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What was bad about it? The idea was to make overland transport through Cambodian territory (which U.S. did not want to outright invade) to supply Vietcong as di
by anovikov 5y ago
What was bad about it? The idea was to make overland transport through Cambodian territory (which U.S. did not want to outright invade) to supply Vietcong as difficult as possible.
Vietnam war may have been brutal, and eventually lost, but it disincentivised everyone else in the Southeast Asia from turning to Communism, so in the end it was a net benefit for the free world.
- throwaway4good 5y agoYou are getting downvoted but if you wrote something similar about the Korean war, you would probably be supported. There is a strange perspective around all the US-led wars; all of them were/are good and justified except some how the Vietnam war ...
- stefantalpalaru 5y ago[dead]
- pietrovismara 5y agoWhy can't I flag this disgusting comment?
- camillomiller 5y agoThis answer here is exactly why you should visit the landmine museum near Seam Reap. Because if you don't grasp how carpet bombing civilians in a country you're not at war with doesn't strike you as bad, you just really NEED to stick your damn nose in it. You need to see what it means to carpet bomb a country. To plant landmines and forget them there. Vietnam's socialism has never been Russian or Chinese socialism, by the way. Ho Chi Minh was a peaceful intellectual, who studied in France under illuminist and progressive mentors. I disagree with the basics of communists society, but the neoliberal spirit that opposes that has been way more detrimental to the world than what they were trying to fight.
- justsomehnguy 5y agoThe best thing is what this person would cry about "russians bombing/blowing up Afghanistan kids with mines" [0] completely ignoring what BLU-43 is almost exactly the same. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFM-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFM-1 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-43_Dragontooth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-43_Dragontooth
- shatnersbassoon 5y agoOh yes, the Cambodia that didn't turn communist in the 70s and execute millions of people for wearing glasses? Totally disincentivized.
- anovikov 5y agoIt didn't turn Communist. Pol Pot's regime wasn't "communist" except calling itself this way. Soviet Union never recognized them as Communist.
- anovikov 5y agoWhich means, Cambodia never became a Soviet asset or was in any way beneficial to the Soviet Union (and this was the main goal of the Vietnam war: to prevent Soviet assets from appearing in the Southeast Asia). Pot Pot's regime was even a detriment to the Soviets as it tainted the 'good name' of Communism in the eyes of Western intellectuals.