"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:21:48 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


"-rick-" wrote in message
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Dave Hall wrote:
The domino theory as I know it is a scientific theory. I do not know
the specifics of how it applied in this case. But I do know that the
war was to prevent the spread of communism.

from:
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/1122science7.html

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In a non-scientific example, the Domino Theory was an explicit statement
of what many Americans thought would happen if a single country in a
given
region (e.g. southeast Asia) had a communist government. The implicit
paradigm was that the US ought to be, and had to be, involved in a
global
struggle with another superpower over what kind of political system
would
dominate the world's governments.
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You might find the rest of the page helpful also.

-rick-

But Rick....although the link points to a very interesting resource, it
was
written by a human, so the whole thing is just one person's opinion.

(Couldn't resist being Dave Hall for a moment) :-)

You do a very poor imitation. Certain facts are indisputable.
Scientific principles and logic for example. Other things are
reasonable hypotheses, based on fact. While others are pure
speculation, based mostly on opinion.

My level of skepticism increases in inverse proportion to the
verifiable factual content of a particular statement.

Dave


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