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Thanks, I must do that. I read Tim O'Brien's book years ago. In the past I was much too accepting of the narrative that commies are bad, perhaps because of The Killing Fields. Now, although nearly all communist regimes have no legitimacy in my eyes because they lock up their critics, I can see that embracing communism is a logical reaction to colonialism. Maybe Vietnam and Laos now have 'good' communist regimes...I have no idea.