The Last Vietnam?

It was not only in the United States that the Vietnam War was divisive. In London, to be personal, I could name several journalistic colleagues and former friends who would cross the street to avoid speaking to me because I supported the American intervention.

Yet my support was conditional. I was utterly convinced that successive Presidents were right in trying to save the Vietnamese and their neighbors from the horrors of a Communist regime (although even I could not have forecast Pol Pot’s genocide in Cambodia). But it was also clear to me that the Americans had no strategy for victory: in other words, that the U.S. was heading for defeat.

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It was not only in the United States that the Vietnam War was divisive. In London, to be personal, I could name several journalistic colleagues and former friends who would cross the street to avoid speaking to me because I supported the American intervention.

Yet my support was conditional. I was utterly convinced that successive Presidents were right in trying to save the Vietnamese and their neighbors from the horrors of a Communist regime (although even I could not have forecast Pol Pot’s genocide in Cambodia). But it was also clear to me that the Americans had no strategy for victory: in other words, that the U.S. was heading for defeat.