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To: Thomas M. who wrote (568)	9/5/2002 3:18:58 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

<<Was Vietnam "a buffer zone"?>> <I'd say not, neither for the US nor for the USSR.> The USSR supported both the Chinese and Vietnamese Communists in their wars against the West. I get the distinct impression Eastern Europe didn't enjoy being "buffered": E. Germany, 1953 Hungary, 1956 Czechoslovakia, 1968 Poland, '80s and finally the whole lot in the late '80's and early '90s. The US had troops in Germany and western Europe. I don't think either they, the US gov't, the European gov'ts, or the Europeans themselves ever believed they were there to keep the locals from revolting, though. If they wanted to revolt, they could do it at the ballot box. As France did, telling the US to get its troops out. Not quite the same thing.