Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "David Hoffman"
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TAWS alone (the audible “pull up” warning reduced CFIT [controlled flight into terrain] accidents by something like 70%+ overnight. It was mandated in the early ‘70s. And since then SO, SO many systems, including TCAS, RIMCAS, CRM training, startle training, etc. has reduced the chances of dying to more than one-in-a-billion. Now, it takes so many things passing through the “Swiss cheese accident model” for an accident to occur (that is, basically, it requires many mistakes, unlikely events and/or technical malfunctions to all combine to produce an accident).
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@StreetFreak9000 Clearly you know zero about American history let alone Vietnamese history. Aside from the facts that left/right ideology is irrelevant here or that liberal admins began this war, the NV/VC was the product of Vietnamese overthrowing a French colonial government and not a Russian invasion. Moreover, there was a home grown communist movement taking place in Vietnam. If there was a strong home grown democratic movement taking place, we would have had something to work with. Just like us, the Russians couldn’t have installed a sympathetic regime without organic Vietnamese support. More importantly, as we saw in the long term, most of these backwater countries did nothing for the cause of either side. So, while the doctrine of containment wasn’t inherently bad. Containment via fomenting regime change was. In the end, we were even overthrowing democratic regimes that were neutral (it wasn’t enough for the Dulles brothers to be neutral: if you didn’t publicly condemn the USSR, you were evil).
Moreover, there weren’t Soviet boots on the ground. If you wanted a symmetric response, we would have armed and advised the SV. I don’t know why those on the right who think they have a monopoly on patriotism, feel the need to defend every and any war the US ever started or got involved with. It basically makes the assumption that all warfare must have somehow been driven by both conservative values and /or republican admins.
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