From Britain and France, with their histories of colonialism and slaughter, or the United States, whose drones have, well out of view of television crews, killed scores of civilians?

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This was actually two wars, one in which the United States came to the aid of patriots fighting against Spanish colonialism, and then a second in which it repressed those patriots to assure that their newly liberated nations would be American protectorates rather than truly independent.

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He wrote to President Truman on eight occasions, praising American anti-colonialism and looking forward to happy relations between Vietnam and the United States.

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