people who helped us in vietnam. evacuating armies always leave people behind despite hollywood mythology to the contrary. richard nixon and henry kissinger killed thousands of innocent victims with a sustained strain of bombs dropped from the skies. there is no measure by which the american experience in afghanistan is worse than the experience in vietnam but particularly american to believe that your personal version of an experience is always the best or the worst and so for 49-year-olds like ben sass who have never before witnessed the united states being driven out of a country in total military defeat, this must be the worst. the american military did not just terrorize southeast asia for 13 years with the vietnam
being given birth on live tv these days. last night on this network an unnamed american military source in afghanistan was quoted as saying what we are seeing now in the american evacuation of afghanistan is worse, much worse than what we saw in 1975 in the american evacuation from vietnam after we lost the war there. the problem with that kind of quote is that any unnamed military source in afghanistan tonight is too young to remember the vietnam war and was probably not born yet. when we evacuated vietnam in 1975 and so that source literally does not know what he or she is talking about, so, too republican senator ben sass who said this today on television what is happening at the karzai is a more shameful, lower moment in u.s. history than 1975 in
saigon. ben sass was 3 years old in 1975. ben sass literally does not know what he is talking about. everything about vietnam was much, much worse than what has happened in the american experience in afghanistan. the total of american military personnel killed in afghanistan over 20 years equals approximately just one month of american military deaths in vietnam in may of 1968. and here is just one measure and only one measure of how much worse the american experience in vietnam was. u.s. military deaths in vietnam over roughly 13 years of active combat were 57,939. the american military deaths in afghanistan over 20 years are