From: Adam 

Steve Ewing wrote:

> On Tue, 03 May 2005 08:23:25 -0400, Adam
>   wrote:
>
>>  Both sides were tyrannies. One was a corrupt military tyranny & one
>> was  a revolutionary national liberation/unification tyranny.
>>  & we all know which the locals preferred.
>
>
> After having read a (very light) overview of the Ho Chi Minh story,
> going  back past Versailles post-WWI, I sorta feel some sympathy for the
> guy and  his cause.  As was said up-thread, he went to Truman and was
> turned away.
>
Yup. Eee woz your main OSS ally.

Eee thought you'd stop us giving them back to the frogs wot with them aving
fought side by side with your people & your gov making all sorts of
anti-imperialist & esp anti-British Empire comments.

Course what threw them was that the French empire wasn't the British empire
& coz it was smaller & weaker posed no threat to post war US power
& Vietnam wasn't being given back to us but to the frogs &
thus.....

Never mind...anything worth anything is worth fighting for...

Adam

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