Afghanistan debacle is Biden’s second Saigon moment

Published August 19, 2021 7:56pm ET



President Joe Biden’s disastrous handling of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan drew immediate comparisons to the end of the Vietnam War.

Helicopters evacuating personnel out of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul over to Hamid Karzai International Airport this weekend as the Taliban marched into the Afghan capital were immediately compared to infamous images of a crowd desperately trying to board a helicopter on the roof of an apartment building in Saigon (which housed USAID and the CIA’s deputy chief of station) as Communist forces swept across South Vietnam.

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