If you didn't live through it, you've probably seen it anyway - the defining picture of the Vietnam War of the last helicopter leaving our embassy in Saigon as the North Vietnamese overran the city. Vietnamese who worked with Americans were absolutely desperate to get out of the country and this picture show that desperation in the most horrific way: Is such a scenario possible in Baghdad? The Iraqi army appears to have collapsed and it is unclear whether the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki can stop the ISIS terrorists from overrunning the capitol. If that were to occur, the US embassy in Baghdad - the biggest in the world - would be a prime target of the terrorists. Richard Fernandez: If the embassy is evacuated as al-Qaeda reaches Baghdad the optics will be atrocious. The very magnificence of the buildings will underscore the magnitude of the defeat. The sheer size of the palaces will make destruction no easy task. For these grand edifices,...(Read Full Post)