By John Pilger - December 03, 2010
...[T]here is no place like Vietnam. Within my lifetime, Ho Chi Minh’s nationalists had fought and expelled the French...then the Japanese, with whom the French colons collaborated; then the British who sought to reinstall the French; then the Americans, with whom Ho had repeatedly tried to forge an alliance against China; then Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, who attacked from the west; and finally the Chinese who, with a vengeful nod from Washington, came down from the north. All of them were seen off at immeasurable cost.
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