The Fall of Saigon and Kabul aren t the Same | The National Interest nationalinterest.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalinterest.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I’d rather write about South Africa, but with the Kabul situation so close to home, I must say something. Promising freedom, democracy and prosperity, America brings widespread destruction and death, but it’s all good, for the war profiteers. Since each Uncle Sam misadventure is a bonanza for them, the more, the merrier. Bring it on! On April 21st, 1975, I was still in Saigon. As the Vietnam War neared its end, there was much turmoil, obviously, and much fear. I had stopped going to school. With Da Lat overrun, my aunt and her family showed up at our house. After … Continue reading →
50 years ago, Australia’s Prime Minister William McMahon announced the gradual withdraw of Australian forces from South Vietnam. South Vietnamese officials were reportedly dismayed at the suddenness of the Australian move and the lack of prior consultation.
From Afghanistan, disgraceful echoes of Vietnam Once more we are abandoning those who risked all by trusting in America.
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Regrettably for the United States, but more tragically for the people of Afghanistan, history is repeating itself.
When a great power commits to defending an ally, it assumes a moral obligation of faithful stewardship. If the great power fails, it may not in good conscience simply abandon those who stood by its side, placing their lives and futures at risk in reliance on the good faith of their protector.
Yet abandoning those who trusted in us is exactly what the U.S. did at the end of the Vietnam War and what it is now doing to the Afghans.
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