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To: Dayuhan who wrote (108593)	7/29/2003 4:56:11 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

It is common for Americans to assume that Communism was a centrally directed and unified attack on the west, and that all who subscribed to the Communist ideology were under Soviet control. Funny.. considering how it has been in vogue for some time to assert that every despotic cold war "ally" of the US was directly controlled by Washington.. :0) But I would submit that the Soviets had a bit more control over their proxies than most, given the nature of communist government, their brutality and repression, and how they set themselves up as a priviledged elite within their individual societies. We had an opportunity to be the devil to whom Ho sold his soul; we declined, and the Russians and Chinese stepped into the gap. I still say that had the US made such an offer, it would have only caused the Soviets and Chinese to vy for power elsewhere in Indo-China.. But again.. neither Roosevelt, nor Truman saw the region as being particularly important. But the Soviets and Chinese did, to the extent that they became adversaries in the region, with the eventual conflict between the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam. Hawk