Nixon wasn't blind to the dangers of communism. He just thought, correctly at the time probably, wrong in the long wrong perhaps, that the Bear was more dangerous than the Dragon, and was playing them off against one another, but tilting toward the Dragon.
That's what I get for being too cryptic. I was referring to th fact that there was a frenzied core of people who wanted the war in SE asia to continue predicting the world as we know it would end if we let communism win. Of course no such thing happened.
The same sort of armchair heroes are giving away their rights with both hands to government crying "protect us from islamic terrorism" The government is all to happy to abrogate rights for the false promise of security. The government isn't doing anything about the invasion from Mexico. More US citizens have been killed by illegal Mexicans that by islamic terrorists, but King George II wants to give them amnesty. Remember "See you at the signing?" When I look at King George II, I see many similarities to LBJ. Massive increase in government (read taxpayer) funded health care. Endless war. Huge increases in spending. etc.