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President Biden’s disastrous foreign policy in Afghanistan had led to the Taliban seizing abandoned U.S. military equipment like helicopters and drones, seizing every provincial capital, and finally seizing the capital of Kabul leaving Americans and our Afghan allies scrambling for their lives. But Sunday’s NBC Nightly News was concerned with how “Republicans have seized on” the very applicable “optical comparison” between the Kabul airlift and the Saigon airlift that marked the end of the Vietnam War.
The ridiculous complaint came from White House correspondent Monica Alba who even admitted that the Biden administration was airlifting people from the embassy to Hamid Karzai International Airport:
ALBA: Candidate Biden promised to bring troops home, and President Biden guaranteed last month there would be no airlifts from the embassy in Kabul, saying it was not at all analogous to the messy exit from Vietnam four decades ago.
SEC. STATE ANTONY BLINKEN: This is manifestly not Saigon.
ALBA: Still, helicopters continued to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies to the airport throughout the day.
“An optical comparison Republicans have seized on as they continue to blast the president's foreign policy strategy,” she whined, playing back-to-back soundbites of Republican members of Congress decrying Biden.
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