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Originally posted by djtestudo
Because the French were our allies and they were fighting against a communist-supported independence movement. Once they left and the country was split, we got involved to keep it split.
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I don't how far from the topic this is going, my apologies.
The French were our allies and so were the British. They had colonies all around the region and the people were kicking them out. I mean, what do you think the reasons were for people supporting communist governments? They certainly weren't moving from democratic rule to communist rule--they were throwing off their colonial masters' yokes.
It doesn't particularly matter. The two of you are citing the communist agenda as if it's evidence that we weren't colonialists; that colonialism and anti-communism are independent factors.
The point I'm making is that the two factors, communist forms of government rising up in all these underdeveloped nations rich in resources but not wealth, and old world colonial powers getting their asses handed to them abroad while they were trying to rebuild domesticly post-WW2, are actually linked.
I might even suggest that we were anti-communist
because we were colonialists.