Good evening and welcome to a special edition of Tucker Carlson tonight in July of two thousand and seventeen, every member of the joint Chiefs of staff met with the newly elected President Donald Trump. For the first time it didnt go. Well, you are losers. The president told them come according to a foreign policy magazine account, you dont know how to win anymore. That is a harsh assessment. The arguably true, but the joint Chiefs of staff are keep in mind the Countrys highest, ranking military officers. Their job is to follow the orders of elected officials that protect the country, no matter how much their feelings may be hurt. But in this case that is not what happened, because the rules are different. Now, according to U Dot S Army Major General, the presidents insults that day, similar comments he made in public were a bitter humiliation for the countrys military leaders and they made it their mission to undermine civilian control of the Pentagon ever after.

I was really shocked by how many of my former colleagues voted for the former president and openly supported him, but when Trump turned on the military. Well, the military turned on him keep in mind. That is not how democracy is supposed to work. Military leaders report to the people you elect, but again that is not what happened. Stories began leaking about how the President President Trump was ignoring classified intelligence about russian counties in Afghanistan. Where do you think the stories came from the Pentagon? It was payback, the military simply refused to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan, even though they were ordered to do so by the President of the United States. Again, no more civilian control of the military and Joe Biden finally became president on inauguration day. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley was so excited. He couldnt control himself. No one has a bigger smile today that I do Milley told Michelle Obama sucking up like a child.

You cant see it under my mess, but I do the media people who supported Biden from the very beginning, including a former CIA director. There are many of those on television. These days also celebrated. They told us the adults were back in charge. The orange man is gone. Everything is going to be better. Now anybody who has any connection to reality about what is going on around them should have watched that and said the adults are back in the room. It seems as though we have a professional adult once again in the White House who is just simply doing the work. The theme, I would say the adults are back beard. It is a relief to have adults in charge. Now we have adults in the White House. Okay, the adults are back in the room. There is a sense, I think the world over, that the adults have returned. We have an adult in the White House now and it is glorious

laughs. Those clips are amazing to watch now, simply because they consist of the most childish people in the country celebrating adulthood, but they look especially absurd in light of what we just seen in Afghanistan these days, Joe Bidens friends in the Pentagon and the foreign affairs desk at NBC, news no longer think he has an adult. He abandon american citizens, he got thirteen Americans killed and suddenly they seem a little ashamed plus. He is turning his back on the neocon project, and that is the greatest offense of all. But the greatest question is why our media and the military were talking like this. In the first place, the adults are back in charge. What does that mean? If you follow what they have been telling us about Afghanistan, you realize adults means people who are willing to pretend everything is fine when it is very much not fine. Consider that, no matter how badly our mission in Afghanistan was deteriorating by the way, we were never clear what that

mission was, but clearly our strategy of pacifying the country was falling apart, no matter how badly it got in Afghanistan, the Pentagon and its many spokesmen repeatedly told us. We were making them incredible progress and progress of the where they used again and again and again in two thousand and five, for example, the head of: U Dot S, Control Command, told reporters over the three years we have been operating here. Afghanistan has shown interest in progress. Two years later, a website reported that there was a similar message. I would like to point out. There was significant progress in the forward movement of the Afghan National Army in two thousand and eight, the commander of the 101St airborne. Apparently another adult concurred that progress was ongoing. We are making some steady progress here than in two thousand and ten coalition casualties increasing, but the progress somehow continued unabated. It was progress, no matter what

and army general informed reporters at a news conference in Kabul we are steadily making deliberate. Can you guess progress that same year, Stanley Mcchrystal than the general of all? U dot S forces in Afghanistan also wanted us to no progress was being made. I think we have made significant progress since the conditions in two thousand and nine and beginning some progress, and we will make real progress in 2010, which we remind you was eleven years ago than Stanley Mcchrystal was fired for criticizing the Obama administration, in particular. The total incompetence of the current president, Joe Biden and David Petraeus, took over and sure enough General Petraeus to quickly declared progress has been achieved in some critical areas and we are poised to realize more progress. Just a year later, in twenty eleven Petraeus double down and told lawmakers that year that the past eight months have seen important but hard fought progress speaking that summer to troops in Kandahar. The defense

