06-06-2016, 02:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-06-2016, 02:45 PM by Anthony '58.)
This was a lie, concocted out of whole cloth by the Communists to make the Saigon regime appear "bigoted" - and it fits in perfectly with the Viet Cong's timing of the Tet offensive (and the militantly atheistic Communists were any friends of the Buddhists, or the adherents of any religion?).
And so what if a few loyalists in South Vietnam didn't like Buddhists? A lot of American "loyalists" during World War II didn't like our entire social and economic system, because they were Communists - and in France this was even more pervasive: The Maquis were practically all Communists.
And so what if a few loyalists in South Vietnam didn't like Buddhists? A lot of American "loyalists" during World War II didn't like our entire social and economic system, because they were Communists - and in France this was even more pervasive: The Maquis were practically all Communists.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892