Comments on: Ho Chi Minh and the OSS

By: Vichy France

Vichy France — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:06:34 +0000

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By: Roberto Sani

Roberto Sani — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:27:17 +0000

I befriended an Austrailian vet of the vietnam war. Although he had a superficial hatred for his former enemy, he couldn't help but to admire the dedication and simplicity of his enemy. His greatest fear was the Lee Enfield rifle in the capable hands of a well motivated and trained enemy. His second greatest fear was that the true story would never be told. Thanks to informed sites like this, let the truth be told. It did not have to happen immediately after the war, but it did come to pass. Thank you on the behalf of my deceased drumming instructor, Rodger Strange. I will let his son know of his "terror and demon trip" in the sixties.

By: Randy Mello

Randy Mello — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:55:35 +0000

Article reserved by Randy Mello for Intro to Military History assignment

By: le van hong phuoc

le van hong phuoc — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:10:02 +0000

For whom it may concern:You do not know a liitle bit about HOCHIMINH.He's a communist who worked for Commintern a long time ago before working with the OSS.He used Americans as weapons on his propaganda only.You must read more about him.
Ho chi Minh could do tricks on people around the world,but not on Vietnamese,because they know him too much!
Please do not listen what communists say or write,watch closely what they do!

By: J. Alejandro

J. Alejandro — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:24:00 +0000

The real story is how Ho used the OSS. Although this history is pretty much historically accurate it nevertheless ends in a wrong conclusion because it begins with a wrong premise. This thinking belongs to the anti-war movement and PBS Vietnam: A Television History school of thought. It is the kind of thinking that seeks to blame the U.S. for the turn of nationalists into Communists simply because the U.S. didn't help them when they came for help. Ho Chi Min was a committed Komintern type communist through and through who used nationalism and whatever means necessary to incorporate Vietnam into the international struggle for Communism. Even if the US had helped Ho obtain independence he would just have used the US and in the end establish a Communist regime just like Fidel Castro did. The naiveté of the OSS officers in taking Ho at his words as if he were some kind of George Washington is more than obvious. Later as the CIA they also believed the Castro brothers.

By: Claude Berube

Claude Berube — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:55:09 +0000

Afshin,
I disagree. The failure was more of an individual assessment and understanding of Ho. The U.S. would have worked with anyone willing to help against the Japanese, just as the U.S. allied with the Soviet Union against Germany. I confirmed this through a post-production interview with Major Defourneaux.
- Claude

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:58:00 +0000

yo dawg tht was pretty good ;)

By: Afshin

Afshin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:42:57 +0000

The article highlights failure of U.S. foreign policy. U.S. always failed to understand Asia, Asians and their aspirations.

By: shtarka

shtarka — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:13:27 +0000

I recently visited Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City…seems that Ho was correct after all and the U.S. was wrong. Communism/ socialism works in Vietnam, and "we can still be friends", as Ho said to Thomas after Thomas asked Ho if he were a communist…today the biggest concern for Vietnam is Communist China, not the U.S. In fact, the U.S, is Vietnam's largest export destination. We made big. big mistakes in Vietnam. The world is not black and white.

By: Hans von Saxe

Hans von Saxe — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:22:11 +0000

Ho was only "trouble for the U.S." because it was of the U.sS's choosing.
Truman ignored Ho's overtures, while the French reoccupied Indochina.
Gen. Vo N. Giap was the architect of the humiliating French defeat at Dienbienphu in 1953.
The i954 Geneva Accord ending the French-Indochina war resulted in the provisional division of Vietnam into communist North , under Ho, and U.s. -backed South Vietnam, under Emperor Bao Dai. In 1955, Bao Dai was overthrown by his Prime Minister, Ngo Dinh Diem, who refused to abide by the provision of the Geneva Accord that elections to unify the country would be held in both North and South Vietnam in 1956.
In 1959, the communist Viet Cong began their struggle to overthrow Diem. The U.S. intervention to save the south Vietnamese regime began in 1961, and the official U.S. Intervention began in 1964.