What if Ho Chi Minh is alive?
If Ho Chi Minh was alive today, I think he’d be quite thrilled with the direction the country is going. What most people refuse to understand is that Ho was a nationalist more than anything else. He made his deal with the communists AFTER the US and others refused to lift a finger to help them throw off the shackles of colonialism under the French. Ho would have probably made a deal with the devil if it meant freedom for his people. Pity it took this long and a lot of good lives on both sides to get to where we are today and it could have all been avoided if the US president at the time had decided to support freedom for Vietnamese. All they were asking for at that time was the same thing that the Americans (of which I am one) did to the British. Unfortunately, hypocrisy was big then just as today. Do as I say, not as I do, etc. Needless to say, Vietnam is now a vibrant economy and about as “communist” as Cleveland. Socialist yes, but a market-oriented socialism and they’re on the righ
