Radical Right wrote:


"Leonard Martin" wrote

We marched over there, stepped into an ongoing civil war, picked a side,
and used our superior technology to kil hundreds of thousands of the
people of that country. And we did it in the name of an obscure concept
called "the domino theory" that, in the unlikely event that it came to
pass, would simply have insulated a part of the world from the utter
insatiability of American business. If any country did that to "real
people", i.e., whites, you would be so incensed that you and your macho
buddies would be breaking out your guns to go fight the good fight
against it. I doubt you'd have any "respect" for that country whatsoever.
The US deserved none either.

Leonard


Unfortunately for you, you have very little knowledge of factual history
in respect to the Vietnam conflict.
It was people like you making ignorant comments such as yours that is
responsible for those millions who perished after the U.S. withdrew in the
resulting Communist death camps of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and
continues
to this day in Burma, N.Korea, and the Big Red Star - China. Our
soldiers, the allied Vietnamese soldiers, the Hmong, and our own soldiers,
all died in
vein. All because of YOU! Your a fine Patriot.

Too bad the USA rejected the constitution written in 1945 modelled on the
USA's constitution and handed Viet Nam back to the French. This pushed VN
into the communist orbit. We may feel sorry for the soldiers and civilians
killed in the southeast Asian wars, while all the leaders should be held
accountable from all sides.

Subsequent events would suggest the communist threat was illusory, that
short term planning and alliances have lead to subsequent dangerous
circumstances, and it is all really about money and power, and not at all
about principles such as freedom.