(OFF) Vietnam

[Richard Lockwood]

No, that's all I needed to know.

Thanks for that Mike.  Much appreciated.

Cheers,

Rich.
----- Original Message -----
From: "AerospaceAge Warrior" <mikemont at NYCAP.RR.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: (OFF) Vietnam


> I'm sure others will chime in.
>
> The theory was that if one Asian country fell there would be a domino
> effect with other countries as well.  This was a policy mostly framed by
> Dulles.  He and his wonks felt that they would loose the whole of Asia to
> communism if one country fell.
>
> Also it was a slow creep in the early days. It was first in support of the
> French fighting the insurgency.  Just advisors at first.  I do believe it
> was Johnson that really upped the number of troops there and then Nixon
who
> went whole hog.
>
> There is an amazing book called "Fire in the Lake" which does a great job
> of proving the theory that culturally we never could have exported
> democracy to the Vietnamese and Cambodian peoples.
>
> Of course this concept is very important today with yet another Republican
> Administration "bringing democracy" to peoples who frankly have no concept
> as to what it is about.
>
> I'm sure some will disagree and some have better points than I. I'm no
> expert.
>
> Mike
>
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> An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
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> -- Unknown
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> ::-----Original Message-----
> ::From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List
> ::[mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET]On Behalf Of Richard Lockwood
> ::Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 6:52 PM
> ::To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> ::Subject: (OFF) Vietnam
> ::
> ::
> ::Apologies for the completely off topic post - Can anyone tell me (this
is
> ::the only mailing list I'm on that has a high proportion of
> ::American readers)
> ::why America went into Vietnam in the first place?  I know it's a
> ::"stopping
> ::the spread of communism" thing - but what were the political arguments?
> ::
> ::I could look this up on the web, sure, but I'd like some
> ::personal views from
> ::Americans...
> ::
> ::(In times gone by I would have just privately emailed this to
> ::Larry, but...)
> ::
> ::Cheers,
> ::
> ::Rich.
> ::
>