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...after the Americans had cravenly "Vietnamized" the struggle and said good-bye) when Hanoi's regular army came down from the North like a guillotine. I am trying to find the right image: The fall of South Vietnam at the end of April 1975, was like the demolition of Pruitt-Igo three years earlier, when that vast imbecility of social engineering (a huge high-rise housing project for the poor in St. Louis) was at last rigged up with dynamite and reduced to rubble, the ritual suicide of the highest, most expensive hopes. Vietnam was the Pruitt-Igo of American...