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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (16530)4/5/2007 11:33:32 AM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (1) of 217767
 
TJ,
"USA came in second" and "harsh to say USA lost Vietnam War"

Fair enough, very evenhanded and diplomatic. <grin>

If you are willing to accept that there was plenty of blame to be shared, that is reasonable. I can expand upon Brumar's point:

Some considerable blame for the whole Indochina war goes to China, after all it was China that delivered the US howitzers, recently captured in Korea, to General Giap and it was this American artillery that enabled Giap to defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu. Vietnam was well on the way to self rule and the French would have been gone soon anyway, as the US had been insisting for 50 years. There was no need for the dark detour.

And beyond that, Mao's attempt to take China back to the 10th century was the inspiration for all the other bandit leaders in the region, from Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot to many lesser known and potentially more murderous bandits such as "Kommander Robot" and Luis Taruc.

It wasn't really our struggle and despite the hyperbole, we had little in the way of "interests" in the region. We inherited the problem as a consequence of the world wars, something else we should have avoided.
Slagle
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