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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
Your view's misplaced, Mari. It ushered in two and a half million unnecessary deaths and a dozen years of systemic poverty. Stupid waste on either count, and something the practice of Communism causes. Vietnam only began to come out of its induced poverty and stagnated economy when it abandoned the general practice of Communism. This abandonment will be complete when Hanoi no longer calls for it as a sort of state religion. Laos, another fallen domino, AFAIK, is still bogged down in Communism. Heroin's probably their only growth sector.
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I am no fan of death and poverty, but the reasons given for the war at the time was to prevent the fall of all of Asia to Communism, NOT a humanitarian concern for the people of S. Vietnam. Yes, a couple of "domino's" fell, but it was not the colossal collapse that great Republican minds were predicting at the time.
BTW, your habit of making multiple posts all at once is confusing. Its easy to address several issues in one post.
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
I see you remain unable to get the point. Pitiful. Ever heard of a rhetorical question? (I know what the answer to that one is.)
And I do not encourage the spread of Ted Rall's kind of "thinking." He's a very nasty piece of work. Try a Google search, you lazy hemipygian ass. Your want of initiative and intellectual curiosity is truly spectacular.
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Sorry, I still don't get the point about the Dali Lama.
Ooooh, and I love Ted Rall! Thank you! I finally looked him up!