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To: Dale Baker who wrote (37923)5/26/2007 2:30:10 PM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 543347
 
Part of the reason the Vietnam mess got so out of hand was that many of the State Dept's best Asia hands were drummed out during the McCarthy era, since they knew so much about China and southeast Asia from their postwar experience.

I had forgotten that. Sometimes makes you believe in the circularity of history.