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To: LindyBill who wrote (27879)	5/1/2002 9:17:30 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

We would just eventually agree to disagree Don't know. If I understand the tenor of your posts, you feel that the problem with the Vietnam war was that we did not prosecute it vigorously enough. My own was, classic counter interpretation, it was a civil war in which we did not belong. That we took up the colonial mantle of the French just when they had sense enough to begin divesting themselves of their colonial legacy. I continue to think about the Afghan-Vietnam parallels, however sketchy. Five years after the imperial power left, Afghanistan was chaos headed for dictatorial control under the Taliban. Vietnam, five years after, might have skipped the chaos stage, but went straight to some sort of central state control. One lesson, perhaps, is that order becomes the central focus. I seem to recall the Taliban were, at first, welcomed in Afghan precisely because of the perception they would bring order.