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When Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, Congress moved to allow 140,000 refugees to settle in the US, a number that swelled to about a million as boat people and other escapees came to our shores. My recollection of the times was that, while not everyone here was thrilled at the influx, the only overt […]

Jack Ohman (WPWG) evokes a parallel between our withdrawal from Saigon and our withdrawal from Afghanistan, and, once more, I will point out that the two events are only vaguely alike. One similarity, however, is that there’s a reason police hate being called in on domestic disturbances: Spouses may be angry with each other, but […]