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To: Dayuhan who wrote (107276)	7/22/2003 10:29:10 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

In 1945 Ho Chi Minh was one political leader among many. You don't hear about too many others. He was a Communist, the leader of the Viet Minh - in fact he organized it, and he declared VN independent in 1945 which started a war with France. 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. Now we should have sent in troops to support Ho Chi Minh? Gee. And protecting a Communist leader would have somehow prevented VN from going Communist? Sounds like some extreme wishful thinking to me.