NBC News: Republicans 'have seized on' the 'optical comparison' of Kabul and Saigon

Greg P. | 8:26 PM on August 15, 2021

NBC News’s Monica Alba said tonight that Republicans “have seized on” the “optical comparison” between images from the fall of Kabul today to similar images from Saigon, Vietnam in 1975:

NBC Nightly News whined that Republicans "have seized on" the "optical comparison" between Biden's disaster in Kabul and the Saigon airlift. pic.twitter.com/6J30EqMfHh

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 15, 2021

Well, for starters, duh:

PHOTO 1: US diplomat evacuate US from embassy via helicopter as the #Taliban enter #Kabul from all sides. #Afghanistan (2021)

PHOTO 2: US diplomat evacuate US from embassy via helicopter as the PAVN & Viet Cong capture of Saigon, Vietnam (1975) pic.twitter.com/YamWmzjOay

— Stefan Simanowitz (@StefSimanowitz) August 15, 2021

But, more importantly, IT’S NOT JUST REPUBLICANS.

Robert Reich:

Anyone else notice that Kabul is starting to resemble Saigon in April 1975?

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 13, 2021

The Washington Post:

The fall of Saigon: As Taliban enter Kabul, the Vietnam War’s final days remembered https://t.co/F7HQru89Ft

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 15, 2021

CNN’s Jim Sciutto (who served as chief of staff and senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke during the Obama administration):

Kabul, Saigon.
The fall, once again.
America loses another war.
Our longest war.
“We’re #1!!”
We spent over $2 trillion.
We sacrificed over 2,300 American lives to invade a country where Bin Laden was never, nowhere, to be found. Bush said he had no interest in capturing him pic.twitter.com/660B2WgR94

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) August 15, 2021

Oh, and President Biden was around for the fall of Saigon so he knows EXACTLY how similar they are:

During the 1975 Fall of Saigon, Joe Biden had already been a Senator for 2 years pic.twitter.com/IHpB1aQg0V

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 15, 2021

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