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To: Dayuhan who wrote (107261)	7/22/2003 10:04:06 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It was before my time. I do know Ho Chi Minh was a Communist and he declared independence in 1945 and a war began with France. If we had intervened with the British as you suggested in order undermine the French, VN would simply have been united as a Communist regime a few decades earlier. From your earlier post: If the US had refused to allow the British to bring French forces into Vietnam in 1945, credit for freeing Vietnam from the French would have gone to us, not to Ho Chi Minh, and much unpleasantness might have been averted. As it was, the only force that had the discipline and mass appeal to stand against the French was the Communist party. The Vietnamese had to go through a Communist phase to free themselves, largely because we refused to help them. They paid a high price for that, but I doubt that many would rather have kept the French.