Joe Biden

There will be no Saigon-style helicopter evacuation of people from the US Embassy in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal.

“There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a Embassy in the—of the United States from Afghanistan.”

Said on

8 July 2021 · Answer to a reporter comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam, remarks on US military operations in Afghanistan, White House East Room. No window stated; inferred as the withdrawal period through end of 2021.

Source

Remarks on United States Military Operations in Afghanistan and an Exchange With Reporters · The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara)

Should come true

by 2021

How sure they sounded

There's going to be no circumstance

Categories

Geopolitics

Importance

3 of 5 · Concerned how the 20-year US war in Afghanistan would end and the safety of US diplomats.

Outcome

Partly right Happened 15 August 2021.

On 15 August 2021, as Kabul fell, a US Army CH-47 Chinook landed in the US Embassy courtyard and helicopters shuttled diplomatic staff to the airport, which was widely compared to Saigon in 1975. People were lifted out by helicopter from the embassy compound, but not literally off the roof. Scored partial rather than inaccurate for that reason, though the substance of the claim failed.

Evidence:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)