2021 Kabul Airport Attack

weighing heavy on my heart. I have a lot I want to say, trying to honor them, trying to condemn those responsible, and we are going to walk through that. I'm not going to forget and I'm not going to let it go. We're gonna talk about that tonight, I know, because that's going to be heavy. We're all gonna be a little way down in a little bit, you me, everybody.

I'm gonna chop away at a bunch of really cool emails, fun stuff, history stuff, all kinds of stuff afterwards, and then we'll get onto some other news of the day. A couple little items here little items there, Pam, Bonnie doesn't want you getting hammered on a boat this weekend. All that and so much more coming up on the world famous Jesse Kelly Show. Yeah, Pam, you know freedom

is not free quit anyway. We'll get to that in a little while, but let's first discuss military service sacrifice, risking your life, losing your life on behalf of your nation, or tried whatever, wherever you happen to live. There is an old, old old saying that war is old men talking and young men dying. It's an old saying. They pulled that saying out in the movie Troy. If that's where you heard that saying first, just know that's an ancient proverb, much older than the movie Troy. Okay, but

I do think it's been thousands of years old. War is old men talking and young men dying. Now, that is not as insulting as it always sounds. That's just the nature of how things are. As you get older, Lord willing, you get wiser, but your body isn't. It's not what it used to be, and so you need to do more, the thinking, more the decision making. When you're young, not as wise yet, not because you're stupid

or there's anything wrong with you. You just don't have enough years under your belt yet, don't have enough experience. You're not as wise maybe, but physically you are tip top shape. And you as a young man and well young women nowadays two as a young man, you have those shoulders, legs, chest, You have that body in part

because you are made to defend things. Defend your home physically, your woman, defend your town, your city, your country, and sometimes, if you so choose, give up your life in service to your country. That's the way things are. Young Men have fought in wars since time immemorial, and have died in wars since time began. That's the way it goes. I understand that, and let me explain. Every single person in uniform, especially frontline troops, they understand that, and they

understand that's part of the risk. Yes, if I sign up, I may die. But whether we're talking about a big country or a small tribe, I have always and will always believe that the country itself, the government itself, owes you two things. If you are one of the young men or young women who will go die on behalf of that country. Your country owes you two things. One, your life that you're willing to give up for it should not be thrown away. Should not be disregarded as nothing.

Oh yeah, look, they may order you to go do something very very dangerous with the risk of death very very high. Don't throw my life away like it's nothing. Don't throw the life of a young soldier away like it's nothing, because it's not nothing. That's a living, breathing human being with parents, siblings, maybe a wife, children. Don't take his willingness to sacrifice and abuse it and throw it away, throw it away with incompetence, with evil, with corruption.

So that's one, don't throw the life away. And two, if that young soldier does give up his life on behalf of his country, honor him the old man who did the talking, meaning the ones who gave the orders, the ones who planned it. Honor the one who gave up his life. He deserves that. Society deserves to know his name, His fellow soldiers deserve to see you honoring him. His family deserves to see that. Honor and respect the ones who gave up their lives. I don't think that's

asking a lot of any country or any tribe. Don't throw the life away, honor the sacrifice once it's been made. The reason I am opening up the show tonight talking about Abby Gate, I'm gonna try to remain quite calm. If you listen to this show for a while, you'll know that was the angriest I've ever been on the radio, shouting into the microphone. I hate doing that. I don't like doing angry radio. I'm going to try to stay

calm tonight. The reason I'm doing this tonight is both counts, don't throw the life away and respect the sacrifice after it's gone. On both counts, the Communists in the Biden administration, in the State Department, in the intelligence community, in the military community failed those troops who gave up their lives.

