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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
That just makes to much sense.
To expand on your VN Uncle HO and Giap were trained by the OSS in WWII and came to the US first and asked to be indepandant from the French, but no we backed the French, an unpopular regime at best. Later we backed the war paying for 85% of it. Diem was not our first mistake there.
http://www.historynet.com/ho-chi-minh-and-the-oss.htm |
That was exactly my point wrt VN. We are very good at converting former allies to enemies. Good link.
