In article ,
Kameron Spesial wrote:

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:11:23 -0600, uncle arnie
wrote:

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 03:35 pm -0600 UTC, Telamon
posted: %MM



No that's not right: the US supported the French against the fledgeling
democratic movement, having previously promised the Vietnamese self gov't
for help against the Japanese and then reneged. (The British reneged
similarly in India.) Drove them into the arms of the communists,who also
lied to them. I suppose the Vietnamese could have simply gone along with
having their country given back to the French. The excuse about not being
about to resist communist agression was concocted later, post hoc. In 1945,
The Chinese were not communist yet, that occurred in 1949, Russia was in no
condition to do anything and had no agents or advisors in the country. It
was up to the US, which could have rejected the French recolonization of
Vietnam and supported the democracy. But they wanted to restore their
trade with them in Europe. Trade = money, and that's more important than
any ideology or rights. And it continued merrily along. How about Chile
and Guatemala?


Uncle - can you please keep the topic on shortwave.

Guatemala I have not heard. Chile "Voz Cristiana" normally puts in a
good signal here.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California