Last Chance in Vietnam

Half the art of politics consists in timing. Programs cease to be relevant after a certain point; they matter only if applied at the appropriate moment.

For years now both radical and even non-radical students of the Vietnamese situation have been saying that a precondition for defeating the Communist guerrillas was a government ready to apply seriously a democratic social program, one that would give land to he peasants and political and economic reforms to the cities. This might not ...