Vietnam was founded in 2879 BC? Good Lord!!!! I had no idea. I don’t try to hide my lack of knowledge in many areas or all i would be doing is hiding my lack of knowledge :)
thanks for the lesson.
But I guess they still hated the idea of a US supported government there more than the old enemy they knew.
“But I guess they still hated the idea of a US supported government there more than the old enemy they knew.”
Like with the French, once they drove us out they missed us and mythologized us.
You would have hoped that our experience there would have taught our foreign service types that western values can’t always be imposed on ancient cultures. But the recent adventure in Iraq proves that such lessons aren’t learned.
Japan was a fluke. They had been flirting with western style government before WWII and so they were receptive to it after their defeat.