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Officially, the West continues to pursue its goal of regime change in Syria, in the deluded hope that the Baghdad government will somehow help defuse the tensions between Sunnis and Shiites – even though their policies are part of the problem
But in two years, Vietnam—which, thirteen years after the war and still in shambles—would grow so dire that we would flee the very ground he stood on, the soil where, a few feet away, your blood had made a dark red circle between your legs, turning the dirt there into fresh mud—and I was alive.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Czechoslovakia. Brezhnev had ordered the invasion out of a sense of vulnerability—the fear that the “Prague spring” reforms could spread—but the intervention
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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