This... May 26, 2014

[JackRiddler]

32. Invade that country!!!

"Hundreds of political opponents were jailed or exiled in July 1946, notably members of the National Party of Vietnam and the Dai Viet National Party, after a failed attempt to raise a coup against the Vietminh government."

Those Vietminh! Why didn't they give hugs and chocolates to the people who tried to overthrow them? In the face of this shock, shocking behavior by a liberation movement that was literally under attack from multiple foreign invaders, it was America's sacred duty to step in from the other side of the Pacific! We were the only ones who could restore the righteous, legitimate, bloody, racist, imperialist rule of the French republic over a randomly-conquered territory at the opposite end of Eurasia from France!

It's not like Truman was conducting any purges of perceived domestic enemies at the same time, on a lot less pretext. The man who had just dropped atomic bombs on cities was totally the one to tell the Vietnamese how to run their affairs!