In his book, JFK, Flecher Prouty details the beginning of the Vietnam war when the CIA, under Dulles, began to turn the screws on this American, anti-Japanese 'friend'.
How we pushed over a million Catholic Vietemese into the south to destabilise the government, threw out the Franch banking system and ruined their export rice market.
And that was just the beginning.
Result:
over a million Vietmanese dead and over 58,000 of my boithers and sisters in arms now are names engraved in a dark wall...
It caused the devaluation of our currency to a fiat paper money without any backing and the road to our present bankruptcy.
Wall Street made out like a bandit. Profits were high and the price paid is still being felt.