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**gueremaisse** · 07-08-2010, 08:08 PM

Don't buy the propaganda. The affairs of Vietnam was Vietnam's concern. Not ours. The "Domino Theory" was bogus.

Every nation that fell to the Soviets provided more political, economic, and military capital to their efforts to undermine governments in the West and the Third World. Normally I'd agree that their affairs are their business, but Communism was a global threat to our way of life.

Why do we have to fuck with people to protect our national interests?

Our national interests, like any other country's, rely on other countries doing what we want. Countries that wouldn't do what we wanted, or countries that were in danger of falling to the enemy, got fucked with. Of course, right now a lot of our national interests revolve around cleaning up the messes we left behind back then. C'est la vie, but I really wish we would have learned our lesson about leaving hellholes behind us.

Sorry, that's not an effective rejoinder. Our murdering of civilians with deplete uranium munitions is our responsibility irrespective of the social problems in Afghanistan.

Sure. And we're probably going to end up paying for it, one way or another. But the social problems in Afghanistan indicate what we're dealing with over there and what we're going to leave behind if we abandon our goals there-- and we'll end up paying for that, too.

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gueremaisse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 410 Senior Member	Don't buy the propaganda. The affairs of Vietnam was Vietnam's concern. Not ours. The "Domino Theory" was bogus. Every nation that fell to the Soviets provided more political, economic, and military capital to their efforts to undermine governments in the West and the Third World. Normally I'd agree that their affairs are their business, but Communism was a global threat to our way of life. Why do we have to fuck with people to protect our national interests? Our national interests, like any other country's, rely on other countries doing what we want. Countries that wouldn't do what we wanted, or countries that were in danger of falling to the enemy, got fucked with. Of course, right now a lot of our national interests revolve around cleaning up the messes we left behind back then. C'est la vie, but I really wish we would have learned our lesson about leaving hellholes behind us. Sorry, that's not an effective rejoinder. Our murdering of civilians with deplete uranium munitions is our responsibility irrespective of the social problems in Afghanistan. Sure. And we're probably going to end up paying for it, one way or another. But the social problems in Afghanistan indicate what we're dealing with over there and what we're going to leave behind if we abandon our goals there-- and we'll end up paying for that, too.
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