-- On 21 Oct 2004 at 12:19, Tyler Durden wrote: > Basically the way I see it. I've felt for a long time that > the US (even while pursuing it's questionable goals) should > have jumped all over the chance to buddy-up with China after > the Sino-Soviet split, and knowing Mao's practicality I'd bet > he could have been pursuaded
But the US did try (enventually somewhat successfully) to buddy up with China after the Sino Soviet split. > But of course, we were still in the middle of McCarthy-ism, > so way too ideologically blind to see the obvious The Sino Soviet split occurred long, long, long after McCarthy-ism, and the McCarthyism you imagine never existed. > As a result we continued to mindlessly pursue ideology rather > than practicality and so ended really making things worse in > SE Asia, in a place where Marxism was really a useful but > temporary veneer over local politics (again we were too blind > to see that Marxism was a western transplant that wasn't > going to do too well in Asia) Marxism collapsed in IndoChina when the Soviet Union collapsed. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG tZmcZdj//R58tp4DiAG0IC4pOHohzacYZQvAALA8 4giYjxVqF5lKWmPpdSglZvGiAEMgB4qWZL08Rt4LN