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Topic: Vietnam War

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has been one of the biggest advocates for war against Iran with President Donald Trump (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Lindsey Graham: Trump's little war devil

Heather Digby Parton
Swedish pop group ABBA has always been popular in Vietnam, with one song in particular holding particular poignancy (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Sergio Mendoza Hochmann / Gus Stewart)

The ABBA song that's huge in Vietnam

Hanh Nguyen
Christmas lights in Veterans Memorial Park, Port St. Lucie, Florida (Getty Images)

Christmas can't escape our war fetish

Daniel Secatore
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Venezuela playbook is a retread

Betty Medsger - The Conversation
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US President Richard Nixon (left) and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger talk together, Washington DC, November 25, 1972. (White House via CNP/Getty Images)

New Kissinger doc gilds the stinkweed

Ken Hughes
A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail. After spending the day finding buried explosives, A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Phu Vong, Attapeu, Laos. (Jerry Redfern/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The war beneath our feet

Danae Hendrickson
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Boat attack puts us in dangerous waters

Heather Digby Parton
Vietnam Veteran Jack Ellis (Courtesy of Netflix)

A brutal, honest view of the Vietnam War

Melanie McFarland
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52 Vietnamese orphans arrive in a World Airways plane at Oakland Airport as part of Operation Babylift, on April 2, 1975. (Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Here's what US foreign aid can do

Paul Rosenberg
Vietnamese-American actress Kieu-Chinh on the set of John Irvin's Vietnam war film 'Hamburger Hill', where she is working as Vietnamese adviser, in the Philippine jungle south of Manila, 3rd November 1986. (Alex Bowie/Getty Images)

"Vietnam is more than just a war"

Teresa Tran
Hoa Xuande and Alan Trong on "The Sympathizer" (Hopper Stone/HBO)

"This happened with Vietnam too"

Teresa Tran
Hoa Xuande in "The Sympathizer" (HBO)

Actor "Sympathizer" Soldier Spy

Hanh Nguyen
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Actress Jane Fonda thanks the audience after accepting an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress, at the 44th annual Academy Awards, at the Music Center, April 10, 1972. (Getty Images)

Wartime protests at the Oscars

Nardos Haile
Phrase on gun mount protective shield probably accurately expresses thoughts of GI tank crew member as elements of US armored units move back into combat base, Sept. 30th, 1971, recently turned over to Vietnamese forces. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Last global superpower: Nearing the end?

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
1st March 1968: American soldiers and Vietnamese refugees returning to the town of Hue, in Vietnam. (Terry Fincher/Express/Getty Images)

Vietnam and "alternative facts"

Arnold R. Isaacs
Kham Thien street in central Hanoi which was turned to rubble by an American bombing raid on December 27, 1972. (Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Fake history and the "Christmas bombing"

Arnold R. Isaacs
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Newspaper story on one of Nguyen Hong My's American adversary-in-the-sky whom he’s since befriended (Photo courtesy of author)

How Vietnam changed me — and America

Dennis Aftergut
The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Earth Day immolation on SCOTUS steps

Meryl Phair
Richard Nixon and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

When Nixon meddled in an overseas war

Matthew Rozsa
In this photograph taken on January 3, 2018, Afghan commandos forces patrol during ongoing US-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province. Afghan security forces are conducting most of the fighting against the Taliban and other insurgent groups as US troops operate alongside them in a training capacity and are frequently on the front lines. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

What we haven't learned from endless war

Nan Levinson - TomDispatch.com
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Joe Biden | Helicopter Evacuation in Saigon vs Helicopter Evacuation in Afghanistan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden, Afghanistan and history

Matthew Rozsa
Anti-war protest at the Federal Building in Westwood on Sunday, October 6, 2002. Over 4,000 people gathered to voice their oppositon to a war against Iraq. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Some Americans were right all along

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
George Romney, Mitt Romney, Martin Luther King and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The two Romneys, Republican renegades

Matthew Rozsa
Henry Kissinger, Charles Hill and George Shultz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/U.S. Navy/Eric Dietrich)

A man behind the scenes of history

Jim Sleeper
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