On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:37:42 GMT, Jack
wrote:

Peter Skelton wrote:

...South East Asia was not going
to collapse like a pile of dominos....

You knew that then, I suppose?

SE Asia did not collapse when China fell, the dictatorships we
supported were not democracies. The Viet Nam war came from the
1956 decision not to hold elections because Uncle Ho would have
won.

The argument was spurious.


Peter Skelton