If you’re going to, at least get it right.
It is also a mistake to assert, as many have asserted in recent days, that the United States never should have intervened in Vietnam in the first place because Vietnam was predestined to become capitalist. In my research, I found that American intervention in Vietnam saved Indonesia from going Communist in 1965. It probably also prevented countries such as Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, and Malaysia from becoming Communist or pro-Communist. Furthermore, American intervention fractured the Sino-North Vietnamese alliance and tamed China. In the absence of these developments, socialism might well have persisted in Vietnam and other Asian countries to this day.
Of course there is a big Hand of America in saving Indonesia from going Communist in 1965. Obviously America prevented countries such as Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, and Malaysia from becoming Communist or pro-Communist.
Comment by modern desks — 22 December, 2010 @ 0:38