From: Jeff Shultz 

On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:39:46 -0000, "Adam Flinton"
 wrote:

>
>"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
>news:7jgc1vo93mlp473pipjc4cg6noucelg0ds{at}4ax.com...
>> >Hohum. When the French pulled out of Vietnam (singular) the
deal was that
>> >the North / South thing was temporary. It was the
politicos& generals of
>the
>> >south who decided to break all the agreements because they knew everyone
>> >would vote for uncle Ho.
>> >
>> Admittedly, if the colonial powers had paid attention to Uncle Ho when
>> he showed up in Paris in 1919 history might have been very different.
>>
>
>Or the US at the end of WW2. Ho was in favour of the US until the US decided
>he was a commie & then he had to turn to the SU.
>
>
I wonder who made that decision? It would be interesting to know how it was
decided that simply because a people decided they didn't want to be a
colony anymore, they were automatically communist.... which is kinda what
it looks liike happened, from this distance.

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