You just cherry-picked a phrase from my statement and missed an average Vietnamese rice farmer part. I am not talking about the Vietnamese living in Saigon und

You just cherry-picked a phrase from my statement and missed an average Vietnamese rice farmer part. I am not talking about the Vietnamese living in Saigon under American protection. I am talking about the villagers who faced the brunt of American bombs and napalm. To them, the argument that Americans are here to protect democracy was pretty much nonsense. Don't forget that prior to American involvement, Vietnam was a French colony. We can debate the whole day whether the Americans were imperialists or not, but the French practiced textbook definition of imperialism in Vietnam. The Americans entered Vietnam at a time of heightened anti-colonialism. Whether American actions were good or bad is another matter, but to most Vietnamese, it was again a foreign entity fighting war on their soil. The fact that North Vietnamese were communists doesn't help much because ultimately they were Vietnamese fighting for their own land.