[uscga77]

Once more we are leaving only to supply our enemies with bases and equipment. Yes, it will be another Vietnam scene. Yes, we will once more leave people high and dry to be slaughtered. And yes, I feel sorry for loved ones of those who perished fighting there. Thankfully they were fighting more for their brothers in arms. We only made it worse all around by not leaving when we accomplished our mission long ago after 9-11.

[Jim Noble]

The difference with Vietnam is that the Talibes understand total war in a way that NVA/VC did not.

NVA/VC did not, and did not intend to, make an example of departing Americans.

This is not the case in Afghanistan.

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains
And the women come out to cut up what remains
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
And go to your Gawd like a soldier"

Kipling 1890.

Plus-que ça change..., or, in English, SSDD.