Reply #29: The notion that those Asian wars were about Communism is naive. [View All]

[Jackpine Radical]

Korea was about containing the Chinese and blocking them from Pacific markets, just as we had done with the Japanese a few years earlier. Vietnam was about a bunch of things like minerals, rubber plantations and offshore oil in the South China Sea. I had my eyes opened one day while sitting in a club in Cam Ranh Bay drinking with some civilian oil geologists just in from an exploration vessel who were just drunk enough to talk about why they were there and what they were finding.