[Parmy]

Seems to me I remember Buddhist monks in Saigon setting themselves on fire. Ancient history. But, it really didn't stop the war. In fact, it gave the leftists and anti-war, anti-freedom crowd in the media and college campuses fodder to oppose the war.

Result: Two years after American and ally combat forces left and Congress wouldn't fund the Saigon govt., Vietnam was lost to the North Vietnamese communists.

That then led to the slaughter in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

[Laslo Fripp]

Name two things that get less than 1 MPG.

A Buddhist monk and a United Methodist minister.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Buddhist monk suicides were to protest the Diem regime. Diem’s sister-in-law, Madame Nhu, the Dragon Lady, mocked them as “monk barbecues.” But they probably helped lead to the downfall of Diem in November 1963. That was when the US presence in South Vietnam was still relatively small.