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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: marcos who wrote (145703)9/16/2004 3:19:05 PM
From: TimF   of 281500
 
Quite a range of actions can be characterised as 'defending others against attack' ... for instance, PAVN forces defending those of the NLF, circa '59-'63

Many of the people in the NLF had infiltrated from the North. The alternate governments where themselves an attack against the government in the South. As for being attacked quite brutally that is what happened to people who spoke out against or otherwise appose the NLF/Viet Cong/NVA control of an area, or who were thought likely to do so. This happened on smaller scales for a long time but for a good large scale example of this came later in the war in Hue.

'South Viet Nam' was a 1955 Eisenhower invention, that's just a fact

South Korea was a similar invention only a few yeas earlier, but in both cases you had real countries that where attacked by the communists to their north.

i hope you realise .... to the extent that the french interfered, they were advancing their ancient goal of petty revenge for anglo-saxon brilliance, nothing more

That was probably at least an important motivation. I'm not sure that it was the only one, but I'm not sure it wasn't so I won't bother to argue you on that. But so what? Is the US somehow not a real country because of this motivation? If England somehow acquired the power and the motivation to invade the US (because we used to be one country) would an intervention by Canada or France be an act of aggression? I don't think so.

Tim
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