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To: Dayuhan who wrote (12187)	8/29/1998 12:01:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I can't agree with your premise that Ho "did not yet have the apparatus to destroy resistance with violence and terror." Ho had the band of guerillas who had been fighting the Japanese with him. All it takes is the willingness to start killing any rivals who get in your way, and Ho was doing this from the time the Japanese left. This is straight out of Lenin. Ho had been in Moscow while Lenin was still alive, and wrote a glowing tribute to him in Pravda upon his death. I think he demonstrated that he also learned Lenin's teachings on the art of seizing power with a small, disciplined cadre. The idea that Ho could have been prevented from achieving control is speculation, playing "what if" with history, just like all the theories on how we could have defeated the NVA "if only we had done (fill in the blank)". As for training ARVN field grade officers in the US, we did exactly that. I met many of them in my own home in the early '60s, when they were here studying at Aberdeen, Belvoir, and other bases in the DC area. The son of one of these officers lived with my folks in the late '60s when he attended college. The entire family lived with them for months when they were refugees in 1975-76.