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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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Great! The suits who invented the domino theory knew by the late
1960s that it was nonsense, and that's what the entire war was
based on. All presidents are the target of various so-called
scholars and shmexperts. Many of us figured out early on that the
North Vietnamese were not going to burn their way through the south
and invade Australia next. Do you remember this nonsense?



Doug, you are chanting a typical shallow and simplistic post mortem of
a very complex set of circumstances, alliances, and political
commitments that took place over many years, mired also in corruption.
In the end it came down to justifying the continuance of policies that
weren't working or were no longer purposeful.
If you simply believe it was all based on the "domino" theory, then it
was you that was duped.

RCE


Like the other two personal wars, it was based on weak presidents who
succumbed to bad advice, thus demonstrating their complete inability to
manage and think for themselves.


So, as it relates to Vietnam, your list of weak Presidents must include:

Harry S Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kenney
Lyndon Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald Ford

and, then, to make everything "ok"

Jimmy Carter.

RCE


Grow up.


Good grief.

RCE


Bert is attempting to say that because Truman authorized the OSS to poke
around SE Asia as "advisors" after WWII, he's in the same category as
Johnson, who clearly made the largest committment to the Vietnam mistake.
He's saying pretty much the same thing for Eisenhower & Kennedy.