January 30, 2006
Vietnamese on the Vietnam War
A client recently went to Vietnam. He asked his Vietnamese tour guide there what people in Vietnam think about the Vietnam War, to which the tour guide responded, "I don't know why Americans always obsess over the Vietnam War. It is not our most recent war, it is not our bloodiest war, it is not our longest war, and we've been fighting the Europeans, particularly the French, these wars for independence for centuries, and this is just one in the middle of it."
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If anything, the Vietnamese were pawns in the ongoing great game between the Western Magna Cartian, liberal civilisation and the Eastern Procrustean ones.
Those in Vietnam who allied with the US probably sensed the greater imperative but most of them left the country at the end of and after the war. Those who are left are either former Viet Cong or those tutored by them, and are essentially dupes of what would today be labeled the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation / Axis.
The failure of the West and the West's SE Asian allies to win the 1954 - 1981 Conflict with procrustean Communism in SE Asia still has serious geopolitical repercussions. The Russians and Chinese have benefitted immensely from that Western loss. The West's sphere of influence on the Asian continent was drastically reduced by it.
Steve Sadlov
Posted by: Steve Sadlov at February 3, 2006 12:06 PM
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