The post-Vietnam military-intervention rationale was transferred wholesale into the Muslim world

Evidence

At almost the very same time, the United States was retreating from Indochina. Much has recently been written about the “post-Vietnam syndrome” in American politics, although few people have also noted how the claim that very distant American interests need military defense against instability and insurrection seems to have been transferred whole from out of Vietnam and into a nearer place, the Muslim world. This has been accompanied by a progressive liberal disenchantment with Third World causes in general, particularly those whose promise seems to have been betrayed. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 166

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: how a geopolitical template (spheres of influence defended by force) migrates across regions without being re-examined, from Indochina to the Muslim world.
• XREF: connects to: The Vietnam War’s real stake was integrating China into world order — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 131

Related

• The Vietnam War’s real stake was integrating China into world order (similarity 0.85)