"Saigon was an addicted city, and we were……" — James Fenton

Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption… - James Fenton

"Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase."

— James Fenton

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