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Vietnam shadow hangs over Biden decision
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Posted By: Come And Take It, 8/13/2021 6:48:45 PM

President Biden is facing a potential foreign policy and humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan as the Taliban makes rapid gains, capturing major cities and prompting concerns over the safety of U.S. diplomatic personnel and civilians on the ground. The Taliban took control of Kandahar and Herat on Thursday, the second- and third-largest cities in Afghanistan after Kabul, followed by Lashkar Gar on Friday. The Biden administration is sending about 3,000 troops to the country to help evacuate diplomats from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, as well as Afghans who have applied for special immigrant visas for helping the United States during the war.

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No foreign government should EVER trust US foreign policy, because it filps 180 degrees every 4-8 years as one faction is thrown out, and the other installed.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Geoman 8/13/2021 7:41:06 PM (No. 877969)
More so than Vietnam, what happened in Laos to the Hmong tribespeople who fought for the US is more akin to Biden's Afghanistan looming bloodbath. The few Hmong remaining from that ugly cut-and-run episode are living in the US.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: lakerman1 8/13/2021 7:43:05 PM (No. 877970)
Did the U.S. ever make any gains in Afghanistan? Apparently not.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 8/13/2021 8:07:11 PM (No. 877987)
It's just a matter of time before a hostage crisis takes hold of the news cycle. An urgent note to anyone who had or still is supporting the US troops or the existing Afghan government - find the nearest border crossing and leave - quickly. With your head still attached.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 8/13/2021 9:00:22 PM (No. 878013)
Don't you get it -- he just doesn't care.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bpl40 8/13/2021 9:00:34 PM (No. 878014)
President Ford was facing a legal and honest election. So the debacle and it’s political ramifications mattered. Now, it makes little difference.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: daisey 8/13/2021 9:04:10 PM (No. 878015)
If we have Saigon part deux, the news media will hide it, you won’t see pictures. News just said Kabul is now surrounded. But media will cover for him. This current occupant of our White House sickens and disgusts me beyond words.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 8/13/2021 9:37:53 PM (No. 878062)
The "Return" was identified today as 8000 troops. If ever a country looked stupid and leaderless, it is the US at the moment. We will go back to save the Afghan population and the people who have not already been raped and murdered will spit on us.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: The Remnants 8/13/2021 9:56:06 PM (No. 878083)
And what will happen to the young men who go over there? This administration must do something well. Wokeism, I guess.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: bighambone 8/13/2021 11:51:38 PM (No. 878160)
Looks like Biden is aiming for a foreign policy doubleheader as he was in the Senate when the Democrat Congress abandoned South Vietnam in 1975 and now is the President who is abandoning Afghanistan through a disorganized retreat. Biden and his “woke” Generals are now deploying three battalions of Army and Marine infantry to Kabul, Afghanistan to provide security so that American civilians and some Afghans can get out of Afghanistan. The way the Biden crew has been operating, you have to hope that in the end those three infantry battalions will themselves have a way out of Afghanistan.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: PChristopher 8/14/2021 12:07:56 AM (No. 878167)
As soon as Biden said there would be no scenes of helicopters lifting people off the roofs of the American embassy,I knew that that, or something very like it, was exactly what's going to happen.
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