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To: Brumar89 who wrote (107272)	7/22/2003 10:16:09 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

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. That's highly debatable. In 1945 Ho Chi Minh was one political leader among many. He built his organization to the level that it eventually reached by positioning himself as the only effective opponent of the universally (and justifiably) hated French. Without the benefit of that opposing pole he would never have achieved the legendary status and popular mandate that he earned at Dien Bien Phu. If the US had stepped in as guarantor of Vietnamese independence, probably with a bit of a military presence, the popular support that eventually accrued to Ho Chi Minh as defender against the French could have accrued to us instead, and we would have had a great deal of influence that could have been used to steer the nationalist movement away from Communism.