16:47,939 The other side of that is there are many Afghans who are saying 244 00:16:47,970 --> 00:16:49,710 you've been here for 20 years. 245 00:16:49,710 --> 00:16:51,449 I'm sure you can stay for one more week. 246 00:16:51,990 --> 00:16:55,590 I'm sure you can hold this for one more week and actually let people through. 247 00:16:58,710 --> 00:17:00,810 Oh, Jen Psaki goes on. 248 00:17:01,460 --> 00:17:05,480 Includes a number of very key components as he assesses day by day. 249 00:17:05,660 --> 00:17:06,889 And that includes the threat of ISIS. 250 00:17:07,605 --> 00:17:10,575 Uh, which is of great concern, understandably to the president, given 251 00:17:10,575 --> 00:17:14,895 the threat, it poses to our military who were on the ground, serving, uh, 252 00:17:14,925 --> 00:17:16,695 proudly and bravely on the ground. 253 00:17:16,815 --> 00:17:21,555 It also includes the essential, uh, aspect of having the Taliban's coordination 254 00:17:21,555 --> 00:17:22,965 continue over the coming days. 255 00:17:22,965 --> 00:17:25,665 So we can facilitate as many people as we've been going. 256 00:17:27,335 --> 00:17:29,045 America has just full on capitulate. 257 00:17:29,955 --> 00:17:36,254 To the Taliban just fight and just seems to have full on capitulated to their 258 00:17:36,254 --> 00:17:42,014 needs and understand technically now they're unwelcomed in someone else's 259 00:17:42,014 --> 00:17:48,125 country and they're yeah, they're not welcome there at the same, the same. 260 00:17:50,540 --> 00:17:54,890 You have to wonder what, what, what are the stipulations that would cause them to 261 00:17:54,890 --> 00:17:59,960 stay longer and will, will there end up being greater loss of life by pulling out? 262 00:18:00,990 --> 00:18:06,300 Or if they, they push on and stay until they get all of our allies, all 263 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:12,330 of the people who fought alongside us forces out well, uh, Fox news 264 00:18:12,419 --> 00:18:15,600 has something to say about just the. 265 00:18:16,385 --> 00:18:20,465 And I just got an email from someone who's talking directly with the team 266 00:18:20,465 --> 00:18:24,515 leader on the ground, uh, uh, trying to get people out and I'll just read, we'll 267 00:18:24,515 --> 00:18:28,265 put up some pictures from the airport, FYI, from my evacuation team leader. 268 00:18:28,265 --> 00:18:32,465 One hour ago, we have people on the ground at the airport waiting for a new update. 269 00:18:32,465 --> 00:18:34,175 Any minute we have a team on the ground running. 270 00:18:34,830 --> 00:18:37,140 Evac evacuation operations. 271 00:18:37,140 --> 00:18:39,180 So this Intel is as real as it gets. 272 00:18:39,570 --> 00:18:41,370 This might help you understand what's happening. 273 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,420 Basically the U S is refusing to take any more Afghan locals. 274 00:18:45,420 --> 00:18:50,570 And as a us citizen, only policy in play, this is correct. 275 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,150 That's all my sources have confirmed. 276 00:18:53,180 --> 00:18:54,080 This is correct. 277 00:18:54,110 --> 00:18:57,920 There's many rumors saying, oh, we're still taking, we're still taking people. 278 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,880 We're taking 5,000 people a day, but the real numbers that I've heard from on the 279 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:08,460 ground, They're only taking 1,500 people a day and they have stopped taking all. 280 00:19:09,255 --> 00:19:15,875 All non us citizen green card holders or embassy staff stated that once August 281 00:19:15,875 --> 00:19:18,455 31st hits, they will help nobody else. 282 00:19:18,455 --> 00:19:20,615 U S or Afghan. 283 00:19:20,615 --> 00:19:23,885 These are the Taliban checkpoints or hearing that a deal has been 284 00:19:23,885 --> 00:19:27,095 done with the Taliban and that the U S is expediting the withdrawal 285 00:19:27,095 --> 00:19:29,315 and wants to be out in 72 hours. 286 00:19:29,315 --> 00:19:31,175 Anybody left is on their own. 287 00:19:31,955 --> 00:19:34,565 President Biden, disregarding all sound, military advice. 288 00:19:34,565 --> 00:19:37,025 It's expected that he will continue to push ahead and ignore the 289 00:19:37,025 --> 00:19:38,945 military either today or tomorrow. 