End Of A Quagmire #184 By Hank Silverberg There is an eerie sight and sound to what is going on in Afghanistan this week. It's like a flashback to 1975, to a place that used to be called Saigon, and a country called South Vietnam that no longer exists. The United States had fought a long bloody war there to prop up a failed and corrupt government and had pulled out most troops two years earlier. After more than a decade of military campaigns (between 1961 and 1973) and the deaths of more than 58,200 American military personnel, we just left. The South Vietnam government fell quickly, and we simply turned our backs and tried to forget about that war. More horrifically, we also tended to forget about the American men and women who came home with physical and emotion scars. The situation in Afghanistan is similar, though not the same. The casualty count among our military is much lower, even though the war lasted 20 years. Many