Newsgroups: alt.war.vietnam
Subject: Re: About Castro and *Yankee, go home* from VN
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:25:30 MST
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In article <1992Oct12.015941.12274@emr1.emr.ca>, knguyen@emr1.emr.ca (Kim Nguyen) writes:
> Sorry for not a followw-up to the related subject. My phone has been cut
> off by a coming phone call. Netter with related subject would know that
> I woud like to debate about his suggestions.

Thanks for replying.  P.S. Could you add more blank lines and more capital
letters to your posts easier to read?
 
> - Why demolishing Castro ? We are trying to analyze the past in order to
> learn lessons to win in the future with our just democracy.
> Your Administration has exercised a new approach to win in Kuwait and got
> reputation abroad. It did stick with UN resolution. Stick with the
> international community to solve prolems globally.

Clearly, Cuba is not important enough to commit troops to a la Vietnam
or Desert Storm.  I don't even think we should adopt the strategy of
trying to "win Cuba" over to democracy.  The best the U.S. can do is, as
you hinted at, work more closely with the UN to promote free exchange of
ideas and promoting democracy.  It's a more general strategy, and is more
likely to achieve its aims in the NWO than massive shipments of troops
around the globe.

> - Cuba and VN or China sooner or later wil follow USSR's path. A huge Soviets
> with colossal manpower and resources are candidate for a requirement to
> create socalism and communism (any scholar knows about this). Its satellites,
> economically speaking, could not afford for that goal and have to cling on
> Soviets to survive. The cost of building communism are so severe that Soviets
> can not stand it any longer. I don't mean about political view here.
>  Cuba, under this sense of requirement, would depose communist leaders and
> set up their own destiny with free election.
> - Trade with Cuba ? The pretext said it all.

I read a NY Times article saying that Castro is deathly afraid that the U.S.
and other countries may try to use Cuba's econ. crisis as a pretext to begin
trading with Cuba.  Mostly because he's convinced that he will lose his
power quickly.  So basically he is turning the screws and putting Cuba on
an extreme "war" footing.  Just thought I'd pass this along.

> -*Yankee go home* from VN. Some US soldiers don't respect the people they
> are going to help. VC sympathizers can discourage their good spirits. I
> never heard about that shouting except in small demonstration mass being
> infiltrated by VC; this is normal.

I wasn't talking about shouting "Yankee Go Home" in demnstrations and so
forth.  I was talking about the idea that most Vietnamese in SVN wanted to
be left alone--by both sides.  The U.S. did some indefensible things to SVN
civilians, most notably resettlement camps (i.e., moving entire communities,
giving birth to the line "We had to destroy the village in order to save
it") and propping up the corrupt ARVN.  The U.S. Army had no basis for
claiming moral superiority over the Viet Cong in SVN, IMHO.
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."

"[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
"The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
	-- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
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