Originally posted by Thequ1ckBy the same way that they pointed it to "Communism" in Vietnam ... taking a country on the map that's near US economic interests, make up a new threat, and yelling bloody murder.
How easily forgotten,
How can America so easily point the finger now towards 'terrorism'?
Originally posted by scherzoRead the Pentagon Reports and see why the US was in Vietnam. Who were we really trying to protect?
By the same way that they pointed it to "Communism" in Vietnam ... taking a country on the map that's near US economic interests, make up a new threat, and yelling bloody murder.
GRANNY.
Originally posted by Thequ1ckHow is something that ended 35 years ago even remotely relevant to the moral authority of the present government?
How easily forgotten,
How can America so easily point the finger now towards 'terrorism'?
By that logic, Germany should never have the authority to make any moral claim or judgment.
Originally posted by Thequ1ckconsider the planned progression of the domino theory. would you rather live under a communist regime?
How easily forgotten,
How can America so easily point the finger now towards 'terrorism'?
why not try!?! there are still some around that would be happy to accept you! you'd need to pay your own airfare, but after that, it's all gravy!
Originally posted by zeeblebot"The planned progression of the domino theory"????????????
consider the planned progression of the domino theory. would you rather live under a communist regime?
why not try!?! there are still some around that would be happy to accept you! you'd need to pay your own airfare, but after that, it's all gravy!
Originally posted by Thequ1ckOur people identified themselves with uniforms. They were openly challenging their enemies, identifying themselves as a threat, representing a nation for a publicly disclosed purpose.
How easily forgotten,
How can America so easily point the finger now towards 'terrorism'?
Originally posted by utherpendragonThe military-industrial complex was introduced by Ike too, but you didn't see anyone following his advice about that.
The domino Theory was first introduced by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954,and this policy,belief continued w/every president from that point on through the 1980's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_theory#Arguments_against_the_domino_theory
Arguments against the domino theory
The primary evidence against the domino theory is the failure of Communism to take hold in Thailand, Indonesia, and other large Southeast Asian countries after the end of the Vietnam War, as Eisenhower's speech warned it could. Although proponents of this policy argue that this was due in part to the effects of both the Korean and the Vietnam conflicts.
Critics of the theory charged that the Indochinese wars were largely indigenous or nationalist in nature (such as the Vietnamese driving out the French), and that no such monolithic force as "world communism" existed. There was indeed fracturing of communist states at the time, the most serious of which was the rivalry between the Soviet Union and China, known as the Sino-Soviet split, in the 1950s. This split led to tensions between Vietnam and Cambodia, since Vietnam had affiliated itself with the USSR and Cambodia with China, tensions exacerbated by the flood of Cambodian refugees into Vietnam beginning in 1975. This led to the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, which lasted from 1975 to 1989, and reached its apex in 1979, when Vietnam overthrew the Khmer Rouge and took control of Cambodia. This in turn led China to attack Vietnam in 1979 in the brief Sino-Vietnamese War.
In both cases, the Vietnam war spread over the borders of Vietnam into these countries. And Vietnam had imperial and political regional ambitions with regard to both countries. The fall of Laos was due to repeated outright invasions by Vietnam and the inability of the army of Laos to defend the country. The fall of Cambodia was due to the Cambodian government allowing North Vietnam to use the country as a base area for its attacks on South Vietnam which dragged the country into the Vietnam war and led to first the Khmer Rouge and then after to military rule for many years by Vietnam.[citation needed]
Opponents also argued that the domino theory misrepresented the real nature of the widespread and growing civil opposition that the previous, U.S.-backed regimes in these countries had generated because of entrenched official corruption and widespread human rights abuses, notably in South Vietnam.