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Blue3
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« on: August 21, 2014, 10:27:27 PM »
What if LBJ quietly de-escalated and withdrew from Vietnam after being sworn in? How different would his presidency, the 1968 election, his legacy, and society/politics today be?
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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2019, 10:16:10 PM »
Any new thoughts?
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2019, 10:28:21 PM »
We didn't "have" China or "have" Vietnam to begin with. They were not our possessions to "lose."

A corrupt Chinese government met its doom in Mao.

The communist Vietnamese were actually orgiinally INSPIRED by Americans before we got involved.

The press will whine no matter what. And Vietnam isn't as significant as China, anyway.
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« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2019, 12:30:33 AM »
Quote from: Jolly Slugg on January 04, 2019, 10:37:29 PM
Maoism inherently means support of Mao's mass murders. Ho Chi Minh wasn't inspired by the Americans - he used text from 1776 purely for show before setting up a brutal dictatorship.
Doesn't mean we "lost" China or "lost" Vietnam.

They had a corrupt government and a colonial government.
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