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At the war's height, half a million U.S. troops were in Vietnam; the number in Afghanistan reached 100,000 for about a two-year period, but mostly remained far lower.
In a January 1980 United Nations debate, Vietnam was one of only four countries to support the Soviet intervention into Afghanistan. [2] The two countries signed a diplomatic visa exemption agreement in 1987. [1] After 1992 when the socialist government in Afghanistan collapsed, Vietnam closed its embassy in that country.
The United States has been involved in the war, in one way or another, for forty-two years. [4] They funded and armed the Afghan mujahideen fighting against Soviet-backed communist government. [4] In 2001, U.S. took control of Afghanistan after the invasion. During U.S. Army's stay in Afghanistan, they trained Afghan Army. It is estimated that ...
This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan [95] in order to distinguish it from Afghanistan's various other wars, [96] notably the ongoing Afghan conflict of which it was a part, [97] and the Soviet–Afghan War.
For example, two years after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, when the U.S. evacuated more than 100,000 Vietnamese refugees, Congress passed a Vietnamese adjustment act giving Vietnamese and ...
When the U.S. left Vietnam we honorably brought many refugees with us. We must do the same when we exit Afghanistan.
North and South Vietnam therefore remained divided until the Vietnam War ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. After 1976, the newly reunified Vietnam faced many difficulties including internal repression and isolation from the international community due to the Cold War, Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and an American economic embargo. [1]
The Taliban, toppled by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, are already back in power, sweeping aside the Washington-backed Afghan government. The war in Afghanistan is officially over. Now, some ...