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To: GST who wrote (108389)	7/27/2003 8:37:49 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The VN communists ultimately won the VN war and what does it turn out that they won for their people? Authoritarianism, poverty, misery. That's what I said and I stand by it. What I said is common knowledge. And you yourself know it's true. For you haven't after all denied the accuracy of my statement. You've merely criticized me for not having personal experience to base the opinion on. Fate has determined that a massive multi-country experiment has been carried on in southest Asia over the last half century. One can now compare the countries of southeast Asia which had the unfortunate experience of becoming subject to communist govts with those which were spared that experience. NK v SK; Taiwan v mainland China; Indochina v Thailand. In each of these comparisons, the communist countries come out on the bad side of the comparison. Poverty, authoritarianism, and misery. That's the result of communist policies. The communist countries have only made economic progress when they adopt "reform" programs i.e. when they abandon communism. China was the first to do this and is the furthest along. VN has done a little bit of reform and Nike has been putting their factories (sweatshops?) there for some years. NK hasn't even begun and is a basket case.