10-18-2020, 02:06 PM
(10-18-2020, 10:30 AM)David Horn Wrote:(10-17-2020, 01:08 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(10-17-2020, 06:31 AM)David Horn Wrote: Even this sketchy overview is seriously flawed. Ignoring the Viet Minh as OSS clients during WW-II is particularly irritating, since we guaranteed them our support for decolonization after the war.
Did you actually look into this, or just write your personal views in long form?
"We" guaranteed Ho support? Speak for yourself. Maybe a random OSS agent intimated that the US would support decolonization, but random agents are not empowered to speak for the US government or nation.
... It was a simple deal: we would agree NOT to back the French returning as colonialist masters, and the Viet Mihn would take it from there.
That's neutrality, not "our support". If we promised that, we kept our promise: the French stayed on without our help, and then left by 1956. Not our fault that Diem was able to hold Ho off, and in fact we undermined Diem too.
