The Protracted Conflict

Accounting for Tastes

Many Americans prefer leftist regimes, including Communist and other Marxist regimes, to rightist regimes. This phenomenon has been conspicuous in the case of the two Vietnams. Not only Susan Sontag, Mary McCarthy, Jane Fonda, and Tom Hayden, but a big percentage of the media people, academics, professionals, and liberal and leftist politicians signified their preference for North over South Vietnam.