Ho Chi Minh both ruthless and a nationalist patriot

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"Seymour Topping: Remember, Ho Chi Minh Wanteed Truman's Help But Was Spurned

Stephen J. Morris writes about confrontation with the "profoundly ideological and aggressive totalitarian regime" of North Vietnam over five decades. But he doesn't mention how that came about.

In 1945, President Harry S. Truman abandoned President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal for transformation of Indochina into a United Nations trusteeship and yielded to Charles de Gaulle's demands for assistance in restoring French control of the colony in return for cooperation in Europe.

As described in Robert S. McNamara's book "Argument Without End," "This was how U.S. involvement with Vietnam began: absentmindedly, almost as a kind of 'throwaway' in a grand bargain for the heart of Europe, to appease its defeated, temperamental and proud French ally."

Truman never replied to at least eight appeals by Ho Chi Minh for American support of independence and cooperation on the Philippine model. Ho was then compelled to turn to Beijing and Moscow for material aid against returning French troops.

The disastrous, extremist policies described by Mr. Morris came into effect mainly after Ho Chi Minh's death in 1969 with the ascendancy of the Communist hard-liner Le Duan. As Vietnamese war veterans told me when I toured their country in March, the self-sacrificing motivation of North Vietnamese and Vietcong fighters, who suffered 900,000 killed, was not support of any ideology or government but simply determination to rid the country of foreign invaders, as with the Chinese and the French.

It was this human force that defeated American might and the dependent South Vietnam regime."
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/11737.html

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Nhung Gio Dinh Menh - Ngo Dinh Diem
http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/NhungGioDinhMenh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Lucien Conein - in Vietnamese
"Lucien Emile Conein (1919-1998) la mot diep vien CIA co vai tro quan trong trong viec xay dung va lat do chinh quyen De nhat Viet Nam Cong hoa."
http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Conein

Lucien Conein - in English
"Among other exploits, he was instrumental in the October 1963 coup against Ngo Dinh Diem, having served as the CIA's liaison officer with the coup plotters, and delivering $42,000 of the known cash disbursements."
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKconei...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Conein

The American War: The U.S. in Vietnam
"summary: Pinky & Bunny discuss the origins of the Vietnam War (also known as the 'American War' in Vietnam). The episode is comprised of four short chapters: 1. Misrepresentations. 2. Desire and Struggle: a basic timeline of events. 3. Searching for Reasons. 4. Consequences."
http://youtube.com/watch...

Bombing Vietnam
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
http://youtube.com/watch...

My Lai: the whitewash
"In the end, Charlie company's commanding officer, Lt Calley, was the only one to be convicted. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour. Within three days he was out of prison, pending appeal, on the personal instructions of President Richard Nixon."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/199...

These were stupid things that we did.

"Thieu elements of the Vietnamese army (ARVN) manage much of the distribution and sale of heroin to GIs inside South Vietnam."
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,9053...
http://members.tripod.com/~nguyentin/heroin-4...

Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker’s Cable Concerning Corruption in South Vietnam
http://www.generalhieu.com/bunker-2.htm
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/exhibits/v...
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/exhibits/v...
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/exhibits/v...

Vietnam Highway 1 Retreated and ran
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

"General Cao Van Vien, ARVN chief of staff, ordered his men to fight to the death, then quickly fled the country."
http://www.kerala.com/wiki-ARVN
http://www.vietnamwar.net/ARVN.htm
http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.ph...

"The army became confused and demoralized. President Thieu, Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem, General Cao Van Vien, ran like scared rabbits and left the country to others. So, who was left to fight? The soldiers who remained watched their commanders flee."
http://www.vietnamesecommunity.com/Community/...
http://www.generalhieu.com/lvhung-2.htm

35 Years later
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

"But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?"
-- Nguyen Van Thieu

"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men."
-- Nguyen Van Thieu

"You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do."
-- Nguyen Van Thieu

"...noi lang nhang ma khong giup duoc dat nuoc thong nhat giau va manh la mot lu phan quoc."
http://youtube.com/wa

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