The entire globe of the world. Well, first of all, the domino theory was nonsense when it was articulated in it turned out to be nonsense in fact. No other countries fell to communist rule is because vietnam fell. Our theory about why we were going into the war reflected a disastrous lack of understanding about the anticolonial attitudes of the vietnamese people. They had thought the french for decades and then the japanese. They wanted selfrule. Fdr opposed supported french imperialists. The failure to understand that communism wasnt monolithic was also an Extraordinary Part of the ignorance that motivated the actions of the United States. The idea that china and vietnam were like this was ridiculous. Anybody who knew anything about history, which excludes top people in the u. S. Government, at least at that time, china and vietnam had thought many wars over the centuries and just a few years after the vietnam war ended, china and vietnam fought another war. I was there at the time. I
I have to say that i dont know of you are aware but chuck hagel was supposed to have this honor and for whatever reason he was unable to fulfill that task. I kept say to myself, why was i selected for this . What do i have to do with chuck hagel . I remembered that actually mother jones magazine had a dream cabinet. I was the secretary of defense and that is probably why i am here today. [applause] Elizabeth Holtzman i want to acknowledge and thank and recognize those people in this audience who have strongly opposed the war in vietnam stood up against the injustice and the impropriety of the war. Dissent was very hard. Lets not forget that. And all of us are indebted to them for their courage, and for strengthening our democracy. After 50 years, when the war intensified in a major way, and after 40 years, which is one which is when the war ended, it is an important time to take stock, to examine the issues and think about where this places us for the future. I would like to start by s
Tennessee pass rusher Harold Landry III has produced a comeback season for the decades. Fresh off earning a Pro Bowl nod with his best season yet to earn a five-year contract extension, Landry was poised for a strong follow-up. With a full year for recovery, Landry returned for the 2023 opener.
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