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As recently as on July 6, 2021, US President Joe Biden dismissed all notions of a hasty American retreat from the advancing Taliban in Afghanistan.

“The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable,” Biden stressed.

But in true Vietnamese War style, American officials have been airlifted from the US embassy in Kabul in what seems to have been an inexplicable US intelligence blunder or a strange new back-room deal.

Doddering Joe Biden promised a different outcome in Afghanistan. Scenes of the desperate at Kabul airport trying to flee the country after their US friends abandoned them. Screenshots from YouTube Washington

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