[lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns

[Brad DeLong]

>  > there are people who think Ho Chi Minh was better than Nguyen Van
>>  Thieu, that Mao Zedong was better than Chang Kaishek, that Kim Il
>>  Sung was better than Syngman Rhee.
>>
>>  I'm not one of them.
>
>>  Brad DeLong
>
>So, did you support the US war on Vietnam? Sounds like it. Were you old
>enough to fight it? And if so, did you? And if not, why not?
>
>DP
>

Good God! I was 4 at the time of the Tonkin Gulf.

I *think* I'd have been--on both Korea and Vietnam--an 
airpower-and-logistics guy. That is, I think I'd have said that the 
U.S. should provide a bunch of tactical air support, and a bunch of 
logistical support, and if Rhee/Thieu could not have repelled the 
Commies under those circumstances, then escalating the war (given its 
horrible destructiveness) would not be a good thing.

I'd have been right about Vietnam. I'd have been wrong about Korea. A 
lot more people would have been at the Great Leader and Dear Leaders' 
mercy for the past fifty years.

Brad DeLong