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From: bmac3@ssc-bee.UUCP (Scott Pilet)
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Subject: Re: Don Black's "America First" viewpoint
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>    began as a struggle by the Vietnamese themselves to gain their independence
>     from French colonialism. Rather than saying we "lost" Vietnam it might
>     be more accurate to say that the Vietnamese people won Vietnam in the
>     same way that we won our independence from British colonialism 200 years
>     ago.

I suggest you talk to some of the Vietnamese who have escaped from
Vietnam since the fall of Saigon.  The ones I have talked to would 
disagree with your statement that the Vietnamese people won Vietnam.
It is possible these refugees were unable to adapt to the new 
egalitarian regime and those remaining are better off, but that is a
matter of opinion and of ability to interpret history.