| acause... when you single out one comment and ignore the rest of the post, containing the real points, you seem a little disingenuous...
anyways, since you want to debate vietnam.. we could have chosen not to side up with the french, and instead sought to continue diplomacy with both factions. problems for us began when we chose to pick a side.
an example of diplomacy that was successful - kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. nobody died. no shot was fired. nuclear was was averted. pretty big success right there.
there are also lesser known successes, particularly with regard to the aversion of nuclear war. during clinton's presidency, we had a stand-off with russia - a scienctific balloon from a scandinavian country tipped off russia's early warning system. they began to fill their nukes with fuel (which, if you know something about nuclear policy - that is a VERY big deal)... our diplomats were quick to act and nuclear war was once again averted. |