Dramatic images of locals clinging to departing American aircraft, only to fall to their inevitable deaths, will not form a part of the story.
Washington, July 18 – State Department and White House officials voiced their regret today that the country’s military will be unable to repeat in Teheran the disastrous departures from Saigon and Kabul, the images of which resounded around the world as emblematic of US weakness and abandonment of erstwhile commitments to global liberty.
Former Iran envoy Robert Malley expressed deep disappointment Tuesday that the US does not have a military presence in Iran that can be withdrawn, preferably in haste and chaos, leading to a total collapse of morale among those in Iran who seek freedom and needed American power to protect them from the onslaught of totalitarian forces.
“I wish we could repeat Kabul and Saigon in Teheran,” he stated with a shake of the head. “We can do only so much capitulating at the negotiating table. Try as I might, as accommodating as I’ve shown myself and this administration to be in accepting a nuclear-armed Iran, we have not been able to achieve the thorough humiliation and betrayal of allies that those photographs of the last helicopters out in 1975 and 2022 conveyed.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken shared Malley’s disappointment. “In the case of Iran we can only betray allies who have alternatives,” he acknowledged. “In Saigon and Kabul, we left our erstwhile allies to fend off their enemies alone, with predictable results. But here, the allies we want to abandon can hold their own against the Ayatollahs, except in the case of the people of Iran themselves. We might have to settle for betraying only them to the depredations of the mullahs and further violent political repression. That’s unfortunate. Despite our best efforts, Israel remains in a decent position to actually defend itself against Iran, and so do the various Persian Gulf states.”
Blinken added that he still hopes to oversee a capitulation to Iran on nuclear weapons that endangers allies and empowers the Khamenei regime, but the dramatic images of locals clinging to departing American aircraft, only to fall to their inevitable deaths, will not form a part of the story. “You can’t hope for the same outcome every time,” he acknowledged. “Circumstances have to be just right. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, we don’t have a situation that lends itself to that kind of imagery, except metaphorically.”
Blinken and Malley refrained from verbalizing a commitment to bringing about such circumstances, noting that it would require having American troops in Iran that can be chaotically withdrawn, and the only military personnel the administration will tolerate in Iran – as under the Obama administration – is servicemen and servicewomen taken hostage when Iranian naval forces overpower US vessels that are under orders not to antagonize Teheran by resisting such operations.
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