The young woman, a bunch of young men gave up their lives for this country, and their lives were thrown away by an evil, evil regime, by negligence by evil, and afterwards, in the aftermath of it, and to this day, nothing has been done to properly honor them. I do. Before I go on the stuff, want to give a nice shout out to Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump and JD. Vance who welcomed them into the White House today honored them. Here was a little bit of Pete hag this beautiful.

this effort. It's a top priority for us. We're getting access to all documents necessary, why decisions were made, why they weren't made, why certain forced protection measures were ignored. Again, there's never been accountability for this. It's something that Joe Biden allowed to happen that never should have happened. Anybody who any objective observer knows that's not how you leave a country. And certainly these families no better than anyone else.

in their honor. So Afghanistan, you know, we went there Post nine to eleven to track down Osama bin Lad. That was it was a big CIA special operations. It was a big you know, tip of the Spear operation. There's great, great material on that out there. Now we know Osama bin Lan was there. We know Afghanistan was really a hotbed for Jihati activity and still is, of course, And so we went there to track down the man response for bringing down the towers. But as is so

often the case, we didn't have a clear mission. Part of the reason people fall in love with World War two is the mission was so incredibly clear, and in a lot of ways, it's really the last war we had where the mission was clear. There that's Nazi Germany, destroy them defeat them there, that's imperial to Japan. Destroy them, Defeat them, that's the goal, unconditional surrender. You will be defeated.

And that clarity we find so refreshing, don't we, especially in the wake of everything that happened after that Korea? What are we doing? Okay, we ran them out of the south, but now we're invading the north? Are we? What are you doing? Vietnam? We started on that. Poor guys over there talked about it all the time. What's the mission? What are we doing? What's the end goal?

By Afghanistan? The lack of clarity we know now we know courtesy of things like the Afghanistan Papers, which is about the only decent thing the Washington Post has ever done. We know clear back to Rumsfeld. They're sending memos to each other. I'm not sure what the mission is now, can't find him. What are we doing here? We'll continue on in a moment. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, fantastic Tuesday. Remember you can email us

Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. And after I get done dragging you down memory lane talking about Abby Gate, Afghanistan, the four year anniversary. We'll get to a bunch of those emails, maybe take a load off for a little bit, But for now, we are going to discuss what happened. We're going to discuss the sacrifice, the players to everything. We are going to talk about this. We are not going to let it go. We are not going to

forget Afghanistan. We end up going in there after Osama bin Laden, but very very quickly the politicians and military leaders lose sight of what we're actually doing. What are we doing here? Why are we here? What is the actual overall mission? All right, this unbelievably goes on for twenty years. I still cannot believe that number. For twenty years, we had our guys running around Afghanistan doing crazy things. Some missions made sense, some missions did not. A lot

of blood was lost over there. Some things we would we'd go put in a water well that was never used. Sometimes we were told we weren't allowed to touch the poppy fields, the heroin fields. In fact, we had American troops guarding them. We had a Green Beret assault an Afghani police chief who was assaulting a young boy, very common practice in Afghanistan, and the Green Beret got in trouble and what this did just I'm giving it to you from somebody who participated in the old g Watt.

I was Iraq, not Afghanistan. And I'm telling you this disillusioned veterans like you cannot possibly imagine. We watched betrayal after betrayal after betrayal from our political and military leaders,

Republican and Democrat. The most I've told you this before, the most revealing moment of my entire life was being in the Iraq invasion, fighting our way through the country and being told one day that the order came down that we had to put away our American flags, telling a legion of young patriotic marines that they had to hide their American flags. I don't know that I've ever seen the light go out of so many young marine's

eyes as I did that day. But this is what happens when your country's led by a bunch of scumbags who don't love it, don't care about anything but their own power, their own wealth. And this went on for twenty years in places like Afghanistan. Now, after twenty years, see Obama wanted out of Afghanistan, at least he said he did. Trump said he did too. Biden said, everybody kept saying they wanted out, but we were not out because it's not easy to get out when you've been

in a place for twenty years. You have a military base, you have relationships, you have supply lines, you have all these things. And one of the things we were doing for twenty years was supposedly building up the Afghan forces so they would be able to withstand the Taliban when we did leave. But here's a little genius wrinkle brought

to you by America's military. We also force them to be reliant on us, meaning yeah, you'll be able to fight off the Taliban as long as we are here providing X, Y, and Z. We essentially train them to ride a bike with training wheels, and then decided all at once to rip those training wheels away. Now, let's discuss the decision itself to pull out the way Joe Biden did, Because there is a way to egress from a nation. There is a way to pull out. It is not easy, but it is there is a way.

