[ifinnegan]

“ Why do we have so many sympathetic posters to Ho Chi Minh on our FreeRepublic? Ho was communist scum”

Yep.

Good observation. Good question.

Evil communist Ho Chi Min.

[caddie]

Not a huge fan of Ho, but I am perplexed by what might have been during that great time of flux and upheaval after WW2.

Also bemoaning what happened after the French reoccupation of Indochina and our 53,000 dead and hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Ho made overtures to the US POTUS and State Department during WW2 and was dismissed.

We chose to support the French, we dismissed Ho, who indeed sought support from the Communists.

My interest is in, What if?

Had we heard Ho out during WW2, would he have accepted American support to create an independent democratic republic rather than being a communist satellite?