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At least you're not re-writing history.

ER — 7/7/2008 11:05:25 PM (archived)

Now you're fabricating an alternative history from scratch. But you're right, there is no way I can dispute what might have happened later if something else hadn't happened first. No doubt you can come up with all sorts of documetation to prove I'm mistaken, but they'll also come for apologists for our failed Viet Nam policy.

The rest of your comments are attempts to slander me as someone who thought the entire Cold War was a waste of time on our part, which even a cursory reading of my post would show to be an unfair characterization.

Actually, we SHOULD have been in Viet Nam, but we should have been supporting the other side! While we're writing alternative histories, get a load of this one: just think what a coup it would have been for us if we had wound up with a Communist ally in Viet Nam, a wedge to drive between China and the USSR and a wooden stake in the heart of the Communist movement everywhere.

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Good article on exactly why John McCain is completely unfit to be Commander-in-Chief of the USA - z - 7/5/2008 4:40:19 PM
- Unbelievable. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/7/2008 3:04:11 AM
  - The USA is doomed and about to overrun by barbarians?? - z - 7/7/2008 6:47:21 PM
    - Yep. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/7/2008 10:20:51 PM
      - "freefall property values"? - ER - 7/7/2008 11:23:56 PM
        
        Laugh it up... - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/8/2008 9:54:32 PM
        
        You don't need to lecture me... - ER - 7/9/2008 12:23:56 AM
        
        Very aware. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/9/2008 6:11:42 AM
        
        Oye Gringo... - ER - 7/9/2008 12:34:56 PM
        
        My, aren't we cheerful? - TB - 7/9/2008 4:24:09 AM
        
        You must live on another planet TB. - ER - 7/9/2008 1:37:36 PM
        
        Nope. Same one you do. - TB - 7/9/2008 5:18:46 PM
        
        Anyway, what do you plan to DO about it? - TB - 7/9/2008 8:09:07 PM
        
        I've already outlined my defensive measures in my earlier post. - ER - 7/9/2008 8:33:57 PM
        
        You should still be writing the books... - TB - 7/12/2008 12:32:00 AM
        
        re: "tells me I don't have any and I'm a silly gurly man because I think I do. " - Yeti - 7/11/2008 3:24:47 AM
        
        Really. - TB - 7/11/2008 6:02:43 AM
        
        re: Really. - Yeti - 7/11/2008 3:55:54 PM
        
        re: Really. - TB - 7/11/2008 4:26:22 PM
        
        Chicken quibble clucks again - Yeti - 7/11/2008 5:16:52 PM
        
        PS - Yeti - 7/11/2008 5:27:14 PM
        
        Actually, more like 2006, not 2004 - TB - 7/11/2008 4:32:46 PM
        
        This is the link - Yeti - 7/11/2008 5:21:06 PM
        
        Wow. TB found BigCharts! Wow! - Yeti - 7/11/2008 5:18:34 PM
        
        BTW, success isn't about "defensive measures." It's about offense. (n/t) - TB - 7/9/2008 9:48:55 PM
        
        "Changing drivers" - TB - 7/9/2008 9:47:06 PM
        
        re: "Changing drivers" - ER - 7/9/2008 11:21:48 PM
        
        Go for it. - TB - 7/10/2008 6:02:45 AM
        
        Economy bad? - alcaray - 7/9/2008 5:13:47 PM
        
        And THAT'S what it's about, ER. (n/t) - TB - 7/9/2008 5:19:58 PM
        
        Candide Camera - ER - 7/9/2008 6:07:22 PM
        
        re: Candide Camera - TB - 7/9/2008 7:16:33 PM
        
        re: And THAT'S what it's about, ER. - alcaray - 7/9/2008 5:43:50 PM
        
        Half empty mode. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/9/2008 6:26:07 AM
      - "Surely the progressive left can't wait.." - Lindy - 7/7/2008 10:43:54 PM
        
        I do hold Bush accountable... - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/7/2008 10:50:19 PM
        
        re: I do hold Bush accountable... - Yeti - 7/8/2008 9:42:04 PM
        
        Think... - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/9/2008 1:13:26 AM
        
        Well, if that one was 'rich', this is 'priceless' - Yeti - 7/14/2008 2:21:11 AM
        
        Now thats rich... - Yeti - 7/11/2008 3:12:34 AM
  - re: Unbelievable. - Lindy - 7/7/2008 3:29:44 PM
- "The world still looks the same, and history ain't changed" - ER - 7/5/2008 7:53:14 PM
  - re: history ain't changed - TB - 7/7/2008 5:05:50 PM
    - The Right seems to justify supporting any awful dictatorship - z - 7/9/2008 3:38:50 AM
    - At least you're not re-writing history. - ER - 7/7/2008 11:05:25 PM
      - re: re-writing history. - TB - 7/8/2008 1:51:30 AM
        
        Lost history - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/8/2008 3:49:35 AM
        
        No need to apologize. - ER - 7/8/2008 3:16:50 AM
        
        "Still waiting for the dominoes to fall" - TB - 7/8/2008 4:30:46 AM
        
        Huffy? - ER - 7/8/2008 12:42:19 PM
        
        Economics and ideology - TB - 7/8/2008 4:03:52 PM
        
        Xenophobia fatigue. - ER - 7/8/2008 5:18:52 PM
        
        re: Xenophobia fatigue. - TB - 7/8/2008 5:59:33 PM
        
        I'm tired already. (n/t) - ER - 7/8/2008 6:48:45 PM
    - Oh, and given our potential new "enlightened" foreign policy: so what ABOUT Tibet? - TB - 7/7/2008 5:14:56 PM
      - We can't afford to tick off the PRC. - ER - 7/7/2008 11:13:09 PM
  - The communist China - Raoul - 7/6/2008 8:17:00 AM
    - What about Tibet, Raoul? (n/t) - ER - 7/6/2008 9:26:26 AM
      - re: 2 distinctive views and - (anonymous) - 7/6/2008 11:02:57 AM
        
        Now, rarely have I seen - Yeti - 7/7/2008 2:22:10 AM
        
        Athletes and trade - Raoul - 7/7/2008 5:45:03 AM
        
        re: Athletes and trade - Yeti - 7/7/2008 2:45:33 PM
        
        Athletes and domestic politics - ER - 7/7/2008 11:21:23 PM
        
        Really. - TB - 7/8/2008 2:48:50 AM
        
        I stand corrected. - ER - 7/8/2008 3:21:20 AM
        
        Raoul - Yeti - 7/7/2008 2:38:46 AM
        
        The US, and many other countries simply have no lesson in human rights to give to China (n/t) - Raoul - 7/7/2008 5:35:24 AM
        
        Bull-pucky - Yeti - 7/7/2008 2:44:37 PM
        
        Oh oh... - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/7/2008 10:04:45 PM
        
        To criticize - Raoul - 7/7/2008 8:56:45 PM
        
        re: To criticize - Yeti - 7/8/2008 12:25:59 AM
        
        I think that with our obvious support for torture, etc... - alcaray - 7/7/2008 4:57:37 PM
        
        re: I think that with our obvious support for torture, etc... - Yeti - 7/8/2008 12:26:51 AM
        
        Flame-ON! (n/t) - nick hoffman - 7/7/2008 3:47:28 PM
        
        I disagree - Yeti - 7/7/2008 4:25:42 PM
        
        re: 2 distinctive views and - ER - 7/6/2008 12:18:29 PM
        
        Truman did not dispute the Chinese takeover. - Bowser - 7/6/2008 9:22:56 PM
- Superb article. The analysis is right on. (n/t) - Bowser - 7/5/2008 6:32:23 PM

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