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Aug. 15 marked two years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan after a nearly two-decade war. 

For James Hasson, co-author of \\u201cKabul: The Untold Story of Biden\\u2019s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End\\u201d and an Afghanistan veteran, seeing the Taliban takeover \\u201cwas a punch in the gut.\\u201d 

\\u201cAnd I know for at least all the other Afghan veterans that I\\u2019ve spoken to, it was a similar punch in the gut for them, as well,\\u201d says Hasson, who rose to the rank of Army captain. \\u201cAnd especially then seeing the [Biden] administration repeatedly say that, \\u2018The Taliban were now our partners,\\u2019 that they were being \\u2018businesslike and professional,\\u2019 when of course this is the same Taliban that we just spent 20 years fighting.\\u201d

\\u201cI lost people I know over there, or people I know passed away over there,\\u201d Hasson adds. \\u201cAnd a lot of other people in my circumstances who served there had the same kind of experience, and it\\u2019s a very difficult thing to reconcile. And writing this book was an absolute honor, but it was difficult also to do, in part just to see that be absolutely whitewashed.\\u201d

Hasson, together with co-author Jerry Dunleavy, an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, joins today\\u2019s episode of \\u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\\u201d to discuss their book, the No. 1 takeaway they want people to have after reading their book, and the 13 U.S. service members who were killed on Aug. 26, 2021, at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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