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Om Shanti

21 January 2007

Where have I heard this before?

I heard an interesting interview on NPR this morning with Professor Robert Brigham, discussing the similarities between the Bush administration's plans to "put an Iraqi face" on the military occupation and the "Vietnamization" policies pursued by Presidents Johnson and Nixon. If you're not old enough to remember the 1975 Fall of Saigon, know that the story didn't have a happy ending for many South Vietnamese who had allied themselves with the American military. It didn't work then, why would it work now?