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“… What I do question is the ability of the United States or any other Western nation<\/a> to go into a small, alien, undeveloped Asian nation and create stability where there is chaos<\/a>, the will to fight<\/a>, where there is defeatism, democracy<\/a> where there is no tradition of it, and honest government where corruption<\/a> is almost a way of life<\/a>. …<\/p>\n Why, we may ask, are they [the Southern Vietnamese] so shockingly ungrateful? … The answer, I think, is that ‘fatal impact’ of the rich<\/a> and strong on the poor<\/a> and weak. Dependent on it though the Vietnamese are, American<\/a> strength is a reproach to their weakness, American wealth a mockery of their poverty, American success a reminder of their failures. What they resent is the disruptive affect of our strong culture<\/a> upon their fragile one, an effect which we can no more avoid having than a man can help being bigger than a child<\/a>. What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. …<\/p>\n The cause of our difficulties in Southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power<\/a> but an excess of the wrong kind of power … We are still acting like Boy Scouts dragging reluctant old ladies across streets they do not want to cross. We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably<\/a> cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders. …”<\/p>\n aus: J. William Fulbright: The Arrogance of Power. London: Cape 1967 (Am.Orig.-Ausg.1966), S.15-18.<\/p>\n