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On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:04:46 -0700, "Leadfoot"
wrote: Along about 1964 we should have sunk everything in Haiphong Harbor, leveled Hanoi and put a million men in the country marching north. And Red China jumps in to protect NVN with World War III starting shortly thereafter. A true Military genius you are. Both you and Vince presume that Russia and China would have acted on their threat. From recent history we know that the Russians were as rattled by the Cuban Missle Crisis as we were. Not sure about the Chinese (Mao made some pretty remarkable statements about China's ability to sustain casualties in a nuclear war. We should also remember that Chinese nuclear capability in the mid-'60s was not the same as Russian capability during the same time period. You also seem to forget that in '59 the Sino-Soviet Split happened and Chinese influence in S.E. Asia was not near what Russian was. While playing "brinksmanship" is not something you want to do on a daily basis drawing a "line in the sand" sometimes is necessary. And there is an odds on chance that if we had done it then the Russians would have backed down, as they did not have the naval power to prevent us from doing what we could do, and the Chinese were not about to help the Russians (and the Vietnamese were never all that comfortable with the Chinese). Again, the picture is not nearly as clear as you paint it. Bill Kambic Haras Lucero, Kingston, TN Mangalarga Marchador: Uma Raça, Uma Paixão |
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