Comrade Ho wasn't satisfied with terrorizing the North after the French were defeated and immediately began a program of infiltration and terror in the South.
He was never a friend of us or of freedom and his campaign to kill off/imprison land owners and religious folks caused a wave of over one million refugees to flood south.
When Ho finally took his ride to Hell, the torture and isolation of our POWs immediately stopped.
You are a dupe.
Ho Chi Minh was first and foremost a Vietnamese nationalist who adamantly opposed colonialism in Indochina. Ho turned to Communism in the 1920s after first trying to get France to accept his ideas for an independent Vietnam. Ho approached the West again about an independent Vietnam right after WW2, but was rejected this time by the United States.
Ho lived and worked all over the world including France, Britain, China (where he was thrown in prison), and the United States before visiting Russia. His Viet-minh forces fought the Japanese in Indochina and he would have made a useful partner in 'containing China' (which was the real purpose of American involvement) if Truman and his cronies had the foresight to see that an independent Vietnam was in their long term strategic interest.