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To: maceng2 who wrote (295723)	10/13/2004 5:02:17 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

PB, I think most of it was fear of the Reds, maybe 95%. The Defense industry is always hawking crap, but they weren't hurting before Nam. The greatest expense over there was for pay and care of troops as opposed to major weapons systems. And, back then, the care and feeding of troops was not paid to a Halliburton or other contractor. The govt. did it themselves. The weapons systems were already going strong for the Cold War. In fact, one of the major problems was that our best systems were designed for fighting Russians in Europe, not for fighting guerillas in the jungle. I still remember the missile charts in US News And World Report, the Fox Fictional News of its day (it is a bit more respectable now). They would show this huge red missile, representing the Soviet arsenal, next to this puny little blue missile representing the American arsenal. What red-blooded American could not be shocked at our wee manhood displayed on a page? The fact that we could kill everyone in the world 20 times over never impacted the arguments. <G> The Domino Theory was pretty true in Europe. It was never true in Asia. Vietnam fell and the last time I looked, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia and Singapore were not commie countries.