290 00:19:39,095 --> 00:19:40,835 According to the source on the ground, they believe the 291 00:19:40,835 --> 00:19:42,965 airport gates will be sealed. 292 00:19:43,175 --> 00:19:45,575 They've already destroyed the only road out the age. 293 00:19:45,575 --> 00:19:49,565 65 destroyed the tunnel effectively, effectively cutting off that route 294 00:19:49,565 --> 00:19:54,275 out the UK pulled out already due to a Kia killed in action. 295 00:19:54,665 --> 00:19:57,005 In short, the Polish troops also have pulled up. 296 00:19:57,785 --> 00:20:02,195 For the county and any us citizen, the country, and any us citizen 297 00:20:02,195 --> 00:20:03,725 in the country have been sold out. 298 00:20:04,085 --> 00:20:06,665 Uh, Taliban have total control of the city now are telling women 299 00:20:06,665 --> 00:20:07,835 and children's stay in the house. 300 00:20:07,925 --> 00:20:10,535 And anybody else is fair game, including all military personnel. 301 00:20:10,775 --> 00:20:13,925 Um, the person on the ground is a foreman, former Navy pilot, 302 00:20:14,165 --> 00:20:15,665 uh, running the point operation. 303 00:20:16,145 --> 00:20:17,105 Now I am so grateful. 304 00:20:17,105 --> 00:20:18,185 I'm so grateful. 305 00:20:19,020 --> 00:20:25,320 Every man and woman in uniform that is quite they're pulling 306 00:20:25,710 --> 00:20:31,200 insane hours, putting their lives at risk, working hard to get our 307 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,540 allies that fought alongside us. 308 00:20:33,540 --> 00:20:36,870 And we fought alongside for years in Afghanistan. 309 00:20:37,725 --> 00:20:41,445 Where we made commitments to, and I am, I am glad I am. 310 00:20:41,535 --> 00:20:47,535 I, I am so grateful for each person that is putting their life on the line. 311 00:20:48,015 --> 00:20:51,975 Now, these, these commands are coming down from the U S state. 312 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:57,940 Of who is being able to let through and who is not, there are reports. 313 00:20:58,419 --> 00:21:01,540 Uh, some that I'm sure are verified. 314 00:21:01,570 --> 00:21:05,889 Some that are unverified of planes that are leaving, that are mostly empty 315 00:21:06,100 --> 00:21:10,179 because they're not letting people through because there are these flight 316 00:21:10,179 --> 00:21:16,870 manifests that were filled with Afghans who did not meet special qualifications. 317 00:21:17,590 --> 00:21:19,419 And so they weren't permitted through the gate. 318 00:21:20,475 --> 00:21:25,785 And so these flights are taking off some photos show, whether 319 00:21:25,785 --> 00:21:27,285 they're verified or not. 320 00:21:27,315 --> 00:21:33,285 I do not know a hundred percent, but her taking off, not full, 321 00:21:34,395 --> 00:21:37,125 but with a lot of capacity left. 322 00:21:38,885 --> 00:21:43,415 And that is coming down from, from a us state department decision. 323 00:21:43,415 --> 00:21:44,615 But it's causing. 324 00:21:45,765 --> 00:21:52,095 In my opinion, uh, a deep betrayal of, of people that we had have a 325 00:21:52,095 --> 00:21:57,045 duty to, which would be us citizens or UK citizens and people that we 326 00:21:57,045 --> 00:22:01,035 have a responsibility to, that we made a commitment to to honor those. 327 00:22:01,035 --> 00:22:05,595 Would you be all those that fought along side us on the native form? 328 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,470 Throughout 20 years. 329 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:13,790 Well, here is a, a clip from ITV news. 330 00:22:13,820 --> 00:22:16,040 They had this brilliant report. 331 00:22:16,950 --> 00:22:21,930 Uh, from outside the airport wall, Syrah is a British citizen. 332 00:22:22,170 --> 00:22:26,010 Who's been denied entry into the airport. 333 00:22:26,660 --> 00:22:29,660 I'm a British citizen and I've got my kids operation. 