Background to Betrayal the Tragedy of Vietnam b
Hilaire du Berrier
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CIA/State
Dept. Cold War liberals and anti-Communist social democrats dominated
the US foreign policy establishment in 1954.They thought the existing
indigenous elite in Vietnam was too traditionalist and too corrupt to
bring about the (non-Communist) social revolution they assumed Vietnam
needed.
So
they picked Diem , a man with impeccable anti-colonialist, anti-French
credentials and a brother in the anti-communist wing of the
international labor movement. It also didn't hurt that he was one of a
handful of Vietnamese of any kind living in the US in 1954 and he didn't
stint on presenting his case.
But
when the CIA and the State Department gave control of the country to
Diem and his family they presented it to a gang of thieves far worse
than the ones that had preceded them. Also, Diem was far more concerned
with crushing anti-Communist traditionalist power centers than he was
with fighting the Viet Cong. He tried-using bribery made possible by
generous US aid and police state terror administered by Diem's brother
Nhu -to create a totalitarian regime while using all the US State Dept.
approved rhetoric. Thus, when Diem was finally overthrown, there were no
strong, coherent elements left in the South to counter the Vietcong
threat.
CIA/State
Dept. Cold War liberals and anti-Communist social democrats dominated
the US foreign policy establishment in 1954.They thought the existing
indigenous elite in Vietnam was too traditionalist and too corrupt to
bring about the (non-Communist) social revolution they assumed Vietnam
needed.
So
they picked Diem , a man with impeccable anti-colonialist, anti-French
credentials and a brother in the anti-communist wing of the
international labor movement. It also didn't hurt that he was one of a
handful of Vietnamese of any kind living in the US in 1954 and he didn't
stint on presenting his case.
But
when the CIA and the State Department gave control of the country to
Diem and his family they presented it to a gang of thieves far worse
than the ones that had preceded them. Also, Diem was far more concerned
with crushing anti-Communist traditionalist power centers than he was
with fighting the Viet Cong. He tried-using bribery made possible by
generous US aid and police state terror administered by Diem's brother
Nhu -to create a totalitarian regime while using all the US State Dept.
approved rhetoric. Thus, when Diem was finally overthrown, there were no
strong, coherent elements left in the South to counter the Vietcong
threat.
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