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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
What would the gain have been had we won? For instance, right off the bat, a Communist International with a crippled morale as well as an impoverished, underperforming economy? Would not communism and its attendant monstrous consequences have fallen the faster? It's nice to think so.
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And I care...why? I'm not particularly concerned about how idiots in other nations care to screw themselves, or the speed at which they do it.
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
I see you cannot answer the question I posed, or that so far you have made no cogent response to it. If you're going to pretend to answer, couldn't you do a better job? Or is my take on it really that much better than yours? It is my contention that no communists in either country would have allowed much more peace and prosperity to prevail in both Cambodia and Laos. Any disagreement there?
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No disagreement, because I really don't care enough about either nation to have an opinion on the subject. Both of them could burn down and slide into the ocean, for all I care. In any case, neither of them was worth a single American life, or a single American dollar...or the embarrassment of utter failure (again) by the CIA. Really, I have no idea how we ever showed our face around the Brits and the Russians.