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"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted” - Arthur Miller From War On The Rocks: DON’T FAIL AMERICA’S ALLIES: THE PLIGHT OF AFGHANS LEFT BEHIND FRANCE HOANGAUGUST 16, 2021COMMENTARY   President Joe Biden failed America’s allies — and my family — in 1975. He should not repeat his mistake in 2021. My mother was a Vietnamese national who risked her life working for the U.S. naval attaché in Saigon. My father was a South Vietnamese army officer. In April of 1975, as communist forces closed in on Saigon, the fate of my family and tens of thousands of other Vietnamese allies hung in the balance as President Gerald Ford and congressional leaders debated. Today, America faces a similar challenge as the Taliban control the capital of Afghanistan, the United States evacuates its embassy, and the lives of America’s Afghan allies and their families hang in the balance. Back then Ford showed remarkable leadership by appealing to the American people on television, despite popular opinion against t