On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, SA wrote:
> In keeping with the teachings of the New Left, we're supposed to believe
> that US foreign policy was a machine that could no more tolerate a small
> country like Vietnam "withdrawing from the capitalist world system" than
> a PC can run Mac OSX. But in real life the people who debated foreign
> policy at high levels almost never talked about that stuff.
Eisenhower described SE Asia in terms of the domino theory in 1954. If the domino theory, which was popular ever after, isn't a discourse of not tolerating a little country's rebellion on the grounds that it would send shock waves through the empire, what is?
Michael