Due to policies that largely came later. Vietnam allowed the USSR to sit back and bleed the US of billions of dollars and thousands of lives for very little effort.
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That proves the domino theory. China is also helping build (i.e., colonize) Africa. What they call the New Silk Road.
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It proves that people will turn away from countries that kill tens of thousands of their citizens and look elsewhere for help.
'Hey, look. Sorry we destroyed your house and killed some of your family. But we'd just love the opportunity to help you rebuild it'.
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Did someone say they were? I can't recall anyone saying something as dumb as that. What they were doing was trying to prevent communist countries having an influence on them. By bombing the **** out of them.
Want to see the new train set China just bought for Laos? All the way from the capital to China itself. It rivals anything you'll find in Japan. They had to be careful building it because of all the unexploded bombs buried in the countryside. Thanks, Henry!
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Not really sure what your point is, other than that you're a big fan of communist colonization. Okay. Hope you still feel that way when they come for Australia.
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Really? Was it that difficult to understand? Honestly? Here, let me try again.
If you want to align yourselves with a country in S.E. Asia to prevent them cozying up to their communist neighbours, then don't drop more bombs on them then were used in the entirety of the Second World War.
Hang on, I can make it even simpler: Don't kill the people with whom you want to be friends.
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Aside from humanitarian aid to other nations, if America was nationalist & isolationist, the USA would be stronger and less sullied. The leftists and neocon power mongers are united in their perpetual meddlings that destabilize the world and waste America away from within.
The late liberal left Princeton professor Stephen Cohen ( who I referenced in post #35)was a rare example of someone from the left who saw that Trump was trying to get America out of foreign entanglements ( gee what a crazy idea held by that crazy guy George Washington). Well now we have business as usual with renewed foreign conflicts and domestic crime flourishing.
The current vice president herself criticized the isolation policy of the Trump administration when debating former Vice Pres Mike Pence. She said everything would be wonderful with Iran as our ally just like it has turned out with Hamas I guess ( regardless of whatever opinion you may have on the current Gaza War with Israel).
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We were in that deal, guys, we were in the Iran nuclear deal with friends and allies around the country, and because of Donald Trump's unilateral approach to foreign policy, coupled with his isolationism, he pulled us out and has made America less safe. So Susan, it's about relationships. And the thing that has always been part of the strength of our nation
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The late liberal left Princeton professor Stephen Cohen ( who I referenced in post #35)was a rare example of someone from the left who saw that Trump was trying to get America out of foreign entanglements ( gee what a crazy idea held by that crazy guy George Washington). Well now we have business as usual with renewed foreign conflicts and domestic crime flourishing.
The current vice president herself criticized the isolation policy of the Trump administration when debating former Vice Pres Mike Pence. She said everything would be wonderful with Iran as our ally just like it has turned out with Hamas I guess ( regardless of whatever opinion you may have on the current Gaza War with Israel).
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We were in that deal, guys, we were in the Iran nuclear deal with friends and allies around the country, and because of Donald Trump's unilateral approach to foreign policy, coupled with his isolationism, he pulled us out and has made America less safe. So Susan, it's about relationships. And the thing that has always been part of the strength of our nation
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Cultural Revolution - Wikipedia
Cambodian genocide - Wikipedia
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The US backed the Khmer Republic who were fighting the Khmer Rouge. But Kissinger's bombing campaign resulted in a massive death toll to the rural civilians. So who are they going to support? Those who said they were going to set you free from a leadership they didn't trust. Or a government who was being supported by a country that was bombing the hell out of them.Just to show the ugly side of Chinese and Cambodian atrocities which would have happened with or without the Kissingers etc. of the American internationalist, swamp establishment.
Cambodian genocide - Wikipedia
Well, we know it wasn't much of a choice. And we know the horrifying results. I've visited the killing fields and it takes some time to process the horror. And a long time to get over it.
It's my position that Kissinger was directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Cambodians. And partly responsible for the rise of Pol Pot.
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Currently a pretty good biographical documentary on PBS (while it is still available).
We used to have intellectuals at the White House.
We used to have intellectuals at the White House.
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I was just a teen during the Viet Nam War and had no interest in world affairs. Even the draft did not worry me yet. So Kissenger and Nixon decided to secretly bomb Cambodia without congressional approval. Wow! And then the protests and Kent State shootings. Troubled times.
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