[lbo-talk] Eat shit and die, was United against a Pro-War Democrat

[C. G. Estabrook]

The history of US relations with Latin America shows how willing we are to
kill people who are attempting things a good bit short of utopia.  The US
attacked South Vietnam (where the majority of the war's fire-power was
used, much more than in all of WWII) as we would a LA country, because
they wouldn't accept the terror-state we'd picked out for them. --CGE

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 lweiger at umich.edu wrote:


> Quoting "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>:
> 
> > "...won the war of national liberation for the Vietnamese"?  Vietnam today
> > doesn't look much like a country that won such a war.  The US achieved its
> > war aim -- thwarting an example of independent development under domestic
> > control.  --CGE
> 
> I've asked before, and I'll ask again: what evidence do you have that
> anyone in the Kennedy administration was quaking at the prospect of
> utopia in Vietnam?  If you said something along these lines to
> McNamara, he'd laugh at you, and for once in his life, he'd do so
> sincerely.
>