Diem

This Man Could Have Kept Vietnam From Communists, But The Kennedy Administration Okayed His Assassination. Geoffrey Shaw’s account is a page-turning, sorrowful account of how the United States betrayed a man of remarkable character and political genius. By Casey Chalk http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/02/man-kept-vietnam-communists-kennedy-administration-okayed-assassination/

Excerpt: On 2 November, groups of Vietnamese men, women, and children will gather for memorial services across the world to honor the death of a man largely forgotten in American historical memory. Once this man was a household name, frequently featured on the front pages of our nation’s newspapers and spoken from the mouths of reporters on the nightly news. That man is Ngo Dinh Diem, president of the Republic of Vietnam (better known as South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1963, his rule and life cruelly ended in a military coup tacitly supported by the U.S. government. A recent book on Diem’s life, “The Lost Mandate of Heaven: The American Betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam,” by military historian Geoffrey Shaw clarifies why Americans would do well to mourn the tragic loss of a man many deemed to be Vietnam’s best chance of defeating communism. (So long overdue.... And the shame belongs to just a few idiot American officials and journalists for so effectively undercutting him, and running a real campaign against him of slander and misinformation. The coup may have been one of the worst things that ever happened to RVN. --Del)