[lbo-talk] Bush as Diversion

[Michael Pugliese]

On 10/21/05, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:And had political
conditions at home permitted it the U.S. could have maintained Can
Ranh (sp?) Bay permaently while letting the puppet regime in Saigon be
overthrown. Cf. Guantanamo.

   Cam Ranh Bay
http://www.9thcav.com/Cam_Ranh_Bay.jpg The military utility of
maintaining  that base while Vietnam was reunified? Surrounded. With
the SVN regime overthrown (due, in the final analysis in the last
period due to the NVA than NLF, sidelined) the costs and any potential
benefit to the USG close to nothing.

  Sure Guantanimo, due the Platt Amendment (no?) is an infringement to
say the least on Cuban sovereignity, but, with the Cuban people
organized in popular militias hard to see it as an offensive launching
pad.

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Michael Pugliese