Still, I'll give him credit for excessive verbosity; he crammed 2.9 paragraphs of fact and speculation into 29 pages, only part of which were expended in promoting his ideological as opposed to scholarly view.

He did a better job than most of listing all the synergistic factors but his end inference is not impartial. Not that it needs to be; just that he had a chance to produce a meaningful paper and it turned into a diatribe IMO...

Way too early to say this is the debacle of the century, much less ever. Too early yet to fully judge Viet Nam for that matter.