Inevitably, journalists, commentators and partisan politicians have compared the recent helicopter convoys conveying Americans from the former American embassy in Kabul to the helicopters which lifted Americans off the roof of the American embassy in Saigon in 1975 — a far from perfect comparison, since the evacuation from Saigon occurred after the hoped-for and partially More
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