摘要：WHILE Richard J. Bamet has a special place outside his heart for Presidents and their advisers, especially the recent ones, in Roots o f War he broadens the attack to scom Americans as a people, along with the nation and its history. “American self-righteousness” is linked to “American obsession with communism.” The only possibl#> reason, he maintains, for .American interest in the govemment of Vietnam or of other nations is that Americans “are made uncomfortable by diversity. They have an “insatiable desire for prestige abroad” which manifests “a neurotic need for affection. . . . Compassionate giving on a gronp basis without expectation of gain or avoidance of some loss is almost unknown.”.
