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Originally Posted by cmac2012
And how badly has Vietnam fared in the interim? I've said nothing about the desperate gibberish that Bush was putting out during his trip there. "The lesson of VN is we'll succeed if we don't quit"....?????? Or something close to that. He also mentioned something about being in the country that "tormented us so" back in the day. Tormented us?!??
The man gives new breadth and dimension to "CLUELESS."
After our departure, rather than gleefully entering Red China's embrace, the VNese had to fight them off. They also put an end to Pol Pot and henchmen.
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We did quit before we started in VN. If you are not going all out to win at any and all costs, you have quit before you started. I don't know where you were in the 70s but Asia was skittish about the flow of communism too. Some have even argued that with the slow down of the communists, it might have bought them time to prepare themselves and take care of the local elements who are sympathizers.
And yet none of the clued people are stepping up to the plate. I wonder why.
China didn't exactly cozy up to Russia either. The cooperated on many projects but as always, they wanted their brand of communism to remain. Yes, China is communist but they would also try put the moves on their weaker neighbor. Nothing new.