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Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Sep 16 11:43:52 PDT 2002



>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>May I ask why he was right?
>
>Because the U.S. had no business in Vietnam. It was inheriting the
>imperial role from the French, ran the country through a bunch of
>corrupt repressive thugs, and deserved to lose.
>
>Was a U.S. victory worth 2-3 million Indochinese deaths?
>
>Doug

No. No victory (save over Hitler, or over Imperial Japan) is worth 3 million dead.

But the Vietnamese Communist Party does not rank among the economic (and, I hope, soon political) miracle regimes of East Asia, no? Much better outcomes in South Korea and Malaysia and Thailand, no?

Brad DeLong



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