tim gueguen wrote:

After spending $163bn in 17yrs what did the US achieve one asks?

The spread of communism was stopped at Vietnam; a result identical to JFK's
stated intention for going to war.

Although concern about the domino effect might have pushed us into an active
participation in VN, I didn't think it was what stopped the spread of communism.
What stopped it was the shear weight of its inherent baggage.....it wasn't going
to continue to expand because it couldn't in competition with the capitalist
system, so that was really irrelevent as far as VN was concerned. There are
only a few places in the world where it's still functioning.....Albania, Cuba,
China. Are there any others that I've missed? The USSR and Yugoslavia have
both disintegrated in recent years. IOW, it was a dying system that just hasn't
stopped twitching yet.

George Z.

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