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To: Sam who wrote (239927)	8/26/2007 3:38:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, Korea was different. But Ho wasn't a megalomaniac like Kim. Yeah, he had a powerful ego, no question about that. Anyone who did what he did had to have that. But he made his overtures to the US, they were rejected, he wasn't about to be a puppet of the US. Or the Soviet Union. The point remains that being a client state of the USSR, which is what Vietnam would have been, without being a puppet of the USSR, is not an easy thing to achieve - at all - and if you look through the annals of the Cold War you will find far fewer states that achieved it than did not. Those who achieved a measure of independence had to move very carefully or they could find themselves replaced, as many were. Moscow got a vote in those outcomes, and Moscow wasn't fond of strong - and therefore uncontrollable - national leaders.