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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
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To: Rock_nj who wrote (694)2/21/2007 9:43:08 PM
From: PROLIFE  Read Replies (1) of 25737
 
The Viet Namese would have been better off if we hadn't stuck our noses in their business, as they started getting their act together once the colonial armies were gone and they sorted out their internal disputes.

Are you a complete gooniebird or do you just need to back off the crack pipe a bit?

you think these people left VN because things were getting "sorted out" as you say?



[[After reunification things didn't really get much better. Promises of greater autonomy, made by both sides, came to nothing; even the little self government the minorities had been granted was removed. Those groups who had opposed the North Vietnamese were kept under close observation and their leaders sent for re-education. The new government pursued a policy of forced assimilation of the minorities into the Vietnamese culture and glossed over their pre vious anti-Viet activities: all education was conducted in the Vietnamese language, traditional customs were discouraged or outlawed, and minority people were moved from their dis persed villages into permanent settlements. At the same time the govemment created New Economic Zones in the central highlands and along the Chinese border, often commandeering the best land to resettle thousands of people from the overcrowded lowlands. According to official records, 250,000 settlers were moved into the New Economic Zones each year during the 1980s. The policy resulted in food shortages among minorities unable to support themselves on the marginal lands, and the widespread degradation of overfarmed upland soils. ]]

cambodia and pol pot "sorting it out" after we left.

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