But then again, the General Publics imagination isn't up too much.
Oh, I dunno...
they have accepted dozens of previously "BAD" people as soon as their government told them what to think.
Like, "OK we'll give guns to the viet minh, so that they can fight the French, who are notionally our allies"
"OK, the French have moved out, so we need to fight against the weapons we just gave them"
"Oh, and we also need a new nickname for them that sounds a bit evil - we'll call them the viet cong!"
Then, VOILA, everyone thinks they know what's happening, because they have short attention spans and can only remember what was on the "news" that evening.
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