Biden said there was 'no circumstance' in which US citizens would be evacuated from Kabul by helicopter 5 weeks before exactly that happened
Biden in July denied that there was any valid comparison between the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the US evacuation from Saigon in 1975 following its defeat in the Vietnam war.
Photos of military helicopters evacuating remaining troops and embassy staff became defining images of the conflict."The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army,""They are not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There is going to be no circumstance in which you are going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.
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