History of the Viet Cong

Have not (and will not) watch this video because the preceding blurb and the title suggest it is another contribution to that stomach-churning, fake ‘history’ genre which represents the US as a blundering, imperialist Goliath, outwitted and outfought by a populist Viet Cong (VC) David. To be sure, there was gigantic US blundering (mostly diplomatic and strategic), but tactically the US military “Goliath” was never outfought in any major engagement with the Viet Cong. Locally recruited the Viet Cong may have been, but the organization itself was the Frankenstein creation of a monstrous Communist deceit. The lessons of the premature, conventional invasion of South Korea were well understood in Hanoi. In 1959, a ‘“united front” appearing as a non-communist organization had to be created in the South, and a general uprising strategy was decided’ (see, for only one of many sources, Nguyen Ngoc Chau’s, Vietnam: Political History of the Two Wars. ). If the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, it seems eternally necessary to state and re-state that before the Tet offensive in 1968, the ranks of the VC were increasingly filled by members of the North Vietnamese Army. After Tet, the VC were mostly NVA, and neither were representative of the South Vietnamese people at any time during the war. In 1968, 1972, and finally in 1975, the South Vietnamese were disinclined to rise up in support of Communist liberators who filled the mass graves of Hue with the bodies of the ideologically unsound. Conventional North Vietnamese military aggression and VC terror produced corpses and refugees not popular uprisings. As to whether the defunct VC’s tactics were superior or not, they were irrelevant militarily. It wasn’t a VC tunnel that went through the gates of the Presidential Palace in 1975: it was a fully imported, North Vietnamese tank with a Viet Cong flag stuck on top for the benefit of useful idiots here, there and everywhere. From 1959 to the bitter end of US involvement and betrayal, a quarter of a million South Vietnamese fought and died fighting, initially, the VC, then the NVA pretending to be the VC, and finally just the plain old NVA armed to the teeth with weapons generously supplied by the USSR and Red China. Where are the documentary films about that? The war is over and the wrong side won, but the propaganda continues – as it must! Impervious to facts, even when adduced from Communist archives, the myth of the plucky VC David versus the US imperialist Goliath remains a cornerstone of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s propaganda.

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