We must help the Afghan interpreters
‘The United States has no obligation to evacuate one, or 100,001, South Vietnamese,’ Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware intoned on the Senate floor as South Vietnam neared collapse in 1975. Thankfully, the Ford administration ignored this shameful advice. One of the more regrettable statements of its decade, it was likely one of the positions former Obama defense secretary Robert Gates had in mind when he wrote that Biden ‘has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades’. When the United States left Vietnam in 1973, it took two years for Saigon to fall to the Communists.
