Nguyen Khanh - Vietnam Quotes
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I was supporting the Buddhists. But the, the Buddhists in a a general uh strategy. You know, we have uh... India, Burma, Cambodia... uh Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan. What we call that... it's a Yellow Bear. Yellow Bear to stop the red invasion. That's a kind of, of uh, uh... religion side of the fight again the Communists. So I was for the organization of kind of international Buddhists. And if you remember, we had a headquarters, international Buddhists at that time, in Saigon to all, to buil—build its forces, to face Communists red, "vague" of red, you know, invasion from the China, Indochina or Russian.Nguyen Khanh
The French Colonial, you know... did not export too much their ideal of d—of democracy outside of the French frontier. Now, with the American people, you export too much your democracy and your... freedom, you know, all that, your way of life and you want to impose that uh in the country like Vietnam, it doesn — it doesn't, it cannot work. But, in some way, we better adapt and not adopt what you have.Nguyen Khanh
We, we respect very much what the American want to do uh... but, you know sometime the American way of life and the... uh American democracy maybe uh cannot work in a country like mine, you know, in South Vietnam. Uh... so, we, we can have the principle and adapt that in the country but we cannot adapt what you have here, you know, eh two houses, all that stuff, you know, and changing the president every four year. You have many people here who can be leader of the country. We have a few in Vietnam, a few who can uh you know uh lead the country because education, because the training, because all that uh, background that we must have, you know.Nguyen Khanh
Now I had the power, I want to realize the goals of the Vietnamese revolution back in 1945. The goals were and still be right now is, they uh, independence, that means national sovereignty, the uh, freedom, and the happiness of the whole population. It was the national aim, strategically, but when I had the power the country was divided in two parts on the 17th parallel, we had insurgency in South Vietnam and I want to uh, how to said it, integrate the Front of Liberation, the non-communist people and the Front of Liberation with me and then uh... to fight the North Vietnamese if at that time, the North Vietnamese do not uh, did not want to have a peaceful solution in North Vietnam, in South Vietnam.Nguyen Khanh
The boat people, the boat people, in getting out what got in, getting out of South Vietnam, that so called communist paradise and that's to show enough to the whole world that the communist regime doesn't work in South Vietnam. And maybe if we are in fight now inside in... in... South Vietnam, we will have certainly the support of the general, of the majority, of the population. We never had that thing before. But now, if there is some, something, you know, moving over there, I am almost sure that we have I am sure that we have, the support, the majority of the population.Nguyen Khanh
