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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1484705)9/10/2024 3:18:17 PM
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"Kabul will not look like Saigon" as late as July of 2021.

It didn't, as late as 8/31/21. Perhaps you've forgotten that the Saigon airport was under attack, or perhaps you've forgotten that the Taliban were helping us leave, instead of fighting us.

Saigon Defenses Attacked; Airport Under Rocket Fire

The New York Times
nytimes.com › 1975/04/29 › archives › sai...



Apr 29, 1975 — Over 150 rockets smash into Tan Son Nhut air base, in heaviest rocket attack of war, as N Vietnamese troops assault Saigon's suburbs; ...

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With the Taliban controlling the whole city except Hamid Karzai International Airport, hostilities ceased and the Taliban assisted in the evacuation effort by providing security and screening evacuees.


2021 Kabul airlift - Wikipedia