host: neff annual in parksville, maryland. welcome to -- nathaniel, in parksville, maryland. caller: good morning, mr. butler. i would like to thank you for your service. i was going to talk about the 18 months preceding this evacuation, where the taliban was signing surrender agreements with the local tribal leaders. as far as afghanistan. but i do want to address your comparisons of vietnam to afghanistan. since the fall of afghanistan, there has been in excess of 350 thousand evacuated after the government fell. in vietnam, after the government fell, there was a total of zero. so i think you are comparing apples and oranges. host: jeremy butler? guest: i am by no means saying it is the exact same situation, but also i think there were hundreds of thousand -- i think we evacuated 300,000 total in the time leading up to the withdrawal of vietnam. which goes back to the point we have been trying to make, that this evacuation of our allies should have been going on for years, at a minimum for months, since the details around the withdrawal were finalized under the trump admini

host: neff annual in parksville, maryland. welcome to -- nathaniel, in parksville, maryland.r: good morning, mr. butler. i would like to thank you for your service. i was going to talk about the 18 months preceding this evacuation, where the taliban was signing surrender agreements with the local tribal leaders. as far as afghanistan. but i do want to address your comparisons of vietnam to afghanistan. since the fall of afghanistan, there has been in excess of 350 thousand evacuated after the government fell. in vietnam, after the government fell, there was a total of zero. so i think you are comparing apples and oranges. host: jeremy butler? guest: i am by no means saying it is the exact same situation, but also i think there were hundreds of thousand -- i think we evacuated 300,000 total in the time leading up to the withdrawal of vietnam. which goes back to the point we have been trying to make, that this evacuation of our allies should have been going on for years, at a minimum for months, since the details around the withdrawal were finalized under the trump administrati