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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Deadbeater, Laos is still communist, and still totally screwed up. American bombing of communists in Cambodia, communists in Laos, and communists in South Vietnam did not collapse these nations, only the invasion by totalitarians did. No totalitarian invasion, no falls -- that follows. After invasions by totalitarians, falls into ruin, everywhere I've mentioned. Those nations that have abandoned communism now prosper again. They didn't while the Communists practiced communism upon the population. These things are matters of record, deadbeater, which records you're not reading. Why is that? I can imagine, but it's very much not to your credit.

Except, you know, China.