[extropy-chat] FWD [Skeptic] Re: is america fascist yet?

[Mike Lorrey]

--- "Terry W. Colvin" <fortean1 at mindspring.com> wrote:> 
> Your comments ignore two indisputable facts:  First, the Viet
> Cong/Viet Minh were a large popular resistance faction that was in
> action a long time before the CHINESE (not the Soviets as you claim)
> began to support them.  They effectively kicked the French out on
> their own using the weapons that had been provided them to fight the
> Japanese.

While this is a popular lie promulgated among the left, the truth is
markedly different. Anyone who knows anything about Dien Bien Phu knows
that the artillery and anti-aircraft weaponry, both of immense and
crucial importance in the NVA victory over the French there, were NOT
of western manufacture, they were specifically Soviet made weapons, as
were most infantry weapons used even then. There was a very good
documentary this past weekend on the military channel covering the CIA
front, Civil Air Transport (predecessor to Air America) and its
involvement in supplying French forces at Dien Bien Phu. They had
extensive interviews with Vietnamese soldiers and officers and NVA film
archive footage.

>  
> Second, the "democracy" the US gave the Viet Namese consisted of, in
> order: Bao Dai, Diem, and Thieu. How, one might ask, could any of
> these yardbirds win an honest election?

You make the assumption that there are in fact honest politicians in power.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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