To: E. Charters who wrote (583 ) 9/6/2002 12:49:13 PM From: marcos Read Replies (3) | Respond to Sure there were factions, this is true anywhere .... Ho was a devious lying old coot, right up there on the scale of perfidy with the Nixons, no doubt about it .... but he and his group were vietnamese, this is my point ... sure they used brutal tactics, as did other groups who happened at that time to be defeated .... i would not want to be a vietnamese personally .... you have to remember that these people have been under foreign threat for a very long time, the han chinese coveted their territory hundreds of years ago, the french clearly wanted it, the japanese, then the french again and most latterly the US ..... perhaps under such conditions humans either surrender and disappear, or learn to fight by whatever means necessarythirdworldtraveler.com .. [actually, looks like he skips it entirely ... mentions the french bombing of Haiphong in Oct '46 which stimulated its greatest intensity though] ..... here is today's group claiming to be successors to one of the defeated factions - vietquoc.com .... lots of pages on this vietquoc site .... Chomsky somewhere goes into detail on the period, but not here - monkeyfist.com :8080/ChomskyArchive/essays/roi_html ... here though he does point out that the same Cao Dai and Hoa Hao groups in opposition to Ho's group '46-'48, were themselves opposed to the US puppet Diem in the south during the next decade .... [edit] - here's the VVAW, they have quite a history page if memory serves - vvaw.org ... no good governments. Only bad and less bad ones "
