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To: asenna1 who wrote (120316)	12/31/2000 11:12:38 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Vietnam was necessary. Our "foolish" fear of Communism was based upon the very real ComIntern. You are a fool if you do not believe that the avowed goal of international overthrow of world governments was in jest. History demonstrates it was very real. The Atlantic alliance was based on the assumption that the United States was willing to risk all for what was not in its direct national interest, that is to sacrifice American blood for European soil. Or, to sacrifice New York to save Paris. The entire world American coalition that contained Communism was based upon trust in America standing by its commitments to defend its allies against aggression that was by itself strategically insignifigant. THAT, as much as anything, was what Vietnam was about. Vietnam was a trifle. It was insignifigant by itself. But it was signifigant to show our European allies, and the Chinese and Russians, that America would sacrifice all, even risk tearing the country apart, to defend even the most insignifigant of its allies. That was accomplished. The coalition held, and Communism was contained. We lost the battle, but won the greater war. Derek

To: asenna1 who wrote (120316)	1/1/2001 1:43:37 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

foolish "fear of Communism" That's an overreach. Do you still admire those brutal corrupt socialist cesspools? Communism was not as bad as claimed. It was worse. Tell me: (I assume you're American.) As of now, would you rather live in the US or Russia? Or China? Or Cuba? Or Vietnam? Which Peasant and Workers People's Republic paradise do you prefer? Would you rather have lived in any of them 30 years ago or the US? Do you understand that their intention was to impose their system on us and then rule the world? Maybe you will answer our intention was the same, but if I've got to pick, I'll pick our system. You know, when the day is done, it really is a working democracy. Theirs was a brutal autocratic dictatorship. Also, I don't recall too many "Republicans for Peace" in 1968. Well, you're posting to one. Except I turned against the war in '64. And that had nothing to do with a Democratic President in the White House. Simply that the way the war was being fought it could not be won and it was going to cost the lives of a great many American men. Why couldn't the Democrat's hero LBJ see that? And any of this sound familiar today? No. Should it? The USSR collapsed of its own inefficiency. The Chinese and Vietnamese have decided they'd rather be rich than communist. Only Cuba maintains the flame. Some advertisement.