Yeah, agreed, and even if Ho DID in fact “base” his code on the Declaration of Independence (which the term “plagiarized” would be more of a fit), 1., that would make him more of a Thomas Jefferson fan, and 2., considering Jefferson sang praises for the Jacobins and similar French Revolutionary groups, and even personally helped draft their infamous “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”, and did so even after getting a first-hand look at the results of Bastille Day when the Parisian mobs were literally returning parading body parts of their kills as trophies, that speaks more of an indictment against Thomas Jefferson than any promotion of Ho Chi Minh at all (let’s also not forget that Washington disowned Jefferson after a while, the latter even denouncing Washington as being “an apostate of Liberty.”). And quite frankly, I also have a similar negative reaction when people, explicitly or implicitly, treat Che Guevara as the George Washington of the Cuban Revolution.
Dime’s brother was the Catholic Bishop for Vietnam.
It was not a Buddhist movement.
All of Vietnam had been Buddhist for many centuries and the Diems were imposing French Catholic religion on them at gunpoint. It was a Catholic crusade war.
Only the cities had been partially converted. This was a religious war and is the reason all the rural Buddhist vietnamese supported North Vietnam.
The Catholic Church in Vietnam had declared war on it’s own people. Kennedy realized this after June 11, 1963.
The Jacobins were arguably the proto-Communists.