United States policy-makers have been keen to play down any comparisons between the collapse of Kabul and the fall of Saigon in 1975 and it is not hard to see why.
America lost more than 50,000 soldiers then in a war that killed hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and ended in scenes of abject humiliation that are still replayed to this day.
But the parallels are apt and numerous.
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