The announcement by the militant group said the ongoing transfer of security operations from U.S. troops to Afghan forces was merely a retreat similar to the American withdrawal from South Vietnam prior to the communist victory there in 1975.
American-led NATO troops are scheduled to pull out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. However the U.S. will leave behind a residual force and other NATO countries have pledged continuing support of the Kabul government.
“They want to flee from Afghanistan just as they turned tail and ran from Vietnam”, the Taliban statement said. “When America faced utter destruction in Vietnam, they came up with the formula ‘declare victory and run’ and want to utilize the formula of ‘transfer security and run’ here in Afghanistan”.
The United States withdrew is combat troops from South Vietnam in 1973, leaving South Vietnamese forces to face the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong who marched into the capital, Saigon, two years later.
Source: Alarabiya
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