The Domino War

They said that communism had to be stopped. They said the communists were hell-bent on world domination, and that The Free World had to stop them. If we didn't stop them in Việt Nam, the countries of Southeast Asia would topple like an upended row of "falling dominos"-one after another into communist hands. That's what they said. That was their theory-The Domino Theory.

Their theory did not much include the Vietnamese people or the reality of their country. So the Vietnam War was based more ...