Opinion of Ho Chi Minh

[Zioneer]

He was a dictator who killed a lot of people, but was better than the South Vietnamese leaders, and at least at the beginning supposedly modeled his independence movement on America's (complete with a Declaration of Independence, I think). So FF, I suppose.

I don't know what TNF is talking about, but I do agree that in many ways, the Vietnamese are better off then they were before Ho Chi Minh. The dictatorial stuff wasn't the best way to go about it, however.

[Zioneer]

Amazing if you weren't an air traffic controller, black person (what with the CIA funneling crack-cocaine into the ghetto for the whole of the 1980s!), Nicaraguan peasant, miner, Afghan woman, etc, etc.

Lets cut that down to "if you weren't a rich white American (or Briton in Thatchers case) it was amazing".