http://www.metafilter.com/tags/FallOfSaigon Posts tagged with 'FallOfSaigon' at MetaFilter. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:41:25 -0800 Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:41:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/41663/Insert%2Dobvious%2DGeorge%2DSantayana%2Dquote%2Dhere <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/30/newsid_2498000/2498441.stm">"We are here to hand over to you the power in order to avoid bloodshed."</a> <a href="http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/1,7034,15135966%255E950,00.html">Today</a> is the <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4618863&sourceCode=gaw">thirtieth</a> <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger25.html">anniversary</a> of the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/hi/news_update/newsid_3853000/3853853.stm">Fall</a> of <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1356884.htm">Saigon</a>. <br><br>A<a href="http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1997/12/09/opin/column.1.html"> secret plan</a> to end the war. After the rewarding the Vietnam war's <a href="http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/mcnamara/top.htm">technocratic architect</a> with the <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20413078~pagePK:116743~piPK:36693~theSitePK:4607,00.html">Presidency of the World Bank</a>, after the twin failures of President Nixon's <a href="http://nukewatch.org/media/more_media/12-00-02/12-30-02/nixon.html">"madman plan",</a> to scare the <a href="http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/15388_vietnam.html">Soviet Union</a> into concessions over Vietnam out of fear of Nixon's insanity, and of <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNvietnamization.htm">"Vietnamization"</a>, turning over <a href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jpvann.htm">responsibility for the war</a> to <a href="http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/RN/page002.html">the South Vietnamese</a>, the North nevertheless <a href="http://www.vietnam-war.info/battles/fall_of_saigon.php">won the war.</a> <br><br><a href="http://www.midwaysailor.com/midwayfreqwind/midway-788b.jpg">Disposable</a> <a href="http://www.midwaysailor.com/midwayfreqwind/midway-820b.jpg">helicopters</a>. <a href="http://ships.bouwman.com/Navy/SubicBay/FREQUENT-WIND.html">Operation Frequent Wind</a>, the <a href="http://www.fallofsaigon.org/">chaotic</a> <a href="http://www.learnersonline.com/weekly/archive2K/week16/">evacuation</a> of the <a href="http://www.midwaysailor.com/midwayfreqwind/">American</a> <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11526455.htm">Embassy</a>, brought to <a href="http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/04/30/news/top_stories/20_50_454_29_05.txt">a close</a> fifteen <a href="http://www.vietvet.org/thepast.htm">years</a> of <a href="http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/">American</a> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0126-07.htm"> hubris</a>. Karl Marx, who got little else right, observed "History repeats itself, the first as <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/valentine04082004.html">tragedy</a>, then as <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2005/nf20050418_5596.htm">farce</a>." tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41663 Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:41:25 -0800 FallOfSaigon Iraq newsfilter RichardMNixon RobertSMcNamara Saigon Vietnam VietnamWar orthogonality