burrah wrote:
> "Arthur Brain" wrote in message
> news:1165497583.567688.7940@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Let's be precise about this:
> > Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, 26 March 1964:
> > "The U.S. role in South Vietnam, then, is
> > - first, to answer the call of the South Vietnamese, a member nation
> > of our free-world family, to help them save their country for
> > themselves;
> >
> > - second, to help prevent the strategic danger which would exist if
> > communism absorbed Southeast Asia's people and resources; and
> >
> > fantasy>
> > - third, to prove in the Vietnamese test case that the free-world can
> > cope with communist 'wars of liberation' as we have coped successfully
> > with communist aggression at other levels."
> >
> > they were actually capable of defeating in Granada, as we know.
> > Woo-hoo>
> > And Iraq?
> > Found the WMD yet?
> >
> > Found legal backing for the invasion?
> >
> > Gained UNSC approval for the invasion?
> >
> > Brought peace & democracy to Iraq?
> >
> > Obersturmbahnfuehrer von Rumsfeldt's career?
> >
> > Yanks are useless.
> Do yourself a favour.
> Go to Vietnam. guess what? they love Yanks.
Most victors feel well-disposed towards those they have beaten.
It's quite natural human behaviour.
> Every place you go you will find Yanks involved in business.
And australians, and chinese, and russians, and other europeans....
> When you turn on the TV every second hour is government propaganda.
The entire country is carpeted in war memorials displaying captured
Yank Hueys and bits of other military hardware commemorating that tiny
nation's crushing victory over the world's single (supposed)
superpower.
> You want to know who the propaganda is directed against?
> Not the Yanks. It's against the Japanese and French. They show the Yanks in
> a neutral fashion, neither good nor bad.
> They are doing their best to get on the good side of the Yanks because they
> know that if they are ever going to climb out of poverty, it will be in
> partnership with the Yanks.
Well, in fact it was "in partnership" with communism that they managed
to climb out of begin a destitute subservient state.
> So forget all your 1960's bullshit, they are now more pro western than
> Europe.
You need to forget your 1960's bullshit - it was communism that won,
and it got them on the road to freedom and prosperity, despite all the
little children napalmed and otherwise murdered by imperialists trying
to impose capitalist slavery on them.
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