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Newt Gingrich: Sad not a single women's group on the left is up in arms about Afghanistan

2021-08-16 | 🔗
Former Speaker of the House and Former CIA Station Chief Dan Hoffman discuss images coming out of Afghanistan and the future of women in the country
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Catastrophe of his making, I appreciate you thank you for all your service. Now the station chief former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, both Fox news contributors. There is a clear distinction. The Trump planet was going to be based on conditions on the ground factor. Number one factor number two is Donald Trump was believed. Donald Trump made a threat, they believed it because he had a track record. While ISIS grew under Biden and Obama, ISIS was systematically destroyed under Donald Trump. He said it ended it on the Taliban new. What would happen if they didnt abide by any agreement that went on they wouldnt have tried. This under Trump would be my argument. Your thoughts. First of all, I dont know that Joe Biden has threatened anybody with anything.
There is no way of knowing it seems to be to attack your allies. You know your enemies, pretend that bad things arent happening. I watched the speech this afternoon and for most people, if you took what you were seeing, live coming out of Afghanistan of the crowds and the fear, the takeover by the tablet band, and then you looked at the speech by this guy who was clearly totally out of it, has no idea whats going on and his number one goal in that speech was to blame anyone else. He said the buck stops here. He didnt mean that it stops with the afghan army stops with Donald Trump. But the fact is, this is a major american defeat that is going to have huge consequences, as you pointed out earlier, going to embolden the Chinese, whether its in Taiwan, with the south, China, Sea or theyre, going to become
allies of the Taliban, because they want the minerals in which northern Afghanistan is enormously rich and they will be quite happy. They dont care what the Taliban does to women. They just want the minerals, as recently as last Thursday, and you worked all these years and the intelligence community, they were telling us, they wouldnt make it there for another. Ninety days, at least on every level, how could they have been so wrong? How could Joe Biden just a couple of weeks ago be saying it will never happen? The Taliban will never be able to get back in power, and now it is the Emirates of Afghanistan. Here we go Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan. It is aspirational, wishful foreign policy, just as the Biden
administration was arguing they wanted to let they wanted to take over the country by force, but that ignored the reality, but that ignored the reality that China and rest Russia, our greatest ally, was a former government of Afghanistan and what really concerns me going forward, is they used to own and they had a sizable intelligence community footprints. When we served our mission to find and fix those, so we could protect and preempt threats, we had an ability to preempt them. We dont have that anymore and the tell the band controls the country. So what I wanted to hear today- and I hope we hear soon whats the plan to do with those threats, irony of ironies, at greater risk of Afghanistan than we ever have been before. Mr Speaker, we have
one billion ten thousand Americans there and control of the country or that airport. How do they get those Americans home its very disturbing that the administration yesterday wouldnt be automatically given any kind of priority, which is the opposite of the policy weve always had up until now. I think theres, a deeper thing here been around for a long time, a set of goals, a religious fanatic group whats going to happen to women and President George W Bush was exactly right today. The greatest thing he fears is whats, going to happen to young whats, going to happen to young girls and women at a young woman from Iraq, who had been captured by ISIS and had basically passed around as a thats. The kind of stuff they
see in Afghanistan and not a single womens group on the left, is up in arms over whats about to happen.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-17.