You Know the End Is Near When Pictures of Helicopters on Embassy Roofs Start to Show Up Again
More and more conversations about “the fall of Baghdad” seem to be occurring. John MacArthur, editor of Harpers, recently interviewed Wolfgang Lehmann, the diplomat (now retired) who was charged with identifying Vietnamese allies who needed to be evacuated when Saigon fell.
So far it seems that no one in the Bush administration has contacted him to pick his brain about this. When we recall how the Defense Department ignored all the work done by the State Department on how to organize the occupation before the invasion, it is unlikely that they will be prepared to take care of Iraqis who took such great risks by working with Americans.