 All right, Alex, if you are made president today, no, please don't make me president today. What actions would you take in Afghanistan to salvage the current situation? You really shouldn't tempt me with questions like this. I would invite the entire Taliban leadership to a peace conference and kill them all. Didn't that happen in Braveheart where the king of England brought all the Scots there and he then slaughtered them all? I would. I mean, I wouldn't literally do that, but I would basically give the Taliban anything. I would basically annihilate them and that would basically mean I would immediately put enough ground troops at the airport to protect, to be able to defend whatever happens over there. And if that meant 100,000 troops, I'd bring in 100,000 troops. I would kill the Taliban in the presidential palace. I'd bomb the presidential palace out of existence and I would then make clear to them that we will go house by house, road by road, and we would clear them out of Kabul and whatever it would take and that we would find every American. And if they hurt one here on one American, anywhere in the country, we would hunt them down anywhere that they went, whatever cave they found. And we would tell the Pakistanis, if you let one Taliban across the border, you know, we're coming after you. And yes, I know Pakistan has nukes. They can't deliver them to the United States. They wouldn't bomb Afghanistan with them. What are they going to do exactly? They're going to use their nukes? They're going to waste them? I mean, they're saving them to use in India. They're going to use them in the U.S. that forget it. It's not happening. They would power. They would drop to their knees and ask for forgiveness. So I would go house by house. I would find every American there. And of course you would have to find, you would have to do this right, right? You would have to stealthily put special forces into all kinds of places within Kabul. So they, you know, they wouldn't start killing Americans before you had the opportunity to get there. But you would make it very clear what would happen to them if they started killing Americans, if they touched them. And you would basically go in and you would, I would do whatever was necessary to destroy the Taliban. ISIS, I don't know if you know, but ISIS in Afghanistan is now threatening the Americans and the airport. So they're all panicking because of ISIS. We have satellites above Afghanistan. We have satellites above every place in the world. They can basically find a needle in a haystack. I mean, not quite, but almost, right? You can see somebody's driver's license, if that's what you really want to see. And we have drones all over the skies there. Don't tell me we can't find these bastards and kill them and just take them out of existence systematically, thoroughly, whatever it takes. Yes, they're going to hiding, they'll adapt into the civilian population. Okay. Well then some civilians are going to die. Some civilians are going to die. We take out their tele, their communication networks. We take out, I would take out the entire cell phone network in Afghanistan, make it impossible for them to communicate. They don't have anything more sophisticated. They're probably not, they don't have satellites. Make it so it's impossible for them to defend themselves and then crush them and then rally anybody who wants to leave Afghanistan and get them out of there and bring them home. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. 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