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Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, Americans can reflect that the Vietnam War did confine the virus of Communism to former Indochina.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, Americans can reflect that the Vietnam War did confine the virus of Communism to former Indochina. Vietnam's once-threatened neighbors became the Asian tigers, and Vietnam now yearns for admittance to their club. But we must also remember that our defeat was a blow to American prestige, and therefore power, as well as a catastrophe for the South Vietnamese. As Gen. Vernon Walters put it, "For over ten years, bombs rained down on every ...
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