Anniversary

[Brad DeLong]

>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