"Do you think the Vietnam war was about Vietnam? Do you think the Cuban Missile Crisis was about Cuba?"
I admit it. The problem is that you don't really know what they were about either. You believe you know.
"Do you understand that the Cold War was a conflict between the United States and its post-WWII coalition, based on the trust that the United States was willing to risk nuclear war and the shedding of American blood to defend nations that held little strategic signifigance to the US, and the Soviet Union and Red China?"
You are you kidding?
"Do you deny the existence and active insurgency by the ComIntern?"
Yes. I'll use Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Central America as examples.
"Do you understand that Southeast Asia is unimportant strategically?"
Go tell that to the French and the dreaded Russians.
Do you understand that the foundation for the coalition was trust in the US policy of self-sacrifice to defend them from Communist aggression?
Just checked under my bed. All clear.
Do you understand the necessity of the coalition to maintain the policy of containment?
Where again was all this containment? Anartica?
Do you understand that it was necessary for the US to defend South Vietnam, although it is strategically unimportant, in order to maintain the coalition? That if it was doubted, as it was in Europe, that the US would sacrifice blood and treasure to defend this bit of mud, that it would bring into doubt whether the US would sacrifice New York to save Paris, or Berlin, or Rome, or London? And if that doubt eroded confidence in NATO, the coalition would fall apart, and America would be isolated?
This one is my favorite. Like I said, go explain your theory to a few million dead Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotions.
Tell 'em all we were containing Commies. |