334 00:22:29,660 --> 00:22:33,380 They stock here, they closed the door on us and they're shooting back at 335 00:22:33,380 --> 00:22:37,610 us while the message for the prime minister is just to get us out from here. 336 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:43,210 Otherwise, our kids are smuggling all in a big mass here under the 337 00:22:43,250 --> 00:22:44,900 British army is right behind this. 338 00:22:45,630 --> 00:22:48,060 They closed the gate and not, they're not let it slip. 339 00:22:48,570 --> 00:22:53,030 They don't let me know when it, if this is, if this is a British citizen, 340 00:22:53,030 --> 00:23:01,400 he's holding a British passport and not being allowed in what, what good would 341 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:08,630 be with those SIV, the translators, the people that worked with armed forces be, 342 00:23:09,620 --> 00:23:12,020 are they going to get in highly doubt? 343 00:23:13,290 --> 00:23:19,410 Jen Saki in that same presser was I believe the day before it was saying, oh, 344 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,890 people were w no one's being stranded. 345 00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:24,330 No one's being abandoned. 346 00:23:24,330 --> 00:23:29,370 We're not going to strand anyone ever we're in contact with all of our people. 347 00:23:29,610 --> 00:23:31,440 They're going to be in just fine. 348 00:23:31,740 --> 00:23:32,940 We're going to get them through. 349 00:23:34,910 --> 00:23:35,840 Well, uh, apparently. 350 00:23:37,460 --> 00:23:39,950 This man, whether he's gotten through or not, I don't know. 351 00:23:40,220 --> 00:23:42,500 But at this time the door was being shut on him. 352 00:23:42,530 --> 00:23:47,120 It seems that people are going to get stranded there. 353 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,680 And we do not know the fate from that point on here is another clip from that 354 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,610 same, uh, interview from I T V news. 355 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:57,550 Oh, the British interpreter. 356 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:02,020 And I worked for one year in Natalie in Helaman with the Marines. 357 00:24:02,070 --> 00:24:02,440 Yeah. 358 00:24:03,420 --> 00:24:03,630 Yeah. 359 00:24:03,870 --> 00:24:05,700 Yesterday night, I was here. 360 00:24:05,830 --> 00:24:08,700 You've been here all night, all night in my children. 361 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:10,650 This is my children. 362 00:24:10,710 --> 00:24:11,580 She is my wife. 363 00:24:11,910 --> 00:24:14,220 And I need help from you. 364 00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:14,660 Okay. 365 00:24:15,110 --> 00:24:17,510 If you notice you say yesterday night, I've been here. 366 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:24,440 There are thousands of people who have gone to the airport realizing that 367 00:24:24,470 --> 00:24:29,270 because of their status, because of how they've partnered with the U S forces 368 00:24:29,270 --> 00:24:32,270 in the past, they doubt that their law. 369 00:24:33,885 --> 00:24:37,215 Well, one be respected underneath the new rule. 370 00:24:37,215 --> 00:24:38,925 After the NATO forces leave. 371 00:24:38,955 --> 00:24:45,375 And two, they doubt that they doubt that they want to live the sort of life 372 00:24:45,405 --> 00:24:50,705 that would be led underneath Taliban rule, not just under the underneath 373 00:24:50,715 --> 00:24:56,804 tree law, but underneath there's strict and stringent enforcement of those 374 00:24:56,804 --> 00:25:00,135 laws that deny rights to, to girls. 375 00:25:01,830 --> 00:25:03,060 And religious minorities. 376 00:25:08,190 --> 00:25:10,950 So these thousands of people. 377 00:25:12,179 --> 00:25:16,709 Have left their homes with a backpack and are camping out around the airport. 378 00:25:17,010 --> 00:25:21,449 And now with the perimeter that the Taliban has set up in the announcement 379 00:25:21,449 --> 00:25:26,760 that we're not letting any Afghanis through, they are stuck there within that 380 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:33,600 perimeter in, in the hopes and the vein hopes that the airport doors will open. 381 00:25:34,830 --> 00:25:40,260 And so people are sleeping out there for two, three days, 4,000 people sharing one 382 00:25:40,260 --> 00:25:44,700 Porter, potty that's overflowing sewage and septic flowing all over the place. 383 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:46,020 This is the situation. 384 00:25:46,020 --> 00:25:51,900 This is the catastrophe that has, is taking place right now. 385 00:25:52,830 --> 00:25:58,290 That is inexcusable and was completely avoided. 