Who was aiming at this? JFK? Johnson? McNamara? What's your evidence (aside from the obvious fact that the US must always somehow win even when it loses)?
-- Luke
----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Bush win - Major disaster for right?
> Of course that 18-year boom saw the incorporation of Vietnam into a
> neoliberal system overseen by the US. The American war aim in Vietnam --
> to prevent the "threat of a good example," an independent and in some
> sense socialist model of development -- was certainly achieved, at the (to
> the US) small cost of the deaths of 3-4 million Asians and the poisoning
> of the land. That's why we dropped several times the ordnance used in all
> of WW II on a peasant society. --CGE
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Dennis Redmond wrote:
>
> > > And as Chomsky has pointed out, Vietnam was damaged
> > > sufficiently that the revolution (as opposed to the War for
> > > Independence) never really got established; certainly Vietnam is not a
> > > very vivid model _now_ of a strong, independent nation outside the
> > > imperialist framework.
> >
> > Gee, I had no idea this Trung Nguyen coffee I'm sipping and Vietnam's 18
> > years supercharged economic boom are just figments of my fevered
> > imagination.
> >
> > One, two, many Vietnamese/Venezuelan developmental states!
> >
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