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Sometimes it works. Not always.
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Years ago, your business was your business. We could all go about doing what we do and never bump into each other. Today, we are like in a neighborhood. Just because you live on top of the hill and I am at the bottom doesn't mean your dumping of garbage in your yard won't hurt my house resale value. That is why we have HOAs.
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Afghanistan posed a threat from the moment it allowed Bin laden to train his forces within their territory. The bulk of the people were still present on 9/11 and the gov of Afghanistan was in full accord with that particular for of evangelism.
Because of certain actions and circumstance of which you are doubtlessly aware, Afghanistan is not currently the threat in was on 9/10/2001. |
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I don't think it has ever worked worth a damn. We tried to destroy Cuba with it and over 40 years later, our best hope for change in Cuba remains what it was back then: death of Fearless Leader. No other country was so ompletely bottled-up economically by the USA. It's a dumb strategy in Cuba and it's dumb anywhere else.
The best use fo economic power is empowering the middle class of adversary government through free trade. That actually has worked many times over the past 200 years or so. |
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Of course, that's why I asked for a clarafication. You seem to be saying two different things at once.
"For example, some people think that Iran is a danger to the USA but I have never heard of anybody suggesting that they are meddling within the borders of the 50 states. Same with North Korea and with Pakistan. Same with Afghanistan on September 10, 2001". |
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As for the true goal being met (preventing the spread of communism, I guess you mean) all sorts of reasons why that may have happened. First off, the Vietnamese were never likely to become part of China's "spreading communist beast." In the mid 40s, towards the end of WW2, Ho Chi Minh defended his new alliance with the French by explaining that only that way could they keep the Chinese at bay. He said (roughly): "I would rather sniff French $h!t for 5 years than eat Chinese $h!t for 1,000 years." The assumption that communism was like an unstoppable virus was flawed. It looked good to the Vietnamese, IMO, because so called western democracy looked like colonial domination to them. Communism offered a much better chance of actual democracy in their view. As for "asswipes too cowardly to stand up and defend their own country," the portion of the country that eventually prevailed had displayed great courage for a long time against vastly superior foes. The group we tried to prop up as the real face of Vietnam knew that they would be inevitably viewed as puppets of powerful outsiders. Sorta sapped their strength. Like much of the Iraqi army, they were doing it because it was the best paying gig they could find, IMHO.
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One of our main concerns was that the Soviets were gaining to much sway. Oh well, they bordered Iran at the time, it is only to be expected that they would have some involvement. One thing is clear: Mossadeq was the first leader of the first democracy Iran had, he was enormously popular, and people still hold animosity about it. This photo taken in '79:
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Well, there are several countries that DON'T feel the way you do. In fact, it was a great fear of it spreading like a cancer. Unstoppable, no. Dangerous, yes.
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Seeing the way countries collapse into communism one by one that border the USSR, wouldn't you also wonder if you were next? I would.
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