One has to wonder what would have happened had Truman not green-
lighted France's re-entry to their former colony following WWII.
Posted on 10/04/2013 7:01:23 AM PDT by Borges
Edited on 10/04/2013 7:05:01 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial rule and later forced the Americans to abandon their grueling effort to save the country from communism, has died. At age 102, he was the last of Vietnam's old-guard revolutionaries.
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Red bastard.
Good.
Will Obama order flags to half staff?
The media will give this guy better treatment than Reagan got I bet
And today Vietnam is asking OUR help because they’re being bullied by their fellow Commies, China. Burn in hell, Giap.
Secretary of State Kerry (he served in Vietnam, you know) is on his way to Hanoi at this moment, carrying a large blanket of roses for the casket.
/S
Oh my God. ABC news is making Giap out to be George Washington. He killed Americans. He liked killing Americans. Unfortunately, he was good at it. And ABC News writes a glowing obituary? What’s next from ABC?
HITLER: HE COULD REALLY DANCE!!!!!
Hitler liked dogs and children as well.
Giap didn’t defeat the USA alone. He had help with the left here. people like Ted Kennedy, Jane Fonda and John Kerry have as much blood on their hands as Giap.
If the USA was united, the NVA would have never succeded.
A brilliant military tactician.
What a pity he did not choose to lead Vietnam to freedom, instead of slavery.
Think what you will of this ruthless commie, he was one tough em eff.
These military figures from dictatorial regimes really have an advantage don’t they? It’s much easier to succeed when you are willing to sacrifice so many lives of your own troops to do it. Giap and Stalin had this mindset.
“He regularly accepted heavy combat losses to achieve his goals.”
Josef Stalin
Georgi Zhukov
Ivan Konev
Nikolai Vatutin
Mao Zedong
Chou En Lai
Peng Dehuai
Pol Pot
In an atheistic political system, denial that men have souls means they are nothing but pieces of meat to be disposed of as the state sees fit. Never forget that it’s the cornerstone of every communist nation.
So typical of ABC-Socialist/Communist news.
RIH
He was able to sacrifice half a million North Vietnamese soldiers without being removed from command.
His victory was based on taking ten casualties for every single French or American casualty.
His greatest victory, at Dien Bien Phu, was based on doing something no Western general would have been allowed to do without being relieved of command and court-martialed.
He sent men out into an open field of fire to emplace artillery, and as they were cut down he sent in more and more until it was emplaced.
His strategy was to simply throw corpses at his enemies until they were smothered.
The good die young.
I wonder if John Kerry will attend his funeral, since he’s flying to Asia anyway now?
Just damn...third reply...well played.
Ivy League schools and UC Berkeley beat Obama to the punch.
Not really.
He spent the whole Tet Offensive in nearby Budapest, for example.
It's good to be king.
It would have been a 6 month campaign.
“Oh my God. ABC news is making Giap out to be George Washington. He killed Americans. He liked killing Americans. Unfortunately, he was good at it. And ABC News writes a glowing obituary? What’s next from ABC?”
They are carrying on his legacy assuming the role of useful idiots as they were during the Vietnam war.
I remember when the CIA declared both Che and Gen Gaip dead. Then they showed up very much alive.
Several years ago I found on a YAHOO web page, an excerpt of Gen Giap’s book on the VN war and how they won.
They were totally defeated after the TET offensive and were ready to negotiate with the US and South VN.
Then the treasonous son-of-a-bitch WALTER CRONKITE came on TV and declared we could not win the war.
Giap decided to try again and kept up till he negotiated the US out of SVN and then attacked.
That YAHOO page has since disappeared.
What you said is all quite true, and it’s largely reflective of a quote from Giap.
“Even if it comes to only myself and my revolver against the full might of the Americans, even at those odds, I shall win.”
That’s a fanatic, and people like that think nothing of unlimited casualties to achieve their goal.
May he rot in hell and he will.
Victory brought to him by the democrats in the US Congress.
He was a butcher they used to chain their soldiers inside their tanks so they would have to fight or die in the tank and couldn’t surrender.
They still hate Hitler, but Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Guevara, and Mao, they love.
Never regard of that but no surprise.
RIH Commie rat.
Here I remember those days and I remember Walter "North Viet Nam Communists' Most Trusted Man in America" Cronkite.
By the time Cronkite no longer concealed his desire for a U.S. defeat the "anti-war", pro-Ho crowd owned the media. 1968.
I remember that the media even furnished red, blue, and yellow "protest banners" to the "anti-war" crowd. (Viet Cong flags.)
Giap, your long delayed orders to report to Satan have been received.
Finally.
Rot in hell.
Why oh why do these old Commies live so long?
He knew he could never beat American military might, and he never did. The strategy was to break the will of the US gov’t to wage the war.
Which he, and SOBs like John Kerry, eventually did.
Kerry, Fonda, and their commie ilk , including the Dems in Congress in 1975 who voted to defund the aid to South Vietnam causing it to fall(even though it was the law of the land) were directly responsible for the deaths of over three million people in Cambodia,Laos and SV after the war ended.
And they made the sacrifices of those 58,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial almost in vain.
It is a wrong that has never been righted.
AP wrote it. But obviously ABC News agrees with it.
Did the Wayback Machine capture that Yahoo page by any chance?
RIH, “...general...”
My mother told me this old saying, “The Devil takes care of his own.” Of course, aid and comfort from our liberal left fifth column (including trading with Communist Vietnam’s chief sponsor Red China) sure didn’t hurt this one . . .
Why oh why do these old Commies live so long?
It is good he died. Unfortunately, it wasn’t many decades ago.
It is good he died. Unfortunately, it wasn’t many decades ago.
When he gets to the funeral he'll find McCain already settled into the front row.
—He killed Americans. He liked killing Americans.—
He also liked killing the French.
/just leaving this here.
He lived long enough to see Vietnam make underwear for Imperialist Running Dogs and Capitalist Roaders. I’m not sure that’s what he had in mind.
Here’s the obituary the AP and ABC should have had.
Giap died.
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