PREVIEW: KABUL: SAIGON Conversation with author Jerry Dunleavy, "Kabul," regarding the connection between the panicked evacuation of Saigon in April 1975 and then-Senator Joe Biden -- and the catastrophic withdrawal from Kabul in August 2021. More detail
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. The journalist Jerry Dunlevy and his colleague James Hassan published Cabell, |
| 0:07.6 | the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the American Warriors who fought to the end. This is that |
| 0:13.1 | retreat from Cabell that's hard to forget if you watch the video of the crush at the airport, |
| 0:23.0 | the young man falling off the last, |
| 0:28.6 | or one of the last planes to take off as he clung to the wheels or the underbase of the wheels. |
| 0:35.4 | Here, Jerry Dunleavy reminds us that there's history for Mr. Biden, |
| 0:43.3 | looking to the catastrophe of the American bugout of Saigon in 1975, and how Biden then in the Senate for his first term had lots of remarks dismissing this Vietnamese people. |
| 0:55.0 | We left a lot of people behind in Afghanistan, |
| 0:58.0 | and in Vietnam we left a lot of people behind in Vietnam that had helped us. |
| 1:03.0 | And they suffered for it. |
| 1:05.0 | And we can presume that the people of Afghanistan who were left behind are also suffering, though there's |
| 1:13.6 | no transparency. Here's Jerry Dunleavy to connect Saigon, 1975, to Cabell, 2021, to Joe Biden, still president of the United States. |
| 1:28.9 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:31.7 | So in Saigon in 1975, that is the capital of South Vietnam. |
| 1:38.4 | And the North Vietnamese swept south towards the South Vietnamese capital. And the U.S. had to do a very rush withdrawal from that country as well. |
| 1:49.1 | And as one quick aside and sort of the connection here for how President Biden thinks about these things, |
| 1:55.3 | he joined the Senate a little bit too late to be a major player in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. |
| 2:01.2 | So how he tried to make his mark in 1975 was he was the most vociferous person in the U.S. |
| 2:09.2 | government opposing efforts to save South Vietnamese allies, people that had fought alongside |
| 2:14.8 | us during the Vietnam War. |
| 2:17.0 | He even had a quote, |
| 2:18.8 | and this is very close to being his exact quote, where he said that we don't have a moral |
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