fifty years ago americas leaders told us that if we lost saigon it would be just the first domino to tip over as the juggernaut of international communism smashed through the defenses of capitalism now i am back for the first time vietnam revisited netanyahus speech may be evidence of hubris run amok on his part but it is also a vivid illustration of the pervasive and destructive rise of partisanship in american politics over the last few decades boehner makes republicans tools and dupes of netanyahus election campaign while conspiracy theorists spin their yarns they are missing a tragedy of shakespearean proportions the sad tale of two losers who yearned for greatness and lost the kennedy assassiation case closed