“The dude was corrupt as hell. Then he was a Catholic and determined to keep Buddhists in their place. Its retarded to think he could have changed the outcome of the war.”
AMEN! And remember Buddhists were about 75% of the population.
Wrong.
Wrong by a country mile.
Buddhists have never been more than about a 15% minority in VietNam, even combining the North and South.
The vast majority of VietNanese, primarily of the Kinh (Viet) ethnic group practice a folk religion that is based on ancestral and nature worship.
Buddhists simply appeared to be prominent in that they were used as shills both by the Communists and the foreign (including American) press.