Afghanistan — From someone at Embassy: All Americans out. Landed in Doha. Local nationals left behind.
— Michael Yon (@Michael_Yon) August 15, 2021
Contrast that with SecState Blinken's performance on ABC News' This Week, less than one hour ago:
KARL: Respectfully, not much about what we're seeing seems too orderly or standard operating procedure. I just -- just last month, President Biden said that under no circumstance, and that was his word -- those were his words, under no circumstance would the U.S. personnel, embassy personnel be airlifted out of Kabul in a replay of the scenes that we saw in Saigon in 1975.So, isn't that exactly what we're seeing now? I mean, even the images are evocative of what happened in Vietnam.BLINKEN: Let's take a step back. This is manifestly not Saigon.
Not to dispute SecState Blinken, but it is manifestly the case that in the evacuation of Saigon we did not leave (most) of the local nationals behind.
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