From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 00:10:29 MDT
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From: matus
...Jeff Davis, as I have all ready elaborated, said the 'good guys' won
in Vietnam...
Michael Dickey
Michael, make sure you understood what (I think) Jeff was
getting at. The west contained communism long enough for
it to collapse under its own weight. In that sense, the
good guys did win in Vietnam, setting the stage for the
eventual victory of WW3, which petered out around 1990.
Sure there are some communist nations left, no-count
basket cases like Cuba and North Korea, and of course
the die-hard biggie China, but its only a matter of
time before these collapse too. Few who have access
to information on this planet still think Marx was right.
China cannot keep the internet out forever.
In the end, every life lost in Vietnam on both sides
demonstrated to the communists that they would
have to fight for every step to world dominion. This
they could not do, but the damage they did in the
attempt was appalling. In the end, one could
argue the good guys did eventually win WW3, with
the battle of Vietnam being one stop along the way.
Had not the U.S. demonstrated to the world that we
would fight in Korea and Vietnam, most nations would
not have attempted to resist the red tide. Our
entire planet today would be cold, hungry, gray,
driving Trabis or worse, choking in smog, listless,
everyone EQUALLY poor and dispirited, infrastructure
crumbling and no one caring since there would be no
profit in actually doing anything, going thru our
phony workdays like zombies, waiting for the 4 oclock
whistle so we could go home and drown our sorrows
in cheap vodka. It would be a planet of Albania.
Indeed, the good guys did win in Vietnam, eventually.
spike
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