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[quote=YINDUFFY,293655]I believe the reference to "misunderstood" refers to the opinons formed by the Americans back home after getting news from the biased media. It may be hard for some people in other countries to understand but the press U.S. reporters are not patriotic and will always take sides against our government ( and they still do) and during the 1966-1972 war in Vietnam the reporters always presented a negative point of view. The insurgency in South Vietnam was ended and regular Army troops from North Vietnam invaded the South but the press still portrayed the U.S. forces as fighting local communist guerrillas.
   Unfortunately, as in Iraq today, there was no real efficient government in the South to carry on after the U.S. military involvement. Vietnam today is the result of an invasion of South Vietnam by military forces of the North. ( As an aside, Vietnamese-Americans today refuse to fly the flag of unified Vietnam and prefer the yellow flag with red stripes of the old Republic of Vietnam.)[/quote]

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