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Afghanistan
2016-09-20, 1 mention2016-11-01, 1 mention2017-07-18, 1 mention2017-08-27, 1 mention2017-10-01, 1 mention2018-09-20, 1 mention2019-02-23, 2 mentions2019-04-21, 1 mention2020-01-12, 1 mention2020-12-27, 1 mention2021-04-04, 1 mention2021-08-15, 1 mention2021-08-22, 5 mentions2021-08-29, 1 mention2021-09-05, 1 mention2021-10-03, 1 mention2022-01-04, 1 mention2022-02-27, 1 mention2022-08-07, 1 mention2022-12-18, 1 mention2023-09-25, 1 mention2023-10-14, 1 mention2023-10-22, 1 mention2023-10-28, 1 mention2023-12-01, 1 mention2024-03-17, 2 mentions2024-05-25, 2 mentions2024-07-06, 1 mention2024-07-13, 1 mention2024-09-14, 4 mentions2024-10-26, 2 mentions2024-11-23, 1 mention2024-12-21, 2 mentions2025-01-04, 2 mentions2025-02-27, 1 mention2025-03-22, 1 mention2025-04-12, 1 mention2025-04-26, 1 mention2025-05-03, 1 mention2025-06-14, 1 mention2025-11-22, 1 mention2025-12-27, 1 mention2026-06-13, 1 mention2026-06-20, 1 mention2026-06-27, 1 mention
Tim’s take
His serious position is that the withdrawal exposed twenty years of American nation-building as a fraud, since the government and army trained the whole time folded in a day, and he treats the abandoned translators and the falling soccer player video as proof the U.S. has no credibility left 42:10 0:00. He extends that into a broader theory that Afghanistan (like 9/11 or Lightfoot) is meant to stay confusing so nobody actually asks how it got so bad, and separately notes the U.S. armed the Mujahideen the same way it later funded Hamas, i.e. blowback is the pattern 1:06:43 2:58 5:00.
Beyond that he mostly uses it as a punchline: boomers need a tragedy to discuss and land on "women in Afghanistan" the way they land on Covid, care packages of Fun Dip get dropped mid-bombing, and he'll riff on buying real estate in Kabul or inventing a warlord-adjacent origin story for an underwear brand 54:26 12:20 57:01 37:38 28:32.
Every Reference (58)
"especially in the last decade, 2000 over, uh, over 2000 US deaths in Afghanistan, I think 4400 in Iraq. I mean enormous I write each of these"
The Viral Beer Tribute News Clip and "The New GI Bill" — Protestant Blood Burger+216s into the segment"computer, how many rare earth minerals we have to, we had invaded Afghanistan for, that we'd level these countries for, are used. A ton of"
Cheap Goods, Blood Minerals, and the Skoll Non-Sponsor Bit — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+49s into the segment"have posited that one of the main motivations of going into Afghanistan was that they were incredibly abundant with these rare minerals."
Bin Laden Raid Doubts, Saudi-Israeli Backchannels, and Rare Earth Minerals — Inside the Cia (with John Kiriakou)+109s into the segment"there's no foundation for any type of democratic experiment in Afghanistan No, it's been a war-torn country of feudal warlords forever"
"know this generation Yeah, it's because you know, we go into Afghanistan. Yeah in the for freedom. I guess in democracy Afghanistan Here"
"10 years in Chicago. That's more murders than Kabul, fucking Afghanistan. And they could go after the gang members. They could use what"
"them. And then the mission was to rebuild Afghanistan. Well, Afghanistan's got no historical experience with democracy. Why in the world"
The Permanent War Economy and Overblown Al-Qaeda Threat — Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou)+81s into the segment"is it true that some people have deposited that whole one of the main motivations of going into Afghanistan was that they're incredibly abundant with these rare minerals."
