Friday, October 21, 2005
FYI
The bad news is that newspapers and television only tell part of most stories. The good news is that blogs and websites fill in many (sometimes unknown) holes. There may be additional holes needing further filling, too, but they remain unfilled for now. Today's interesting example of how there is so much more than we usually hear about, concerns I.Lewis ('Scooter') Libby, one of the figures at the center of the exceedingly weird Plame / Miller / Rove / Cheney / Libby maelstrom. There's more to Libby than has been written about or mentioned on tv. Thanks to Random Jottings, for the following:
"After our forces had withdraw from Vietnam, the South Vietnamese held their own for several years against the North Vietnamese forces attempting to conquer them. Then in 1975, . . . Congress . . . cut off the military aid the Vietnamese were depending on. . . . There were still a handful of Americans in South Vietnam, and one of the last to leave was Scooter Libby. And his final mind-boggling deed, was, utterly without any authorization or help or permission, to organize a fleet of rusty ships, and take 20,000 Vietnamese to the Philippines! They were mostly military personnel and their families; people who would have been doomed to execution, or to the hell of the "re-education camps."(The entire story is in the book Rise Of The Vulcans.)
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