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in accordance with the desires of the commanders in the field:

After that last helicopter took off from the U.S. embassy in Saigon 32 years ago, the nasty strategic consequences then predicted did not in fact materialize. The "dominoes" did not fall, the Russians and Chinese did not take over, and America remained No. 1 in Southeast Asia and in the world...

Josef Joffe/WSJ 27.Aug.07
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Also Sunday, Maliki lashed out at two Democratic members of the U.S. Senate who have called for his removal, saying that the senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Carl Levin, needed to "come to their senses."

Maliki issued a series of stinging ripostes against foreign officials who have recently have criticized his leadership.

He also called on the French government Sunday to apologize for comments reportedly made by the country's foreign minister that the Iraqi leader should step down. In an interview with Newsweek magazine, the foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who visited Iraq this month, said he had told his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, that Maliki has "got to be replaced."

IHT 26.Aug.07
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What do Clinton Levin Kouchner and Joffe have in common?