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To: Dayuhan who wrote (12095)	8/24/1998 2:58:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The source on Ho's biography is an Australian scholar on Viet Nam. I'll have to look up his name. He learned more about terror from the French, who practiced it with more enthusiasm than efficiency, than from the Russians. Ho became a communist because the communists were the only political grouping in Europe (where he became politicized) which supported freedom for colonies. Americans who knew and dealt with him said he was a nationalist and a pragmatist first, and would deal with anyone necessary to prevent a French return. Yeah, I recognize the drill. The terrorist French are famous for the Gulag, they sent millions to Siberia, they had fifty years of totalitarian one-party rule, Stalin was a famous Frenchman... no wait, that was Ho's friends in Moscow. Well, never mind, Ho didn't pick up any of the habits of his mentors in Moscow. The idea that he was there because he believed in a Bolshevik sort of violent revolutionary government is wrong. As you have pointed out, he was there because like Lenin and Stalin, he believed in freedom for the colonies. Hey, I'm buying it. Ho was a saint, just like his fellow freedom-lover, Castro. The Myth lives on! To quote Dennis Prager, there are some ideas so absurd only grad students will believe them. Somebody ought to go down to Little Saigon and find out why they really hurled themselves into the South China Sea in 1975. If they had only read Patti's book they would have realized that they were mistakenly risking death in escaping from freedom.