re: #175 Jay C

Yr welcome. I’d especially recommend reading up on the history of Vietnam, and the Vietnam War - the whole “war”, not just the American part of it. IMO, it’s fascinating: if, unfortunately, a subject still distorted (for American audiences, anyway) by the colorations of “wartime propaganda”.

I’ve encountered Vietnamese here who wax poetics about Ngo Dinh Diem, it’s pathetic. The man was a brutal psychopath who literally wanted an Inquisition in the country to rid the country of Buddhism.