{"id":668482,"date":"2021-08-21T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=668482"},"modified":"2021-08-21T08:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T12:35:25","slug":"i-do-not-believe-the-united-states-has-an-obligation-biden-circa-1975-argued-against-evacuating-vietnamese-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-do-not-believe-the-united-states-has-an-obligation-biden-circa-1975-argued-against-evacuating-vietnamese-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Do Not Believe The United States Has An Obligation\u2019: Biden, Circa 1975, Argued Against Evacuating Vietnamese Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-do-not-believe-the-united-states-has-an-obligation-biden-circa-1975-argued-against-evacuating-vietnamese-refugees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=668482&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234435095-scaled-e1628025674804.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden authorized $500 million Tuesday to evacuate Afghan citizens, but he argued against assisting in the evacuation of South Vietnamese refugees as a young senator.<\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-biden-vietnam-war-saigon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Vietnamese<\/a> marched on Saigon in 1975, thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/jim-laurie-witnessed-saigon-compares-kabul-totally-unmitigated-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Vietnamese<\/a> citizens \u2014 many of whom had connections to the U.S. \u2014 asked for assistance in leaving the country. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/20\/joe-biden-remarks-afghanistan-misleading-differ-reality-kabul\/\">(RELATED: Impossible To Fact Check \u2018In Real Time\u2019: Misleading Biden Presser Diverges From Reality On The Ground)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then President Gerald Ford called on Congress to authorize funds to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/20\/joe-biden-helped-french-left-americans-kabul-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evacuate<\/a> 2,500 American citizens and their families along with about 175,000 refugees \u2014 and Democratic Delaware Sen. Joe Biden was one of the loudest voices in opposition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/03\/we-cant-abandon-afghans-who-helped-us\/618416\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>In an April 14, 1975, meeting between the president and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/historicaldocuments\/frus1969-76v10\/d232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden<\/a> said, \u201cI feel put upon in being presented an all-or-nothing number.&nbsp;I will vote for any amount for getting the Americans out. I don\u2019t want it mixed with getting the Vietnamese out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ford pushed back, arguing that \u201cour tradition is to welcome the oppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.8490566037736\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI do not believe the United States has an obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals,\u201d a young Sen. Joe Biden said in 1975. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/arPpgipY8q\">https:\/\/t.co\/arPpgipY8q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mediaite (@Mediaite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mediaite\/status\/1428753022071582733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI do not believe the United States has an obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals,\u201d Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/United_States_Congressional_Serial_Set\/mh9QAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1\">repeated<\/a>&nbsp;his position in remarks a week later. \u201cThe United States has no obligation to evacuate one, or 100,001, South Vietnamese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden doubled down on that position in 2012 when he spoke at the funeral for the late Democratic South Dakota Sen. George McGovern in 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.4754098360656\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnieLinskey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AnnieLinskey<\/a> : \u201c2 weeks before Saigon fell in April 1975, Joe Biden was among senators summoned to WH for top-secret briefing on crisis Vietnam\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zTgPo7Y1aD\">https:\/\/t.co\/zTgPo7Y1aD<\/a><br \/>Biden told that story 10\/25\/2012 McGovern funeral:<br \/>\u201c5 weeks later helicopters taking off roof\u2026I was right\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RIA0IK5jnJ\">pic.twitter.com\/RIA0IK5jnJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HowardMortman\/status\/1427223770348011521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was decided we were not going to sustain our presence,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd about five weeks later, helicopters taking off the roof. I mean, it\u2019s not because of me. That was the plan. \u2026 I remember walking out of there thinking, \u2018I was right.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden authorized $500 million Tuesday to evacuate Afghan citizens, but he argued against assisting in the evacuation of South Vietnamese refugees as a young senator.When the North Vietnamese &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}