First picture: Saigon, Vietnam, 1975
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Second picture: Kabul, Afghanistan, 2021.
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Joe Concha, The Hill: The Biden 'fall of Saigon' media narrative in Afghanistan presents worst moment yet of presidency
The day was July 8. The topic: President Biden announced a timeline for a drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, with the military mission of two decades ending on Aug. 31.
After making his remarks, the president fielded this question: "Mr. President, some Vietnamese veterans see echoes of their experience in this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam?"
"None whatsoever," Biden replied. "Zero. What you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy — six, if I’m not mistaken. The Taliban is not the South — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable."
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Update: Afghanistan will be seen as Joe Biden’s defeat. And it may come back to haunt him (Simon Tisdall, The Guardian)
WNU editor: There are certain things that a U.S. President can never recover from. This is one of them. And while President Biden says that he has no regrets, I am willing to bet that a huge percentage of the American people have a different opinion right now on how his decision to withdraw US forces unconditionally put into motion this disaster.
