Now one of the most evil political forces the world has ever seen is back in charge of the government from which we rousted them 20 years ago.
Asked on July 7 about a possible parallel to the moment when U.S. helicopters evacuated embassy personnel on April 30, 1975, the president said, “None whatsoever. Zero….The Taliban is not the South, the North Vietnamese army. They’re not—they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of our embassy.”
Thirty-six days after he said it, we saw it.