secretary at the time echoed that theme and what you have accomplished is extraordinary, because over the last year, essentially, you have ejected the Taliban from their home territory and if we can hold this territory and expand the bubble, then I think I think, by the end of the year we can turn the corner in this conflict. He didnt actually use the word progress. He had more original language than that, but the message was the same. Just to make sure that message was Crystal clear: senior military leaders kept using that word. A few years later, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs confirmed that progress was indeed continuing. At this point we have made significant progress. He said that in two thousand and thirteen than three liters in two thousand and sixteen the new commander in Afghanistan, John W Nicholson, said the same thing. We are seeing some progress. As recently as last year, spokesmen of Mark Milley said he was hard at work making sure to

accelerate progress Afghanistan. So if youre wondering why Americans are so confused by the fact that Kabul fell in an afternoon and the Taliban control the country that we occupied for twenty years, maybe it is because they thought we were making progress so consider that whole chronology. You just heard consider the news that Reuters broke this week about Joe Bidens recent conversation with the guy we installed as the President of the Afghanistan some college, professor called Ghani, Joe Biden, told Ghani that even if the Taliban were taking over the country the summer, the most important thing to do was to keep up the appearance of you guessed it progress. I need not tell you that perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan I believe said things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban. President Biden said, and there is a need- whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture. We know that conversation took place because the Pentagon and Slash or the State Department leaked it to Reuters.

Now. Why would they do that? Because, whatever bidens fault, he did pull american troops out of Afghanistan and they hate that, so they leaked an audiotape of the President speaking to another head of state. That is illegal. You cant conduct statecraft. If people are leaking the contents of your conversations and yet they are doing that to get back at him because he broke the rules, he stopped at a permanent war. He did it ineptly, but he did it so lying to the rest of us about what is actually happening with our troops and our money in our name in a foreign country that has been the philosophy of this countrys military establishment for twenty years. It is also the philosophy of every high ranking official in the Biden Administration projects, the illusion of progress, even when it is clear we are failing Tony Blinken, who runs the State Department. Ineptly just announced the news that more than one hundred american citizens remain trapped in Afghanistan, r progress. Now: u DOT S? Military flights have ended and our troops have

departed Afghanistan. A new chapter of Americas engagement with Afghanistan has begun. We believe there are still a small number of Americans come under two hundred and likely closer to one hundred who remain in Afghanistan and want to leave. We are trying to determine exactly how many laughs we had twenty years to figure it out, but we have no idea how many Americans, including school children, remain in Afghanistan, because we are the adults in the room. That is why we are going to lead with our diplomacy, and I what does that? Look like exactly? How do you lead with a flood policy heres one example back in April Tony Blinken and the State Department announced spending hundreds of millions of dollars on social programs in Afghanistan and to destroy the patriarchy, because that is really our goal: impose our modernist social values on prehistoric countries. We are going to pay for programs and support womens empowerment. Where did that money? Go people like this who posted this on social media for eight point five

years, I I taught at the university in Afghanistan. I found her the first gender studies program in Afghanistan in history there all of our hopes, dreams progress only to have it snatched away. We used to call this cultural imperialism to imagine that other cultures want your family structure, for example, isnt it up to the Afghans what families they want. No, we tried to impose our customs on them and they hated it. Maybe that is one of the reasons the Taliban took over. In a weekend we heard people to lead diplomacy. Meanwhile, we have been leaving with our diplomacy and leaving billions of american military dollars worth of equipment to the Taliban row upon row of sophisticated assault, rifles boxes of pistols, ammunition, vision, equipment, videos posted by the

Taliban online in recent days, boast of what they say are there seizures of the assault rifles in the afghan city and at the airport, armored humvees by the dozen some mine resistant vehicles, costing hundreds of billions of dollars a piece even a small drone. These are the potentially lethal spoils. The Taliban are believed to have captured in recent days from defeated Afghan forces weapons made in America supplied by the: U Dot S to their fallen afghan allies. So now we are.