Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 18:01:26 +0200 (MET DST)
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: Iran's role for imperialism


Doug writes;
>
>I made this argument before, and was denounced as an apologist for the
>Yankee murderers, but hell I'm thickskinned, I'll do it again.
>
>The U.S. war on Indochina was a crime against humanity, with 2-3 million
>killed. Though it looked at the time like the U.S. lost, did it really?
>Vietnam spent 20 years shell-shocked, impoverished, like a man wandering in
>a daze. Revolution virtually ceased, not only in Southeast Asia, but around
>the world. A prominent exception was Nicaragua 4 years after the U.S.
>withdrawal, but a war ensued that eventually destroyed the Sandinistas. The
>U.S. ruling class, chastened by mass opposition to the war, retuned its
>strategy, replacing the draft with an army of professional killers who can
>operate with impunity anywhere in the world. Vietnam is now welcoming
>foreign investment. Just how was this "screwing up"?

Yes, it was one, if not the biggest, defeat that America has had in its 
short history.
And yes they really lost. In fact Nicaragua was not the only place that 
revolutionary uppheavals took place. Chile, Iran, South Africa, and various 
other African countries.

Unfortunately these uppheavals in most cases did not lead to a proletarian 
revolution because of the lack of leadership.

Its true that America was first forced to end the draft and then a 
professional army was introduced and years of patriotism and Rambo films in 
order to shore ups its imperialist credentials again and naturally preparing 
the new generations for a new draft in new wars of the future.

And the recent developments in Vietnam hardly mean that the Americans won. 
However it is a market that they are interested in for the future. Also it 
was tailending the French who apoligised and got back into Vietnam first. 
All this jockeying has hardly to do with Vietnam. In fact it has much more 
to do with China.

It is imperialist preparation for new wars of conquest and inter-imperialist 
rivilry which is forcing these moves..

malecki




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