2007-08-26 11:31:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
don't be stupid G-Man...if commies wanted world domination they most certinally would of followed us home
2007-08-26 11:45:19 · update #1
They didn't "follow us home" because they were too busy torturing, murdering and chasing into exile millions of their own countrymen. Thanks for asking.
2007-08-26 12:11:45 · answer #1 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Great questions.
They didn't follow us home because they never wanted a war with us in the first place. The war was a result of the eastern post war Marshall plan.
And, yes, you're right to note: According to the domino theory, once Viet Nam fell the entire Orient would go communist.
In fact quite the opposite happened.
The oddity of it is that the one remaining super-communist state in the region somehow became our main trading partner; that being of course China, against whom we have no apparent complaint though they are even more communist than Russia was.
In short, the domino theory was as bogus then as the theory of islamo-fascism is now.
The truth behind all of this as the American public never really understood how we got into the war. Many blame Kennedy, but the region was bequeathed to us during the Eisenhower administration. And Kennedy inherited it as a political legacy.
You see Ike hated Nixon (in part because of betrayals in Nixon's speeches, cfc. read the famous checkers speech. It's a hoot, but it shows Nixon attacking the very President he was serving under.)
As Ike lay on his death bed, he arranged a meeting with Kennedy. If Kennedy would agree to maintain Ike's commitment to troops in Laos, then Ike would NOT represent for Nixon in the coming elections.
Then, in one of the sicker moments of a very sick political career, after Ike went into a coma, Nixon arranged a photo-op with him. He stood by the comatose man, took his hand in his, and had his picture taken for the press. An unconscious man was made to look like a supporter.
There is a special corner in hell for Nixon, and probably Satan would like to evict him, but God certainly doesn't want him.
I'm an old timer. I lived through all of that. And it stuns me that now, sixty years later, the American public is capable of being completely fooled in the same ways by conniving politicos, conscienceless industrialists and a cravenly press.
We must work to take our country back.
2007-08-26 11:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Vietnamese were more nationalistic than communist as evidenced by their shoot-out with China shortly after the Vietnam War ended. Never the less, they got involved in Cambodia and Laos (that could fit the domino theory). The domino theory was alive and well until The USSR realized it couldn't take care of itself, much less the rest of the world.
Perhaps a mini domino theory is in the works by Hugo Chavez, but I suspect folks in other countries will take his aid and leave his philosophy.
2007-08-26 11:45:09 · answer #3 · answered by Yaktivistdotcom 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The domino theory was based on ideas, not fact. The Red scare of the Cold War was in full force. The belief that if one country fell the others would all fall to Communism wasn't completely wrong, but seriously flawed. When Vietnam did fall to Communism, Cambodia had already become communist but no new countries fell to Communism. As for them following us home, that was never their goal, they just wanted to spread communism across their country.
2007-08-26 11:41:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The domino effect was just a way for the government to scare averyone into wanting to keep up the fighting in Vietnam.
Bush could use that same excuse now and a bunch of dumb folks would still go for it.
2007-08-26 11:41:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Don't know where you were in 1975. But I was the Medical Administrator of the Indochinese Refugee Resttlement Site at Camp Pendleton. I can assure you that over 53,000 at the that site had followed us home.
2007-08-26 12:10:04 · answer #6 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The domino theory was just that, a theory.
Hmm, long involvements in civil wars for vague ideology. Where have I heard that before?
2007-08-26 11:36:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
the domino effect theory was a scare tactic more than anything and the US got themselves wound up about it.
2007-08-26 11:38:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They did follow us home. Otherwise you couldn't get Pho for lunch.
2007-08-26 11:56:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