over the weekend I feel like the entire
country was watching television slack
jawed as the impossible happened
the Taliban swept into Kabul Afghanistan
no matter how you feel about the
occupation we were very against it
you had to ask yourself how did this
happen and why wasn't America prepared
for it happening
most people reached the obvious
conclusion they've been lying to us
about the State of Affairs in
Afghanistan really lying to us for a
long time and by they we mean not just
political figures but people at the
state department the Secretary of State
multiple secretaries of state and an
awful lot of generals at the Pentagon
they have been telling us the truth
now most people including everyone on
this show are pretty shocked by that but
not everyone was shocked Glenn Greenwald
has been chronicling this for a long
time he's independent journalist who
writes on sub stack you can read his
stuff there and he should he joins us
tonight Glenn thanks so much for coming
on on this and many other subjects I
will say uh you've been right you've
been proved right so you are not
surprised to learn that their
assessments of what was happening on the
ground in Afghanistan were totally false
absolutely you know I grew up one of the
big events in my childhood that shaped
me a lot where the Pentagon papers when
danielsburg inside the government leaked
to newspapers the fact that the
statements being made by the military
about the war in Vietnam were winning we
have the Viet Cong On The Run where the
exact opposite of what they were saying
internally which is there's no way we
could possibly win this war the best we
can do as a stalemate the same thing
happened in Afghanistan but even worse
the argument that was being made all the
way back to George Bush was the goal
that we have and we're making great
progress is building an Afghan National
Security force that will protect the
government and democracy and be able to
ward off the Taliban and that way we
could leave when they stand on their own
feet which they're very close to doing
internally for 20 years they were saying
the Afghan National forces are a joke
they're corrupt they're illiterate they
have no capacity to fight whatsoever and
five weeks ago Joe Biden stood before
the country and said the Afghan National
forces are way more powerful than the
Taliban it's extremely unlikely that the
Taliban will overrun the country when we
leave when all intelligence and all
internal documents showed exactly the
opposite it's not a case where they got
it wrong in good faith it's a case where
they deliberately lie to the public to
justify this endless war because so many
people were profiting from it
so that I mean you I think you answered
the question I was about to ask which is
why would you lie about something
that everybody is going to learn about
in the end like they had to know they
were going to get caught lying because
in the end the Taliban did sweep into
Kabul why so you think they lied because
people were profiting from this exercise
this debacle
yeah the last time I was on your shower
one of the last times we talked about
why Americans should be spending their
resources to fix the government of Cuba
the whole point of America First is
articulated by Donald Trump was we
should focus on American citizens why
should Americans citizens risk their
lives to determine how Kandahar is
governed when instead Americans aren't
being governed very well at all and life
expectancy and every other industry of
happiness is declining and the reason is
because there's a tiny segment of people
certain people in the corporate media
whose ratings go up and also the defense
contractors who fund both parties who
make a lot of power and a lot of profit
as do the security State Services the
Pentagon the CIA the NSA when there's
war and that's what happens is you know
propaganda is really powerful right we
see these images of these people
desperately trying to get Afghanistan
and there's a tendency to say oh I want
the us to go back and save them but you
know we don't see all the people we've
killed in Afghanistan who are innocent
civilians that just happens in war and
they control the information that we see
to keep us always wanting the next one
to forget what we learned about the
prior ones
so true
if you'd said this five years it would
be like ah Glenn green wall nice guy
little kooky now I I I think you've been
proven right again Glenn Greenwald thank
you very much
thanks Tucker Good To Be With You hey
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