Friday, April 30, 2010

After the Fall

OCB staff
Orient Commercial Bank, Khanh Hoi Branch. Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.

35 years after the fall of Saigon (30 April 1975), the Vietnamese, left to their own devices, are doing pretty well for themselves. And somehow, the dreaded Viet Cong conquest of the United States never materialized. There's a lesson here, if we care to learn it.