On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Pat Mathews wrote:
Of course, Russia and China didn't like each other any better than we liked either one of them, or they, us. Still, Kipling's Great Game went on along all three borders for quite some time.
Which took the US a long time to figure out, incidentally. It also took us a long time to figure out that North Vietnam wasn't ever going to be a Chinese proxy the way North Korea had been, because China had been VIetnam's mortal enemy and part-time occupying power for the last thousand years or so, and that the "domino theory" justification for the Vietnam War was based almost entirely on completely invalid assumptions about how things worked in that part of the world, colored in large part by the very recent experience of the Korean War.
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