You got it. Uncle Ho was driven to the Marxist camp by the French rebuff at Versailles and after spending a few years in Lenin's Russia became a full blown Revolutionary.
Ho was a commie from the get go after WWI like you say, and that is why we backed France. After WWII the US embarked on an anti-empire crusade, pressuring all the colonial powers to divest themselves of empire, naively thinking all the colonies would turn into mini-USAs. Same schit happened with Castro, he was a commie all the way and we got suckered because Batista was a dictator. We reluctantly helped the French as a buffer against communism (China) , but we turned around and stabbed them at the Brits in the back in Suez and Iran. US Foreign policy post-WWII made no bones about their anti-colonial policies almost as fervently as anti-communism.
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
