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Having It Both Ways (0+ / 0-)

Up until Tet, the official US line was that North Vietnam was a separate entity, and was trying to take over the South. All the insurgent forces in the South were really agents of the North.
After Tet, the new line was that southern insurents were an entirely separate entity, which was defeated in Tet.
Funny how that works.

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by Paul Rosenberg on Sat Oct 21, 2006 at 07:55:13 AM PDT

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- Good point. The truth was far more complex ... (0+ / 0-)
  
  ...Many Southerners went North after the '54 split, and particularly after the '56 elections didn't happen. They came back in fairly large numbers as cadre from '59 onwards. These were called Northerners by the U.S. propaganda machine, and most of the Southern resistance was "homegrown" and made up of people who had never been in the North.
  
  I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. -- Mark Twain
  
  by Meteor Blades on Sat Oct 21, 2006 at 08:13:19 AM PDT
  
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