"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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The Vietnamese had been tossing visitors out of their country for 200+
years before we decided to stop by and help. They would never have
surrendered. And please - don't spew any bull**** about "we shoulda nuked
'em".

Back off on the nuclear thing Doug, nobody is suggesting we nuke anybody
yet.

We're talking about Vietnam, not the present. NOYB should stop by any day
now and say that we could've won in Vietnam if we'd used nuclear weapons.



While we're on this subject, tell us in your own words how the Vietnamese
threatened us before we got there. And, be sure to tell us why you
believe the domino theory was valid.

Uncle Ho wanted his country free from foreign occupation and influence.
Uncle Ho was a nationalist. But, he was a realist too and he figured it
would be better to team up with his own countrymen, the Communists, to
throw out the French and then the US using the help of their Soviet
benefactors. We should have backed Uncle Ho before the French got their
asses handed to them in Vietnam.

The Soviets began turning the screws on NV quite a while before we left.
They and the Chinese began to realize that there was no further benefit to
being aligned with the NV.


The domino theory was a threat and we countered it wherever and whenever
we could.

As it applied in Vietnam, it was absurd. The suits who concocted it sold 3
presidents on the idea that the next stop for the communists would be
Australia. Fortunately, there were (and still are) smarter people in the
military who realized that the threat was strategically humorous.