6 thoughts on “Michael Totten”

  1. Uh. Good luck finding someone who thinks their regime founding leaders were ‘wrong’. Many people in the US still do not understand that the US lost against a nationalist movement against colonialism. The leaders just happened to be communist. The war started way back when it was still a French colony and it only stopped after the US got out of there.

    1. Now I’m confused. The Vietnamese nationalists (who had been assassinating French officials for decades) were on our side.

      2. By the time Dien Bien Phu came about, 25 or so years after the first major Vietnamese Nationalist revolt against French colonial rule, the Viet Minh had already slaughtered thousands of Vietnamese Nationalists, and the survivors had fled into the South. There they continued to fight the communists and tried to overthrow or assassinate Diem on several occasions, including an air force bombing run on the presidential palace in 1962. After Diem was assassinated the Vietnamese Nationalists become much more common in the officer ranks of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, while other members continued to lead the fight against any compromise with the communists. The Vietnamese Nationalists are are still very active in places like California, and they still viciously despise communism.

    2. While there is some truth to be had in what you say, actually I believe it might be a bit more correct to say that the war ended when the North Vietnam conquered South Vietnam.

      1. And that didn’t happen for some years after the US left.

        The struggle against colonialism ended in the mid-1950’s. The collapse of South Vietnam didn’t happen until 1973.

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