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The Vietnam War was not a case of America protecting its business interests against agrarian reformers but was really a case of defending freedom. When we lost our national resolve and acquiesced to leftist propaganda and pressure, over one million Vietnamese civilians lost their lives: half to internal purges and half trying to escape by ocean. Read ''Le Gulag Vietnamien'' (translated into English as ''The Vietnamese Gulag'') for the details.  

The Vietnam War was not a case of America protecting its business interests against agrarian reformers but was really a case of defending freedom. When we lost our national resolve and acquiesced to leftist propaganda and pressure, over one million Vietnamese civilians lost their lives: half to internal purges and half trying to escape by ocean. Read ''Le Gulag Vietnamien'' (translated into English as ''The Vietnamese Gulag'') for the details.  

The No Nukes movement had two leftist goals.

The No Nukes movement had two leftist goals. Primarily, it was to achieve [[unilateral disarmament]], on the premise that the USSR and the USA were [[morally equivalent]] and therefore it was the only way to end the [[Cold War]] and the risk of [[Mutually Assured Destruction]]. However, it as the Soviets - not the Americans - who wanted world domination by force. "[[Imperial America]]" was a myth, while the [[Soviet Empire]] was real. Ronald Reagan cut through all the fog with a military buildup and with research into missile defense (see [[SDI]]). As a result, the US won the Cold War and the USSR dissolved, freeing the Baltic States and the other SSR's. Also, [[private property]] rights and [[religious freedom]] came to the former Soviet Union.

 

The secondary No Nukes goal was to persuade Americans that [[nuclear power]] was inherently unsafe. This goal was shattered after the [[Chernobyl]] incident, and many people realized that the problem was shoddy Soviet engineering and safety practices, rather than any inherent danger. This erased much (but not all) of the propaganda gains made on the [[Three Mile Island]] incident and Jane Fonda's movie, ''[[The China Syndrome]]''. Leftists are still blocking the construction of nuclear power plants, even though they are safer and less polluting than coal plants. For more information, consult [[Petr Beckmann]]'s book ''The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear'' (1977).