Hell, Truman bears some responsibility, too, for not giving Uncle Ho his due after fighting the Japs along with us.
A Ho Ho for Uncle Ho or maybe just a Ho. We should have also given Castro a job playing baseball.
Yep. Truman should have told the French to pound sand, on the issue of getting their colony back. But we were trying to get the French to embrace NATO to protect Western Europe from the very real menace of the Soviet Empire, and doing the right thing fell to political expediency.