Alien Overlord wrote:Not to get off topic but i'd like to point out that South Vietnam was smothered in the cradle before it really had a chance to develop it's democratic system. We can see the exact same thing in South Korea, where is took some decades for it to evolve into a functional democracy. I fully believe that if we had supported South Vietnam and gone back in after the North broke the Paris Peace Accords, South Vietnam may have become one of the most prosperous nations in Southeast Asia today, instead of being shackled to the North and it's corrupt government.
That's a blatant lie. The Vietnamese had
separated themselves before the North-South debacle and it wasn't pretty. Basically two states fought for control of Vietnam for more than a century and weakened themselves so much they both fell to a popular revolt.
If there is anything the Vietnamese refuse to compromise on, it's independence and unity. Even if South Vietnam had somehow survived the onslaught of the North after the Paris Peace Accords with a returned US, it would have never achieved true peace. It would have become another corrupt Afghanistan slowly collapsing and dependent on US aid.
The Vietnamese ain't the Koreans. Sell them vain "prosperity" in exchange for eternal separation and foreign domination is a surefire way of getting yourself kicked out.