>>>The Iraqi invasion has been the stupidest episode in our history. Viet Nam was nothing compared to this. At least then we thought it was a good cause and we didn't irritate the entire world in the process.
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>>Oh you did, but you didn't notice. The mantra you believed then (and probably still do) was that anticommunism justifies anything. Couldn't go wrong with that, you thought.
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>How patronizing. FWIW I have never believed the anti-Communist mantra.

Well, then, what was the real reason for going into Vietnam and putting up the whole Tonkin Bay WMD-type charade? The intimate desire to clean up France's post-colonial mess? If the whole domino theory was just PR, what was the real reason? Fear that rice paddies may once cover all of Nevada and Arizona, or what?

Um, it was the rhetorical "you" in "you believed" - the same as "we" in "we didn't irritate". IOW, not you personally.