Afghanistan falls to the Taliban in the worst foreign policy debacle for the United States

since America's withdrawal from Vietnam.

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Well, obviously the big news of the day and of the year, and frankly of the last 20 years,

is the Taliban is now in charge of Afghanistan again because Joe Biden decided it would be a

wonderful, wonderful idea to simply leave with no plan, with no actual transition, with no

support for the people who are still there. And so what we have on our hands is a full-scale disaster area. Now, remember, it was just one month ago that Joe Biden was saying that, don't worry, it's not going to be like Saigon. It's not going to be like the United States leaving Vietnam, with helicopters taking off from roofs and the Viet Cong simply rushing in and killing

everybody they don't like. It's not going to be anything like that. It'll be orderly. After all,

there's a big Afghan army, and we've been arming them and supporting them. Here was Joe Biden

saying, what is now, in retrospect, the dumbest thing he possibly could have said one month ago.

Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam with some people feeling?

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