You have to do it carefully, slowly, one step at a time. You essentially take one step at a time backwards towards the door. You don't turn in towards the door. You don't back up too fast or you'll fall. You take one step out a time, just like you see in the movies, backing out the door, slowly but surely. But you see, that's not what the Biden administration wanted. Why why the big hurry? Why just pull everyone out, turn around and run for the door. Oh, I'm glad

you asked pull numbers approval ratings. We were approaching the anniversary of nine to eleven, the twentieth anniversary nine to eleven. The Biden administration wanted a good talking point. They wanted a good parade, a good flowery, fluffy military video to put out. They wanted Joe Biden to look like the man who finds got us out of Afghanistan. So, against all the advice in the world, they simply sent the memo out and said, hey, leave, Oh oh okay, when

oh now, what do you mean now? Like right now? Leave everywhere? Yeah? Well, what about all the equipment we have? Leave it? Uh? What about the terrorists we're currently holding? Isis terrorists currently holding being detained in Boga Mare Base. Oh I don't care. Leave for poll numbers for approval ratings so they could send out a nice tweet. That's why we left. We'll pick up the story from there

in a moment. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Tuesday, a wonderful Tuesday, as we walk through Afghanistan Abbey gate to pull out what happened, as we try to honor the sacrifice, try to hold people accountable on the fourth anniversary of all of it. So Joe Biden, because he wanted and I know when I say Joe Biden as always, just know that's a placeholder. He didn't want anything. It was the dirty, filthy communists who hate America all around him. That was the only people making decisions.

So Joe Biden decided he wanted a flowery photo op for the anniversary of September eleventh. He yanked all of our troops out, emptied the place overnight, without doing it smartly at all. What happens. The Afghan forces that we had supposedly been training for years started to collapse almost immediately. The Taliban were ready. Of course, they were given a heads up that we were leaving. The Taliban were ready,

and they began to conquer region after region immediately. Now, the people of Afghanistan are intimately familiar with how the Taliban operate and what they do. The Taliban barbarism is infamous. Everybody knows about it. The way they treat women, the way they treat children. They're big on the whole torture thing, execution. Chris, You people don't fare very well there. Neither do Christians. By the way, the Taliban are evil. They are the

spawn of Satan, and people begin to panic. Afghan people begin to panic, and they start to flood towards whatever Americans are left in the country, saying save us, get us out, because they know a life of torture and death is imminent for them. Get us out, Save us please. So we are treated as Afghanistan is falling, we are

treated to scenes that are rough. To put it mildly, a runway full of panic to afghanis crowding around sea one thirties in some cases, so they're holding on to the landing gear before plummeting to their death high above the runway. It's an ugly, awful scene, very reminiscent of when we were pulling our final troops out of Vietnam. The panicked people of Vietnam knowing what's going to happen

when the communist savages finally have control over everything? A level of fear that I hope you will never know, and frankly, I hope I will never know. They're scared to death. Now now the Biden administration is scrambling. They're scrambling because well, one everyone went on vacation. Everyone went on vacation, Joe Biden, our Secretary of State, Anthony Blincoln, even the White House Press Secretary. They left as Afghanistan was collapsing. Then the outrage starts to pour in. Their

ozones are blowing up. What are you doing? What is happening over there? And they dragged Joe Biden out and this when he sat down with noted communist propagandist George Stephanopolis. This was the answer from the President of the United States of America. As people were dropping from sea one thirty. We've all seen the pictures. Who've seen those hundreds of people packed into a C seventeen, We've seen Afghan's fall was four.

about the detention center on Bogram Air Base. You see the men we were holding there were some of the most committed Jihadis on the planet. One of those men, he was an Isis guy. He had been previously captured in India. He was in India getting ready to carry out a terrorist attack in New Delhi. The Indians, by the grace of God, found him first, grabbed him up, deported him. We got our hands on him and threw

him in a cage in Bogram Air Base. When the Biden administration abandoned Bagram Air Base, imagine the moment the Taliban are walking through our air base and they come across this detention place with a bunch of committed demons who were willing to commit murder against Americans. They grabbed the keys, open up the gates, and then there's a meeting between ISIS between al Qaeda. They were part of this. In fact, the bin Laden family is part of this.

