The situation in Afghanistan is worse than that in Vietnam in 1975, a former foreign correspondent says. Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam at the time, fell to the North Vietnamese Army on April 30, 1975. In the days leading up to the takeover, which effectively ended the Vietnam War, American troops evacuated thousands of Americans and Vietnamese. Ron Yates was there at the time as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He remembers U.S. troops working for weeks to get out Vietnamese who had assisted the United States during the war. “They managed to get a lot of people out,” Yates recalled on The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” on Aug. 20. On the other hand, the United States failed to evacuate many Afghans before the country fell to the Taliban in mid-August. “It’s an unmitigated disaster,” Yates said. “They had months to do this. Why couldn’t they have …