war and why our evacuation from that war was at times chaotic and always dangerous. this happened before, but the president didn t say a word then. the last american helicopter left vietnam on april 30th, 1975 at the end of a much more chaotic evacuation than we saw in afghanistan and the republican president of the united states are gerald ford, said nothing. he did not give a speech about it, he did not answer press questions about it. president ford was not attacked by his political opponents from the chaos of the american evacuation from vietnam because no one expected a massive american evacuation from a war that we lost with 20 times more casualties than we suffered in afghanistan to be anything but chaotic and dangerous. a week before the final american helicopter left vietnam, president ford gave a speech in
said nothing. he did not give a speech about it and did not answer press questions. he was not attacked by his political opponents for the chaos of the evacuation from vietnam because no one expected a massive evacuation from a war that we lost, we 20 times more casualties than we suffered in afghanistan, to be anything but chaotic and dangerous. a week before the final american helicopter left vietnam, president ford gave a speech in new orleans at two lane university, in which he did not in which he actually did talk about american humiliation in war. but he was talking about the war of 1812. seriously. we as a nation have suffered humiliation and a measure of defeat in the war of 1812. our national capital in
dollars spent in afghanistan, the costs that brown university estimated would be over $300 million a day for 20 years. for two decades. yes, the american people should hear this. $300 million a day for two decades. we ve never seen this before. we ve never seen an american president preside over the end of a lost war and then stand up and tell america what went wrong in that war. and why our evacuation from that war was at times chaotic and always dangerous. this happened before. but the president didn t say a word then. the last american helicopter left vietnam at the end of a much more chaotic evacuation than we saw in afghanistan. and the republican president of the united states, gerald ford,
america will somehow lose credibility, and honor by leaving anyone behind in afghanistan, who help the american forces in any way, over the last 20 years. forget that america already lost that credibility, on april 30th 1975. on the last american helicopter left vietnam, leaving behind thousands of people who helped the u.s. forces during the vietnam war. and, leaving behind, by mistake, in a saigon hospital, the bodies of the last two soldiers killed in action in vietnam, who were killed by rocket fire while the evacuation was going on. the world knew then, that america, will give up on multi decade war, when it gets tired of fighting in losing that war. and that the united states, will try to get as many people out, of that country, as possible, but it will always look like this. and we will always leave people behind.
been in direct contact with approximately 500 additional americans and provided specific instructions on how to get to the airport safely. people who suggest that america will somehow lose credibility and honor by leaving anyone behind in afghanistan who helped the american forces in any way over the last 20 years forget that america already lost that credibility on april 30th, 1975, when the last american helicopter left vietnam, leaving behind thousands of people who helped the u.s. forces during the vietnam war, and leaving behind by mistake in a saigon hospital the bodies of the last two soldiers killed in action in vietnam who were killed by rocket fire while the evacuation was going on. the world knew then that america will give up on a multi-decade war when it gets tired of fighting and losing that war,