[Am-info] Re: Recycled

[Hans Reiser]

Mark Hinds wrote:

>
> We killed a million Vietnamese and 50,000 American troops in a BS 
> proxy war
> as part of a faulty cold war strategy.


What do you guys think of the argument that Kennedy prolonged the cold 
war by a generation by making Krushchev seem to publicly back down when 
in fact it was a swap of cuban missiles for turkish missiles which 
Kennedy insisted be kept quiet as part of the deal (this came out 
recently)?  When Krushchev lost power not so long later, it was a 
decisive moment in history that may well have been influenced by the 
loss of face experienced.....

> In the end it failed - Things turned out
> the same in 75 as they would have turned out if we had left in 60 - 
> The North
> took over, but eventually the Soviet Union fell apart under its own 
> weight and
> so the cold war ended. Some claim that the protesters lengthened the 
> war by
> breaking the US resolve to carry it out 'properly' - does 'properly' mean
> killing twice as many Vietnamese? All such speculation is nonsensical; 
> The
> war might just as likely gone on longer with the same conclusion had 
> there
> been no protests.
>
> Like it or not we have the right to protest our government's actions 
> when we disagree.
> Kerry Betrayed no one. Our leaders betrayed us and in particular the 
> soldiers whom
> they conscripted to carry out a ill conceived policy.
>
> So, that's what I believe John, and it seems vastly more rational to 
> me than what you
> believe, and certainly is no less meritorious.
>
> Mark
>
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