Posted on 08/03/2004 7:17:43 AM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 08/03/2004 7:31:38 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Also because the Hanoi Politburo became extremely jealous of those $$billions in Vietnamese-American remittances to families in the South, and realized that they'd never get a piece of the economic pie until they loosened up on the Marxist rhetoric.
Hanoi has increasingly come to realize that Marxism and Stalinst controls are incompatible with prosperity. So they send their kids now to the University of Sydney or UCLA (believe it or not, a popular form of kickback to Party members), and when the kids return to VN, they are completely cured of Marxist thought.
This is the truth of this article. Go into any provisional hospital, even in the poorest sections of Issan, in Thailand and compare with the best that Vietnam has to offer and you can get a idea of where Vietnam could have been if not for our surrender there. Cambodia, Laos and Burma are monuments to the "wonders" of socialism as well. If you are using the quality of life for the individual, Vietnam is hardly the example to use for success. Hopefully, the future will bring better days to Vietnam, however, to go much beyond where they are today, the will have to throw off the "foreign" influence of communism.
Good point.
Ho Chi Minh, a co-founder of the French Communist Party in 1919, and who lived in Moscow for about a decade thereafter.
Hardly a homegrown Vietnamese social philosophy.
Just as Pol Pot and Ieng Sary got their dose of French Communism three decades later while studying at the Sorbonne (Ieng detailed the Khmer Rouge agricultural gulag in his Sorbonne doctoral thesis).
Yeah, I was wondering whether this clown was suggesting that Vietnam is in the process of bringing back its "indiginous" Nguyen Dynasty.
Exactly....we simply quit and went home before the job was done....
Abandoning our friends...
please dont forget europe, i think we had something to do about them as well, oh and russia!! they seem to be doing a bit better!! not to mention the satelite states and poland, but what do i know.
Yes.
Wasn't meaning to try an dbe comprehensive (my mid would break trying to track all info down) but as a general statement, it works.
Thanks!
What a stupid article. Vietnam's not the only place that doesn't look so bad anymore, now that the SOVIET UNION HAS FALLEN. But what the hell did this author think the world was like when there were still Reds in Red Square?
This article is so nonsensical at so many levels that it really only constitutes proof of nothing but the increasing senility of the pop-left. How can he know what Vietnam would be like if we, rather than his Stalinist friends, had won the Vietnam War? According to this author, Vietnam is a great success (which it isn't) without US help (which it does in fact receive) so it is therefore impossible for US assistance to achieve anything positive. The premise is a lie, and the conclusion would be a non-sequitur even if were true. By this logic, driving to work is impossible because someone else has successfully ridden a bike and we therefore don't need oil. Oh, wait a minute, that's an actual lefty claim too.
Absolutly. Also you can go back to the end of WWII in Burma when the Labour Government in GB sold out their wartime allies, the Karen and Shan, giving the Communist Burmese all they wanted. Of course many of the problems of today have their genesis in that disgraceful sellout.
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