![]() ![]() Vietnam had been split between north and south since 1954, when fighters with the Vietnamese Communist Party ousted the French, who had colonized the country for a century. The Vietnam War was a flashpoint of the Cold War, the post-World War II global struggle between capitalism, led by the United States, and communism, led by the Soviet Union. The two wars emerged from different geopolitical contexts, even if their ends were similar. But since no two wars are ever identical, there are both similarities and important differences in how they ended. The common threads are defeat, a heavy human and financial toll, and abandoned allies. The logic of that comparison might be unclear to millions of Americans who weren’t yet born when Saigon fell. "Our leaders did that in Vietnam when I got here as a young man. "I made a commitment to the brave men and women who served this nation that I wasn't going to ask them to continue to risk their lives in a military action that should have ended long ago," Biden said Aug. Check."Įven President Joe Biden invoked Vietnam in defense of his decision to pull U.S. Kids in the backseat of cars fleeing with their families to God knows where. A cowardly president fleeing the country. Long lines at different embassies of the desperate trying to get exit visas. A corrupt government that failed its people. military advisers and combat troops leaving after a couple of decades. Or unable to watch at all, not wanting to relive our fall of Saigon nearly five decades ago: U.S. "Former Vietnam War refugees have been watching Kabul in horror. ![]() She wrote in USA Today, where she is a journalist: It also conjured difficult memories for those who escaped Vietnam in 1975, such as Thuan Le Elston. "The evacuation of Saigon and Kabul looks pretty much the same to me," Willbanks told PolitiFact. ![]()
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