[lit-ideas] Re: Motive, and the quality of foreign policy
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:52:58 +0900
On 5/16/06, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Apart from a
couple of military adventures like Korea and Vietnam,
where the US faired rather poorly, much of the US
policy toward the Communist block could be described
as appeasement.
This statement is nonsense: Containment was not appeasement.
It seems also that these policies were
more successful than starting a nuclear war.
This statement is true. Containment worked pretty well, holding the
line until one side collapsed. It was messy, wasteful, expensive and
far, far better than starting a nuclear was.
John
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