Kevyn wrote:
Until the betrayal of the Kurds, our closest allies in the Middle East, the fall of Saigon was arguably the most humiliating and shameful event in our nations modern history, then the Cheeto Faced Shitgibbon said “hold my Diet Coke and watch this.”
You never give any serious thought to the garbage you drag in here, do you? You have completely ignored the history of America's involvement in Vietnam. Most likely because you have no clue.
Active military assistance to the French and anti-Communist forces in Indo-China began with Truman. Assistance (financial and advisory) to these forces continued under Eisenhower and JFK, but it was LBJ who got American combat forces directly involved in the fighting. And, under his administration, American involvement escalated to reach its peak in 1968.
Say what you want about Nixon, but nearly 10 years of fighting and 58,000 dead Americans later, under his policy of "Vietnamization", he began immediately to reduce the number of American combat troops involved, and after numerous attempts to negotiate a peace agreement, he realized the utter futility of this debacle and in 1973, he ended our involvement. The last American combat troops withdrew in March, 1973.
In 1974, Gerald Ford was sworn in as POTUS, and in April, 1975, he ordered the shutdown of the US embassy in Saigon.
The picture you posted is of that evacuation. Ten US Marines (embassy security) were the last American troops to leave Vietnam.
The "most humiliating and shameful event in our nation's modern history" was not the fall of Saigon. You can pin that on LBJ's inept and disastrous conduct of the war.
And, if you think the fall of Saigon can be compared to the withdrawal of a small number of American Troops in Syria, you need a major overhaul in brain functions.