Vietnam: The Fruits of Blindness

Pursue a disastrous policy long enough, and the outcome is inevitable. Politics is a ruthless discipline; error and stupidity exact a cruel price. Supporting the authoritarian Diem in the name of anti-Communism, the U.S. helped spawn the odious Nhus, which in turn makes more likely the eventual victory of the Communist Ho Chi Minh.

Priests, university students, highschool girls are packed into jail. Their jailors are an elite special force subsidized from CIA funds. The U.S. government...