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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (85076)8/8/2000 7:57:34 PM
From: Krowbar  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
<< Sure it did: Laos and Cambodia went Communist, and Vietnam became the hegemonic power in the region. The fact that it stopped at Thailand only shows the exhaustion produced by years of war....... >>

And how did that affect the rest of the world? Was it worth the 50+ thousand American lives. What exhaustion? It probably would have gone on for another 20 years.

How much different would the outcome have been if we withdrew 2 years earlier, or 3 or 4, or if we never got involved? If anything, we probably just delayed Viet Nam's experiment with communism. The point is that we were there to placate right wing gung-ho radicals. It's too bad that they get to conscript young men to do die in order to advance their agenda.

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