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Afghanistan is not Vietnam
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Afghanistan is not Vietnam

You’ll hear many Vietnam analogies this week. Ignore them.

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Jason Steinhauer
Aug 19, 2021
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Amid the fraught situation in Afghanistan, political operatives, pundits, journalists and social media commentators have invoked the Vietnam War. Edward Snowden, in his weekly newsletter, called the Kabul airport a “tragic sequel to Saigon.” USA Today asked, “Is Kabul Biden’s Saigon?” An NBC News headline read, “As the Taliban gains ground, Biden grappl…

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