"sechumlib" wrote in message
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> 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?
Without a doubt China would have opened up no matter who was president.
Nixon just happened to be president when the Sino-Soviet rift became heated.
It was inevitable that China would seek out the US as a counterweight. It
was just easier to implement with an "anti-Communist" like Nixon in the
White House.
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of
fighting a foreign enemy." James Madison
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