I came across this photograph while looking at some military history websites. It shows the humiliating evacuation of the US embassy after the fall of Saigon. It is one of the defining images of 1975, and of America's botched overseas adventures.
Why do I get a strong feeling that we will witness something similar when the great "liberators" depart from Baghdad? No doubt, when they finally do evacuate the (ahem) free Iraq, Bush & Co will interpret the gunfire which accompanies the departure as "celebratory".
Where American foreign policy is concerned, "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
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