So, do they now regret the way the US ran away from the war in Vietnam?

Do they retrospectively regret all those "collaborators with US imperialism" we abandoned in the fall of Saigon, in 1975?

They?

Democrats joining Republicans in unanimously deploring the betrayal of the Kurds and the abandonment of Syria.

To be fair, it amazed me at the time how many supporters of the war did not mind at all the abandonment of thousands and tens of thousands of Vietnamese supporters of the US effort to a horrible fate.

I opposed the war but also was deeply ashamed of the betrayal of so many whom we had actively induced to rely on us.

In truth, we could not save everyone who had at least hoped for our victory - that would have been most of the people of South Vietnam - but we could and should have saved those publicly in any way associated with our participation in that war.

Tens of thousands though that would have been.

Because we were responsible for at least some of them sticking their heads up, daring so long to resist the reds, and we had promised them all they could count on us.

Why didn't the Brits give British passports to the entire population of Hong Kong when they agreed to turn over the colony to Beijing?

Why didn't the Commonwealth countries agree to accept them all as refugees, sharing them out among themselves more or less proportionately to their own part in the total population of the Commonwealth?

How was their failure to do any such thing not a shocking betrayal?

Not that they - the Vietnamese or the Hong Kong Chinese - would all have agreed to leave their homes.

But the invitations should have been extended.