It was a short-lived victory, soon there came Reagan with his filthy little war on centroamericanos, hiring argentino torturers to terrorise schoolteachers and doctors, paying for this using funds gotten by various underhanded means ... trying to bullshit the world with 'commie tanks x hours from Brownsville Texas bla bla bla', mining harbours, doing all he could to drive into the ground one rinky dink little country that for all its rhetoric was minding its own damn business
You win some, you lose some, you just keep plugging away, or you roll over and die ... vietnamese got freedom from invaders, they took for a while freedom from common sense as well, sort of threw out the baby with the bathwater when they let association with the last two invaders taint the concept of liberal democracy ... in most reconquistas by natives there is retaliation against collaborators, it could be argued that they took theirs somewhat beyond what was in their best interests ... all this is behind them now though, the great majority of vietnamese today were born after their reconquista, most of them well after, and it's ancient history for them, today will be just an excuse for a day off and a beer .... almost no hard feelings remain, of course that is the tendency for the victors in these situations ... from here they just have to answer the same question we all do, What do we do next |
