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Yeah it is a heavily flawed argument too. You really can't have a rational argument where someone accepts falsehoods as legitimate. Those people are inherently blind.

The people who were massacred at Hue would likely attest to the falsity of that fact if they had somehow survived.

The general story is the VC (communists) took Hue during Vietnam and their leadership had information that had been collected by the Russians on who spoke with Americans as dossiers.

Once they took Hue, they went door to door clipboards in hand and killed every single family that had an American connection.

Even today, the death estimate is not solid as they burned a lot of bodies before a count could be determined after-the-fact.

That massacre largely wouldn't have been possible, or as targeted without information gathering done beforehand. Any covert information gathering is an openly hostile intention and act. Its a necessary pre-requisite for any successful attack on your person.