The Importance of Understanding the Ideologicalized World

American leaders never could explain to the American people What they're fighting against was Not a bunch of Vietnamese agrarian reformers peasants in straw hats. The confusion over whether our enemies were Vietnamese and national resistance independence or They were communist that actually could have partially explained our disaster in Vietnam. In return Nixon's policy In 1972 open up China follows a similar line. So those were the fundamental failures of america leadership You understand the ideologicalized the world Particularly the communist world And we made the same mistake in the middle east And uh In many other places in Latin America as well.