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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (337942)5/19/2007 3:31:16 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1576183
 
re: Fortunately, no American leader ever was brash enough to do what the hawks wanted them to do.......until now.

You had Vietnam. Then it was the "struggle against global communism"; now it's the "struggle against global terrorism". Both times you couldn't end the war because of the "domino theory"... lose Iraq/Vietnam and the whole world will fall. Iraq/Vietnam will become an infectious disease.

But if you read about Vietnam, it started out as a policing action under the auspices of SEATO. It was only after Johnson 'created' an excuse did it become a full fledge war. The invasion of Iraq was an unprovoked, unsanctioned attack upon a foreign country. It seems to me there is a significant difference between the two not that I think Vietnam was a high point in American history.
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