Thread:JTH.REKOR/@comment-30769906-20170404171351/@comment-30769906-20170414132122

You write as if Diem was having the situation under control, and he was not, his army was taking a beating of communist guerrilla groups and the social situation was terrible, his government was totally unpopular.

Are you dumb to think that during the Cold War the USA would support a communist guerrilla? In fact they were totally dissatisfied with Diem's ​​social policies, which caused more tension between social and religious groups and beyond their extreme incompetence to deal with the communist guerrillas who were gaining more and more strength. But you ignore the fact that they were on the side of South Vietnam all the time.