Colonialism

[Janus1]

interesting how you make a judgment about it before reading the book. has it ever occurred to you that he was very much a patriot, and was warning people about the failure of Western policy in SE Asia? the book is decidedly anti-communist, and heavily pro-western/capitalist. he just approaches the subject with an open mind, and the acknolwedgement that as people, we are fallible, and that our foreign policy in this case was an example of us being wrong. additionally, the fact that communists are the enemy does not preclude them from doing things which we should do as well. (i.e., if the USSR does A, that doesnt mean we have to do B, just to be different. if A is good, we should be doing A as well). you should read the book. despite being a fictionalized story, its almost entirely based on firsthand experience, or second hand accounts.