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Originally Posted by pauldenton
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The UK was involved in getting the US to "help out" in Vietnam. They were just smart enough to keep their troops out of it.
Remember, the US was obsessed with the "domino" theory at this time. The popular belief was that countries would "fall" to communism one after another. The only way to stop the entire world from turning against us was to stop a link in the chain -- that link was Vietnam.
It was a bad idea. Very stupid. However most of the CIA's asian department and most of the state department's asain experts were fired after China went communist and none of them predicted it. So, the policies were made by people that knew nothing about the problem area (sound familiar *cough*)