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The question is whether the fight was worth it at several crucial junctures: when the United States got more seriously involved in 1963-64; when it dramatically escalated in 1967-68; and when it began a prolonged withdrawal, from 1969 through the fall of Saigon in 1975 ...
The man, a Vietnamese, is thought to have set up the display to anger certain of his neighboring retailers in the "Little Saigon" neighborhood, home to more than 200,000 Vietnamese Americans, many of whom fled to the U.S. just ahead of communist troops or only after being imprisoned by them for a few years.
The show makes an interesting contrast with that other Puccini retread, Miss Saigon . The latter, a British musical, relocates Madame Butterfly to the most controversial conflict of our time, paints its story on a big, sweeping canvas and has gone on to play around the world; the other brings La Bohème home to Greenwich Village, and thus further reinforces the parochialism of the New York musical, as it shrivels away to its core audience.
The New York Times Book Review assigned Jeffrey Record to review the book, which seems an odd choice considering that Record just published a book titled The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam . Record predictably refutes Sorley's thesis ("How does one explain Saigon's fall when, according to Sorley, we had won the war by late 1971?"
The Viet Cong were driven away from the outskirts of Saigon and isolated in pockets.