386 00:25:59,085 --> 00:26:05,024 Completely avoidable here is another clip of the scenes. 387 00:26:05,294 --> 00:26:08,865 Now I'm sure these scenes are there's hundreds of them. 388 00:26:10,185 --> 00:26:14,715 I'm sure these are not just isolated, isolated moments or instances 389 00:26:15,794 --> 00:26:20,534 of, of chaos or of kids getting separated from their parents. 390 00:26:20,925 --> 00:26:26,810 Uh, I just on, on thinkable things that people are going through right now and 391 00:26:26,810 --> 00:26:30,580 their parents aren't insight into till dinner outside of the children right here. 392 00:26:30,620 --> 00:26:31,430 He standing right here. 393 00:26:32,535 --> 00:26:33,555 Amid the chaos. 394 00:26:33,555 --> 00:26:38,295 We were shown two children apparently left behind when their parents were 395 00:26:38,295 --> 00:26:41,405 among the few to be admitted here, Mr. 396 00:26:41,405 --> 00:26:46,475 Biden, you did this, you planned this, you made the deal with the dollar bonds. 397 00:26:46,775 --> 00:26:48,365 This is the consequences of it. 398 00:26:48,725 --> 00:26:50,225 This is the ramifications of it. 399 00:26:50,465 --> 00:26:50,765 Mr. 400 00:26:50,765 --> 00:26:54,695 Biden, as your L calculation, you will, or against shrimp. 401 00:26:54,935 --> 00:26:56,225 Now we are against Shu. 402 00:26:57,524 --> 00:27:01,905 Here that this, this gentleman is so upset. 403 00:27:02,475 --> 00:27:04,155 You made a deal with the Taliban. 404 00:27:05,245 --> 00:27:07,245 You're the, you're the one that planned this. 405 00:27:07,245 --> 00:27:10,485 You're the one that planned this, this withdrawal. 406 00:27:11,445 --> 00:27:15,825 You're the one that thought, ah, you know what, before, before we might have 407 00:27:15,825 --> 00:27:23,085 to evacuate the entire city before we do that, let's just shut down our biggest. 408 00:27:23,834 --> 00:27:28,365 Airport or biggest military base that could maybe even probably would have 409 00:27:28,365 --> 00:27:30,794 facilitated many of these evacuations. 410 00:27:30,794 --> 00:27:34,965 We're just going to give up one of our greatest assets first 411 00:27:35,324 --> 00:27:37,094 before pulling people out. 412 00:27:37,635 --> 00:27:38,955 So he's he's right. 413 00:27:39,495 --> 00:27:40,304 He's right. 414 00:27:41,264 --> 00:27:45,314 And, uh, again, for, and I said this in the previous episode, for 415 00:27:45,314 --> 00:27:47,475 all those people who are saying. 416 00:27:48,420 --> 00:27:51,060 We don't want to take these people into our country. 417 00:27:51,420 --> 00:27:53,160 First shame on you. 418 00:27:53,310 --> 00:27:56,970 These are people who fought alongside you as an American. 419 00:27:56,970 --> 00:28:01,380 If you're an American saying that shame second. 420 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:08,250 If you are, if you are right leaning, conservative you, for sure 421 00:28:08,250 --> 00:28:13,680 want these people in your country, you want them as your neighbor. 422 00:28:13,860 --> 00:28:15,120 I guarantee it. 423 00:28:15,510 --> 00:28:20,490 I guarantee you want these people as your neighbor and the alternative to them being 424 00:28:20,610 --> 00:28:23,940 your neighbor makes makes you something. 425 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,120 Uh, let's just put it this way. 426 00:28:29,250 --> 00:28:29,970 The betrayal. 427 00:28:31,170 --> 00:28:36,150 Of our, our, our friends and our allies in this hour. 428 00:28:37,380 --> 00:28:40,170 That is not something that I would, I would care to have. 429 00:28:40,530 --> 00:28:45,960 Uh, my hands here's the final clip, the final clip, uh, 430 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,370 from ITV there's desperation. 431 00:28:49,430 --> 00:28:51,410 I'm betrayal on show yet. 432 00:28:51,410 --> 00:28:53,990 Again, many of these men, sir. 433 00:28:54,780 --> 00:28:58,920 Today we're slamming the gates on them and their families. 434 00:28:59,130 --> 00:29:02,970 It doesn't feel great to be British on this side of the fence today. 435 00:29:03,650 --> 00:29:04,910 And that's absolutely how I feel. 436 00:29:04,910 --> 00:29:08,450 There's, there's so many of these people who have served us. 437 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:16,970 And now it seems as if the Biden administration is saying, Nope, we 438 00:29:16,970 --> 00:29:18,350 are going to be out on the 31st. 439 00:29:19,065 --> 00:29:20,865 Maybe we'll have some contingencies. 