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From: tdh@frog.UUCP (T. Dave Hudson)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Myers on nrh on "untrue propaganda"
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Date: Sun, 29-Dec-85 18:56:44 EST
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>> If the US had followed the advice of some of the far-sighted
>> US advisors in the country in 1945, who knew Ho Chi Minh and
>> the people he led, things would have turned out much better
>> for Vietnam, for the US, and for the world.

> Maybe yes, maybe no.  All we know for sure is that the
> government he actually set up is pretty awful.  There are
> extenuating circumstances, but we *don't* know what he would
> have done if unopposed.

No.  We know more than that.  We know that Ho Chi Minh was
already a committed communist and that he betrayed people who
were stupid or unlucky enough to collaborate with him.
Those allegedly far-sighted advisors needed glasses badly.

				David Hudson