[IronJack]

The greatest success of the anti-Vietnam agitprop was the campaign to deride the so-called Domino Theory, the notion that the communist menace was a cancer that would gradually claim victim after victim unless some force was arrayed to halt it. Anyone who professed that belief was considered a horse-and-buggy thinker, someone mired in a myth that had never been true, but that certainly wasn't true of the glorious Peoples' Revolution in Southeast Asia.

Turns out that, like so many of the ideas pooh-poohed by the vacuous (or complicit) Left during the Woodstock days, this one was far more true than false. When Vietnam fell, Cambodia and Laos followed shortly, with a harvest in blood unseen since Stalin's purges.

[GOP_1900AD]

Even in the countries that never went Communist - Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, the mainstream have become very soft toward Communism, and other procrustean ideologies, including Islamism, in far greater measure than was the case during the 1950s. The US failure to hold our ground in SE Asia (including the disintegration of SEATO) has led to a geopolitical power vacuum. The remaining free nations of SE Asia have increasingly been kowtowing to Beijing and are no longer necessarily reliable allies of the US. While not completely falling to Communism, they have certainly gotten into something that resembles Finlandization.