God, I remember that from Vietnam. A Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest where Diem was taking Vietnam. A few months later a military coup overthrew Diem with an OK from the US government. The US never understood that Vietnam was 5 front war, and made the same mistake with Cambodia. It wasn't just the communist but traditional values Vs progressive values within. That internal struggle made it easy for the communist to prevail.
Is the same thing happening in the US? Our inability to embrace both traditional values and progressive values at the same time? That only one can prevail?
