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Afghanistan: Cut the Red Tape

A retired longtime US Diplomat who saw the Fall of Saigon looks at Afghanistan today

Aug 11, 2021
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By: David Brown

In early April 46 years ago, North Vietnamese army divisions had overrun most of South Vietnam. They were closing in on Saigon. The US Congress had refused to vote further aid, not even air support. My wife and I knew what her father refused to believe: Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, would soon fall to the Communists.

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