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


The real reason IMO was we believed fervently that there was a battle for world control between capitalism and communism. They believed it just as much as we did.

I didn't take it personally. You are on my permanent Good Guys list.