To: tx_eggman
"Nope, actually here as refugees after being trained by the US to fight communists in Laos during the Vietnam war. They fought bravely and then were left in a lurch when the lefties here forced us to cut and run."
The Hmong are essentially Laotian hillbillies. They are very 'tribal' and like other mountain people tend to carry on feuds for generations. Think Laotian Hatfields and McCoys and thats the Hmong.
46 posted on
11/23/2004 7:59:32 AM PST by
monday
To: Ladysmith
To: monday
The Hmong are essentially Laotian hillbilliesI did not know that.
My bad, absolutely my bad. Given this new information I now see that the United States would have been justified in using them for our purposes in SE Asia and then abandoning them to be slaughtered by the communists.
It's all clear to me now.
57 posted on
11/23/2004 8:44:13 AM PST by
tx_eggman
("All I need to know about Islam I learned on 09/11/01" - Crawdad)
To: monday
Hmongs are kinda, sorta like the Montagnards from the Central Highlands of Vietnam , just lived further North.
They fought with the Special Forces as guerrillas fighters / mercenaries.
66 posted on
11/23/2004 11:22:42 AM PST by
B4Ranch
(The lack of alcohol in my coffee is forcing me to see reality!)
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