But Paul suggested that maybe the situation in Afghanistan was "perhaps not as dramatic" as the situation in Saigon forty-six years ago.

But that was six weeks ago.

Now, it looks like the end of the US's war in Afghanistan may be in many ways every bit as chaotic as the US regime's final defeat in Vietnam.

When Paul was writing his article in early July, we were already getting hints of the direction things were going. US forces abandoned Bagram Airfield in the middle of the night, and the US didn't even tell its allies what was going on. Afghan officials discovered the US was gone hours later. Shortly thereafter, looters ransacked the base.

But that, it seems, was just the beginning. Over a period of a mere ten days, provincial capitals in Afghanistan have fallen one after the other. On Sunday, the Taliban entered the strategically key capital Kabul. The Taliban's reconquest of the country was so fast that even the US regime's spokesman admitted "the militants' progress came much more quickly than the US had anticipated."