LOL!! Yes, Donald, dismiss my facts and points and call them what you will. Your innuendo and lack of understanding of what Ho tried to do is so old and so tired. Ho was trying to communicate directly with the USA for assistance as long ago as the end of WWI. To quote from a Time magazine article, April 13, 1998.
"The youngest of three children, Ho was born Nguyen Sinh Cung in 1890 in a village in central Vietnam. The area was indirectly ruled by the French through a puppet emperor. Its impoverished peasants, traditional dissidents, opposed France's presence; and Ho's father, a functionary at the imperial court, manifested his sympathy for them by quitting his position and becoming an itinerant teacher. Inheriting his father's rebellious bent, Ho participated in a series of tax revolts, acquiring a reputation as a troublemaker. But he was familiar with the lofty French principles of liberte, egalite, fraternite and yearned to see them in practice in France. In 1911 he sailed for Marseilles as a galley boy aboard a passenger liner. His record of dissent had already earned him a file in the French police dossiers. It was scarcely flattering: "Appearance awkward...mouth half-open."
In Paris, Ho worked as a photo retoucher. The city's fancy restaurants were beyond his means, but he indulged in one luxury--American cigarettes, preferably Camels or Lucky Strikes. Occasionally he would drop into a music hall to listen to Maurice Chevalier, whose charming songs he would never forget.
In 1919, Woodrow Wilson arrived in France to sign the treaty ending World War I, and Ho, supposing that the President's doctrine of self-determination applied to Asia, donned a cutaway coat and tried to present Wilson with a lengthy list of French abuses in Vietnam. Rebuffed, Ho joined the newly created French Communist Party. "It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me," he later explained."
Unfortunately, Wilson ignored Ho's repeated requests for a meeting, which caused Ho to have to turn away from the United States. Ho, along with many other Vietnamese anti-colonial figures, began focusing on building a homegrown revolutionary movement based on Marxism-Leninism rather than Wilsonian principles. Desperate times called for desperate measures and Ho was a patriot to his people for seeking to finally rid his country of a variety of conquerers who had controlled his country for so many hundreds of years. He was right to seek freedom, "by any means necessary", just as any American patriot would have been.
If FDR had lived longer or his successors had followed his efforts to end colonialism, it's very likely that the whole Vietnam conflict could have been avoided, but Truman and his ilk as well as the intelligence community were servants to colonialism and set back much of what FDR tried to implement both in those terms and with Russia and Communism itself.
The bottom line which you and those others here fail to understand is that the man was MAINLY concerned with his nation's independence.the fact that he was rebuffed more than once over the years by the USA, left Ho little chance to do other than what he did. If the Communists would support him in those efforts then so be it. He did it and created the pathway to ultimate victory.
And how ironic that we're now all buddy buddy with wow... the same communist country that Ho helped create. The conflict in Vietnam was ultimately a product of just what Eisenhower warned us about. Your desire to still carry the fake spectre of the so-called evil empire is at best sad. The proof of the pudding of the the hype in all this fear mongering about communism is that they never did take over Asia and the dominos didn't fall despite the fact that the USA lost the war in Asia. And now we trade with the so-called evil communist nations. It was all MIC bull crap to keep the money coming in for Corporations by insinuating an enemy and creating fear in the nation. How ironic that almost immediately after Communism fell in Russia, that there was more and more hype about the so-called terrorists. And now thats the best enemy yet as you can't fight a war against a tactic. So the money just keeps rolling in as the nation is kept in greater fear of the newest so-called enemy. ironically, many of which were created by this very nation.
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