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To: Dayuhan who wrote (12090)	8/23/1998 10:55:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You would have installed a government in Hanoi, the same as we did in both Germany and Japan. We would have occupied Hanoi for a much shorter time than the war was to drag on. It wouldn't have been difficult to find natives of North Viet Nam to install as a government. In 1955, at the partition, over one million North Viet Namese fled to South Viet Nam to escape Ho Chi Minh. There was plenty of home grown talent amongst them. There had indeed been a government in South Viet Nam capable of governing. That was Diem's, and it fell only when the Kennedy administration wanted someone more pliable to replace him. The locals understood this to mean Diem's assassination and the ouster of his family, which effectively meant the end of the government of South Viet Nam. It was a glowing example of America not understanding the dynamics of politics in the Far East. The complaint that the governments of South Viet Nam were corrupt begs the question "compared to what?" It ignores the character of the regime in North Viet Nam, which unsurprisingly set up "re-education camps", executing thousands of defenseless people. The "boat people" bore silent witness to the character of the Hanoi regime, whom the anti-war left never found corrupt. I guess we can conclude that the anti-war left found Hanoi's political murders to be pure.