Notes: Tells the story of how Canada assisted the US throughout the Vietnam war without becoming directly involved in the war. Canada was looking after its economic interests, both in the US and in Asia. As the war was coming to an end, Canada's interests lie in maintaining a more non-partisan position and distanced itself from US involvement in the fall of Saigon (just offering a token assistance to the US by taking some of the escapees from the US camps, not from Saigon). The title is a play on the phrase "Quite Diplomacy" which is used to characterize Canada's propensity to complain to the US about US policy behind closed doors and not in public. It started out as a doctoral dissertation, so it is more a collection of "evidence" than a developed story. |