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Tue 11 Nov 2009Echoes of Vietnam in Afghanistan's crisis
ANALYSIS:An unfair election, a leadership without popular support and a war without apparent end: the parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan appear striking to a former soldier
FORTY-TWO years ago in the fledgling Republic of South Vietnam, corrupt former general Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president with 38 per cent of votes in an election described as “generally fair” by the US commission overseeing it.
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