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June 17th 04, 01:10 AM
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Our objective was to prevent the spread of communism in SEA. The Domino
theory is evidence of that. I believe we accomplished that. I agree, but we did it by spending them into national bankruptcy. That in itself ought to tell us that the Domino Theory was invalid from its inception. We didn't have to enter armed conflict to contain communism, we had merely to force them to expend their limited resources in a futile effort to keep up with how we spent ours. Not sure I see the connecton quite as you do. Soviet expansionism was going full speed in the 60s with all the stops pulled out. I don't believe the spending wars in the rush to build more and more weapons really got on-speed until the late 70s. So the Domino Theory had validity in the 60s. 
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