Ten years ago, The Onion predicted west's Irish Goodbye from Afghanistan

[Purplecat]

@Mister44

Yeah, but they allowed him to live out his days in exile, vs a bullet to the head like he did to so many of his countrymen.

It wasn’t the Vietnamese who allowed Pol Pot to remain alive:

https://theworldunreported.com/2020/02/24/how-the-west-supported-the-khmer-rouge/

Butcher of Cambodia set to expose Thatcher's role

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/1776/government-support-for-khmer-rouge#tab-supporters