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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (425361)	7/10/2003 5:23:12 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

LOL, looks like someone fell off another hobbie horse. Keep providing facts and you won't have any buddies left. Wait? All buddies are left, left of loon. It's to confusing.

To: Neocon who wrote (425361)	7/10/2003 5:47:26 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ah, yes. But see my previous post which refers to the post WW II period before there was a 'south' Vietnam... when France was struggling to restore that piece of it's Colonial Empire as a UN mandate... and the waning influence of Colonialism was pitted against the resurgence of Nationalism. And that particular asian erruption of nationalism had been strengthened... and molded to a degree... by the (yep: Commie... just like Mao) military successes of Ho against the Japanese. They believed that - after our 'mutual' fight against the Japanese Imperial Power in the Pacific - we would be favorably disposed to the Wilsonian ideals of nationhood... even for 'little brown Asians'... and even against the faded Colonial (though 'Western') power of France. I believe that the future was up for grasp then (and when we called off the UN supervised Vietnam election we sided with the wrong ideal... and gave wing to the over-blown and unrealistic theory of the 'Dominos'. Our Cold War visor came down, I guess, and we saw Stalin everywhere (when, in fact, Vietnam, the country, used Russia as much as a counter-weight to China, as anything else.)