Saudi Arabia, Seymour Hersh, and the Bin Laden Raid — Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou)+542s into the segment"The government invaded two countries that had really not a ton to do with the financing or support for the 9-11 attacks. We've been in those countries, Afghanistan, what,"
"for your friends and your family is go get killed in Iraq or Afghanistan or Iran don't go by the way don't go and then come back with"
We Need Wars to Thin Out the Population — #182 - Beware the Villas | The Tim Dillon Show+108s into the segment"okay so you're trying to like interesting fashion for women in afghanistan so smart so smart and you own so you own some textile mills"
Knocking on a Beverly Hills Mansion for Canned Food (Bit) — #232 - Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show+193s into the segment"about the importance of underwear because uh the climate in afghanistan is very interesting it's very hilly the only thing that grows"
Sheath Underwear and the Invented Murderer Founder Story — #246 - I Love The CIA (with Whitney Webb) | The Tim Dillon Show+100s into the segment"afghanistan they don't they don't seem to be doing anything at least all the american officials are saying like we trained them like we like"
Kabul Falls and America's Doomed Afghanistan Training — #264 - Time Is A Fat Circle | The Tim Dillon Show+83s into the segment"shouldn't you devote at least as much time to finding out why afghanistan is failing miserably as you do to wanting to find out why white"
Clarissa Ward, the Falling Soccer Player, and General Milley's 'Why White People Hate' Speech — #265 - Austin Taliban | The Tim Dillon Show+210s into the segment"want to go no no no you're in it now you are now living in afghanistan and listen some charity most charity i would imagine is good"
Charity Tourists Trapped in Kabul: Soho House and Call Her Daddy Bans — #265 - Austin Taliban | The Tim Dillon Show+77s into the segment"maybe happened in the most meaningful way with the onset of the afghanistan war because i was in 11th grade and all of a sudden things mattered"
His Own 9/11-Era Awakening: Cocaine, Tom Friedman, and Wanting to Join the CIA — #265 - Austin Taliban | The Tim Dillon Show+41s into the segment"we were there to help them and we would bring them to this uh underground prison this brick factory here and torture them mercilessly until they gave us some type of information um and people were tortured to death and died there"
The Salt Pit and Bagram: CIA Torture Sites in Afghanistan — #265 - Austin Taliban | The Tim Dillon Show+52s into the segment"something that is uh cost effective um and i do wanna go to afghanistan to do a benefit for the the women's foundation the reason i'm"
"The chaos serves a purpose. The chaos is the point. The chaos is the point. The point is not how did Afghanistan get so bad? It's the point."
"thoughts about it yeah but now they're she's offended at the women afghanistan because boomers need a that in tragedy they need you cannot"
Australia's Lockdown Fanaticism and Boomer Tragedy Addiction — #267 - The D'Amelio Variant | The Tim Dillon Show+136s into the segment"Listen to me. for a minute. This is So, Al's family is still in Afghanistan. He's Uh, uh, during this scene, do you like do you quit when"
United States of Al Rewrites Its Afghanistan Episode — #271 - The Many Taints of Newark | The Tim Dillon Show+7s into the segment"they would create narratives uh maybe like going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. That was uh created through propaganda. You know,"
"when america's done it not right when we went into iraq or afghanistan stayed there for 20 years that misadventure in the middle east"
Explaining the Invasion: NATO, Regime Change, and Russia's Reaction — #289 - Live From Ukraine | The Tim Dillon Show+114s into the segment"when that starts to happen in like the us occupation of afghanistan right right you're basically just like the idiots are in charge"
San Francisco Homelessness, the Sore in Tim's Mouth — The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310+757s into the segment"own in Morocco I want to own in Afghanistan I want to own in Afghanistan go to Afghanistan homes for sale I love real estate and I love"
Real Estate Browsing in Morocco and Kabul for Wang — Free SBF | The Tim Dillon Show #327+72s into the segment"this is like when we drop those care packages on Afghanistan while they were blowing we were blowing them up and we dropped like you know fun dip and Pop-Tarts on Afghans"
