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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: asenna1 who wrote (120331)	1/1/2001 12:20:27 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Which part of this don't you grasp? Do you think the Vietnam war was about Vietnam? Do you think the Cuban Missile Crisis was about Cuba? 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? Do you deny the existence and active insurgency by the ComIntern? Do you understand that Southeast Asia is unimportant strategically? Do you understand the US policy of coalitions for achieving its goals? Do you understand that the foundation for the coalition was trust in the US policy of self-sacrifice to defend them from Communist aggression? Do you understand the necessity of the coalition to maintain the policy of containment? 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? Tell me which part you don't understand, and I'll try hard to explain it in simpler terms. Derek