The Taliban have agreed to allow “safe passage” from Afghanistan for civilians struggling to join a U.S.-directed airlift from the capital. … The situation has some people drawing parallels between the fall of Kabul and the fall of Saigon after the Vietnam war. We sit down with some of those thinkers today: … [including] Long Bui, associate professor of global and international studies at the University of California Irvine. [Starts 14:56]

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