re: #193 CongoJack

Ho was pro-American until America started to invade. Then out of necessity he went to the communists states for assistance. He was not a communist ideologue - he just wanted equality (to cut a long story short).

Actually, I think the “invasion” that cemented Ho’s ideological enmities was in 1946, when, for a number of reasons, new French leader De Gaulle sent French forces to Vietnam to re-establish their colonial regime, and eliminate the indigenous government Ho had declared in Sept. 1945.
Given the choice between supporting “France”, or, what they viewed as a mere gang of little Asian commies, the Truman Administration went with the “obvious” choice. The rest, sadly, is history…