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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Myers on nrh on "untrue propaganda"
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 11:38:12 EST
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In article <1300@ihuxn.UUCP> gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
>--
>> We did do a lot of bombing in Vietnam in support of the government of
>> South Vietnam.  That government was far better than the North
>> Vietnamese government at that point (which isn't saying much)...
>
>Since many netniks may be too young to remember, let's try to be a
>little more accurate about this.  The govt. the US intervened "in
>support of" was a govt. that the CIA itself installed.  And I'd be
>curious as to what sort of index one would use to demonstrate that
>the S Vietnamese govt. was "far better" than the N Vietnamese.
>Diem and his successors were, after all, corrupt from stem to stern
>and guaranteed no basic rights to their citizenry.

Right, but the North Vietnamese government actively oppressed its people.
As I said, being better than the North Vietnamese government isn't saying
much.

(By the way, I am not too young to remember.  I opposed the U.S. part in
the war at the time, and still believe it was a mistake.  But it was not
a mistake by nearly as large a margin as some people would have you believe;
the U.S. involvement was not a major immorality, but a miscalculation.  If
the calculations on which we decided to become involved had been correct,
the involvement itself would have been.)

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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