440 00:29:21,285 --> 00:29:24,675 If there are certain qualifications that are not met, that might be 441 00:29:24,675 --> 00:29:26,025 contingencies to extend that. 442 00:29:26,025 --> 00:29:31,635 But right now the U S military is beginning to wind, wind up and wind 443 00:29:31,635 --> 00:29:37,575 down evacuations and begin to withdraw all of their troops in machinery, 444 00:29:37,815 --> 00:29:40,815 which will take a number of days. 445 00:29:43,445 --> 00:29:43,625 Yeah. 446 00:29:44,669 --> 00:29:49,379 Th th the scenes from on the ground, the stories from on the ground, children 447 00:29:49,379 --> 00:29:57,899 being shot, even just today, uh, reports coming in from across the country, people 448 00:29:57,899 --> 00:30:05,379 being beaten and Australian citizen beaten at a checkpoint because he was mistaken 449 00:30:05,379 --> 00:30:09,120 for being Afghani for being an Afghan. 450 00:30:11,010 --> 00:30:16,595 And, uh, This is all completely avoidable. 451 00:30:18,005 --> 00:30:18,965 All completely avoided. 452 00:30:20,260 --> 00:30:24,040 And the situation is collapsing quickly. 453 00:30:26,070 --> 00:30:26,460 Yeah. 454 00:30:26,470 --> 00:30:27,630 That makes sense. 455 00:30:28,020 --> 00:30:34,680 In a post truth society where we have exchanged the truth for a lie and breathe. 456 00:30:35,275 --> 00:30:39,685 For postmodern irrationality, the absurd finally make sense. 457 00:30:39,745 --> 00:30:47,625 And the absurd today is this meme that I found, um, the interweb, uh, 458 00:30:47,655 --> 00:30:49,635 scrolling through my Instagram feed. 459 00:30:50,565 --> 00:30:55,935 If you're listening on a podcast and certified 2.0 app, which can 460 00:30:55,935 --> 00:31:01,155 show chapters and pictures in the art as you listen, then you will 461 00:31:01,155 --> 00:31:02,385 see if you look down at your. 462 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:08,970 You will see this image and it's the classic meme with, with three 463 00:31:08,970 --> 00:31:10,710 different slides on that first slide. 464 00:31:11,159 --> 00:31:17,580 There's someone standing in front of a podium asking a question. 465 00:31:18,030 --> 00:31:19,649 He says, who likes the Taliban? 466 00:31:19,649 --> 00:31:22,170 And everyone's raising their hand really high. 467 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:23,730 Next question. 468 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,649 Who wants to live under the Taliban? 469 00:31:26,730 --> 00:31:28,050 No, one's raising their hand. 470 00:31:28,110 --> 00:31:29,040 Everyone's quiet. 471 00:31:29,610 --> 00:31:30,360 Third question. 472 00:31:30,659 --> 00:31:32,010 Who wants to live in the west? 473 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:33,330 Everyone's raising your hand. 474 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,310 This is what's happening. 475 00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:44,520 There is an enormous, enormous amounts of Taliban propaganda, or pro Taliban 476 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,470 people coming out of the woodworks. 477 00:31:46,470 --> 00:31:51,629 People who don't live in Afghanistan, people who don't live under shrill. 478 00:31:53,235 --> 00:31:57,855 Not just trail law, but the way that the Taliban wants to execute that it's 479 00:31:57,855 --> 00:32:02,175 not Sharia law in and of itself because there's multiple expressions of that. 480 00:32:02,175 --> 00:32:05,445 As we've covered before on the show, there are multiple expressions. 481 00:32:07,965 --> 00:32:12,405 I believe in, in the UAE, their cabinet is 50% women. 482 00:32:13,125 --> 00:32:18,975 They've made sure that half of their, their positions are being filled by women. 483 00:32:19,995 --> 00:32:20,295 That. 484 00:32:20,625 --> 00:32:22,605 And that is a nation that's under Sharia law. 485 00:32:22,635 --> 00:32:26,415 So you can't just flat out say across the board because it's it's law, 486 00:32:26,445 --> 00:32:28,275 it's their interpretation of it. 487 00:32:28,725 --> 00:32:33,405 But there are people who are coming out in the droves saying, oh, give them a chance. 