> the four things one might wish from a government: They had a
> (relatively) uncorrupt administration. They lacked political democracy,
> they lacked "soft" rule, they lacked economic policies to
> bring prosperity and development. Plus they seem to have had a truly
> vicious strain of anti-Chinese descent ethnic hatred.
Substitute "Iraqi" for "Chinese" and you have an amazingly accurate picture of the Bananamerican oiligarchy.
Re the Chinese thing: it's this 1,000 year history of successive murderous invasions, whose latest round was a little skirmish in 1979. Nothing you Americans would understand.
-- Dennis (sipping kickass Viet-coffee)