1975 Flashback: Evacuation of Saigon

CBS Evening News YouTube ^ | 4/25/15

[conservative98]

Another one:

https://youtu.be/0BVRhsqHE5M

[ImpBill]

I was pretty sure this was how the WAR in Iraq and now Afganistan would turn out when GW took the country to war and in a few weeks stated “Mission Accomplished”.

So sad and yet so predictable.

[combat_boots]

Read the feed

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1426370496258617346

[GOPJ]

"If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative."

Donald Rumsfeld

[combat_boots]

River City

[CatOwner]

As for the imminent fall of Kabul, they assured him no Saigon helicopter type of pictures will be released by the Media or Big Tech.

By "him" I'm guessing Biden. Wow. Complete censorship of the press and tech.

[waterhill]

I remember making friends with Vietnamese and Cambodian kids back then.

Have a Cambodian friend with 7dayswhom I adore and share capitalist values with

[PGR88]

I was pretty sure this was how the WAR in Iraq and now Afganistan would turn out when GW took the country to war

My thoughts at the time were - Well, I guess there will be a total travel ban with Muslim nations, and a lot more border security - easy, fast and cheap "counter-terror measures" will be taken, of course

America's elites instead chose endless war, massive surveillence of Americans, porno-scans and open borders

[conservative98]

8/13/21

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ripped President Biden over his administration’s “panicked” tactics in Afghanistan, saying in a TV interview that “weakness begets war” as Taliban fighters continue their lightning offensive to take over the country.

The former top US diplomat told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night that the embattled country would not be falling to the insurgents if former President Donald Trump were still in power.

“It looks at best naïve and at worst ignorant. Weakness begets war, and you can see what weak leadership ultimately leads to,” Pompeo said, according to the US Sun.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/13/mike-pompeo-slams-joe-biden-amid-taliban-attacks-in-afghanistan/

[CatOwner]

If Biden had any balls, he would launch an all-out air attack of the Taliban ground troops before they reached Kabul. Just lay waste to the area until the evacuations have completed.

[dfwgator]

And if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle.

[eyedigress]

The PTB may use this to remove him while he is sitting on his “LID”.

[Leaning Right]

> GW took the country to war and in a few weeks stated “Mission Accomplished”. <

Don’t forget W’s equally idiotic “Islam is peace.”

Say what you want about FDR. But he didn’t say, “The Bushido Code is peace.” right after Pearl Harbor.

[PROCON]

Interesting how all ends of American wars turn out.

I spent a year in Vietnam as an avionics tech, '70-'71 with an Air Cav unit, A 1/9th Cav, got out in '72.

In the summer of 1974, (65 days from Aug to Oct), well after US troops had pulled out of Vietnam, I signed up as a civilian contractor with Lear-Siegler to go back and teach the S. Vietnamese forces how to maintain all the friggin' aircraft we had left for them.

I lived in Saigon but worked out of Tan Son Nhut AFB and the flight line there and was shocked to see several C-130's land daily piled high with dead S. Vietnamese soldiers who had died in an attempt to defend their country.

Also, my S. Vietnamese military students saw these aircraft bring in the dead too and knew the end was near and paid little attention to my classes.

Hey, it paid well, $1000/mth plus living expenses in 1974.

Anyway, after 65 days I told my boss I quit, wasn't making any headway and headed back to the states, went to work for Boeing in Seattle.

Just damn.

[ImpBill]

Thanks for your service brother and welcome home.

I don’t air much of my Nam experience in the open so sent you a private reply.

[CJ Wolf]

Bosnia war type Air attacks. But he ain’t gonnadoo

Dat.

[Regulator]

The Leader of the Free World

Comical

[GOPJ]

“We had a conditions-based plan for how we would get our young men and women back home,” Pompeo said....“I’ll never forget the president saying, ‘You got two missions, Mike. We have got to have an orderly plan and execution of leadership to actually do that, and then, second, you’ve got to make sure that we are never attacked from this place,’”

I'd feel a lot safer if Pompeo and Trump were running this show...

[kearnyirish2]

The worst part is the interviews with ARVN vets, in which they describe running out of ammunition; never mind US troops, the Dems voted down the military aid that would have allowed them to keep fighting. Ford was right that we had failed to honor our commitment to South Vietnam; it was clear the “peace” negotiated by Nixon a few years earlier was a hoax. The South Vietnamese president was furious that the agreement with the US allowed for North Vietnamese troops to remain within South Vietnam; he correctly stated that the US had betrayed them.