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**STYWOMBORGOSY** · 10-08-2010, 05:55 PM

I don't think we lost the war in SE Asia. The strategic goal of the Vietnam war was to prevent an imminent communist takeover of Thailand and the Phillipines, who were SEATO members. In that regard, we succeeded.

Those dominoes didn't fall.

Hey let's look on the bright side - ultimately Vietnam became more or less what we had hoped. The irony is it didn't have anything to do with the billions we spent and the thousands of lives we wasted fighting a war.

10-08-2010, 05:55 PM	#29
STYWOMBORGOSY Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 510 Senior Member	I don't think we lost the war in SE Asia. The strategic goal of the Vietnam war was to prevent an imminent communist takeover of Thailand and the Phillipines, who were SEATO members. In that regard, we succeeded. Those dominoes didn't fall. Hey let's look on the bright side - ultimately Vietnam became more or less what we had hoped. The irony is it didn't have anything to do with the billions we spent and the thousands of lives we wasted fighting a war.
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