Most of us have seen heart-wrenching visuals of terrified Afghans attempting to cling on to planes leaving Kabul airport to escape marauding Taliban forces. A Facebook page posted the video with the caption, “Citizens of Afghanistan scared of TB occupation hugging deaths and riding on the wings of the Airplane.” Till the filing of this story, the post had garnered …
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Back in June, as Taliban built momentum, Biden himself addressed Saigon parallels and dismissed them out of hand. Thousands of US soldiers being sent to Afghanistan to evacuate embassy staff from Kabul as the Taliban pushes towards the city has revived memories of the fall of Saigon. “The latest news of a further drawdown at our embassy and a hasty …
