How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
'You and your like are trying to make a war with the help of people who just aren't interested. […] They want enough rice. They don't want to be shot at. They want one day to be much the same as another. They don't want our white skins around telling them what they want.' (2.2.3.38-40)
With respect to the Indochina War, Fowler is definitely a non-interventionist.
Quote #5
'They'll be forced to believe what they are told, they won't be allowed to think for themselves.'
'That's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?' (2.2.3.43-44)
Is Fowler making an assumption here? Does he know what the peasant thinks about at night?
Quote #6
'Then someone asked him some stock question about the chances of the Government here ever beating the Vietminh and he said a Third Force could do it. There was always a Third Force to be found free from Communism and the taint of colonialism – national democracy, he called it; you only had to find a leader and keep him safe from the old colonial powers.' (2.3.2.19)
This is York Harding's program in a nutshell and the philosophy animating Pyle.