: 1) Accoridng to Eisenhower, 80% of Vietnamese wanted Ho Chi Minh for their leader. The remaining 20%, of course, apparently made up a significant majority of the population ... To understand this, one must be schooled in Marxist mathematics, of course (where the Communist Party regularly won with 95+% majorities in places like the U.S.S.R., Cuba, Cambodia, etc.)
: 2) Our chosen man in South VN, Diem, apparently held eight times as many political prisoners as Brezhnev's Russiua.
I was not aware that Brezhnev's Russia put out statistics on such things. Like the above, I assume a certain 'revolutionary feeling' is necessary to make sense of this factoid.
: 3) We converted North and South VN into the two most ravaged countries in the history of the planet, destroying their economy and environment and causing birth defects galore.
We did the same in Korea; whereas the North is an elysian worker's paradise, the South is a decadent, consumer rotted, goods infested industrial slum. Or so I hear.
: 4) Less refugees fled Vietnam after the Communist liberation than fled from America after the 1776 Revolution.
A most compassionate statement. I'm sure the boat people would have been comforted by your kind erudition.
Which is most certainly irrelevant, in any case. Reactionary back sliding lap-dogs of the capitalist state deserve nothing but brutality and contempt. Ask Pol Pot. Or, if you are looking for more accomplished practitioners of the people's liberation, their successors (by virtue of conquest, I am led to believe).
"Doc" Cruel
P.S. It would be interesting to see in what context Eisenhower (of all people!) had been quoted in ...
