Vietnam War Is A Study In US Crimes

[bhikkhu]

5. True enough, but a little skewed

The fear that led to criminal and anti-democratic action on the part of the US was not fear that nations emerging from colonialism would come to believe that they had a right to decide their own future; it was fear that they would be swallowed up as proxies in the much larger communist vs capitalist game. Or so went the grand narrative of the time. Whether the narrative was accurate or rational is debatable, but the reasoning of those involved is clear enough, and doesn't need to be rewritten as something that it was not.