The Anticommunist Việt-Cộng
The Anticommunist Việt-Cộng
Freedom Fighters and the New Politics of Rescue
This chapter resurrects the infamous history of shadowy US-based anti-communist insurgent forces modelled on Ronald Reagan’s “freedom fighters.” Often disparaged as the quintessential “bad refugee” that brought the Vietnam War to America, as evidenced by the unsolved murders of several Vietnamese journalists suspected of communist ties, the members of the “resistance movement” were actually being “good refugees” as defined by the secret Cold War policies of the Reagan Administration.
Keywords: resistance movement, freedom fighters, Reagan Doctrine, the Front, Cold War, anticommunism, Vietnam Syndrome, neoconservatism
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