Comments on: Please … Like Us, Euro-people

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By: DDP

DDP — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:15:48 +0000

“The liberation of the Falklands” huh? am I missing something here? Maybe the authors were thinking of the Argentinian ‘liberation’. The US did play a part in that seeing as they sold them the amtracs they landed in. That and the A4s the Argentinian AF used to launch CAP missions against Royal Navy ships.
The actual liberation was as a result of the British Army and the Royal Navy, and not as a result of some very minor diplomatic wrangling to save face by the State Dept.
Can we lay off the revisionist history, it is was it is.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:21:40 +0000

“communist countries may not like each other but they have come to each others aid in the past.“
Well, yes. And? We aided the USSR while it fought Germany. We aided the Muhajadeen vs. the USSR.
That doesn’t mean we were allies, or joined at the hip. It means that, at the time, we had a mutual enemy. Nothing more.
If it’s 1948, and the French–with American funding–are your enemy, who are you going to look to for support/supplies/training/‘advisors’? If it’s 1960, and the GVN–with American funding, equipment, training, and advisors–is your enemy, who are you going to look to for aid? If it’s 1970, and America and the GVN are your enemies, who are you going to look to for aid?
The USSR and ChiComs, of course. Who else would give you aid for the express purpose of thwarting American strategic objectives? Not the first world–they rely on America. Not the third world–they couldn’t even if they wanted to. Which leaves the second world.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:33:33 +0000

well max is right the chinese and the vietnamese didn't like each other.. and they still don't.. but don't underestimate a communist country.. the thing i hate the most is ppl who see what they wanna see and i'm not accusing you of this max i'm just saying. ppl see chinese ppl and they see ppl who love americans... just because they wear western clothes doesn't mean they wanna be western.. now .. the ppl are not inherently bad ppl. but i wouldn't underestimate the control the govt has on it's people anyone remember tianamen square. and in both the korean and vietnam war.. i don't know if this was mentioned in this post.. both wars saw action of SOVIET fighter pilots.. we never could prove this at the time but it was later proved with soviet records so ho may not have been a moscow puppet but he had signifigant help from them.. and kim (senior) had help from both beijing and moscow. anyway the point of this is. communist countries may not like each other but they have come to each others aid in the past. and russia may not be commi anymore but i wouldn't be so eager to trust putin just yet. just look at the stink he's makeing over the estonia statue thing

By: DW

DW — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:18:23 +0000

Max; I am lost as to this comment . “Partly this was due to McCarthyism, the attendant anti-commie fervor, and the purging from State of people who actually knew Indochina from a hole in the ground. Partly it was obstinance and wishful thinking. It was wholly a mistake, however.” Fisrt how does McCarthyism play into that. McCarthy was all about Communists/sympathizers in the Govt. Which I would add were well founded. If ANYONE says that he was wrong or just a madman go and do the research, read the Vernona files. It clearly shows that there were people in high places that we were to be afraid of. Second. at what level do you believe that the Soviets or Chicoms were not helping the NVA? It also has to be recognized that prior to Kennedy’s death there was a very real possibility that the US was going to intercede in Angola rather than Vietnam. At this point I will concede that there was a much greater threat of soviet involvment in Angola than in Vietnam. Which is why Kennedy wanted Angola. I have to do some reading before commenting on the rest.

By: DW

DW — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:05:23 +0000

1984. I’m interested could you enlighten us to your background? I say this in the form of are you a student? a student of history? a teacher of history? The reason I ask is that you sound just like a professor I had many years ago.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:27:08 +0000

DW:
Of course Ho was a communist. But he was a nationalist first. He was friendly toward America, and made several efforts to form ties; these efforts were ignored by the Truman admin. His ties to the USSR and PRC consisted of getting guns from them, essentially; and he only needed to form such ties because the west was actively involved in oppressing the populace of the area.
He was no more a tool of the USSR or the ChiComs than, say, the Mujahadeen were a tool of America. What’s more, the Americans in Indochina were well aware of this, and repeatedly told the Truman admin that this was the case. They were ignored as well.
The decision to back the French and suppress moves toward independence was purely realpolitik. (De Gaulle, if you’ll recall, essentially said to Truman that if France didn’t get its colonies back, it’d go make nice with the USSR. Rather than challenging this, Truman acquised and aided France in its quest to reassert control over Indochina. The troop ships that took French forces to Indochina in ’45 were American).
By the time the French lost, Washington had managed to convince itself, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that the Vietnamese nationalist movement was an appendage of the Kremlin and/or ChiComs. Partly this was due to McCarthyism, the attendant anti-commie fervor, and the purging from State of people who actually knew Indochina from a hole in the ground. Partly it was obstinance and wishful thinking. It was wholly a mistake, however.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:59:48 +0000

oh one more thing.. that isn’t even the surface of issues that piss me off.. so in the words of John Paul Jones
“I have no yet begun to fight!!”

By: Fred F. Tabsharani

Fred F. Tabsharani — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:27:59 +0000

Anyone looking forward to the Academy Awards? Talk about a now defunct video? Although there are many things we can be thankful for, as a Super Power, Americans continue to embarass themselves. I can’t wait until the democrats take control of the White House. Better yet, I think America (a major superpower) is ready for a woman president. Oh, yes, one other thing, she’s got Terry McAuliffe on her side.

By: Earl

Earl — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:14:21 +0000

..and then I came upon this, also on Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/winston.asp
It reminds me that we have been friends for a long time, and will disagree as friends do, but are still bound powerfully by shared culture and past events.
I think as time passes, we will forget current differences and be fine friends again.