[Peace-discuss] Tonkin Gulfitis

[Carl G. Estabrook]

A matter important enough that tame intellectuals spend time mystifying the facts.

The war launched by Israel in 1967 had at least three long term and interrelated consequences:

1. Secular Arab nationalism was destroyed, and resistance to imperialism in the region passed to religious authorities (the reason that Israel secretly aided the rise of Hamas). 

2. Israel became the principal US client in the Mideast, a “stationary aircraft carrier’ for US control of the region and its resources, principally energy.

3. US effective control of oil flows in the region gave it an unparalleled weapon to the US to control oil-deprendent economies, especially in Asia.

Such “off-shore control” as the Pentagon called it made direct military domination of SE Asai less necessary, and allowed the US to begin extricating its troops form Vietnam, the political price for which was becoming too high in the US. 

The US won the Vietnam war by killing millions of people. Not that its maximum war aims were achieved but that it destroyed ‘the threat of a good example’ - a third-world country that could run its economy for the benefit of its people rather than the profits of the American 1% - and a model for the countries in the region. 

—CGE

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 9:21 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Another horrible article by a history professor, this time in the NYT. But it's interesting that the majority of the commenters do a decent job of deconstructing his nonsense, especially when they are able to move beyond raging against Trump.
> 
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> America’s Case of ‘Tonkin Gulfitis’
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>  <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/americas-case-of-tonkin-gulfitis.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/americas-case-of-tonkin-gulfitis.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0>
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> America’s Case of ‘Tonkin Gulfitis’
> By Mark Atwood Lawrence
> The Vietnam War had drastic, negative consequences for the country’s foreign policy.
>  <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/americas-case-of-tonkin-gulfitis.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0>
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