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

[R]

At 12:30 PM 9/24/2004, you wrote:
>C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>>"...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.
>
>The U.S. did horrible things to Vietnam, no doubt about it. But I'm afraid 
>"independent development under domestic control" is nearly impossible. No 
>such thing. The world is too interdependent for that - countries need 
>technology and resources from the outside, and there are real gains from 
>trade. Unless you think North Korea is a model of development.
>
>Doug

or unless you think the US is.  look at our huge trade imbalance and 
deficit.  what is the US gaining from trade?  lots of gadgets and 
toys?  even good old right wing "liberal" lou dobbs is complaining about 
the US outsourcing tech jobs and the research that goes along with 
them.  where does that leave the US other than on the loosing end from 
"trade"?  what does a country with little that anyone wants to trade for 
wind up doing?

R


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