Vietnam’s Overdue Alliance With America

My previous post called the Kurds our natural friends who we are about to betray if we insist that they self sacrifice themselves to the impossible task of holding Iraq together.  Now I see Tuong Lai's editorial "Vietnam’s Overdue Alliance With America" with a sense of guilt by a baby boomer who wondered why we fought Ho Chi Minh, a revolutionary leader who asked the Truman Administration for help to liberate Viet Nam from French colonial rule. Why was it again that we rejected our heritage and sided with the colonialist? The Domino Theory!