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Biden’s Afghan Ending Is Better than Critics Say

A CIA Veteran of Saigon's Debacle Says Biden Is Playing a Bad Hand Better than Should Be Expected, Certainly Better than Ford and Vietnam.

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Sep 19, 2022
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Frank Snepp is a former CIA officer in South Vietnam who authored the definitive book on the chaotic, 1975 collapse of the Saigon regime, Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End. In the piece below, he looks at the messy U.S. exit from Kabul through the kaleidoscope of Saigon and concludes that Joe Biden has gotten a bad rap.  

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Frank Snepp, a former top CIA analyst, now a Peabody-Award winning journalist, specializes in national security issues. His CIA memoir, Decent Interval, triggered a landmark US Supreme Court ruling.
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