488 00:32:33,735 --> 00:32:35,025 Oh, they're not so bad. 489 00:32:35,055 --> 00:32:37,845 Oh, they finally have law and order in the city. 490 00:32:40,495 --> 00:32:43,285 And yet those, the majority maybe there, there are. 491 00:32:44,770 --> 00:32:50,110 But all of the Afghans that I have been following and listening to on 492 00:32:50,110 --> 00:32:53,590 social media, they are, are so upset. 493 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,360 They're are so upset by all of these people posting insane. 494 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,230 Oh, it's not really that bad people are just overreacting. 495 00:33:02,260 --> 00:33:07,870 People are just being fearful and they're all in the comments sections 496 00:33:07,870 --> 00:33:11,020 that I've been reading, all of their reactions are well, then you come later. 497 00:33:12,545 --> 00:33:16,655 If, if, if you love it so much, then move, you're welcome to live here. 498 00:33:17,405 --> 00:33:18,965 If this is the life that you want to live. 499 00:33:21,945 --> 00:33:24,495 And, uh, that's the thing. 500 00:33:26,685 --> 00:33:27,254 Excuse me. 501 00:33:27,254 --> 00:33:28,605 It's okay. 502 00:33:31,215 --> 00:33:35,115 There are tens of thousands of people who are saying, this 503 00:33:35,115 --> 00:33:37,185 is not the life that we want. 504 00:33:37,635 --> 00:33:39,375 There've been photos posted, right? 505 00:33:40,815 --> 00:33:47,505 The inter world of, uh, Afghanistan in the 1970s, where women are wearing shorter 506 00:33:47,505 --> 00:33:49,845 skirts and, uh, uncovering their hair. 507 00:33:50,045 --> 00:33:52,955 And many people are railing against that saying, well, don't, you sh people 508 00:33:52,955 --> 00:33:54,905 should stop showing these photos. 509 00:33:54,905 --> 00:33:58,115 It's, it's demoralizing to women. 510 00:33:58,115 --> 00:34:02,785 It's suggesting that it's, it's better than women covering their head. 511 00:34:03,065 --> 00:34:03,605 These are. 512 00:34:04,844 --> 00:34:09,614 Muslims who are mostly posting us in that this is just objectifying women. 513 00:34:10,034 --> 00:34:13,185 This shouldn't be the, we shouldn't be wanting the Western standard. 514 00:34:13,545 --> 00:34:15,824 And I, I definitely understand that argument. 515 00:34:16,304 --> 00:34:20,444 I've, I've heard it multiple times and I understand why they're making the argument 516 00:34:20,955 --> 00:34:27,259 that because they're making the argument because in places like France, There are 517 00:34:27,259 --> 00:34:29,719 laws against women covering their faces. 518 00:34:30,020 --> 00:34:34,969 So the re there's a reaction to say, well, Hey, in France, we're not Muslim women. 519 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,250 Aren't allowed to cover their freight faces. 520 00:34:37,850 --> 00:34:42,709 But here in Afghanistan, we at least are allowed to cover our faces. 521 00:34:42,770 --> 00:34:47,600 Why should w there's a, there's a mismatch of comparison there. 522 00:34:48,169 --> 00:34:52,669 The issue that I have is one society, not France. 523 00:34:54,395 --> 00:35:00,305 But at least how it was underneath that the old Afghan government was, 524 00:35:00,575 --> 00:35:04,355 if you want to cover your face, you have the freedom to do so. 525 00:35:04,895 --> 00:35:08,015 If you don't, you have the freedom to do so. 526 00:35:09,185 --> 00:35:10,805 And this is where we're, it comes back. 527 00:35:10,835 --> 00:35:14,675 It comes back to personal liberties and us being able to make 528 00:35:15,035 --> 00:35:19,805 decisions of how we want to walk out our, our life and our faith. 529 00:35:21,135 --> 00:35:28,995 There's a quote in the Gulag archipelago talking about the USSR and in it, it 530 00:35:28,995 --> 00:35:32,025 says you can pray to any God you want. 531 00:35:32,025 --> 00:35:37,035 You can have, you can keep your faith, you can have your religion, but just praise. 532 00:35:37,035 --> 00:35:40,695 The only God can hear is that really, is that really freedom? 533 00:35:42,225 --> 00:35:43,245 Is that really freedom? 534 00:35:47,275 --> 00:35:49,365 And so when we look towards. 535 00:35:50,550 --> 00:35:57,990 Building a society that defends and protects people's Liberty and 536 00:35:57,990 --> 00:36:01,560 the right to do freedom to choose. 537 00:36:04,050 --> 00:36:05,009 We need to strike a balance. 