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Old 08-09-2007, 11:24 AM
chezlaw chezlaw is offline
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Default Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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So would you hypothesize that the war stunted the spread of communism and produced a less hardline regime in Vietnam?

Because I think objective analysis would show that after Vietnam, the US and the world had no stomach and depleted resources to try the containment strategy like that again.

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That may be right but that analysis is part of what DS says isn't necessary to judge the war (when of course it is).

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