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To: Brumar89 who wrote (108464)	7/28/2003 12:44:10 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The North freed itself from the French by driving them out of the northern half of Vietnam and later sought to complete the process of reunification to include the southern portion of their country as one unified nation. The motivation was nationalism. We stepped in to stop reunification and helped to generate a civil war -- one in which we were primary combatants. From the North's perspective, the war then became a struggle to rid Vietnam of the US -- it was a war that for us revolved around fighting communist ideology by contesting Russia indirectly in proxy wars. For the North it revolved around nationalism and liberation. We call it the Vietnam war -- they don't. We lost, and Vietnam is now free of foreign domination -- something you seem to regret and Vietnamese like to celebrate -- I put their perspective forward because after all, it is their country, isn't it? Iraq will one day also be free -- we have choices -- perhaps it is time to make some good ones.