Robert Buzzanco's "Fear and (Self) Loathing in Lubbock"

This is a response to Robert Buzzanco's article, "Fear and (Self) Loathing in Lubbock," which argued against views expressed by the author about the US-Vietnam War. This essay emphasizes the perspective of anticommunist Vietnamese, suggests a rationale for American policy decisions, and contextualizes the outcome of the war with human choices rather than with a scheme of historical inevitability.