Posted on 06/21/2005 10:08:19 AM PDT by tallhappy
Nah, in 1979 China invaded Vietnam and quickly overtook several key cities. They slapped the Vietnamese around a little bit and left. The Vietnamese regular army did not even take part, leaving the fighting up to local militias who took severe losses. After two- three weeks the Chinese left under international pressure and condemnation, but having shown the Vietnamese who was "boss".
Some of Kerry's treasonous acts took place during the actual war, but Kerry went to Vietnam in 1993 and 1999 to talk with communist officials and pose for photos. It was these later visits to Vietnam that Kerry took much heat over from the Bush camp.
As I see it, there are 55,000 American dead, and maybe a couple hundred thousand wounded during the war in an effort to take down that communist rat hole. Today it is still a communist rat hole, and I cannot for the life of me see why we would want to strengthen their economy and help build them up. Makes no sense whatsoever.
You're not supposed to notice. The R after the name makes it all better.
It is arguable whether that strategy is working in China or not. The tacit assumption in approaching Vietnam under such a thesis in containing China is that said strategy has seriously backfired.
Not necessarily an assumption that strategy has backfired. There is unfortunately the critical transition zone between the communist culture and the consumer culture, where suspenders are needed as well as a belt.
When the people in a communist country first come out from under the suppression of individual thought and begin to enjoy the consumer goods reward of individual action, they can go through a "nationalistic" phase that can be every bit as dangerous as the mindnumbed robots directed by ambitious despots phase.
Or so I've read.
Our main advantage is that God answers prayers, and a number of people in the U.S. take advantage of His merciful attention as well as a growing small band of Christians in The People's Republic of China.
Most here don't give a damn about the POWs....or the M.I.A.s.
Most here don't give a damn about the soldiers who go, at their Nations behest, to fight in some far off land. Done so with the implied PROMISE...that they will come back home..wether dead or alive. That their Families will KNOW of their fate.
Most here only care about making money...as if that, and that alone was the sole purpose of this Nation.
They are cowards and do not deserve to be called "Americans".
redrock
....as so many have done before.
redrock
We're winning The Vietnam War. Final victory is a function of our success in The War On Terror.
wrong as usual ace...
hate is about the man not about the administration policies
there is much I admire about the man and much I dislike about
some of the policies
If that makes me a hater than by the same brush paint yourself
a sychophant
imo
Don't make deals with "Charlie."
Your analysis sounds like what I was thinking...
They're gonna try and surround China with folks who don't want to become part of Chinas political machine, like, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Russia, India, hopefully, it will keep the Chinese government busy thinking of protecting it's own borders before they start moving out actually taking other lands...we'll see...
Hee Hee Hee. Anybody read Up Country by Nelson DeMille?
I don't think this is about economic trade.
Never get out of the boat.
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