Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. The...y believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the United States was attempting to fit its global strategies into a world of hillocks a...nd hamlets, to reduce its majestic concerns for the containment of communism and the security of the Free World to a dimension where governments rose and fell as a result of arguments between two colonels' wives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »