If Korea fell to the Chinese, what next? Vietnam?
So history revealed the next legs of the struggle that has reached some state of stability.
Surprising to some is that countries like Vietnam have their own autonomous personality and character. They don’t want to be occupied by anyone. Same is true for Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and the rest.
“The rest” include Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, and India. Each of these nations are profoundly different in culture, scope, and scale. The dread, “communism,” an economic and social management philosophy either failed on merit or has transformed into something workable, as in the case of China.
Nation states are so busy trying to achieve viability in a global economy that they don’t have time for dominoes.
- Dominoes won’t fall, NowPublic.com, October 30, 2010.
2. Nobody expects that Afghanistan will be wholly at peace by then, nor that the Taliban insurgency will have been routed. So for the troops to leave with dignity there needs to be some semblance of a peace process. This week, America’s defence secretary, Robert Gates, confirmed that America has been engaged in “very preliminary” talks with the Taliban. That requires some embellishment of the Taliban’s image. That is tricky when they are the enemy. At America’s urging, a United Nations sanctions committee has agreed to distinguish between the Taliban—a domestic political force as well as an armed insurgency—and al-Qaeda, perpetrator of global terrorism.
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