American Food Is Poison and Nobody Notices Anymore — K5 & Digidog | The Tim Dillon Show #362+80s into the segment"Al-Qaeda when it was the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan. We built that. So it's often these things happen, right? When"
Explaining Hamas and the October 7th Attack — Degree Of Difficulty | The Tim Dillon Show #365+83s into the segment"he was excited beyond belief about going over to Afghanistan like he was well there's a lot of guys that joined for patriotic reasons"
The Long Island Mall Military Recruiter — Knuckleheads & Dodo Birds | The Tim Dillon Show #366+209s into the segment"we were in Afghanistan for like my entire life for my whole life no one even knew no one even knew they actually stopped reporting it on the news"
The Stepmother War and America's 'Enjoy It, It's Not Going Anywhere' Doctrine — The War At Home | The Tim Dillon Show #367+316s into the segment"interest telling Iraq how to behave or or that that uh that Afghanistan Warlords have to live like people in Vermont I have no interest"
Understanding Root Causes Without Excusing Violence — Putin, Bin Laden, Hamas — Bonus Episode: Abby Martin+92s into the segment"should end this war and because that's not that you remember Afghanistan's 20 years did we need 20 years by the way to to know that that"
The Pope Calls for Peace and the CIA-Backed 'Revolution of Dignity' — Kate Middleton & Sociopaths With Logos | The Tim Dillon Show #384+172s into the segment"and the Ukraine understands that they know what happened in Afghanistan they see world history they know what eventually will happen"
France Wants an All-Out War Over Crimea — Kate Middleton & Sociopaths With Logos | The Tim Dillon Show #384+62s into the segment"why they happen and that's why 20 years later we run out of Afghanistan because we've kind of milked it it's time to go but so we have"
Russia Winning the Ukraine War — Kevin Spacey's Soup & AI Saints | The Tim Dillon Show #393+84s into the segment"trained They carried out the attack um and then we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq who both of those countries had absolutely nothing"
The Atlantic Admits Saudi Complicity in 9/11 — Kevin Spacey's Soup & AI Saints | The Tim Dillon Show #393+277s into the segment"the people of Afghan istan who are now living under Taliban leadership have learned that it was really really never about the people of Afghanistan"
Ukraine Gets Thrown Off the Boat Next — Joe Biden & Something Different | The Tim Dillon Show #398+99s into the segment"they're the bad guys it's 2003 all over again put them all in Afghanistan put them all there we're going to put them all in Iraq and then"
Fake Gaza Footage and the 500-Pound Bomb Math — Biden's Mumbles & Dance Moms | The Tim Dillon Show #399+202s into the segment"on the subway heading to a Yankee game if we didn't invade Afghanistan and Iraq the subway cars would fill with sarin gas and you would"
Tekken 2 and the "They Hate Us for Our Freedom" Era — The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats | The Tim Dillon Show #409+139s into the segment"place where we kind of lost both those Wars we withdrew from Afghanistan 20 some odd years later and I don't know what the [ __ ] going"
Saddam Hussein as the Minivan Mom and the Failure of Neoconservatism — The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats | The Tim Dillon Show #409+55s into the segment"remember what happened few you know whatever we withdrew from Afghanistan we've seen it we've watched this movie America will Tire of"
The Permanent Distrust Left by 9/11 and COVID — The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats | The Tim Dillon Show #409+112s into the segment"YouTubers 20 years later could go hang out with the Taliban in Afghanistan be like yo like And subscribe I'm here with the Taliban here in Afghanistan"
YouTubers Hanging Out With the Taliban in Baghdad — The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats | The Tim Dillon Show #409+26s into the segment"shoulder that burden Y and my generation we saw Iraq we saw Afghanistan y uh We've also seen you know lots of our friends go away to"
The Uni-Party, Empire, and Who Profits From War — Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414+57s into the segment"in Russia can have more of a say well you ask why we were in Afghanistan for 20 years it's like CU they really the afghanis really needed"
