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Choosing Not to Win. In Saigon, 30% of those questioned said the U.S. was in Viet Nam to stop Communism. But 44% could not-or would not-offer any explanation for the massive U.S. presence. A sizable minority of 17% said the Americans were there primarily to test their new weapons or to make money for munitions manufacturers. Nobody suggested, however, as do some New Leftists in the U.S., that Washington plunged so deeply into the war to exploit the oil that has recently been discovered off the shores of South Viet Nam. A majority said that the U.S. could...
What good has the U.S. done for Viet Nam? Almost three-fourths of those questioned in Can Tho cited the fight against Communism and the roads and bridges that the U.S. has built. But 12% could think of nothing specific, and 14% insisted that the U.S. has done no good at all. When the same group was asked what were the worst things Americans had done, 78% cited the corruption of Vietnamese youth, women, customs and traditions, the use of Vietnamese officials as "henchmen," the undermining of the country's politics and economy, and the disregard of its national...
...South Vietnamese. The interviews demonstrated beyond a doubt that even the most sophisticated Vietnamese blame the U.S. for a wide range of war-induced problems, from economic crises to political corruption. Items: A NEWSPAPER EDITOR: "At first, the Vietnamese thought the Americans were very generous, with idealism to fight Communism. But after years of seeing you behave in bars, driving recklessly and insulting our people, we know that we were wrong to put you so high. You put a woman too high, and then you marry her and realize you were deceived. So it is with...
...demonstrators.' You show us how to shoot the M-16 and fly the F5, and we need you for that. But you are not 'advisers.' You thought that by giving us an easy life, a television, a washing machine, a car, that we could fight Communism better. That is not true. You must have discipline, you must make sacrifices to fight Communism. We have become bourgeois, although we were not born to be bourgeois...
...that won praise for McNamara in his early years as Pentagon chief landed him in deep trouble later. He wanted to escape from the Eisenhower era's reliance on massive retaliation, so he pursued what was then considered a liberal course. He prepared for conventional war to combat Communism wherever it appeared to threaten American interests. Yet he helped lead the nation into a war of unforeseen magnitude. His business acumen enabled him to gain control of the sprawling Defense establishment. Yet he was so infatuated with statistics that he was long blinded to the human factors...