So's Viet Nam. I'll expect neoncon wannabe' Sarkozy to march in there any day to enforce fair elections. Same with our armchair tough guys. You just know that's what Joe Lieberman and Bill Kristol talk about over beers at the VFW. /sarc
After WWII, an important faction in Washington, DC described Ho Chi Minh as "Vietnam's George Washington," so our help to the Frog was half-hearted at best.
Look about. The French colonies that were smart enough to remain French Colonies do one hell of a lot better than those benighted savages who abandoned la culture française to jump prematurely on the post-colonial bandwagon! Besides, ain't no natives nowhere nohow ever gonna top the French National Anthem and the cooking. And have you seen the cut of their loincloths? Execrable! Absolument épouvante!
From the SHUDDAWUDDACUDDA dept: (1) We should have helped the Frogs blast the commies in VietNam the way the Brits did in Malaya. (Of course the commies back in Paris weren't all that keen on the idea, either.) (2) We should have let MacArthur finish off the CHICOM when we had the chance in Korea. We now know the Russkis would not have stopped us.