sechumlib wrote:
> On 2006-11-23 09:54:57 -0500, T Jr Hardman
> said:
>
>> Well, obviously not in that way at that time, though I suppose it's
>> arguable that whoever might have had Henry Kissinger as an advisor
>> might have chosen to go that route, if Nixon hadn't been president.
>> But that's "would have if only" which isn't much worth arguing as it
>> is all conjecture where not outright fantasy.
>
>
> Let me ask the same question another way. Do you think that, if Nixon
> had not been president, "Communist" China would never have been opened
> up to the rest of the world with particular reference to the US?
I suppose it's possible. Perhaps it was almost inevitable. Then again,
perhaps not. It's so deeply embedded in the fact of reality in the
modern day that some might have called it inevitable due to economic
determinism etc etc. Some others might say that it was a fluke of the
personalities involved and that it couldn't have happened without them.
Isn't that a question more properly asked in news:alt.alternative-history ?
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