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Junior Chimp
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« on: July 03, 2015, 04:24:00 PM » |
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Nobody knew how laughably wrong the domino theory would turn out to be. Who can say how myself or others here would have thought ? People thought that if South Vietnam fell, then next up would be the rest of Indochina, then Thailand, then Indonesia, then India etc.
People also said that we signed an alliance with South Vietnam, and they were a part of SEATO. If the US 'abandoned' South Vietnam, then would our NATO allies think we would abandon them too? All of this was part of the mainstream foreign policy views that we're pretty reasonable thinking at the time without hindsight.
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