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To: TobagoJack who wrote (66322)	9/22/2010 1:04:13 AM
From: Hawkmoon	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219163

as regard to "justify", your stance on the commonly admitted wrong of the team usa misadventure in vietnam and se asia is telling, Who was attacking who? The Communist North, just like N. Korea, was attacking the South. We fought N. Korea to prevent their forcible take over of the South and that country has prospered FAR BEYOND their Marxist north. But when it comes to S. Vietnam, we were the aggressors? Funny thing is that China was the primary supporter of N. Korea while the USSR was the supporter of N. Vietnam. And when the Soviet/N. Vietnamese threat then turned to Cambodia, suddenly China was willing to support a despot that the US couldn't morally support, to thwart the incursion. And to win that support from China, Pol Pot voluntarily turned from Marxist to Maoist, and launching one of the bloodiest genocides in history. How proud you Maoist inspired apparachiks must be. Btw, I will grant one glaring error in US foreign policy. We permitted France to avoid decolonizing in SE Asia in order to win their (it turned out, temporary) membership in NATO. It was a tremendous mistake. But it's not like Ho Chi Minh was actually going to create a democratic state (as some have asserted). He was a Marxist, indoctrinated in all of it's ideology and it's global agenda. And when many of the Catholic Vietnamese recognized they were going to be oppressed, or forcibly "re-educated", they fled to the South, just as many Koreans fled South to flee Kim Il Sung's Marxist regime. If the Chinese government were TRULY interested in becoming capitalist, they would disavow the Maoist mistakes of the past and reorganize their political system to meet the expectations and aspirations of their entrepreneurial citizenry. But they can't. They are creatures of that power network, and they form a political elite that will not give up power. But capitalism requires diversification of economic power to prosper. Competitive forces require dissolution of the entrenched corporate monopolistic elite, especially when it's controlled by the state. Who knows what events will transpire to initiate this faceoff between the entrepreneurs and the established power elite. But one fact is clear.. The government leadership owns the loyalty of the military. And all of your money will mean nothing when they decide to take it from you by force of arms. Hawk