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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (19545)	7/27/2001 5:32:47 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Vietnam was still pretty small scale in '63. Anyone who'd been following the misadventures of the French knew it wasn't going to stay that way. There was that "domino theory" that would have made it much more difficult to pull out. That theory was very much part of that Dulles-era mindset that had so much to do with our overcommitment in Vietnam. The folly, of course, did not become clear until the '70's; it is very hard to say whether the disengagement would have happened sooner under a different administration. Since we've been playing the blame game, I will say that if anyone carries blame for Vietnam, it is the British. Before anyone howls in protest, they should fire up their search engines and check on the events that occurred in southern Indochina between Sept. 6, 1945 and Oct. 9, 1945. Pay particular attention to Oct. 3.