LONG before the Viet Nam papers were liberated from the Pentagon's files, Americans had endlessly debated the question of why the U.S. ever got into the war. The official rationale was, and remains, that the South Vietnamese need and want U.S. help to maintain their independence. In fact, the feelings of the Vietnamese people were rarely considered by U.S. policymakers. Recently, a more or less formal poll was taken among the South Vietnamese to find out what, in their view, the U.S. has been up to. The answers, gathered by U.S.-trained poll takers...
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