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There's little in common between US' ignoble exit from Vietnam, Afghanistan

Once the war was over, Vietnam was eager to embrace America against its historic enemy, China

Hoang Tung, editor of  Vietnamese Communist Party daily, Nhan Dan, speaking to the writer, then a correspondent of Far Eastern Economic Review, in Hanoi, July 1975 (Photo Courtesy: Nayan Chanda)
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Hoang Tung, editor of Vietnamese Communist Party daily, Nhan Dan, speaking to the writer, then a correspondent of Far Eastern Economic Review, in Hanoi, July 1975 (Photo Courtesy: Nayan Chanda)

Nayan Chanda New Delhi
With Kabul’s airport engulfed in chaos, violence, and bloodshed as thousands of terrified Afghans seek to flee their country, some have likened the unfolding disaster to the April 1975 fall of Saigon. The images of heartrending desperation for the many rushing the gates of Kabul airport like thousands of Vietnamese once jammed the entrance at Tan Son Nhut airport reinforce the sense of historical déjà vu. But such parallels are a lazy shorthand premised on an optical illusion.
 
Having witnessed North Vietnamese tanks crashing through the gates of the presidential palace in Saigon and since following Vietnam’s development into

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