Failures to win Vietnamese Hearts & Minds

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What did propaganda claim?

The USA wanted democracy for South Vietnam.

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What did South Vietnamese see the USA as?

Simply a foreign power interfering in their country.

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What was very unpopular?

The US-backed South Vietnamese government.

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What was the government also hated for?

Its ties to the French colonial interests of the past that were seen as anti-Vietnamese.

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What did many local people in South Vietnam have?

Far more sympathy with the ideas and values of the Vietcong and North Vietnam than with a government imposed on them by the USA.