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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: unclewest who wrote (145722)	9/16/2004 9:07:08 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<The French surrendered at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and left> The French gave up colonial ambitions, judging the costs to be too high, but have retained considerable business relationships to this day -- Vietnamese rubber and coffee were always their primary interests. American involvement was a function of the cold war, with Vietnamese as pawns and surrogates -- lets not pretend anything unduly pretty about Diem. Ho had a goal -- run the foreigners out of Vietnam. The goal was achieved.