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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (154657)12/23/2004 11:05:55 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Actually, you have no idea to what extent the activities of the United States contributed to the evolution of Vietnam. For example, by exhausting the urge of conquest, we may have succeeded in containing the communists to Indochina, rather than permitting them to wage war in Thailand and Myanmar. By Nixonian "triangulation", we contributed to the deradicalization of China, which in turn provided an economic model for the Vietnamese. Through competition with the Soviet Union, we contributed to its demise, and therefore the defunding of subsidized regimes like Cuba and Vietnam. By creating a large pool of Americanized Vietnamese in the South, we may have made a transition to an "entepreneurial model" more likely for united Vietnam. Etc. Maybe that is why the Vietnamese seem, oddly, to like us, rather than holding a big grudge. Or maybe they just want investors.......
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