... exploiting a basic weakness of the Christian West," (Hoopes 2). The lesson the Americans learned was that this war for the Vietnamese meant far more than Communism, but to achieve an "unfulfilled national purpose [from the first Indochina War]" and that by being the formidably stronger opponent, the Americans confronted the strategy of the weak, or, in other words, made the Vietnamese more ... ...

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