Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sun Apr 7 08:33:28 PDT 2002


And, Doug, the socialist ideals did not seem to survive the war. How could a people be so brave in war and then loose the peace?

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:33:05AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Did the U.S. really lose the Vietnam war? The only revolution of
> consequence after the U.S. withdrawal was in Nicaragua, and that
> didn't end very well. Vietnam itself was ruined - impoverished and
> poisoned. From that experience, the U.S. learned never to use a draft
> army again.
>
> Of course, the empire management may not always do the smart thing.
> But I'm skeptical of such arguments. They have, after all, run the
> most successful empire the world has ever known for over 50 years. It
> will end someday, and maybe Bush's unilateralism and overreach will
> be its undoing, or at least do it some damage. But I think the
> presumption should be that the people who sometimes look like wackos
> really know what they're doing.
>
> Doug

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