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saigon in 1975. how do you explain getting this so wrong? first, savannah, to be fair, the helicopter has been the mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last 20 years. but you know it s not the helicopter. it s not the mechanism. no, no, it s the last-minute scramble. you know that. it s the last-minute scramble when the assurances from the president himself were this is not what we were going to see. it is certainly the case that the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated, including the afghans, including many of the analysts who looked hard at this problem. and part of the reason for that, is because at the end of the day, despite the fact that we spent 20 years and tens of billions of dollars to give the best equipment, the best training and the best capacity to the afghan national security forces, we could not give them the will. the scenes at the city s airport today are staggering.

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