Many of us-my age-remember the use of this term to justify our position in the war in Vietnam. If the US allowed South Vietnam to "go communist" then it would cause of ripple effect causing other neighboring countries to also fall to the communist aggression. They would fall like dominoes, we were told, and the world would be much more dangerous. As we know that turned out to be wrong.
I understand that now, in our efforts to punish Syria for using chemical weapons on areas of it population, we must now respond because if we did not then other countries around the world would also use chemical weapons against its own citizens or others who they were at war with. Another foreign policy of the US based on the "domino theory". I believe the theory holds no water.
(Source: "Syria not likely to retaliate against US" by Anne Gearan of The Washington Post. In The Record (of Bergen County, NJ) on 8/31/13.
No comments:
Post a Comment