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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1555)	5/21/2003 12:19:39 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

What was most remarkable about Vietnam is that there wasn't a bloodbath following our departure. After 3 or 4 decades of imperial conquest, with the slaughter of 4 million Indochinese and a complete destruction of the Vietnamese society, only the harshest elements of Vietnamese society had survived. One would have expected a huge purge of imperial collaberators. And yet there wasn't. Most instructive is the comparison between Vietnam and Korea. We kept our guns pointed at Korea, and the result has been a military garrison state. We left Vietnam, and the result has been a civil society. Tom