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Just because it isn't EXACTLY the Third Reich doesn't mean the same responses can't be used against it. After all, Japan wasn't the Third Reich, and Italy wasn't the Third Reich, either.
Some key things that Chapman DOESN'T recognize (I prepared a counter-editorial to this specific piece, but didn't submit it):
1. We didn't "live with" the Soviets. We actively tried to undermine them whenever they made a move, and sometimes risked all-out war. The amount of time we spent actually "peacefully coexisting" with the Soviet Union was quite small, and we only didn't invade them because we couldn't invade them at reasonable cost (or so we thought)
2. We don't play enemies off each other without having the ability to attack the enemy if they turn on us. Evidence: We turned China against the Soviets, but, as soon as the USSR dissolved, we started ringing China with US allies. What happens when we DON'T have a check on our unrelaible allies? Good ol' Osama.
3. He's got his Vietnam lecture wrong. After withdrawing from South Vietnam, the NVA took over South Vietnam AND Laos AND Cambodia. It was quite the communist empire. We just had China and Thailand fight them instead of us.
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