A new Vietnamese restaurant, Mai House, is opening in Tribeca and it sounds like the food will be delicious, "Mai House, the newest Myriad restaurant, opened Thursday, November 2nd, at 186 Franklin Street in Tribeca. The restaurant is Vietnamese - co-owned with Chef/Partner Michael Bao Huynh. Born in Saigon, Chef Huynh cooks authentic Vietnamese food - including pho, lacxa, sweet sour and spicy whole red snapper and fresh dungeness crab. A selection of Vietnamese-inspired cocktails is available, along with sake, beer and wine." Mai House
The decor looks suberb and the place will be run by Drew Nieporent of Nobu fame. So, what could be bad, nothing.
The thought occured to me how long does it take for a country's cuisine to become chic, after a devastating war that no one wanted to fight; where soldiers and civillians have been unnessarily killed from both sides of the conflict, trying to satisfy a policy of war?
In Iraq we have surpassed the death toll of the first three years in Vietnam. Total US soldiers that died at the end of the Vietnamese War were 58,000. There were 350,000 casualties and 1 to 2 million Vietnamese deaths.
Now if the final outcome of the insane Vietnam War, waged by mentally disturbed imbeciles who thought the enemy was out to conquer the world, but in fact, was living off of rice paddies, was meaningless. What do you think the outcome of the Iraq War, a country without plumbing is going to be?
The Democrats are going to have to take a position, speak up and not play politics while people are being killed. Death is in their court. They were elected to end the war. What are they going to do?
Well, I'll be waiting for the Goat and Chickpea House to open, so everyone can dress up, sit down and look back at the fools who directed another war where any "Average Joe" could have told them, "Nothing is ever satisfied in an unjust war."
BBQ Goat
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