Today, you have to analyze what happened five minutes ago, and believe me, that is extremely frustrating.

The lightning speed at which the Taliban has continued its advance on the capital city of Kabul.

Taking control of the country happened a lot faster than his administration anticipated.

I would just ask people to think about what they're going to be reporting 20 years from now.

President Biden recalled the madness of the American involvement in the Vietnam War,

which was America's longest war before the war in Afghanistan.

I'm Rachel Bade, this is Playbook Deep Dive.

I graduated from college in 1957.

Andy Glass is a contributing editor at Politico.

He's been working in journalism ever since the day he graduated, 64 years ago.

And I never wanted to do anything else in my life.

A lot of people are drawing similarities between the fall of Saigon and the fall of Kabul.

But what we're watching now is all subject to change.

Andy knows because he covered the fall of Saigon in 1975.

And when he went back 20 years later?

In 1995.

Something resonated with him.

I interviewed the top Vietnamese general.

I asked him, why did we, the Americans, lose the war and why did you, the communist lord, win the war?

And he paused for just a minute.

And he said, you know why?

Because we wanted it more than you did.

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