I watched the fall of Kabul on the CBS Evening News as I did the fall of Saigon in 1975. President Joe Biden, who must have watched it back then too, certainly remembers the American-Vietnam War (1965 ...

“No one thought that Kabul would fall in less than 24 hours.” It’s Sunday. Abdul Qahar is recounting his last phone calls with his parents, four brothers and a sister in Afghanistan. He’s FaceTiming ...

Proper preparation was accomplished prior to South Vietnam’s collapse. Not so in Afghanistan. Forty-seven years ago, I stood inside an American compound in Saigon, watching in anger and frustration as ...

For some Vietnamese-Americans, the news out of Afghanistan has brought back memories of the fall of Saigon in 1975, when South Vietnam's capital... U.S. Evacuations In Afghanistan Evoke Memories Of ...

Experts reflect on the symbolism of Saigon’s fall, its strategic legacy, U.S.–Vietnam reconciliation, and parallels with Afghanistan—highlighting the enduring lessons of humility, adaptation, and ...

The chaotic images of the airlift in Kabul have brought forward comparisons to another evacuation from a losing war — in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975. The Fall Of Kabul Is Not Another Saigon, Princeton ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is evacuating remaining staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as the Taliban enter the Afghan capital. But he is playing down America’s ...

The grainy footage we’re now seeing of unrest at the Green Zone at Baghdad conjures the scramble at Saigon to rescue Vietnamese soldiers and families who sided with us during the war there. A ...

WASHINGTON — When a comparison was made between the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago and a similar debacle in Vietnam 46 years earlier, President Biden and his administration ...

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