Project 2025, Deportation as 'One Bite at a Time,' and Chinese Hacking — Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414+239s into the segment"in Afghanistan where we thought we were going to march in to Afghanistan with tribal Warlords who are like having sex with nine-year-old"
Tulsi Gabbard, Diplomacy, and the Iran Assassination Plot — Matt Gaetz & The Non-Binary Capitalist | The Tim Dillon Show #418+37s into the segment"ignore like Iraq Afghanistan Libya like all the things that we've tried to do and failed miserably at democratizing the Middle East"
America's Track Record of Foreign Interventions — The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422"right and then there's there's weird ones you know like the Afghanistan opium connection those are that's a weird one that their their"
Ukraine, BlackRock, and the World Run on Minerals and Trade Routes — The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422+23s into the segment"unit or were there at the same time they also both served in Afghanistan in 2009 there's no evidence they were in the same region or"
The Las Vegas Cybertruck Bombing: Matthew Livelsberger — Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog | The Tim Dillon Show #424+285s into the segment"Afghanistan in a non-combatant role we've met made a big mess haven't we doesn't it feel like a big mess it feels like a big mess we were in an unwinable War it was a bad idea guys like this went over there"
Turo, Radicalization, and Housing for Veterans — Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog | The Tim Dillon Show #424+3s into the segment"Prince and others to come to a plan the president wanted out of Afghanistan we'd already been there I think going on 18 or 19 years in in"
The Deep State as the Praetorian Guard — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+102s into the segment"No, this is all we do. This is Iraq. This is Iraq. This is Afghanistan. Everything. This is the most Yeah. We We're just like we You"
American Foreign Policy as Asking for Money to Fix Your Country — Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436+37s into the segment"They like Ukraine. They like Israel Gaza. They like Syria. They liked Iraq. They liked Afghanistan. They liked Libya. And they'll like Yemen."
Neocons, Iran, and the Forever War Machine — Stay At Home Summer & Being A Good Guest | The Tim Dillon Show #439+27s into the segment"they never found weapons of mass destruction then we went into Afghanistan nothing made sense and so what this actually was was we were"
Generational Distrust of the War Machine and Megan McCain's Grudge — Candace Owens Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #441+24s into the segment"they go, remember Afghanistan? We were there for 20 years and we left and then the Taliban"
Afghanistan Withdrawal and the Public's Ignorance — Tim Dillon & His A.I. Friends | The Tim Dillon Show #442+4s into the segment"good? You're on the side of the Taliban. What? What the [ __ ] Afghanistan is a 7th century prehistoric village of warlords. What the ["
Manufactured Enemies While Real Problems Get Ignored — ICE, Iran, & The American Summer | The Tim Dillon Show #448+238s into the segment"you're the leader of a country. You're out. Knock them over. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria. So what happens? We get rid of these governments"
The Post-9/11 Regime-Change Playbook — The Epstein Files & Thanksgiving In Syria | The Tim Dillon Show #471+61s into the segment"together like, "Okay, here's here's something I'd like to do in Afghanistan." Oh, which is another place they were spending the Iran profits,"
Wexner's Power of Attorney and CIA-Linked Networks — Epstein Docs & A Culture Of Slop | The Tim Dillon Show #476+301s into the segment"control. We all learned all of these lessons with Iraq and Afghanistan. And actually, we learned that before that with Vietnam, but"
Why Wars Don't Work Anymore — Iran Forever, Belfast Riots, & College Commencement | The Tim Dillon Show #499+98s into the segment"a lot of dictators in our day. We invaded Iraq. We invaded Afghanistan. We sent millions of refugees throughout Europe. We've destabilized"
America's Lost Moral High Ground and the End of Dominance — Iran’s Baddie Era & The Data Center Destiny | The Tim Dillon Show #500+59s into the segment"platform to a lot of people my age that live through Iraq or Afghanistan was that we should not mire ourselves in unwininnable foreign"
From Anti-War Populism to Invading Iran — Donald Trump’s Endgame | The Tim Dillon Show #501+14s into the segment