"We found that not only was it a civil war,an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever,but also we found that the Vietnamese ...were hard put to take up the fight against the threat we were supposedly saving them from. We found most people didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy.They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and tearing their country apart.They wanted everything to do with the war,particularly with this foreign presence of the United States of America,to leave them alone in peace,and they practiced the art of survival by siding with whichever military force was present at a particular time,be it Vietcong,North Vietnamese,or American."
According to John Kerry,testifying on behalf of Vietnam Veterans Against the War,what was the attitude of most Vietnamese people toward the threat of communism?
A) They were very afraid of communism but did not understand democracy.
B) They were mostly pro-Communist.
C) Many of them did not know the difference between communism and democracy.
D) They had a heavy ideological investment in democracy.
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