{"id":276255,"date":"2021-08-16T08:59:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T08:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=211688"},"modified":"2021-08-16T08:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T08:59:52","slug":"deja-vu-saigon-vietnam1973-kabul-afghanistan-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/16\/deja-vu-saigon-vietnam1973-kabul-afghanistan-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0\u00a0Vu: Saigon, Vietnam,1973:\u00a0 Kabul, Afghanistan, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to global warming (floods, fires, destructive storms,\u00a0 water shortages and water pollution) a pernicious COVID virus with all its offspring variants, a depressed economy,\u00a0 abuse of power, rabid racism, graft and corruption at all levels -\u00a0 Hubris and Arrogance, the afflictions to which all empires succumb, are America\u2019s tragic flaws.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/16\/deja-vu-saigon-vietnam1973-kabul-afghanistan-2021\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/16\/deja-vu-saigon-vietnam1973-kabul-afghanistan-2021\/\">D\u00e9j\u00e0\u00a0Vu: Saigon, Vietnam,1973:\u00a0 Kabul, Afghanistan, 2021<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/16\/deja-vu-saigon-vietnam1973-kabul-afghanistan-2021\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to global warming (floods, fires, destructive storms,\u00a0 water shortages and water pollution) a pernicious COVID virus with all its offspring variants, a depressed economy,\u00a0 abuse of power, rabid racism, graft and corruption at all levels &#8211;\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276717,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276255\/revisions\/276717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}