I can't honestly see that comic really 'recruiting' anyone. It surprises me that they seem to have genuinely expected it to.
The Viet Cong were mainly supported by the peasants because a) a fair few had family members in the VC somewhere, and b) there were nearly always VC somewhere nearby. And even if the peasants themselves weren't communists, it was a choice between siding with the Americans who look really freaky and foreign and scare the living hell out of you even when they aren't bombing or shooting you, or supporting the VC, who are at least Vietnamese and who probably know you by name, and will fucking know if you rat them out because someone else in the village will always notice your movements... probably local children, whom the Viet Cong appeal to with games and little patiotic songs.
And pretty much any atrocities the Viet Cong committed were also committed by Americans/Republicans. The difference was that the VC would tend to do it when they thought you'd fucked with them in some way, whereas the Americans would do it more or less indescriminately on their commie-hunting raids.
Goddamn fucking little stealth smilies.
This post has been edited by Rhubarb: 30 April 2005 - 12:17 PM