First US involvement in Vietnam was under Polk, a fellow named Mad Jack Percival in command of USS Constitution shells Da Nang ... then there's a bit of a lag, until under Roosevelt a group of OSS under a Major Patti is dropped in, then precisely thirty years to the day before the last helicopter leaves that Saigon roof, and under Truman presumably, Patti meets Ho Chi Minh and forms with him an alliance against the japanese ... some weeks later Ho petitions Truman for post-war independence of his nation, quoting the US declaration of independence ... war ends, and after some dithering on the matter Truman decides to support the french in their re-taking of empire, Eisenhower through Nixon continue the conflict until the latter is forced to give up on the rather stupid idea of sending black men to kill yellow men in ostensible defence of a land white men stole from brown men
Plenty of blame to go around, just like in the credit crunch, and the same entity paying the bills - the US taxpayer ... but how about that thpw.ob, heh heh, my one winner du jour, been thinking about offing some of it to pick up stunningly cheap resource plays, but then the thought recurs - it took the vietnamese at least three millennia to achieve their current, and possibly temporary, freedom from foreign conquerors |
