Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight, this is a bewildering moment. As we often note what exactly is going on theres a pattern. You look around for a moment. You may notice things that add up inflation, spiraling crime collapsing the cities youre over forty. It could look familiar its the 1970s, but without the free speech and running our government as if it couldnt get more perfect. Now we have another fall of Saigon. You are watching television in April of one thousand nine hundred and seventy five. He will remember it well the single most humiliating day in the history of the United States abroad, american officials fleeing in terror, as an army swept through the capital city, desperate civilians, clinging to helicopters, as they took off from the roof of the.

U Dot S embassy. It was a complete disaster, total defeat. We spent more than a decade in Vietnam and an end we lost so no matter how you felt about that. It was painful to see it happen and nobody wants to see it again. Last month Joe Biden promised we never will see it again. Watch some vietnamese veterans see echoes of their experience in this withdrawal of Afghanistan. Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam? None whatsoever zero. What you have is breaking through the gates of our embassy. Six, if im not mistaken, the Taliban is not the north vietnamese army not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There can be no circumstance where you will see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.

It is not at all comparable is not comparable. The difference Joe Biden told us is that in Afghanistan we can rely on the afghan security forces to keep the savages at Bay. Theyve gotten billions in: U Dot S tax dollars over twenty years and by the way they were trained by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff. So we are good. Dont worry last month let his personal stamp of approval to the afghan security forces watch. The afghan security forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country, and we will continue to support the afghan security forces were necessary in accordance with the guidance when the president and the Secretary of Defense, the future Afghanistan, is squarely in the hands of the afghan people and there are a range of possible outcomes in Afghanistan. I want to emphasize repeatedly- and I said this

before the negative outcome is not a foregone conclusion- is not a foregone conclusion at this point. A military takeover is starting to look like a foregone conclusion. They now have control over a majority of the country, including the second largest city. The government, meanwhile controls just about fifteen percent of the districts in Afghanistan. At this point, they are thirty miles away. Analysts say they could fall within days. American troops are on their way to evacuate the: U Dot S embassy, they flew into the city just this afternoon, but its early, I look funny thing is didnt seem to see any of this coming. His real expertise, as he explained recently to Congress, is something called white rage. The Taliban, by contrast, are slightly ten or so they didnt seem as dangerous in the January. Taliban voted for Donald Trump,

so naturally underestimated them, but others saw very clearly what was coming three years ago, the inspector general found they had influence over just half the country thats it. In other words, Afghanistan has been unstable for a very long time, always come actually, and yet the Pentagon repeatedly told us. Otherwise we are on the right track. Now, four years later, another general they are winning so based on those confident assessments. Officials in Washington spent more than one hundred and thirty dollars billion on nation building there for some perspective, thats more than we spent on the entire Marshall Plan in Europe after the world was destroyed. So you have to ask yourself: where did all that money go? The Pentagon, of course, isnt really sure were all that money went, but internal documents suggest it was wasted. Remember those they make it clear. A lot of that

money went to the most corrupt people in the country. Those documents show that only about two in ten afghan recruits could read or write. That meant, among other things, I cannot reliably follow orders and apparently they havent been for years. Afghan commanders have routinely pocketed taxpayer money from the United States with so called ghost soldiers appeared on the payroll, but didnt actually exist. One recent assessment found between fifty and seventy percent of police positions, werent really live. They existed only on paper does Mark Milley know this. The troops who did exist sometimes use their weapons to commit crimes and shoot american troops or officials. An observer estimated that over thirty percent would take their guns and set up their own private checkpoints to extort travelers

between two thousand and seven and two thousand and thirteen they killed or injured hundreds of coalition troops. These were signs of a major problem, other soldiers again with money that we sent them, began to sexually abuse children according to a piece in the New York Times. Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem, particularly among commanders who dominate much of the landscape. The practice is called boy play in american soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene in some cases, not even when their allies have abused boys on military bases. So all of this is going on, but the Pentagon maintains publicly. Everything was going according to plan you can see. Where comes as quite a surprise to those of us who took those assurances at face value just a couple of days ago that the top at the Pentagon, the increasingly

ridiculous John Kirby insisted they had turned them into a progressive utopia in Santa Monica in the mountains, watching this from a very early period right after the president gave us the order to draw down watching what the Taliban and is doing. We have noted with great concern the speed with which they have been moving and the lack of resistance they have faced, and we have been nothing but honest about that, and I will leave it there so today, because on the people of Afghanistan to rise up and fight for social justice, the Womens rights victories. The afghan government secure right. Meanwhile, the actual country is collapsing at high speeds. Pictures right now that the Taliban now controls so thats

tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions worth of resistant vehicles, humvees drones at the Pentagon left behind in Afghanistan. All of it now belongs to the Taliban. Somehow the Biden administration is in charge, the U Dot S embassy says we are hearing additional reports. They are surrendering afghan troops, deeply disturbing and could constitute more crimes, hilarious, so whos going to run the tribunals, but instead heres another idea lets figure out how this happened. Do we spend twenty years trillions of dollars? Thousands of american lives end up with absolutely nothing but more humiliation, tribesmen shooting at us with our guns as we run away. That is the definition of disaster, so, rather than just complain about it, lets hold

somebody accountable for it for once, half of them had a hand in our failed policy, yet they are still employed there. Why is that? The Pentagon was supposed to build a functional national army in Afghanistan to protect the government and they didnt do that. People didnt do their jobs and I might about not doing their jobs still wearing the uniform of our country. Why is that good question? So for the first time in a long time, maybe we can hold our own leaders to account for the calamities they have caused.