538 00:36:05,009 --> 00:36:08,430 So we can't go all the way to say, well, you actually aren't allowed to 539 00:36:08,790 --> 00:36:15,890 practice your faith in the way that you believe honors God at the same time. 540 00:36:18,055 --> 00:36:22,315 There shouldn't be oppressive rules and laws placed on people which force the 541 00:36:22,315 --> 00:36:28,315 way that they have to live their lives in a way such as covering someone's 542 00:36:28,315 --> 00:36:33,865 face, which is what is happening, which is what will happen and what is 543 00:36:33,865 --> 00:36:37,105 happening, uh, in Afghanistan right now. 544 00:36:37,134 --> 00:36:40,015 And that is deeply troubling. 545 00:36:40,524 --> 00:36:42,654 And many, many lives are on the line. 546 00:36:43,225 --> 00:36:44,424 Now, whether or not. 547 00:36:45,975 --> 00:36:53,565 More lives will be, would, would be lost if the U S forces stayed and there 548 00:36:53,685 --> 00:36:59,805 a full-on, uh, exchange of fire and, and fighting back and forth between 549 00:36:59,805 --> 00:37:05,625 the U S and telephone forces in the coming weeks, whether that would 550 00:37:05,625 --> 00:37:08,595 result in a greater loss of life or. 551 00:37:10,035 --> 00:37:14,265 Whether then the U S NATO forces totally just pulling out and saying you're 552 00:37:14,265 --> 00:37:21,214 on your own in the, the catastrophe in the fallout that might follow from 553 00:37:21,214 --> 00:37:26,615 that we will never know because we'll only see one of those two sides. 554 00:37:28,230 --> 00:37:31,529 This show is brought to you by listeners like you. 555 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with our closing Weaver and loom segment. 568 00:38:22,980 --> 00:38:26,100 Welcome back to Weaver pneuma, part of the show where we take ancient 569 00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:28,830 wisdom and we weave it in with our everyday lives so that we can own 570 00:38:28,830 --> 00:38:31,710 our future and weave our destiny. 571 00:38:32,070 --> 00:38:36,780 Today's quote is actually just hold heritage that, uh, I wish. 572 00:38:38,475 --> 00:38:44,385 That we would all live by and it is practice what you preach, 573 00:38:44,895 --> 00:38:46,005 practice, what you preach. 574 00:38:46,155 --> 00:38:51,045 And this is a kickback to the previous meme, where there are a whole bunch 575 00:38:51,045 --> 00:38:57,825 of people out there right now, seeing the praises of how, how great life 576 00:38:57,825 --> 00:38:59,345 could be underneath Taliban rule. 577 00:38:59,375 --> 00:39:01,595 There is a massive push in the media. 578 00:39:06,810 --> 00:39:13,500 And yet most of those people do not live underneath the Taliban's rule. 579 00:39:15,060 --> 00:39:19,140 And likewise, there are a lot of people, as we mentioned on the previous episode 580 00:39:19,530 --> 00:39:20,970 saying, well, I hope they're okay. 581 00:39:21,150 --> 00:39:22,500 It's a shame what's happening. 582 00:39:22,650 --> 00:39:23,940 I can't believe this is happening. 583 00:39:23,940 --> 00:39:25,110 We can't let this happen. 584 00:39:26,820 --> 00:39:28,170 And yet, have you. 585 00:39:29,145 --> 00:39:33,795 Given of their life resources to help people who have fled, 586 00:39:33,795 --> 00:39:35,535 who currently have nothing. 587 00:39:35,715 --> 00:39:39,405 So my charge to you today, no matter which side you're on, if you're 588 00:39:39,405 --> 00:39:40,875 on the side of like go tolerable. 589 00:39:41,895 --> 00:39:46,635 Which I, I mean, maybe you are, I got some people listening to this show that 590 00:39:46,935 --> 00:39:52,785 definitely are, um, not just in the middle east, uh, in, in the west, the 591 00:39:52,785 --> 00:39:57,615 number of extreme right-wingers that sometimes tune into the show and the 592 00:39:57,615 --> 00:39:59,955 comments that I get are unbelievable. 593 00:39:59,955 --> 00:40:02,635 So, you know, maybe, maybe that's you. 594 00:40:03,350 --> 00:40:07,570 Well, we'll think about it and ask yourself, is that where if, if you are 595 00:40:07,570 --> 00:40:12,940 so stoked on that, is that where you would want to live and raise your family? 596 00:40:12,940 --> 00:40:16,990 And if so, I'm sure you can arrange for that to happen. 597 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:19,090 Second. 