Did you know this ISIS, al Qaeda and the Taliban had high level meetings about planning an attack. How do we hurt these Americans? How do we blow up these troops? Now back to our kokam Amy plan. Instead of an air base which is very secure, and let me clarify this for civilian types who may not understand. Why is a military air base like Bogram secure but a civilian

airport is not secure. A military air base is surrounded by walls, surrounded by towers, and in order to gain entry to it, because we've learned over years and years and years of dealing withchie hotties, to gain entry to it, you don't just drive right up a road right up to the gate and maybe you get a big truck full of explosives and you blow through the gate or blow up the gate or something like that. No no, no, no, no,

no no, that's not how it works at all. You have different barrier systems set up that force vehicles to weave their way through gigantic concrete sandbag barriers. Cant Basically you have prevented. You have prevented, for the most part, any kind of a large suicide bomb attack that can hurt a lot of personnel inside the air base. Maybe you'll get the people guarding the gates. That certainly happens, but for the most part, the base is secured. We've

learned how to avoid suicide tactics. But that has to be done not just with troops, because troops, all of them, even the toughest in the world, they're just flesh and blood. It has to be done with hard infrastructure, walls, concrete pillboxes, sandbags, towers. This is how you protect yourself against gihatis, with suicide vests and trucks full of ammonium nitrate. This is how it is done, and that's what we had at Bagram.

But the geniuses in the Biden administration and the military and the State Department and the intelligence community, we can't let any of them off the hook. They just decided to open up the whole freaking thing and give it back to the Taliban. Now we have to go to the airport, the regular old civilian airport. Let me ask you something. Your airport, the airport in your community, how secure is it Oh no, no, don't get wrong. I know there are metal detectives and things like that, But

what's surrounding the airport in your area? Now, this is America. In your area. At best, at best, there is a chain link fence that is the ultimate security physically keeping people out of your airport runway. Am I off? Am I wrong about that?

the worst couldn't happen. And while all this was going on, Taliban isis al Qaeda operatives were meeting figuring out how to kill our guys. We'll continue next.

So what did happen that day? First of all, don't think for one single second that we didn't know there were bad guys about, And don't think for a second that we didn't identify the bad guy before he incinerated thirteen of our troops with ball bearings. I'm going to play a couple things for you. United States Marine Corps Sergeant I believe he was Stat. Sargan, maybe was Sergeant Vargas Andrews. He's describing the attack here.

Then a flash and a massive wave of pressure. I'm throwing twelve feet onto the ground, but instantly knew what had happened. I opened my eyes to marine's dead or conscious lying around me. A crowd of hundreds immediately vanished in front of me, and my body was catastrophically wounded, with one hundred, one hundred and fifty ball bearings now in it. Almost immediately we started taking fire from the neighborhood, and I saw how injured I was, with my right

arm completely shredded and unusable. I saw my lower abdomen soaked in blood. I crawled backwards seven feet, roughly seven feet because I thought I was still in harms away. My body was overwhelmed from the trauma of the blast. My abdomen had been ripped open. Every inch of my exposed body except from my face to ball bearings shrapnel.

him if we could shoot. Our battalion commander said, and I quote, I don't know end quote. Myself and my team leader asked, very harshly, well who does, because this is your responsibility, sir. He again replied he did not know, but would find out. We received no update and never got our answer. Eventually, the individual disappeared. To this day,

we believe he was a suicide bomber. We made everyone on the ground to where operations had briefly halted but then started again, plain and simple, we were.

the country. You see that uniform that says general admiral in immediately your respect level goes up. I sneer because I assume that's a dirtball politician wearing a military uniform who would sell his troops up the river in a heartbeat if it meant one more star on his caller. That's what I assume, and I'm correct about ninety nine

percent of the time in this country. How in the world, as a battalion commander, how does a battalion commander look at a Marine Corps scout sniper who had identified the suicide bomber ahead of time, and say, I don't know. I'll tell you right now. I had several battalion commanders in my four years in the Marine Corps, and every one of them, I guarantee you to a man would have said kill him immediately, I'll deal with the aftermath. No, go kill him, shoot him now. That's what I had

in two thousand to two thousand and four. By the time twenty twenty came around, we get I don't know, I'll find out, and never even makes a phone call to come back, doesn't so much as get on the radio and say leave. Says nothing pathetic. And after our thirteen warriors died, the American people, hoping that maybe briefly we had a commander in chief, waited for Joe Biden to take the podium that night. Joe Biden took the podium that night after having thrown away the lives of

thirteen brave warriors. And this is how it went.