Word: indochina
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...Iraq." The Army wants to award a contract to the Dupuy Institute, a Washington-area think tank, by the end of the month. The institute will be asked to study "casualties from various guerrilla conflicts in the 20th century," including the Greek civil war, the Malaysian insurrection and the Indochina war (the Vietnam War isn't specifically mentioned), the contract announcement says. Charting the death and destruction of those conflicts should tell the Pentagon "if the casualties in Iraq will decline over time, increase over time or remain at a steady state." The study will provide the basis for estimating...
...capital, Vientiane. One of the best is Le Silapa, tel: (856-21) 219689, run by Canadian Frederic Dionne-Vachon who came to Laos because he hated the Canadian winter. Housed in a 1923 shophouse barely three meters wide, the restaurant has a classical feel with a twist of Indochina. The menu includes a local fish, known as panine, as well as a purple sorbet made from local khatiep flowers...
...says. "They should remember this. They should find us a land where we?re safe and have food to eat." But as the world has watched in awe of the might of the U.S. war machine in Iraq, the final scenes of a 30-year-old war in Indochina that America would rather forget are destined to play out unnoticed...
...QUIET AMERICAN. Director Philip Noyce’s adaptation of the 1956 Graham Greene novel stars Oscar-nominated Michael Caine as Thomas Fowler, the middle-aged London Times foreign correspondent covering the French-Indochina war in Saigon. Fowler, who lives in Vietnam with a beautiful ex-taxi dancer named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), finds this lifestyle imperiled when a young American doctor, Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), falls in love with Phuong and tries to wrest her away. As the eponymous “quiet American,” Pyle is rather the opposite—his naive idealism...
...there is one axiomatic truth of modern European thought, it is that empires end in tears. Indochina, Algeria, Kenya, India--all convinced Europeans of two things. First, military might was incapable of forcing foreign lands into habits that suited the imperial power. Second, imperialism soured domestic life. It fueled racism and privileged those with commercial interests in the colonies. It meant accepting a steady drip of deaths in little colonial wars and required large, expensive standing armies...