Name: 550 - Sweet L of Liberty (8/16/21) by Chapo Trap House
Duration: 1 h 23 min 56 s
Description: We look at the brutal, stupid, and embarrassing end of our brutal, stupid, and embarrassing twenty year occupation of Afghanistan.

Gentlemen, gentlemen PLEASE, there's NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!

That is the most cynical element of this entire thing, the leadership and the Georgetown/Manhattan brain-trust blaming all of us for their failure in Afghanistan, for their ghost divisions within the Afghan National Army, for all the police paramilitaries that gave up their green crew-cab Toyota trucks and all their weapons when push came to shove. I knew from Day One that either we would be kicked out of the country or we would NEVER leave. The Soviet Union probably would have never left either had there been no coordinated resistance.

David Frum is an idiot. I wanted Osama bin Laden alive, so we could ask endless questions about the first version of Al-Qaeda; numbers, members, were some of the suicide hijackers Egyptian Islamic Jihad guys paid for by bin Laden money? There are a lot of gaps in what we know.

...a great Chapo indicting the worst of America, that is, slaughter yearned for in the face a momentary regret that will be forgotten within days.  Hate those fuckin' Dems, boys...

The Chinese Matrix will keep you in line with social media scores and if that fails they just unjack you and disappear your ass into a Uighur reeducation camp while your avatar continues on for your friends run by an AI.

lets give him a nice hug with a nice wide smile.

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We look at the brutal, stupid, and embarrassing end of our brutal, stupid, and embarrassing twenty year occupation of Afghanistan.

550 - Sweet L of Liberty (8/16/21)

We start off discussing Jeopardy!, Tesla Bots, and how all these conservative radio hosts keep dying of COVID. Then we talk about Tony Blair crying about Afghanistan and step inside Tom Friedman’s mind palace to explore the Taliban’s strategic cousin and nephew reserves.

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550 - Sweet L of Liberty (8/16/21)

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