Why would anyone laugh when at some point political parties were literally killing people and feeding human meat to others there An unstable power in Asia could mean ruin for a whole economic system. It was only logic that stabilizing the system would, at least make the problem slow down for another decade.
I am not sure what Nixon really thought about it, but I think it is fair to say that's what happened.
I don't really get what possibly on what I said to be ASmt?
Edit: oh I see! You thought I said "the same evil people" and it. No! Totally completely not it. Lol. I did not even considered that it could be read like this. I don't believe that a religion of any sort by itself would do this.
Have you read The World Restored? The first part is boring AF, but we are living through a spiral of the send part of that book.