>>>Just so it's clear, I didn't say anything about the 3 million Vietnamese casualties and would never make light of that.
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>>>And I never really approved of the word "casualty". Sounds somehow... casual. These people are dead. I'd call them so, or victims, or anything along those lines. Casualty seems politically overrectified.
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>>Bit like 'collateral damage' ?
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>But at least they where saved from communism (for a bit). Remember if you're a subsistence farmer in a simple mainly agrarian culture its always better dead than red.

So they were saved from getting red. {g} The way things are going with contemporary history, few centuries down the line
LBJ & Nixon might even end up being some kind of saints. Almost like Peter & Paul ;-)