The Vietnam debate reflects our intellectual unpreparedness. Crisis has arisen on the farthest frontier of public knowledge, and viewpoints diverge widely because we all lack background information. 'Vietnam' was not even a label on our horizon twenty years ago. It was still 'Annam' (the old Chinese term), buried within the French creation, 'Indo-China.'
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