... and subordinated people, and this lens made them blind to the true reality of what was to come. The Americans later realized that what they had seen as weakness in the Vietnamese people was actually forming an ideological imperative that was impossible for them to crush. For Hoopes, a fighter pilot in the latter years of the Vietnam War, it was clear that what constituted victory and defeat ... was not shared equally by both sides, since the Americans "[projected] onto Asians their own values; [believing] the threat of steadily enlarged destruction [would] force them to seek a reasonab...

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