A
Sure. Wonder what happens to this little beastie on call waiting or something. Huh, fascinating. Well that's not,
B
Sorry for the delay.
A
That's okay.
B
Uh, yeah, this is, the, uh, the, the, uh, mutual defense thing was, uh, we, we, it was complicated, and I don't think everybody knows the whole situation. I don't. But from what I can gather, is we went and said yeah, we will help the South Vietnamese, uh, should they ask. Well, the French went in and tried their old style warfare, and, uh, got soundly thrashed. And we didn't do a whole lot better.
A
Um. No, I had thought that they had, uh, colonies there, or something.
B
Well, yeah, that was the old French colony, but see, the French, the French were our, uh, allies in NATO --