re: #148 whitebeach

I don’t think that many South Vietnamese “trusted” us any more than I think Afghanistan is crowded with folks who “trust” us. Many of the Vietnamese trying to board those last desperate flights had been supporters of the corrupt and deeply hated Saigon government and had as much reason to fear the South Vietnamese people as they did the North Vietnamese troops. We propped them up for more than a decade, seriously harming our own country in the process, and as far as I’m concerned we didn’t owe them a damn thing more. As for the Afghans, the day we and our allies finally leave, my guess is that they will simply go back to their millennia-old local pastime of warring on each other.

There were ordinary people who worked with the US Army and the South Vietnamese government who were promised transport out then casually abandoned. Your statement is a rationalization of our shameful treatment of them.