598 00:40:20,340 --> 00:40:23,070 For those of us who are saying this is just so horrible. 599 00:40:23,070 --> 00:40:25,200 This is just such a travesty shame. 600 00:40:25,410 --> 00:40:30,590 It's so shameful be, uh, to be an American or a Brit right now we're 601 00:40:30,590 --> 00:40:32,540 slamming the doors on our allies. 602 00:40:32,540 --> 00:40:33,620 How shameful. 603 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:39,320 This is what the admissions . This was just a total mess up by America. 604 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:40,910 This was totally voidable. 605 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:46,190 If that is you, if that's you raise your hand, that's me. 606 00:40:46,220 --> 00:40:48,000 I'm raising my hand, right? 607 00:40:49,770 --> 00:40:51,180 Let's do something about it. 608 00:40:51,779 --> 00:40:57,330 Let's go beyond just what we speak and what we preach and saying, oh, it's a 609 00:40:57,330 --> 00:41:00,390 travesty and let's actually do something. 610 00:41:01,770 --> 00:41:06,540 Finding out how to help those refugees who are coming to your nation, whether it's 611 00:41:06,569 --> 00:41:12,930 giving to two different organizations who are helping people in danger, get out or 612 00:41:12,930 --> 00:41:18,390 helping people, resettle who have gotten out, there are many, many causes that 613 00:41:18,569 --> 00:41:23,109 you can be giving to right now, whether that's in 80, whether it's in Lebanon or 614 00:41:23,109 --> 00:41:26,279 whether that's for this crisis, that's happening right now in Afghanistan. 615 00:41:27,315 --> 00:41:30,255 I know we've been, we there's a lot of other things going 616 00:41:30,255 --> 00:41:31,215 on in the world right now. 617 00:41:31,485 --> 00:41:36,585 There are things happening, crazy things that are happening in Australia 618 00:41:36,765 --> 00:41:39,255 and New Zealand with total lockdowns. 619 00:41:39,255 --> 00:41:45,225 After one case, uh, of, of the Rona virus popping back up again, there 620 00:41:45,255 --> 00:41:47,265 there's so much that's happening. 621 00:41:47,565 --> 00:41:48,405 Uh, this one. 622 00:41:49,665 --> 00:41:52,035 This crisis has been particularly close to home. 623 00:41:52,565 --> 00:41:58,865 And, uh, I've been working tirelessly on doing something beyond just 624 00:41:58,865 --> 00:42:02,615 pontificating about it on this show. 625 00:42:02,615 --> 00:42:09,755 So forgive me if this, this episode wasn't as meaty and detailed as maybe you 626 00:42:09,755 --> 00:42:16,865 would have liked, but, um, I'm sick and tired and working diligently to actually. 627 00:42:17,970 --> 00:42:25,350 Do this to practice what I preach in and to do something beyond just breathe, hot 628 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:30,470 air all over, all over is my microphone and all over you about this crisis. 629 00:42:30,590 --> 00:42:34,970 So please join by helping, uh, helping them. 630 00:42:36,015 --> 00:42:41,505 People who are in dire need, who are leaving behind their homes and everything 631 00:42:41,505 --> 00:42:43,695 that they've known with just a backpack. 632 00:42:44,205 --> 00:42:46,845 And they're grateful to have their lives intact. 633 00:42:46,845 --> 00:42:52,065 Let's help these people in any way that we can. 634 00:42:52,065 --> 00:42:53,505 That's all for today's episode. 635 00:42:53,865 --> 00:42:58,035 Again, forgive me for maybe having a little lighter, uh 636 00:42:58,125 --> 00:43:00,285 content-wise than normal. 637 00:43:00,765 --> 00:43:03,075 Uh, hopefully we will be getting out of that. 638 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,725 Sooner than later, uh, Bye. 639 00:43:07,745 --> 00:43:12,075 I thank you for your grace and your patients, uh, in that. 640 00:43:12,075 --> 00:43:19,055 Well, you are someone very special because God don't make no junk is 641 00:43:19,055 --> 00:43:24,155 someone who goes out and seeks truth, perceives the truth, because that is what 642 00:43:24,215 --> 00:43:27,155 opens up our ability to see the world. 643 00:43:27,395 --> 00:43:31,235 And if we can see the world, then we can know how to walk rightly in it. 644 00:43:31,445 --> 00:43:32,495 That is our purpose. 645 00:43:32,885 --> 00:43:33,815 And that enables you. 646 00:43:33,815 --> 00:43:34,085 And I. 647 00:43:35,279 --> 00:43:35,940 The future.