Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (141103)	9/30/2005 1:29:39 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Respond to of 793989

I could argue the victory part but no doubt the protests at home might have slowed the talks. I think it was then that Nixon announced "opposition to the war is the greatest single weapon working against the US". Hey, wait a minute, I was one of those peaceniks, a very young one at that..<g> IMO different war, different reason for being there. In a sense, we didn't lose, Vietnam did give the Soviets serious pause about exporting communism. On the other hand though, our fight against the communism reenforced an unwritten policy we held right up to the collapse of the USSR and beyond in that we were willing to support almost any petty dictator/corrupt gov't as long as they were anticommunist and that doesn't bode well in todays world. That attitude, one could argue, created Osama.