{"id":18396,"date":"2021-08-27T00:27:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2021-08-27T00:27:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:27:42","slug":"firing-line-friday-the-fall-of-saigon-and-how-it-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/08\/27\/firing-line-friday-the-fall-of-saigon-and-how-it-might-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: The Fall of Saigon\u2014and How It Might Have Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With the fall of Kabul and the triumph of the Taliban in Afghanistan, let us look back upon another time defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory, when William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed the <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fall of Saigon<\/a> with David Butler, David, Greenway, and Fox Butterfield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K7PbSQ5qZlM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: The Fall of Saigon\u2014and How It Might Have Been\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"With the fall of Kabul and the triumph of the Taliban in Afghanistan, let us look back upon another time defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory, when William F. 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Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With the fall of Kabul and the triumph of the Taliban in Afghanistan, let us look back upon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/08\/27\/firing-line-friday-the-fall-of-saigon-and-how-it-might-have-been\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[19,15,65,95],"class_list":["post-18396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-war-terror","tag-communism","tag-democrats","tag-doom","tag-firing-line-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18397,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions\/18397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}