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Out of the Quagmire.("Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War")(Book Review)
Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War, by Henry Kissinger (Simon & Schuster, 640 pp., $18)
We have all heard the story. The peaceful rice farmers of Vietnam had succeeded in throwing off their French masters, and were in the midst of building a new type of agrarian society -- when the United States, in a fit of imperialist frenzy, decided to support a corrupt regime in Saigon and impose, on the uncomprehending natives, an alien vision of human life. But in spite of its genocidal tactics, taken from old Nazi manuals, the U.S. failed to conquer the resilient people. The Vietnamese expelled the invader, ...
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