Nobody Remembers Ngo Dinh Diem

Nobody Remembers

HA! Obama backed the wrong man in Egypt, the place has gone nuts, and he has to come out today and acted like he had nothing whatsoever to do with it. It’s a big mess.

(Sigh.) Obama helped Mohamed Morsi by sending him millions of dollars (some estimates 2 billion)  and 20 advanced jets, while Morsi was saying things against the United States.  He backed a Jew hating, Christian hating, American hating, horrible thug of a man, who forced a strict Islamic Constitution on his people, and I wish I could say that Nobody Remembers this happening before, but before Morsi, there was Ngo Dinh Diem.

You remember him don’t you? He was the little squirt of a guy that we backed in Vietnam, even after Eisenhower advisers called him ‘hopeless,’ and the French prime ministers Edgar Faure called him, “not only incapable, but mad.”  That didn’t stop John F. Kennedy  from claiming  that Diem’s regime was “The cornerstone of the free world in Southeast Asia, the keystone to the arch, the finger in the dyke.’

Lyndon Johnson compared him to Churchill.

Nobody Notice:—Before the Vietnam War the United States had not been ‘attacked’ by the communists of North Vietnam, unlike on 9/11, or Pearl Harbor.  But, our great leaders had to come up with something. Communism was coming after us OVER THERE if we didn’t go OVER THERE to stop it.  Sound familiar? (The Jihadist will come over here if we don’t go over there to stop it. )

My neighbor might come OVER here and steal my lawn mower if I don’t go over to his house and nail his garage door shut.

(Nobody Thinks they must teach these political guys all the lines at conferences on World BS 101.)

Why did the democrats pick Diem? He was a devout Catholic who had seen years in exile in New Jersey. (Mohamed Morsi had been a professor in California!) South Vietnam was 95 percent Buddhist….and he was all about ruling, not as a democracy but as an autocratic dictator with his family and friends in control.  Pretty much what the Muslim Brotherhood does. Rule by Theocratic Thugs.

 Nhu, his brother became the head of the secret police. And his wife was a real peach. Madame Nhu abolished divorce and made adultery a crime. She banned contraceptives, beauty contest, and boxing matches. She closed Saigon’s nightclubs and ballrooms…in Saigon. Not that the place didn’t need a bit of cleaning up, but….let’s just say Morsi would have loved her.

In other words, Diem believed in divine rule, (like Morsi)  and he was divine.

One CIA guy said Diem was…”Very prissy. Very authoritarian,. Rather pompous.”

And just like a good democrat, he held an election and claimed himself victory with 98 percent of the vote….(NO doubt he learned that in Jersey)  Of course, it was a lie. He bought his own troops into Saigon to vote. He stuffed ballot boxes. We spend a million dollars a day propping up this guy.

Diem was one of the main reasons we ‘lost’ the war in Vietnam, and a whole generation of American man lost their lives. Not to mention, the millions that were killed by the communists afterwards.

But..Presidents don’t think of these things, evidently.

One of the worst ideas Diem had, that drove his own people into the arms of the communists , was his “strategic hamlet” program. Peasants were forced from their native villages, to move into fortified villages that were often miles from their fields or markets. It was basically forced labor. The French had given the farmers free land, but then Diem made them pay for the land they already had.  And just like Mohamed Morsi.. the things people needed— like hospitals,  schools, social services, jobs… etc, he ignored.  Many people joined the Viet Cong just to “get Diem.”

The people, like people everywhere, just wanted to be left alone.

So here’s the pattern. The United States picks some leader they think will be under their control, they send them BILLIONS, and everything under the sun, and then that guy turns around and $&% us.

Have you noticed the pattern?

Later on, Diem’s own cabinet, noticing the suffering of the people, offered modest reforms to him. He got so mad he closed newspapers, and arrested journalists— students, calling everyone who went against him a communist.  (Morsi did this too. )

Diem continued to get billions from the United States, and funneled that money into his personal military and police to protect himself from his own citizens rather than to fight the Viet Cong.

Diem was a ‘puppet who pulled his own strings.’ Sort of like Karsi, only he didn’t wear a stupid cape.

And while Diem was playing King, Kennedy, in direct violation of the Geneva agreement sent in our military. When, troops, advisers, and 47 helicopters were already going on bombing missions, Kennedy was asked in a news conference on January 15, 1962, if the United States were engaged in Vietnam.

His one world answer was “no.”

In the meantime, Diem went in hiding and let his brother, Nhu, run the show.  And then Nhu, turned on the Buddhists. They told them they could not fly their flag.

Then , one day, Diem’s men fired upon a Buddhist crowd killing a woman and 8 children. The Buddhists starting protesting. Madame Nhu blamed the Americans.  No, Madame Nhu was not proud of her country..(.If only she could have talked to Michelle. )

On June 11, an old Buddhist protested Deim’s treatment of the Buddhists by setting himself on fire. Diem then declared martial law and sent his loyal forces to attack Buddhist temples in cities throughout the country. They arrested monks and nuns.  Morsi has done the very same thing to the Christians in Egypt.

When the United States threatened to stop giving Deim and Nhu money, Nhu started working with the communists. Nhu’s own general worked with the United States and they …were …uh…killed. Nobody Knows who killed them, but the jungle is a good guess. ( Or…they’re drinking champagne back in New Jersey.)

It took twelve more years, to end that war. We lost 58,286 KIA, 153,303, WIA. And millions of South Vietnamese were killed after we left.

And so, Obama gave Morsi billions, and Morsi did exactly what Ngo Dinh Diem did. He forgot the people, and started to repress them all. Now his men are killing Christians. And Obama is condemning, NOT the Muslim brotherhood, but the military that is killing the people KILLING Christians.

Go figure. .

And so, will Obama keep backing the Muslim Brotherhood, as he now backs Al-Qaeda in Syria? Will the poor people in Egypt who are just trying to get the Muslim Brotherhood out of their government get a fair support from OUR media?

Is that a stupid question or what?

August 16, 2013 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Egypt, Middle East, Military, Uncategorized | Egytian Riots, globalization, Mohamed Morsi, Muslims, Ngo Dinh Diem, Obama, Vietnam, War | Leave a comment