Huh? Did you read the article? The man is saying he learned his lesson a long time ago from the Cambodian genocide that America shouldn’t casually dismiss the fears of people who think that being abandoned to their fate by America will lead to their deaths or enslavement.
He’s not planting a meme, he seems almost to be saying we need to get to work on winning the war and if that means more troops, so be it.
When the NYT runs an article supporting the war, I say it is time to withdraw support. Nobody wins in Afghanistan. Ever. V’s wife.