On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, James Heartfield wrote:
> I was thinking about this the other day: where were the substantial
> defeats of US hegemony in the 20C.
>
> The answer is that they were all delivered by Asians: Pearl Harbour,
> Korea, Vietnam..
>
> I suppose there's Cuba, but the US military were not fighting directly.
I think actually the two defeats that affected the US world view the most were both ones where we weren't fighting directly: Cuba and, most of all, China. The agony of "losing" China went a long way towards causing both Korea and Vietnam. And the whole Cold War, for that matter.
Michael