the Americans and others don’t see Diem as a good leader was because of the media. They portrayed Diem in the light of American values. Second, what they saw was extremely one sided. Khiem believes that the media hardly saw anything atrocious of the Viet Cong because they would never let reporters tape it. They used the media to their advantage: “I am sure you have seen the video of the ARVN officer coldly shooting the Viet Cong during the Tet battle. What you don’t know is that the person that was killed was an infamous Viet Cong special force agent called the Dac Cong. This group was the one that was responsible for hundreds of deaths in Saigon. They are the ones that strap explosives on themselves and charge into embassies. The officer that killed him was named Loan and had been looking for him for months. This is why we lost. The ones that knew the Viet Cong like Diem were misunderstood. What Diem did for Vietnam he did because it was the only thing that could be done. The Viet Cong were everywhere. Everyone that was arrested was 70% VietCong or willing to help the VietCong. We could not risk the possibility of people being VietCong in Saigon. How can you stop them without extreme measures? The war in Vietnam and Ngo Dinh Diem will always be misunderstood in the history books as long as people only see the facts without an intrinsic understanding. They only see the protests, the videos of Vietnamese being beaten, and the Viet Cong propaganda of righteousness. The Viet Cong are ruthless. Americans or any of their reporters will never see the true face and secret tactics of the Viet Cong. . Even today you will never here anything bad about them in Vietnam. This is because they rule and convince with fear. They are cunning like foxes. They do everything they can to get you to join them. After the war against the French, Ho Chi Minh killed off all of the Dai Viet. (These are what the Vietnamese call that we know as t...
