Not Saigon?

US secretary of state, Antony Blinken's assertion that "this is manifestly not Saigon" is proven untrue.

I saw Biden's speech today. It's obvious he has strong feelings on this issue, but he wasn't entirely honest ... he was in no way forced to honor the agreement Trump made with the Taliban to pull out troops or to pull them out so quickly. Meanwhile, it appears he has no plans to help the women and girls of Afghanistan.

What Biden could have done was leave a small peacekeeping force in Afghanistan to lend stability to at least part of the country - that would save some of the women and girls from a horroble life under the Taliban.

Why should Americans care enough about those women and girls to keep troops in Afghanistan? Because we made the choice to invade and occupy their country in the first place. Some perspective - we fought the Korean war about 70 years ago, the war is not yet officially over and there's a stalemate, and we still have about 28,000 troops there.