Ngo Dinh Diem
not to mention
Syngman Rhee
Nguyen Van Thieu
Anastasio Somoza
Ferdinand Marcos
Park Chung-Hee
or perhaps
Mohammed Daoud Khan
Nur Mohammed Taraki
Hafizullah Amin
Babrak Karmal
Najibullah
that is all.
Welcome to The Cahokian... A thousand years ago Cahokia — across the Mississippi from what is now St. Louis — was one of the biggest cities in the world. Now it's an empty green spot next to the highway. I'm a middle-aged gay man living in New York City, center of the world, future footnote on somebody's future map. Welcome to the new world.
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