h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

'You constantly come out with this strawman stuff about who I mean. If I say "even-handed" that's what I mean, not "neo-liberal" or "capitalist". A "neo-liberal" reading of the Vietnam War clearly wouldn't be a neutral one (although given that it's an economic philosophy, it would also be a fairly irrelevant one).'

Because I'm saying there is no neutral position, so any account that you judged "even-handed" would just be an account with the bias that you favor, or the bias that you have internalized beyond the point of recognizing it.

An economic philosophy wouldn't be relevant to a war?
Good one. Back in the day, they used to refer to economics as "political economics". Until at some point everyone that mattered agreed on the basic parameters, and then the subject gradually came to be called simply "economics", as though politics had little to do with it. As if anyone could be politically neutral about economics.

I have a 1954 edition of Life magazine showing French troops boarding U.S. Globemaster transport planes enroute to Indo China a few weeks before the fall of Dien Bien Phu. That clearly indicates American support for France in that final engagement prior to the French withdrawal.