CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown August 15, 2021 22:43:00
Said it was corrupt, that it didn't have the support of its people, we dismissed. ultimately we saw what happened when we left. the south vietnamese army just couldn't fight. this is frankly more staggering. the south vietnamese army and south vietnam lasted two years after the americans left. this is a collapse within a matter of days. this may be the most stunning military collapse in history. even the fall of france to hitler's armies took a few weeks, took about five weeks, may to june in 1940. i think we're all going to have to take a long hard look and ask were we deluding ourselves when...