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Old Apr 21, 2008, 09:05 am   #43 (permalink) (top)
Gods_Mercenary
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Actually, the main reason the U.S. went after the communists was because communism takes away a given nation's freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is something that the U.S. was founded on, so you can see how this would be a personal insult.

My idea is to reduce the extremism in religion.

Of course there will always be a reason that a person would want to provoke a war, but as I said before, without the people's support, their efforts would be futile.
The Vietnam war was about power. The U.S. felt a need to stop the spread of states easily influenced by the Soviets and Red China. Religion was part of why americans hated communism, but the cold war was a conflict of nations for power.


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