With Sam Faddis, Ed Timperlake and Robert Charles

SAM FADDIS, former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis

• Sam Faddis on the Biden administration’s response to the situation in Afghanistan: “You don’t know whether to laugh or cry”
• Faddis: Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is convinced the Taliban may respond to U.S. diplomatic messages and demands
• Faddis: Already hundreds of Chinese officials in Afghanistan assisting the Taliban hunt down opponents to the new regime
• Will the Taliban turn on their backer, Pakistan? And what does a destabilized Pakistan mean for international security?

EDWARD TIMPERLAKE, Former Director of Technology Assessment, International Technology Security, Former Representative, National Counterintelligence Executive Committee, US Department of Defense, Captain (ret.), US Marine Corps (1969-1975), Author, Year of the Rat

• Ed Timberlake: When you surrender a fighting force, the next era of horror begins - The international press core needs to keep their focus on the events that will transpire in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal
• Timperlake on why China is wrong to “mock the ranks” of the U.S. military: Those who stayed in the military after Vietnam gave us Desert Storm
• Will Biden’s surrender in Afghanistan beget a hot war with China?

ROBERT CHARLES, Spokesman, Association of Mature American Citizens, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, "Eagles and Evergreens," @RCharles4USA

• Robert Charles talks about the one thing that all Americans need to know about the situation in Afghanistan: “We still have Americans in that country”
• Charles: When push comes to shove, the U.S. must continue to be the voice of civil liberties around the world