Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 17, 2021

BD, stay quiet and you might pick up some tips.

“But in 2001 we will bite Afghanistan”

And it has been biting back ever since !

“The business of Vietnam is business!”

“The business of America is throwing taxpayer money at the Military–Industrial Complex!”

Amazingly timely. I wonder how things are going in Saigon/Kabul today.

Back when planes had phones.

P.J. O’Rourke wrote an essay about his trip to Vietnam. He discovered that the majority of the population were in their 20s and that the war was something that happened to their parents.

Rumor: Tesla is going to open a gigafactory in Saigon. Remember, you heard it here first!

Afghanistan is where Empires go to die.

Somebody here have a link for the Mailcall episode when sgt Ermey went back to Vietnam?

What are the chances that the Asian guy sitting next to you on a flight to Vietnam will turn out to be Vietnamese?

I hate to break the bad news but Hong Kong is closed. Permanently.