> The US propped up a dictatorship in the South, I agree. Good. > And the North was a dictatorship propped up by the Chinese and USSR No. The North was forme

> The US propped up a dictatorship in the South, I agree. Good. > And the North was a dictatorship propped up by the Chinese and USSR No. The North was formed out of supporters of the anti colonial, nationalist side. Ho Chi Minh was a communist, but he was also a nationalist; he wasn't anybody's puppet. Just looking at Vietnam's difficult relationship with China should let you know it couldn't have been a "propped up by" sort of government. > I’m not sure how you could look at the last 60 years of dictatorship in Vietnam and say the “right” side won. Easy: the side fighting for independence against colonial oppressors is the right side. The US should understand this, it's allegedly one of their principles. Life in Vietnam is not that bad, you know. There are Americans living there, even. It's not the US right to choose other countries' form of government by force, anyway. I believe I've told you this multiple times already. > I mean, the Vietnamese who risked their lives to flee probably disagree with you? So? There were also collaborators with the French colonial rule. As was the case with British India; in every anticolonial struggle some locals have always opposed it. I cannot argue with some group of nameless Vietnamese anyway, but you seem to speak for them through some kind of magic...