This episode was recorded on September 30, 2021.
Congressman Dan Crenshaw and I discuss the fallout of withdrawing from Afghanistan and the details of the 20-plus-year conflict. We talk about life as a US congressman and his experience as a US Navy…
This episode was recorded on September 30, 2021.
Congressman Dan Crenshaw and I discuss the fallout of withdrawing from Afghanistan and the details of the 20-plus-year conflict. We talk about life as a US congressman and his experience as a US Navy SEAL. About social media and politics–especially in relation to modern conservatism. And about climate change. On that note, we also examined Dan’s recently-published ”Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage.”
Dan is a retired Navy SEAL with 5 deployments overseas during the Afghan and Iraq wars. While in Afghanistan, an IED blast led to Dan losing his right eye. Crenshaw was elected to Congress in 2018, where he serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee (broadest jurisdiction out of all legislative committees). Dan also serves on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
Find more Dan Crenshaw: @DanCrenshawTX
https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX
Or on his website: https://crenshaw.house.gov/
Check out "Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage":
https://www.amazon.com/Fortitude-American-Resilience-Era-Outrage/dp/1538733307
[00:00] Intro
[02:30] Dan Crenshaw explains the situation in Afghanistan over the last 20 years
[4:15] “We decided that the Taliban should no longer be in control of Afghanistan. That was day one” - Dan Crenshaw
[9:00] Exploring the details of the new Taliban rule
[11:45] “I come from the Special Ops community. I also come from the intelligence community. You have to work with shady characters sometimes but this wasn’t one of those cases, this was a time to put your foot down and refuse to let this happen” - Dan Crenshaw
[13:00] Crenshaw talks about all the common-sense failure of the planned withdrawal and the politics that made a reasonable exit impossible
[13:45] “Do you know what ‘slogan’ means? It's from Welsh. It literally means ‘battle cry of the dead’” - Jordan Peterson
[16:30] The nature of an endless war against the Taliban
[20:45] Life as a US Congres..
