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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh
Message-ID: <981@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 11:24:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 11:24:49 1986
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Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <1864@uwmacc.UUCP> myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) writes:
>> 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.
>
>Ah, now we come to the heart of the matter -- knee-jerk anti-communism.

This is knee-jerk anti-communism, but it isn't the heart of the matter.
How about a response to my point: why don't know what Ho Chi Minh would
have built without American and French opposition, but we do know what
he actually built.  Speculation about what would have happened otherwise
is just that: pure speculation.

George Washington and the rest of our founding fathers faced comparable
opposition in setting up the United States.  (The war lasted six years
instead of thirty.)  They did a much better job of setting up a decent
government -- and they didn't have any other successful models to
emulate.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108