NHÂN VIỆC OBAMA TIẾP
TRƯƠNG TẤN SANG, TRUYỀN THÔNG MỸ BÌNH LUẬN HỒ CHÍ MINH LÀ MỘT TRONG
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UH HO: OBAMA SAYS VIETNAMESE DICTATOR INSPIRED BY FOUNDING FATHERS
“...we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was
actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and
the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
-- President Obama talking to
reporters alongside Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.
It may come as some unwelcome news to the
families of the nearly 60,000 Americans who died in the Vietnam War that the
whole thing was just a misunderstanding.
That was the impression President Obama gave
on Thursday when he spoke to the press after his meeting with Vietnamese
President Truong Tan Sang. Sang brought Obama a copy of a letter sent to
President Harry Truman from Ho Chi Minh in which the communist dictator spoke
hopefully of cooperation with the United States.
Obama, striking a wistful tone, observed that
it may have taken 67 years, but the United States and Vietnam were finally
enjoying the relationship that Ho once wrote of. After all, Obama said, Ho had
been “inspired by the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
The message here was that if only we might
have bridged our differences then – if only Ho and Truman could have done what
Obama and Sang did this week, so much unpleasantness might have been avoided.
While Jefferson did get pretty fired up about
“the blood of tyrants,” it’s hard to see how the Sage of Monticello inspired
the murderous career of the Vietnamese dictator. Ho famously slaughtered his
opponents, including the infamous butchery of peasant farmers who resisted his
brutal taxation in the early days of Ho’s regime. Not particularly
Jeffersonian.
Estimates run as high as half-a-million killed
in Ho’s effort to consolidate power after his communist forces drove the French
out of Indochina. The killing of landlords and bourgeois-class merchants was
famous even in its day and since then has been documented in even more
horrifying detail.
In Obama’s credulous citing of the
Constitution as an inspiration, there is particular historical dissonance.
And those who carried his banner forward
following his death in 1969 – he remains “Uncle Ho” even to this day – built
upon his brutal regime. Following the final U.S. retreat from Vietnam untold
thousands of Vietnamese, deemed collaborators by the regime, were put to death.
He and his Leninist regime used V.I. Lenin’s tactics: murder, terror and
“reeducation” to obtain, maintain and expand power.
Ho, whose preserved corpse lies in a glass
tomb modeled after Lenin’s in Hanoi, was a seriously bad actor. Whether the
United States should have sought to oust him or not or whether the war was
rightly fought, Ho was not any heir to Jefferson and the Founding Fathers.
In Obama’s credulous citing of the
Constitution as an inspiration, there is particular historical dissonance. One
of the great murders of the 20th century could not have been truly inspired by
the most significant advancement of the rights of the individual in human
history.
Obama may have just been trying to flatter his
guest who was obviously eager to show that Ho was not the monster history shows
him to be. But his connection between the American founders and Ho shows either
a massive lack of historical knowledge on the part of the president or a
remarkable degree of moral flexibility.
While the president and his team will no doubt
dismiss any mention of this as “phony,” this, which as either a gaffe or facile
flattery, will not be so easily waved off. The memories and frustrations of
America’s Vietnam veterans remain strong forces even today.
And Now, A Word From Charles
“[President Obama’s] lower deficit now is
higher than the highest ever in the Bush years. It isn't exactly a record
I think he ought to be running on…”
-- Charles Krauthammer on
“Special Report with Bret Baier.”
Chris Stirewalt is digital politics
editor for Fox News, and his POWER PLAY column appears Monday-Friday on
FoxNews.com. Catch Chris Live online daily at 11:30amET at http:live.foxnews.com.
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