[lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26

[Dennis Redmond]

>> I know.  I mean, for example, Chomsky thinks the US
>> _won_ the Vietnam war...
>
> I am inclined to agree with him. Countless/uncountable
> numbers of dead Vietnamese/Lao/Cambodians vs some
> 58,000 US fatalities. And consider the isolation and
> immiseration which followed.

Immiseration? Vietnam has continuously boomed since 1985 -- despite a US
trade embargo, no war reparations, and the cutoff of aid from the USSR
after 1990.

-- DRR