WaPo’s Anne Gearan: Biden Sending Troops Back to Afghanistan ‘Tantamount to Helicopter Evacuations from Saigon’

RUSH EXCEPRT:

GEARAN: “Lindsey, the administration really was taken by surprise by the speed with which the Taliban was able to make the military gains that we’ve seen over the last two weeks and over the last five days or so. What the president ended up ordering on Thursday is tantamount to the helicopter vacations aigon that he said would never happen. What he’s ordering is more troops than were in Afghanistan when he took office, returning there for a short mission in order to evacuate Americans, help process the Visas for as many people who helped Americans during the war as they can, and then get out. You know, to hear Gayle’s stories of what is potentially facing young women, girls, women who had really banked on a future that was backed by the entirety of the 20-year U.S. Nation-building mission in Afghanistan, whatever people think of the wisdom of that, you know, we can’t get all those people out.”