tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post4598040680935663129..comments2024-03-23T06:43:45.246+10:00Comments on 1735099: PublishedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-72997228640679077182021-02-09T10:12:43.604+10:002021-02-09T10:12:43.604+10:00Are you suggesting that South Vietnam's resist...<i>Are you suggesting that South Vietnam's resistance to Communism (prior to yank involvement) had something to do with the Domino Theory? Are you insisting that Vietnamese deaths would not have occurred had the South not requested assistance from a foreign power?</i><br /><br />Find me where the South requested assistance from Australia.<br />We invited ourselves after pressure from the US.<br />Read Michael Sexton's account - https://primoa.library.unsw.edu.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=UNSWS&tab=default_tab&docid=UNSW_ALMA21129219410001731&lang=en_US&context=L&query=creator,exact,Maddock,%20Kenneth,%201937-,AND&mode=advanced<br /><br />The deaths of millions of Vietnamese, tens of thousands of Americans, hundreds of Australians and those lost in the Killing Fields, were completely avoidable if the US had honoured the Geneva agreement in 1954.<br /><br />Now this is a discussion about Mazda MX5s.<br /><br />I won't be posting any more off-topic comments on this thread.1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-18596517800014800862021-02-09T10:06:06.174+10:002021-02-09T10:06:06.174+10:00Which you helped stop as a member of the Australia...<i>Which you helped stop as a member of the Australian armed forces.</i><br /><br />Well, there you go, the events of April 1975 never actually happened.1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-29563064000345656522021-02-09T09:24:30.778+10:002021-02-09T09:24:30.778+10:00Are you suggesting that South Vietnam's resist...Are you suggesting that South Vietnam's resistance to Communism (prior to yank involvement) had something to do with the Domino Theory? Are you insisting that Vietnamese deaths would not have occurred had the South not requested assistance from a foreign power? It seems apparent from millions of deaths in South East Asia without involvement in the Vietnam conflict where the communist movement continued unabated, gave some credence to the domino theory. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-65819095792923560262021-02-09T06:55:09.872+10:002021-02-09T06:55:09.872+10:00Ah, so these ideas did exist, despite your attempt...Ah, so these ideas did exist, despite your attempt to air brush them out of existence.<br />When you simplify, you become a simpleton.<br />By the way, the Domino Theory was proven to be a correct analysis of communist military expansion. Which you helped stop as a member of the Australian armed forces.<br />Must be soul destroying to know you contributed to the downfall of your communist heroes.<br />John Grey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-11349786962884699442021-02-09T05:46:50.026+10:002021-02-09T05:46:50.026+10:00You know, Domino Theory and the Truman doctrine an...<i>You know, Domino Theory and the Truman doctrine and all those facts.</i><br />The Domino Theory and the Truman Doctrine were both strategic theories, not "facts".<br />The first one proved to be a strategic error, which killed millions of Vietnamese, tens of thousands of Americans and hundreds of Australians.<br />The second one may have been more successful, but in the end, Communism fell in a heap in Europe without American military interference.<br />1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-19638365757679476762021-02-08T19:57:25.592+10:002021-02-08T19:57:25.592+10:00" help convince the locals that we knew what ..." help convince the locals that we knew what was good for them"<br />Why do you always leave out the truth?<br />Not a word from you about containing Communism. You know, Domino Theory and the Truman doctrine and all those facts.<br />But that's your style - avoidance and lies.<br />John Grey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-23847758169106407792021-02-08T14:59:41.373+10:002021-02-08T14:59:41.373+10:00Another consideration for 26th January as a day to...Another consideration for 26th January as a day to reflect on Australia.<br />http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/cth/num_act/naca1948831948320/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-72494595191048083222021-02-07T06:58:35.358+10:002021-02-07T06:58:35.358+10:00Good old John Grey.
Always good a for a giggle.
Ob...Good old John Grey.<br />Always good a for a giggle.<br />Obsession?<br />Irony?1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-34224049341454576112021-02-06T19:48:38.106+10:002021-02-06T19:48:38.106+10:00Brilliant.
Even an innocuous pastime like enjoying...Brilliant.<br />Even an innocuous pastime like enjoying cars has been forever wrecked by Vietnam living loud and long in the blogger's head.<br />Your contemporaries have moved on but your obsession is stuck in reverse gear.<br />Just deal with it the way you dealt with the front line <br />Run away.<br />John GreyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com