Chomsky on Vietnam

[Brad DeLong]

>On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Bradford DeLong wrote:
>
>>  Now, the development of South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia,
>>  Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Singapore since 1960 has been the fastest
>>  in the world, ever. So that if U.S. policy was to stop "development"
>>  in the region, U.S. policy was a catastrophic failure. But I suppose
>>  development wasn't, in some sense, "independent"--that these
>>  countries are still clients of the United States out of which
>>  "surplus" is being pumped at a furious rate.
>>
>>  Why should I not conclude that this is total lunacy?
>
>
>Why should you?  Forgive me for being simple-minded, but I cannot see the
>logic of your point at all.  Are you suggesting that the countries you
>list were not under U.S. influence during their period of rapid growth?

Are you suggesting that these countries are not "independent"? I see 
no surplus being pumped out of South Korea, et cetera. I see them 
using the U.S. as a potential counterweight to China...