Who were the good guys in the Vietnam War?

[G-Megas-Doux]

Victor's rights - France folded and Vichy was damn pliable for the Germans. You didn't see a Vichy Poland. At the end of WW2 the French were in no position to reoccupy their Asian colonies except with OK of the UK and US - who should have vetoed any return of colonial rule.

I doubt the British would have seriously considered vetoing France out of their colonies. The post war government was not Vichy it was De Gaul and a new constitution. Though France did screw up, it is likely had they left Vietnam would have still gone communist.

I think the only ones who were innocent were the ones who were non combatant and trying to avoid the fight. Unfortunately when the locals are being coerced by Vietminh and later Vietcong. Then when that happens it makes it harder for the French later the US to root out.