Contrary to your content of being history illiterate, I love reading history! More in general, I love knowledge.
Those who are condemned to repeat history are the ones that forget history or are history illiterate.
Monroe Doctrine was the great foreign policy that put the USA on the right track to be prosperous. It emphasized on no interference in European policy and guarded against self’s backyard. Recent decade witnesses US is on its wrong track, making China one of our biggest financiers to support our wars.
Get you mindset right:
whether USA will abandon Asia or not is not to USA but to the people of Asia!
Since when did USA voluntarily abandon Vietnam? USA never voluntarily abandoned Vietnam. The Vietnamese kicked us out.
Limiting US troops in the South of 17 parallel sealed the fate of US military action outcome: doomed.
Rightly said, it is about body count. Any military conflict is about body count. When invaders stir up mass resentment, bodycount climes and battle/war can not be sustained.
Regardless it is Korea War or Vietnam War, those wars are NOT OUR WARS. I’m not saying the old fool Kim should not be checked, rather bombing Chinese land and pushing to Yalu river proven a wrong policy from the bigotry.
The ideology of either with us or against us is absurdly bigot: the world is not just black or white. It is of continuous spectrum of grey. Face the ground reality. Secretary Clinton put it in a right way: Christan fundamentalist.
The world will NEVER be the same. Right, it is not 1840, but somebody still submerged in 1840 ideology, thinking the world will be the same!
I
do tell you the Chinese kicked our @ss in Korea War and the Vietnamese kicked our @ss in Vietnam War.
Communist China never invaded any country since 1949. In contrast, USA illegally invaded Iraq, to say the latest.
China and Vietnamese at that time were utilizing each other to against a common enemy. LOL! China doesn’t want to rule Vietnam, as thousand of years ruling is enough (
do you know the history? )
You are blind, not being able to see the change from 1950s. Now let me count a few of the changes for you history ignorant:
Soft power:
1) PR China becomes the permanent member of UNSC. It can veto US decision, can (perhaps) therefore making US invasion of Iraq illegal.
2) China becomes the biggest Financier of USA. It owns trillions dollars of US debt. You don’t have to know history to know what a debtor would behave before a creditor.
3) China surpasses Japan becoming the second largest world economy and poises to catch up US economy in about 15-30 years.
Militarily:
4) Since N Korea successfully become China’s buffer zone, US planes are never be able to bomb their NE industrial bases as it was in 1950s, much less to impose no-fly zone at will, such as in Iraq, Libya story.
5) Since Vietnamese unified their country, China is greatly relieved from the South, as Vietnam can NEER be able to challenge China. Why? I advice you read the history!
6) Militarily, we all know what is the difference except for those who bury their heads in the sand of bigotry. The Chinese no long limit their challenge to us on land, but in the space, sky, ocean and under sea. US military officers of various ranking have long publicly acknowledged that. Though I fully believe US is still having advantages over theirs, but the gap is shrinking in an astonishing speed. If your types of bigotries dominate this country, we would be able to stay in Asia less long.
Security environment for China:
7) Since 1950s, China has settled down border dispute with Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Burma, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam (land), … basically it settles all land dispute with all its neighbors but India (Bhutan is almost there, if India doesn’t keep making trouble). There are a few rocks in ocean still in dispute. Is China’s surrounding better off of the same? A no-brainer.
8) India can never challenge China’s security, not even if it changes its democracy system. Much less if it keeps the system. In 1950s, India’s GDP was twice of China’s, now it is only 1/6 of China’s. Is it better off for PR China or the same? A no-brainer.
9) The biggest thorny issue is Taiwan. In 1950s, American troops (7th fleet) were stationed in Taiwan. Now they are not. Is it better off for PR China or the same? A no-brainer.
10) Soviet was the biggest threat to China. Now Soviet collapsed and Russia is much weaker. Is it better off for China or the same? A no-brainer.
Unless you are a mentally challenged, you will notice the
huge differences from 1950s to now. I only list a handful of them to remind you.
If you talk about the difference between China and USA, that is even more astonishing: China is ascending and US is leveling off (I have been lenient in not saying US is descending).
Of course, China has more security challenges than the US does. Alas, a history illiterate like you will never be able to get the knowledge that
10,000 years of Chinese civilization has been under constant security challenge, from ancient Xiongnu to modern ones! That seems only to keep China advancing.
You should be ashamed of being history illiterate, not the other way around!
For you benefit, I recommend a further reading for you if you possess high school diploma: <On China> by
Dr. Henry Kissinger, former US State Secretary,
so you would appear less reckless. If you don’t have a high school diploma, it helps to get GED
General Educational Development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia then read the book.
BTW, as technologies advance, the world shrinks. That means your backyard appears as close as the others' backyard. So, again, get today's ground reality.
For your worthless post, I suggest reading my post 3 more times first, then read a little bit modern history.