Washington, Aug 13 (TIWN) US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has warned that Americas retreat from Afghanistan risks a replay of the nations humiliating withdrawal from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam conflict in 1975.

As thousands of American soldiers were ordered back to Kabul to evacuate the Embassy staff amid a rapid advance by the Taliban, McConnell said the US is “careening toward a massive, predictable, and preventable disaster”, The Guardian reported.  The remark came as officials confirmed on Friday that the Taliban had captured Afghanistan’s second biggest city, Kandahar, as well as Lashkar Gah in the south.