Yikes. President Reagan was a true revolutionary: he dared to believe that the Cold War could be won, when wonks on the left and the right would have staked their careers betting that it would last at least three or more generations.
This article by Susan Huck seems to get more apropos every day: "Susan L.M. Huck: Vietnam Falls: it is time to establish responsibility."
Throughout the Johnson and Nixon years, meanwhile, disarmament and detente and "aid and trade" flourished. During all those years of war, we could not do enough for our Red friends. We gave them credit and shipped them computer hardware and software, airborne radar, even rifle-cleaning compounds! We fed them and buckled to them, and the C.F.R. boys who were making buckets of money through "aid and trade," such as the Watsons of I.B.M., could not have cared less about the American "peasants" getting killed in consequence.We owe it to those brave soldiers who died in Korea and Vietnam despite an apparent total lack of support for their war against Stalin, Mao, and the Marxist scourge. And to leaders like Reagan who dared to imagine a a free eastern Europe.And let us not forget the "peace talks"! The Vietnam "peace talks" went on for years, just as in Korea. That's another game we always play by the Communist rules.
