[ANALYSIS] Kabul evacuations -- echoes of US exit from Saigon?
US troops are being sent to evacuate embassy staff from Kabul as the Taliban press a lightning offensive that has seen much of the country fall from government handsWASHINGTON - Thousands of American soldiers being sent to Afghanistan to evacuate embassy staff from Kabul as the Taliban push towards the city has revived painful US memories of the fall of Saigon.
"President Biden's decisions have us hurtling toward an even worse sequel to the humiliating fall of Saigon in 1975." The same month -- since when the Taliban's lightning offensive has surprised many US military officials -- the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff General Mark Milley also rejected comparisons to the desperate exit from Saigon.
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