Reg, G4FGQ wrote:
"---the result of deliberate poisoning and bombing by a country which
imagines itself, not unsurprisingly, to have international enemies."

If the French had despensed their responsibilities in French Indo-China
properly, there would have been no danger of an iterative collapse of
dominoes to communism in the region. The U.S. would not have offered
help to a corrupt anticommunist regime which squandered the help it
received.

The tragedy reminds me of the old story of the knight who hurries home
to report to his king that he has slain or subdued all of the king`s
enemies in a neighboring kingdom. The king replies that he has no
enemies in the neighboring kingdom. The knight corrects the king by
saying, "You do now sir!"

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI