Quote:
Originally Posted by Dondilion
Vietnam paid too huge price for national identity.
South Vietnam could be like South Korea.
|
you need to read Fire In The Lake by Frances Fitzgerald.
LBJ made the same mistake that you do...thinking that all Vietnam needed was infrastructure and Western imposed democracy. You should also check out the book by Halberstam called The Best and the Brightest. In short the author posits that South Vietnam was not really a nation since it could not exist without America propping it up.
We should have listened to Graham Greene.