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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica?
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (2164)1/27/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: Fangorn   of 20981
 
Duncan,
Were you really lucky enough to have the same name as one of the best characters in "Dune"?

Re-Viet Nam war. After kicking the Japanese out of Viet Nam, Ho Chi Min asked us (U.S.) to help him set up a government based on ours. We ignored him and helped the French and their ethnic chinese cronies re-establish themselves as colonial overlords. Ho and his countrymen chased the French and chinese out of the north in the fifties. When the French gave up the US stepped in to prop up the same ethnic chinese that had been in power before WWII with French backing.

The point is that this was not a civil war but a war of independence that started when the French went back in after WWII, and had actually been going on for much longer against first Chinese then French conquerers.

Sometimes the lack of historical context can be breathtaking.
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