Kabul, Afghanistan Withdrawal Debacle: A Marine's take. Also, Are you consuming too much news?

Published Aug 26, 2021

This week, Matt Amos, Chet Sears and Troy Trussell cover the people stranded at the Kabul airport. Matt served in Afghanistan and provides us more insight than what we see in the news. Do the ideologies of the Taliban and the current Australian government have anything in common? Troy and Chet agree on the top sports movie of all-time. This is a Hardheaded Podcast first! Spoiler alert! Matt spends way too much time talking through the entire plot of a movie that he recommends we watch, Woodlawn (2015). "Amusing Ourselves to Death" Are we living frivolous lives and dying in tears and anxiousness? Are we in information overload? Do we spend too much time focused on everything going on and forget to actually do important things that will impact us and those around us? Chet poses these thoughts and leads us to Acts 17 where we find this isn't a new phenomenon brought on by 24 hour news!

Topics discussed:

1. What's On Your Mind: The Afghanistan debacle. Matt's experience with the Afghan people.

2. Top 3: Hoosiers, Miracle, Remember the Titans, Karate Kid, Woodlawn, Friday Night Lights, Happy Gilmore, The Natural

3. A Good Word: News. Ecc 1:9 "...there is nothing new under the sun." Acts 17:21 "Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new." Amusing Ourselves to Death

ANCOP, Afghan National Coalition of Police, ANA, Afghan National Army, interpreters, stranded, deployment, Al Qaeda, abandon, disgrace, veteran, active duty, Kabul, wounded veteran, IED, improvized explosive device, claymore, tribe, strongest tribe, Dan Oblinger, timeline, founding fathers, Declaration of Independence, helicopters, MRAP, M4, NVG's, drones, goggles, ideology, country boy, farmer, use of force, Australia, Biden failed, NATO

Links mentioned in this episode:

• https://www.hardheadedpodcast.com/

• http://admiralspennant.com/