I cannot help but feel that a large measure of the effectiveness of this offensive could have been blunted by a people who gave both their respect and support to their own government. But when they turn to their government. what do they find? Vietnamese soldiers looting or selling water to homeless refugees after the Tet fighting. A corps commander trafficking in opium. bribes. kickbacks from bars. winking at illegal exports of rice to Cambodia. Petty officials selling drivers licenses. visas. places on military planes. and jobs with Americans. Not all the Vietnamese officials. of course. are corrupt. There are a large number of accounts of valiant efforts by Vietnamese civil servants.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about Vietnamese officials being corrupt.