Clinton promises continued US support for Afghanistan after exit
Matt Milham at Stars & Stripes writes that the Obama Administration has promised that the United States will continue to support the Afghanistan government after the last troops have been pulled out of the country;
“The United States intends to stay the course with our friends in Afghanistan,” Clinton said, echoing earlier remarks by Guido Westerwelle, Germany’s foreign minister, who said his country was sending a “clear message to the people of Afghanistan: We will not leave you alone; you will not be abandoned.”
Yeah, that’s the same promise that the Nixon Administration made to South Vietnam and you can see how well that worked out for the now-stable South Vietnamese government. The Democrat Congress refused to appropriate funds South Vietnam needed in 1975 to blunt the North Vietnamese assault into the South.
South Vietnamese president Thieu, when he announced his resignation as NVA forces streamed into Saigon, the capitol;
At the time of the peace agreement the United States agreed to replace equipment on a one-by-one basis. But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American’s word reliable these days? The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.
If I were an Afghan, and not Taliban, I’d be worried right about now.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
“Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it”.
South and North Vietnam get along great now, just ask Sheila Jackson Lee.
She gives stupid a bad name.
The North Vietnamese promised not to advance in the South, at the signing of the Paris Peace agreement, and the US promised to support the South. Both reneged on their promise.
Of course NATO promised “an attack on one is an attack on all” and it took them what 6 years to do anything about Afghanistan?
We need to learn that our Word, and the pledge we make, is the only real currency in international relations.
She’s right as rain. After the ’73 peace accords, nothing more happened. South Vietnam continued to exist independently and unfettered by North Vietnam. Today, as she said, the two–North and South Vietnam–live in peace, side by side. I do have one question, though: What the hell kind of drug is she taking? Does she have a single functioning brain cell?
Ooooh, a Clinton promised something? That oughta be worth about dick point shit.
I would be astonished if ANYONE believed a single word coming out of Washington, DC. Karzai and the rest of those thieves in Kabul would be utter morons to trust one word of anyone speaking for the US government.
That a man’s word should be his bond has been lost on the denizens of DC for a long, long time.
It’s going to be South Vietnam all over again: Karzai, et al split with most or all of the treasury, mass slaughter of anyone even accused of cooperating with the Americans, etc, etc, etc. I feel so sorry for those people, the farmers and regular folks, God have mercy.