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This is how we “got out” of Vietnam. Remove the troops but keep the airplanes a comin’.

Which ended up with the communists winning and taking over.

"This is how we “got out” of Vietnam. Remove the troops but keep the airplanes a comin’."

Not all the troops I'm afraid. Special Forces are still on the ground with the coalition forces. Somebody that speaks "Ground Truth" has to communicate with Specter and the BUFFs.

There are similarities to the Paris Accords that we left Vietnam under, no doubt. The key ones are these:

A Republican President was in power when the peace accord was signed. (cannot determine what safeguards were in place with the Afghan treaty to ensure Taliban compliance)
The enemy the accord was signed with (the Taliban) had no intention of keeping their side of the deal.
Democrats delivered the coup de gras to a former ally. (In 1975 it was the Democrat Congress, in 2021 it was the Democrat Government)

We "got out" of Vietnam by negotiating a Peace accord with North Vietnam and South Vietnam after bombing the North Vietnamese into submission in December 1973 resulting in their returning to the negotiations and signing the Paris Peace Accord just about a month later.

In that agreement in which the right of South Vietnam to exist was codified, the United States had the full right under the accord to resume military action against the North Vietnamese in the event they engaged in military action against the south.

The North Vietnamese had no intention of adhering to the treaty and began building up of key forces. When they did begin their invasion. Ford asked Congress for permission to use air forces to uphold our part of the treaty (as required under the reprehensible Church Act) and Congress denied the additional funds needed, so no support was given during the Communist invasion in 1974-1975.

There are similarities, except the current Administration feels there is political hay to be made in executing military operations. In 1975, the opposite was true.