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Afghanistan Vet on Biden Pullout: "I'd Change Nothing"
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Afghanistan Vet on Biden Pullout: "I'd Change Nothing"

Author and Afghanistan war vet Adrian Bonenberger joins us to discuss the mess in Afghanistan. And for the first time, the Useful Idiots cheer on Biden.

After 9/11, the US government jumped into war in Afghanistan, giving shells of reasons for their aggression. But at least they still gave reasons.

However, after Bin Laden was killed in 2011, even the illusion of a reason for this war was gone. It’s been time to come home for a while.

In an April interview with Matt, Adrian Bonenberger, author and veteran, predicted that Biden would execute the withdrawal from Afghanistan. And like Biden, he didn’t expect the immediate collapse in the region.

But still, says Bonenberger, Biden made the right decision. This was a pointless effort wasting time, money, and lives, and after two tours of duty and much reporting in the area, it became clear to him that US presence was doing nothing productive.

Ok, so it’s time to leave. But why is it going so poorly?

This, he continues, is more of a problem with the State Department than with Biden: “The system is not set up to get people from Afghanistan or Russia or Mexico or China to America. There needs to be some type of capability that we can switch on, some emergency act.”

And without that, this extraction was doomed. But Bonenberger, and your Useful Idiots, believe it’s a necessary move.

So hear us say it today, because who knows when we’ll say it again: “Good job, Joe.”

Plus, we don’t forget Biden’s terrible side in his nomination of Rahm Emanuel, we watch Newsmax’s racist coverage of “Afghani” men, and we side with the woman who’s deep in an affair with a chimp.

It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.

To buy Adrian’s new book The Disappointed Soldier, call or email here.

Useful Idiots
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Aaron Maté and podcaster/writer Katie Halper. Episodes feature on-the-road coverage of the 2020 campaign and exclusive interviews, with humor, commentary and dissection of the politics news of the week. Join Katie and Aaron as they examine important stories that have slipped through the cracks and what the media got wrong – and laugh about whatever is left to laugh about.