Vietminh officers comments - irony, anyone?

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 2004)

As near as I can tell, no one has commented on the irony of the dialog by the Vietminh officer at the beginning of the movie. I have cut and pasted it as follows: - - "Viet Minh Sergeant: Do we take prisoners? Nguyen Huu An: No. Kill all they send... and they will stop coming. "
Kill all they send and they will stop coming. Hmm. They did and they did. Oh, it took only about twenty years, but they did stop coming. First the Japanese, then the French, and finally the Americans. But they did stop coming. There should never have been a North Viet Nam and a South Viet Nam in the first place. Had there been elections to begin with in 1954 after Dienbienphu, etc., Ho Chi Minh would have won and that would have been the end of it. But no. We had to butt in. Oh, well...