Dead Cant Rant

In his 1971 testimony, John Kerry portrayed the Vietnamese people as a whole as puppets who would simply roll over for whomever provided them a cupful of rice.

We found most people didn’t even know the difference between communism and democracy. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and tearing their country apart. They wanted everything to do with the war, particularly with this foreign presence of the United States of America, to leave them alone in peace, and they practiced the art of survival by siding with whichever military force was present at a particular time, be it Vietcong, North Vietnamese, or American.

This, of course, explains why the South Vietnamese did not resist the North Vietnamese invasion, and also explains the massive Diaspora of “boat people” who fled to China.

Since the South Vietnamese didn’t care who they were governed by, why did the North Vietnamese bother with the mass slaughter and “re-education” camps? Surely they were not necessary, since the South Vietnamese were simple peasant folk who had no concept of or desire for freedom.