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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 4972683" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p>I don't believe that even "Mr. trash" as you put it would've left Americans and Afghanistan's stranded in Afghanistan. smh</p><p></p><h3><a href="https://unitednewspost.com/news/us-news/chaos-in-kabul-is-worse-than-fall-of-saigon-says-last-marine-off-embassy-roof-in-1975/" target="_blank">Chaos in Kabul is worse than fall of Saigon, says last Marine off embassy roof in 1975</a></h3><p>The images this week of people desperate to flee their country as a prolonged U.S. military occupation comes to an ignominious end looked familiar to retired Master Gunnery Sgt. Juan Valdez. The 84-year-old veteran was the last Marine off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1975.</p><p></p><p>Today’s videos of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport as the Taliban seized control of the country’s capitol almost immediately drew comparisons to the fall of Saigon. Some pushed back against the comparison — citing different <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/opinions/saigon-afghanistan-biden-withdrawal-zelizer/index.html" target="_blank">political</a> contexts domestically — but troops who were there in 1975, such as Valdez, saw history repeating itself.</p><p></p><p>Even <strong>"your"</strong> legit news source can't buy him a mulligan. lmao</p><p></p><p><strong>CNN </strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/08/19/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-airport-gunfire-ward-pkg-lead-vpx.cnn" target="_blank">reported</a> people in Kabul have struggled to reach to airport because the Taliban has established a “gauntlet” for those trying to get there. Despite these reports, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said Thursday people <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2739506/flow-of-evacuees-out-of-kabul-continuing-apace-officials-say/" target="_blank">are being let through</a> Taliban checkpoints.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 4972683, member: 1940"] I don't believe that even "Mr. trash" as you put it would've left Americans and Afghanistan's stranded in Afghanistan. smh [HEADING=2][URL='https://unitednewspost.com/news/us-news/chaos-in-kabul-is-worse-than-fall-of-saigon-says-last-marine-off-embassy-roof-in-1975/']Chaos in Kabul is worse than fall of Saigon, says last Marine off embassy roof in 1975[/URL][/HEADING] The images this week of people desperate to flee their country as a prolonged U.S. military occupation comes to an ignominious end looked familiar to retired Master Gunnery Sgt. Juan Valdez. The 84-year-old veteran was the last Marine off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1975. Today’s videos of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport as the Taliban seized control of the country’s capitol almost immediately drew comparisons to the fall of Saigon. Some pushed back against the comparison — citing different [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/opinions/saigon-afghanistan-biden-withdrawal-zelizer/index.html']political[/URL] contexts domestically — but troops who were there in 1975, such as Valdez, saw history repeating itself. Even [B]"your"[/B] legit news source can't buy him a mulligan. lmao [B]CNN [/B][URL='https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/08/19/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-airport-gunfire-ward-pkg-lead-vpx.cnn']reported[/URL] people in Kabul have struggled to reach to airport because the Taliban has established a “gauntlet” for those trying to get there. Despite these reports, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said Thursday people [URL='https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2739506/flow-of-evacuees-out-of-kabul-continuing-apace-officials-say/']are being let through[/URL] Taliban checkpoints. [/QUOTE]
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