----- Original Message ----- From: lweiger at umich.edu To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Eat shit and die, was United against a Pro-War Democrat
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.
-- Luke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They didn't care if Vietnam became "Commie Utopia", as long as the U.S. had unrestricted access to:
phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forests, hydropower.
Source: C.I.A. World Factbook 2003:
Vietnam, Natural resources.
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