... cause, since all they could conceive of in life was their social ties. Therefore, the more the Americans escalated the conflict to intimidate them, the more the Vietnamese could muster solidarity, lose "less and less to lose by fighting on", and gain a "capacity for endurance in suffering [as] an instrument for exploiting a basic weakness of the Christian West," (Hoopes 2). The lesson ... ...

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