https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-18/afghanistan-joe-biden-withdrawal-voters-2022
“Forgotistan” is what Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America ruefully called it.
LA Times: What will the disastrous fall of Kabul mean for voters in 2022?
The Brief
→ Four things from today’s episode
01
Paul tells his 9/11 story in full for the first time on the show. from quitting Wall Street the week before to linking up with his New York National Guard unit
02
Searching the Winter Garden and the shattered base of the to. Searching the Winter Garden and the shattered base of the towers, with truck horns signaling possible collapses
03
“I’m not from the 82nd Airborne. We live here.”. the citizen-soldier reality of that first week
04
“The worst thing I’ve ever seen. And the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”. Paul on what unity actually looked like
Show Notes
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