The Taliban is not the north vietnamese army theyre, not theyre, not remotely comparable in terms of capability. I made a commitment to the brave men and women who serve this nation that I wasnt going to ask them to continue to risk their lives in a military action that should have ended long ago. Our leaders did that in Vietnam, when I got here as a young man, I will not do it in Afghanistan. Will president Bidens past remarks claimed the? U dot? S would not witness a Vietnam like situation in Afghanistan now coming back to haunt him after his chaotic evacuation, but as the fall of Kabul strikes a parallel with the fall of Saigon in one thousand nine hundred and seventy five. What lessons, if any, have been learned since then joining us now is retired, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Dr Jerry Davis, author of Vietnam, 101. Gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us this morning, Colonel North. Tell me what

parallels you see. Joe Biden has been drawing parallels for quite some time now between Kabul and Saigon. What parallels do you see? Yeah will what were seeing, of course, is a repeat of what happened in Saigon in May of nineteen seventy five and having spent a good part of my youth learning, how to be a commander, its heartbreaking to see the same thing repeated here. Didnt have to be theres a parallel in that Vietnam. We won a lot of ballots, but we still lost battles, but we still lost the war, which is why Dr Davis book is so important. Everybody in this White House, everybody in this administration, if the Pentagon, the State Department, ought to be the reading this book, because what Dr Davis has done is paid tribute to those of us who served there. Two point: seven million of us most of us, the sons and daughters of the greatest generation. We served in Vietnam, but when we came

home there were no victimly parades, not even so much victory parades, if not even so. Much as a thank you, Dr Davis, has not only written a great book, but its also the kind of thing that led to resolution thats going to be introduced in the House of Representatives by a brave veteran of this war and thankfully its going to be the kind of thank you we should have gotten years ago. Will Dr Davis lets talk about your book? Vietnam 101 its interesting to I think of the parallels only as a retrospective. What lessons can we learn, but looking forward right, the the way Vietnam veterans were treated when they came back to America, Lieutenant Colonel North just mentioned. What can we do with our soldiers coming back from Afghanistan? How to deal with this situation going forward? I think one thing that weve learned from the Vietnam WAR is that the way we treated the military when they came home was

not right and we have some unfinished business with concern. We need to communicate to these veterans and their families. The true feelings of america- and I think the best in America has come out recently by all the kind words and support weve given to the those coming back from Afghanistan, and we think that thats very important. We think the veterans need to hear directly from the people and we propose for a resolution, which I mention in the book that a formal apology be given to these people by the Congress on behalf of the people of the United States, to indicate that we appreciate their service

theres, no way in the world that it was right to treat your own sons and daughters upon their return from war by throwing feces and urine and blood and cursing them and treating them like the enemy. That was wrong, and so we propose a nonpartisan resolution. This is not about politics, its not partisan at all its about principle, its about patriotism, its about duty, its about honor, all those traditional things that made America great, and so we hope that the public will rise up and join us in insisting that this resolution be passed by the Congress and we have a booklet called why. Vietnam still matters, it does matter, because these veterans have been left with a cloud hanging over their head and we ought to correct that and if youll go to the college

of the ozarks web site, then ill be glad to send you a copy of the resolution, and you can read the resolution and is you will understand why this is so important? It must be done before its too late. Will we talk so much about mental health and depression suicide rates of veterans and I think, an undersold stat on that that not many people realize still a majority of those. Are Vietnam veterans? Not only should we not perpetuate the same mistakes we made back then, but we should correct those mistakes today,.