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Afghanistan and Vietnam Dislike seeing ads? Afghanistan and Vietnam https://www.nysun.com/editorials/afghanistan-and-vietnam/91477/ About President Biden’s decision to retreat from Afghanistan we were just sitting down to write when an email arrived with the subject line “Amazing Thread.” It linked to a chat on Twitter quoting Richard Holbrooke’s account of a conversation he had with the then vice president, illuminating what lesson for Afghanistan the future 46th President drew from our abandonment of South Vietnam. The conversation is reported in the book “Our Man,” by George Packer. He quotes Holbrooke, then special representative for Afghanistan, as relating an encounter with Mr. Biden in the White House. “When I mentioned the women’s issue, Mr. Biden erupted. Almost rising from his chair, he said, ‘I am not sending my boy back there to risk his life on behalf of women’s rights, it just won’t work, that’s not what they’re there for.’”

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