From: "Adam Flinton" 


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> Replying to a message of Adam Flinton to Jeff Shultz:
>
>  AF> From: "Adam Flinton" 
>  >>> You didn't, you just off loaded large tonnages of high
explosive onto
>  >>> it
>  AF> inc
>  >>> onto it's cities. Oddly enough my parents went on the
"B52 trail" (my
>  AF> name
>  >>> for it) just before Xmas ( Laos, Thailand, Vietnam &
Cambodia). Very
>  >>> much enjoyed it.  Oddly I got a Viet Cong scarf for Xmas
as one of my
>  >>> pressies from them.  Adam
>  >> They attacked an ally of the United States (South Vietnam). Anyone
have
>  >> the dates of existence for SEATO?
>
>  AF> Hohum. When the French pulled out of Vietnam (singular) the deal was
>  AF> that the North / South thing was temporary. It was the politicos&
>  AF> generals of the south who decided to break all the agreements because
>  AF> they knew everyone would vote for uncle Ho.
>
> At the time of partition, approximately 300,000 Vietnamese (mostly
Catholic)
> moved from the north to the south while approximately 10,000 Vietnamese
moved
> the other way.
> While you are correct that the division was supposed to be temporary, it
was
> Ho's people who cached their weapons all over the south and later
infiltrated
> back into the country to foment unrest.  In 1954/55, 'Uncle Ho' most
likely
> would have won a popularity contest; however, in 1957 he and Vo Nguyen
Giap
> engineered a very bloody repression of a peasants' revolt in *North*
Vietnam.
> 'Uncle Ho's people - the unrest in South Vietnam was *never* an indigenous
> problem, and the VC were *always* owned and operated by the Hanoi regime -
> began fomenting trouble in South Vietnam in the late 1950's.  There's at
least
> one book out on the subject, IIRC it's titled 'A Vietcong Memoir,' written
by
> one of the VC higherups that was shunted aside after Saigon fell in 1975
(did
> anyone hear any mention of the 'National Front For The Liberation Of South
> Vietnam' *after* 1975? or find any officials of that organization in
power?).
>

If you're seeking to unify a country, then a country can only have on
government & one army.

If your only friends are communist then communism will prevail over a
corrupt set of generals trying to keep the country apart.

However just about anything would prevail over a corrupt set of generals
trying to keep the country apart. Another corrupt set of generals obviously
could.

Adam

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