reallyoldguy

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   by reallyoldguy 11y ago

   It's hard to say what a "real" country is in this case. The modern borders of Vietnam were only drawn in 1802 when Gia Long unified the country. Within 60 years, the French colonized Vietnam and split it into Cochinchine,
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   by reallyoldguy 11y ago

   The Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) was absolutely a country that had a right to its own sovereignty. Framing the Vietnam war as a communist struggle against Western invaders is naive and incorrect. South Vietnam was governed by a nati
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   by reallyoldguy 11y ago

   Agreed, the piece has a very distinct bias, and it's sad to see what Vietnam has become, especially considering what it could have been had history gone a little differently (South Korea is a reasonably analogous case).
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   by reallyoldguy 11y ago

   This is an un-nuanced analysis of Vietnam's history that basically blames the United States for Vietnam's rampant corruption and the failure of the communist model (can you name a country where this has worked?). The author uses s