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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Grant who wrote (1477)	1/24/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

I am not sure that the Vietnam War was the best thing that ever happened in Asia. It wasn't even a very good thing for the various American soldiers who were killed or had arms and legs shot or blown off. The attack on Clinton is being instigated by the same sorts of people--in some cases the same people (Southern Republicans) who deserted Nixon when he made a trip to China in hopes of improving relationships there. I have a letter from Jesse Helms, who is still in the Senate, expressing his lack of support for Nixon. Helms is still in the Senate, and fully supports the legal attack on Clinton. He seems also to have actively helped to set it in motion. Much of this is no more than a revanchist spirit among older Republicans who have never got over the fact that a Republican President was forced to resign and who want a Democratic one to do so also to even up the score. This kind of mentality is not going to help anything. It is true that continuing pressure supported by politicians like Helms--his resolute anti-Communism-- had a lot to do with the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. But what's needed now is diplomacy and negotiation, not military confrontation. The effort to discredit the President on the basis of his sexual behavior has as its ultimate purpose the reestablishment of a more hardline, America-first, set of policies. This is not the way to help with the problems in Asia.