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To: TimF who wrote (160310)	2/7/2003 2:22:23 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578967

Tim Re...Either Ho was pretty ruthless or someone else was making the decisions. The atrocities at Hue, the "reducation camps" after the war. I will grant you that Ho was more popular and less corrupt then Diem Actually, Ho died before the end of the war. I was talking about the respect the people of N Vietnam showed to Ho,during the war, compared to the disdain shown to Diem. The US stepped into a losing situation, and didn't take the drastic measures needed to reverse the situation. Maintaining the status quo wasn't going to work in this case, because the status quo favored the North. Diem was the more corrupt, the troops of S Vietnam wouldn't fight effectively, and the war was being fought on S Vietnams soil. Everything was against going into a long protracted war, yet that is what we did; trying to fight the North to a stalemate until they tired of it.