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...Saigon, where park benches are named for Viet Cong war dead, some martyrs to the revolution share their sign space with Kronenbourg beer ads. The place isn't called Ho Chi Minh City as much anymore. The old Saigon is back, and it will meet you, sometime after midnight, at the Apocalypse...
...growing up in the idyllic rice farmland of central Vietnam, becomes the victim of every possible atrocity as civil war heats up in the late '50s. She is tortured with knives, electric prods, snakes, even ants; she is brutalized by the republican army and raped by the Viet Cong. She is a stand-in for her lovely country, despoiled by successive invaders like a slave princess by jealous pashas. And when she escapes to the U.S. with her sergeant husband (Tommy Lee Jones), life doesn't improve. It's still sexual rapacity, guns and ammo, war games by other means...
Funk, from that FUNky B.O. growing in your pits, from the stink between the sheets, with the bass bustin' out and the grooves hangin', ever-e-thang 'cept opera & polka, the visible line from Zapp to Zappa, gee-tars 'n' horns 'n' cong-Os and voices voices singin 'n' screamin 'n' chanting 'n' shouting...
...strange how many ghosts hover around Somalia. There is, of course, the big dark ghost of Vietnam, that formative evil myth of Clinton's generation. That war, like the Somalia conflict, was dominated by images injected into the American psyche -- the Viet Cong in a plaid shirt being shot in the head point-blank by Saigon's police chief during the Tet offensive, for example. The experience of Vietnam issues its warnings ("quagmire" and so on), but strangely, Bill Clinton the old war resister last week used much the same rhetoric of steadfastness and honor that Lyndon Johnson used when...
Among his experience in Vietnam was an encounter with a patrol of Viet Cong soldiers at a pagoda on the Mekong River...