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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (37733)	8/13/2002 11:21:44 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi KCFOS; Re Canadians in Vietnam. From your link: "Since 1959 when the United states officially entered the Vietnam war approximately 40,000 Canadians voluntarily joined and served beside their brothers and sisters from the United States in all branches of the U.S. armed forces." The same applies to Israel, I believe. Large numbers of Americans have duel citizenship with Israel and volunteered or were drafted, or later emigrated to Israel. None of the above is "support from our allies". Those are examples of support from people, not allies. The Australians, sure enough, were in Vietnam. New Zealand was there too. And while I think Australia and New Zealand are great places, and those are fine, upstanding allies, I don't think that the 8,600 (maximum presence) that Australia had in Vietnam made a hill of beans to us. Australia had 508 killed in Vietnam. The US had 60,000. Is the United States 100 times bigger than Australia? The facts suggest that our allies were either against our little adventure, or they gave fairly piddling assistance, especially considering that it was their neck of the woods that we were trying to defend. Compare that ratio, 120 to 1, to the ratio of combat deaths in WW2 between Australia and the United States. Have I made my comment on our adventure in Vietnam more clear? I don't mean to denigrate the sacrifices of the people who went there from countries other than the US, just to note that our allies, as governments, truly did not support the US in that war. -- Carl