Escape from Kabul: The Inside Story

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They recount their struggle to reach the airport, which was their last hope of leaving the country before the widely feared Taliban took control. And I think as much as this war in Afghanistan is about the end game in Afghanistan, it should also be about the end game in America and our relationship with war and that gets to the themes you were talking about like, you know, PTSD and how the Marine Corps and how all the services processed this loss in Afghanistan. But I think these numbers are, you know, extremely fuzzy at this point because Afghanistan just information wise has turned into a little bit of a black hole. And when they put that poll into the field 42 percent of Americans—it wasn’t that they didn’t care about Afghanistan as an issue.

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The Vietnam War the construct is a draft that eventually leads to an anti-war movement that finishes that war.

As the Taliban went door to door to execute ‘collaborators’, a small international task force set out on a daring mission to evacuate as many Afghans and their families as possible.

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Escape From Kabul Airport is a tightly focussed, admittedly terrifying account of what happened, narrated by the people at the heart of the action.The First Battalion of the Eighth Marine Regiment is the battalion that I fought in as a twenty-four-year-old lieutenant in Iraq.

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So the American Civil War, the construct was, if you look, the blood—the first ever draft in the United States comes out of the American Civil War. They’ve gone back twenty years in time, in their minds, and the real thing that really chimed with me was that there’s twenty-year-old women who have educated, bought into this dream that we’ve all sold them, you know, the fact that you’re going to have education, you can be an international person who might be able to do business wherever you want. And, you know, it’s not to say that people weren’t in—I mean, people were desperate to get out and people who were—you know, it’s not for me to judge who is more deserving and who is more desperate to get out, and I think that would have been a hard judgment to make.The entire Eighty-Second Airborne Division, for instance, out of Fort Bragg, one of their key divisional tasks is air fort seizure.