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October 4, 2013
A tenacious, implacable enemy
He was regarded as an elder statesman whose hard-line views had softened with the cessation of the war that unified Vietnam. He supported economic reform and closer relations with the United States while publicly warning of the spread of Chinese influence and the environmental costs of industrialization. To his American adversaries, however, from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, he was perhaps second only to his mentor, Ho Chi Minh, as the face of a tenacious, implacable enemy.
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Should have died in "Rolling Thunder".
Posted by: Michael J. Bilek at October 4, 2013 10:41 PM
"He was regarded as an elder statesman whose hard-line views had softened with the cessation of the war that unified Vietnam."
Unified Vietnam.
Posted by: Mumblix Grumph at October 5, 2013 2:38 AM
It is easy to be a military genius when one is fighting the French (socialist post WW2, broke, enervated) and then the USA (no plan to win, President Johnson more interested in domestic war on poverty, non-white immigration, Black Rights, Medicare, and then President Nixon ( no plan to win, get out with "honor" but get out, and then President by appointment after Watergate with a Democrat Congress abandoning South Viet Nam to its fate).
Dan Kurt
Posted by: Dan Kurt at October 5, 2013 8:18 AM
The truly tenacious, implacable enemy is the Democrat Party. Without those b@$+@rd$, Giap would have wound up running a donut shop in San Bernardino.
Posted by: Fat Man at October 5, 2013 8:37 AM
Dear Fat Man, He would have wound as carrion.
Posted by: Grace at October 5, 2013 9:40 AM
He ousted us after the Democrats in congress cut off funding for our allies in SE Asia. Chris Dodd addressed congress and teld them the Cambodians would be better off under Pol Pot. The man is a fool.
Posted by: Ray at October 5, 2013 1:34 PM
He's lucky he met us before we invented drones.
Posted by: Casca at October 6, 2013 4:37 AM