[U S Army EOD]

The same unwashed of the 60's are at it again.

[angkor]

What can one say? Every word of this article speaks the truth. That Ho Chi Minh was co-founder of the French Communist Party and the primary founder of the SE Asian Communist Party speaks volumes about the influence of the communists on North Vietnam. The exodus of millions of Catholics from the North post-1954 was expressly due to the hatred of Catholicism by the Communists. How could American leftists be so blind to the obvious truth? Just as they are today about Wahabbi Islam.

[JohnnyZ]

I didn't read The Quiet American as supposing to be a true account of anything -- and it was published years before the anti-war movement got its legs IIRC. It was, I'm sure, an indictment of a certain mentality of naivety, specifically from the CIA operative in the novel. I don't know what Greene said about it afterward.

Still, a good article and one worthing bumping! We have an active South Vietnamese veteran group in my city and you can see the sadness in their eyes...

[CHARLITE]

FYI Ping!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

IMO one of the greatest things so far this century was John Kerry's decision to "report for duty."

The 2004 campaign ripped the lies away and exposed the truth that so many Americans, VN vets or not, knew back then was the truth. The 2004 campaign debate was far more than old people looking to correct misconceptions.

There was at least one reply posted here on FR wishing that the old people would die already so we could stop talking about Viet Nam.

Stop talking about VN? Sure and sit quietly while today's Walter Cronkites lie to the American people about the war to defend against radical Islam? I don't think so.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Noam Chomsky, the leading anti-war intellectual, vowed "to speak the truth and to expose lies" as a reason for his pro-Vietnamese communist stand. As he made this passionate avowal, North Vietnamese poet Nguyen Chi Thien was imprisoned for doing just that, writing the truth about the communists. Nguyen was imprisoned for 27 years...there's more truth in these few lines by Thien than in every labored tome Chomsky ever produced:

If Uncle and the Party, let's suppose,
Allowed free movement in and out,
Grandfather Marx's paradise
Would soon become the wilds where monkeys roam.

[July 4th]

Awesome article.

[U S Army EOD]

For your review and comments, don't know if have seen this one, might want to ping it to the Foxhole

[nightdriver]

"As such, members of the anti-Vietnam War movement let themselves be deceived by the communists."

When are the rank and file Americans gonna realize that the anti-Vietnam War types are not deceived at all? They aren't deceived, they really believe in communism.

We have the Dan Blathers hugging Castro, and the air-headed Janie Fondas telling us to pray that we become communists.

What more do we need to know to realize that there are dangerous subversives right here in our midst?

[fella]

members of the anti-Vietnam War movement let themselves be deceived by the communists. Some influential people in the West, wittingly or not, abetted the communists in their deception.

Not to mention the Soviet Communist inbeds in our media such as Hollywood, music industry, news (both TV and print), Democrat party and Madison Ave. Senator McCarthy warned us about these inbeds back in the 50s but they had complete control of the media and were able to hide the truth ad discredit him. Later when the KGB records were opened to review it was seen that everyone that "Tail gunner Joe" said was a commie was a commie but the MSM has never gotten around to talking about that.