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Unilateral free trade: a simplistic, flawed doctrine.

Publication: Manufacturing & Technology News
Publication Date: 17-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Unilateral free trade: a simplistic, flawed doctrine.(Commentary)

Article Excerpt
The recent passing of Robert McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense, provides us with an insight. Throughout his life after being Secretary of Defense, McNamara bore what really must have been a horrible burden for him: the knowledge that he had been wrong about Vietnam and that it had cost a tremendous price. He will go down in history as a brilliant man who was horribly wrong. But he wasn't the only one.

David Halberstam in his great book "The Best and the Brightest" about Vietnam underscored the point that the elite of the media, business, government and academia in our country brought into the doctrine of the domino theory. It was a doctrine that perceived communism as monolithic, and the Russians and Chinese as being part of one great movement to achieve global dominance. The theory stated that if just one Southeast Asian country went communist all of Asia would go communist and the world would go communist. It turned out to be a really simplistic, flawed doctrine. It cost us 58,000 kids, and it was embraced by...

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