When Joe Biden was asked last week if there was any similarity between Kabul today and Saigon in 1975, he said no:
“None whatsoever. 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’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy [in Afghanistan].”
He also defended the withdrawal by asking:
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