re: #181 electrotek

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.

Also if memory serves Diem was given a path to peace with LBJ but the Nixon campaign intervened during the election and told Diem not to take the deal and that Nixon would give him more money/power (to thus make the war a campaign issue that Nixon was doing quite well playing the anti-war candidate).

Diem was killed a year or two later I believe.