Asked him about Ho Chi Minh and he said, Ho's soldiers would cut the throats of the people.
I have mixed feelings about the Vietnam war, but God bless the veterans who served.
Jane Fonda’s buddy
Yeah the war suck. Alliances come and go. Great folks, the ones I’ve known.
Kamala was Ho She Been.
Still dead.
It is rumored that he worked for Escofier. Vietnamese bread is great!
My Dad argued that the Vietminise hate China, and could have been an ally against them.
I saw his body in the mausoleum in Hanoi. Was kind of weird looking at a preserved body that was dead for over 50 years.
Kind of like taxidermy. 😁
I was just talking about Ho with a retired Marine yesterday, we were discussing the Tet Offensive and how rather than end the war because of the crushing defeat of the VC, cooler heads in North Vietnam called for watching to see how the media played it to the American public.
Ho was once a pastry chef at the Omni Parker House in Boston. Once I noticed they put "Ho Chi Minh's Egg Rolls" on their bar menu on the second floor!
Ho requested self-determination be given to the Annamites (S. Vietnamese) as it was being advocated for other nations post WW2.
To give them this would have meant forcing the French to leave.
We had the chips to do that at that time; we should have done so, providing Viet Nam would become a democratic protectorate of the US for a length of time.
That would have been a super-smart move, so naturally it was not even considered, and our people in State refused Ho's numerous requests to meet with TPTB. At some point Ho approached Mao, and the rest is history.
They won. We lost. That sucks.
After WWII Ho Chi Minh tried to contact Truman about possible “cooperation.” Truman turned him down. Stupid is as stupid does.
Ho ho ho.
Chi Minh.
Why do we have so many sympathetic posters to Ho Chi Minh on our FreeRepublic? Ho was communist scum and no, he wouldn’t have been a friend if we had caved to his vision of Vietnam. The whole reason over one million North Vietnamese refugees came to live in the south was Ho Chi Minh’s barbaric policies treatment of religious folks and any opponents of communism.
We had to fight the bastard - and only the campus Lefties thought he was some kind of hero.