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You're looking at it backwards. You have knowledge they didn't. If you're watching peaceful nations fall to despotic communist dictators....it might be entirely reasonable to be concerned.
Oh, sorry, I was just going by what the players said at the time.
The US agreed to elections. When the time was close, and it was clear that H CHi Minh would win, the US refused to allow elections.
You disagree with the US signing a treaty to support elections.
That's fine. I disagree with the US tearing up a treaty and re-starting a war with the Vietnese that the French had fought for many years.
You are correct that you don't know much about Ho Chi Minh. To many in the world, standing up to Japan meant something, and standing up to foreign armies meant something, and standing up to foreign installed dictators meant something.
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The reality is that the US, France and the UK divided the world up, with France getting Vietnam.
They also chose to fight a long cold war with the Soviet Union. For many decades, nothing matters in world diplomacy other than whether one favored Russia or the West.
Oh, sorry, I was just going by what the players said at the time.
Ho Chi Minh was a much, much better leader of North Vietnam than was any of the corrupt French and US puppets.
Pride is denying what we can see right in front of us for the sake of preserving some treasured ideological commitment.How about we just let God manage the environment as He has since the beginning of time. Why are we so prideful as Americans and humans to think that the minuscule influence that we have over pollution or the effects there of are of any significance.
Pride is denying what we can see right in front of us for the sake of preserving some treasured ideological commitment.
I thought I had explicitly said that very thing!
Pride is denying what we can see right in front of us for the sake of preserving some treasured ideological commitment.
It's not just pride, it's idolatry.
Pride is thinking that we have to help God. You can ask Abraham about that if you like.Pride is denying what we can see right in front of us for the sake of preserving some treasured ideological commitment.
Sounds like a prescription for apathy.Pride is thinking that we have to help God. You can ask Abraham about that if you like.
not at all but we are talking about the life span of the earth and that is totally up to God, it will end when He decides it will end and nothing we can do will change that.Sounds like a prescription for apathy.
Does God favor us stepping back and doing nothing in the face of problems? Is that a general prescription we can glean from the Bible?
While the war was going on?
I don't recall the treaty.
I was under the impression that the French were still fighting when we entered. Barely, but still fighting.
Napoleon meant a lot to a lot of people. What's your point?
Huh?
Are we talking about a French colony that had existed for over 100 years?
Yeah....I'm familiar with the cold war.
Do you know what the communist Vietnamese supported after they won?
While the war was going on?
I don't recall the treaty.
I was under the impression that the French were still fighting when we entered. Barely, but still fighting.
Napoleon meant a lot to a lot of people. What's your point?
Huh?
Are we talking about a French colony that had existed for over 100 years?
Yeah....I'm familiar with the cold war.
Do you know what the communist Vietnamese supported after they won?
None of this has the slightest thing to do with the end of the earth. This is about whether we will foul our own nest, and diminish life on earth, or not. The planet itself will be fine either way.not at all but we are talking about the life span of the earth and that is totally up to God, it will end when He decides it will end and nothing we can do will change that.
You mean that the planet will be fine, with or without human life?None of this has the slightest thing to do with the end of the earth. This is about whether we will foul our own nest, and diminish life on earth, or not. The planet itself will be fine either way.
Yeah in the same way it was fine before the appearance of life.You mean that the planet will be fine, with or without human life?
Well maybe you should share that with the people who keep saying that global climate change is going to cause the end of the world, the predicted time of demise keeps changing but that is their claim.None of this has the slightest thing to do with the end of the earth. This is about whether we will foul our own nest, and diminish life on earth, or not. The planet itself will be fine either way.
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