A very interesting "visit report"..
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/welcome-vietnam
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/welcome-vietnam
Vietnam
- Thread starter Gilligan
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I was watching one of those history TV shows, America apparently saved Uncle Ho and a few others during WW II with some much needed medicine, while trying to get people to attack the Japanese ... and at the end of the day, the Vietnamese were expecting us to keep the French out, when it was all over
Larry Gude
Strung Out
So, basically, in our modern era, thick headed quests for spreading liberty and justice, we got in the way in Vietnam, lost 55,000 dead and how every many 1,000's wounded, ripped our own society apart. We delayed freedom.
Imagine had we stepped aside in, say, the post Korea ear. Imagine the Soviet Union collapsing a decade, or two, sooner.
Imagine had we stayed out of Korea. Would the whole peninsula be prosperous, like Vietnam?
These are our lessons to consider yet, if we won't learn. Iraq is now worse off. A'stan, no doubt we accomplished NOTHING there.
Great link, Gil. Great read.
Imagine had we stepped aside in, say, the post Korea ear. Imagine the Soviet Union collapsing a decade, or two, sooner.
Imagine had we stayed out of Korea. Would the whole peninsula be prosperous, like Vietnam?
These are our lessons to consider yet, if we won't learn. Iraq is now worse off. A'stan, no doubt we accomplished NOTHING there.
Great link, Gil. Great read.