Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. Once they had begun ... reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism, and Cold War were meaningless," (Mecklin 4). Furthermore, Americans faced great difficulty in being able to communicate with the Vietnamese peasants, and believed that "[their] concept of [nationhood] ... , since the Americans "[projected] onto Asians their own values; [believi...

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