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Scholarly Essay Response Required of 500-750 words.
Consider and give deep thought to the following quote:
“His Holiness the Pope, by virtue of being Christ’s Vicegerent upon earth, piously assumed to himself a right to dispose of the territories of infidels as he thought fit. And in process of time all Christian princes learned to imitate his example, very liberally giving and granting away the dominions and property of Pagan countries. They did not seem to be satisfied with the title which Christianity gave them to the next world only, but chose to infer from thence an exclusive right to this world also.” Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted
Examining the issue of French imperialism in Indochina, relate the quoted passage to the situation and conditions leading up to the Viet Minh’s fight for independence from French colonial rule in Vietnam, all leading to the decline of French control. Early on, why was it difficult for the Vietnamese to resist French imperial power, which was driven by superior military technology and the moral imperative (as evidenced from the quoted passage) to conquer in the first instance? What role did Ho Chi Minh and his followers play in teaching the Vietnamese people to fight back by successfully combining guerrilla warfare with political indoctrination and organization?
Explain how the United States failed to heed the lessons that the French painfully learned by involving itself in the same “quagmire” the French found themselves in.