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To: tejek who wrote (153636)	10/18/2002 7:10:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580148

We sign agreements to reduce nuclear weapons only to renege on the agreement and back out. Can you give me the details of one occasion where we did this? Did you ever hear of the Domino Theory... the Domino Theory is horseshit. No it was not. The theory was that if we let South Vietnam be taken over by the communists then other south east asian nations would be taken over. And Laos and Cambodia did fall to the communists and the result was a tremendous reign of death. I'm sure you have heard of the "killing fields". Other countries may have fallen if not for our aid our intervention. Sure the most wild and crazy exaggerations of the domino theory (like the idea that if South Vietnam goes half of the world will follow it) were horseshit but so are most wild and crazy exaggerations. The decision makers who got us in to Vietnam didn't believe them. Tim