Kat wrote on Nov 6
th, 2015 at 5:07pm:
Yes. We do.
BTW, did you now that Ho Chi Minh first approached the USA to help him gain Vietnam's independence
from the French?
No?
He did.
They told him to eff off because they were in bed with the pro-colonial South Vietnamese 'government'.
So he asked the USSR and they offered to help. He accepted.
Ho was no more a communist than you are.
But he used it as a means to an end. And rightly so.
Yes, we WERE on the wrong side in Vietnam.
Yep - Major George Patti was the man on the spot from OSS. And I didn't even need to google that.... supplied the Vietnamese with arms to fight the Japanese and then the same uppity Viets fought the French when they wanted to come back after the end of WWII.
The ancient Khmer and Viets have always fought one another, for about two thousand years.....
Amazing, neh? More amazing is the way the arrogant kids here (Cambodia was called the Kingdom of the Cruel Children under the Pol Pot regime in which fifteen year old kids with guns controlled entire villages and murdered, according to a Khmer I know, 50% of the population) think they know better than their betters every time.
Give the vote to 16 year olds? Not on your life! Hand a loaded gun to a hormone-crazed fool? NEVER!
Me? An International Man of Mystery? Never made that claim......... don't have to....