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The Vietnam Syndrome
The United States is fully seen as basically a good guy, but fully fallible. The idea that the U.S. after the Second World War was still at this pinnacle of industrial might and military power wasn't thought about in the early 1960s. It's hard to describe to a generation now who grows up in an era where no one ever believes their government. But we were all wrestling with things back then.