Korea. Of course an Orientalist and patronizing discourse underpinned these geopolitical arguments: since Asians were not yet ready for the complexities of self-government, the United States had an obligation to train and guide their Asian protégés. Sometimes their immaturity led to tension with the paternal Americans. Nonetheless communism could be beaten, Eisenhower and his advisers believed, by the steadfast application of generous economic and military aid as well as political leadership. To lure Asian minds away from utopian communism, Americans offered their own dreamscape of democracy,
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