From: Patton@yabbs
To: ziplock@yabbs
Subject: re: @ & econ
Date: Sun Jul 10 15:06:08 1994

You have to differentiate between the NVA and the Cong.  As for glorifying 
the people's liberation armies of the North Vietnamese, please remember 
where they got their weapons and material from.  They were armed and 
financed by the Chinese and Soviet (including their proxies) Union.  Watch 
the footage of the gates of the U.S. embassy coming down.  Those weren't 
peasants driving those T-64 tanks.  They were trained corps of soldiers 
who had the best Russian and Chinese instructors.  The NVA could not have 
stayed in the field as long as it did unless the steady flood of material 
continued unabbated through the surrounding waters.  The big stink over 
mining Hanoi was the possibility of sinking a Soviet cargo ship or two and 
sparking an even larger war (this one played out on a global scale).  

And as for throwing the moral gauntlet of chemical warfare use, the 
Vietnamese turned around and used Yellow Rain on the Cambodians.  

    -Patton
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