Some of the original squalor of US complicity in the assassination 35 years ago of South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was recalled last week when the John F. Kennedy Library made public audiotapes that include President Kennedy's musings about the US role in Diem's murder.

The US-backed coup against Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu in November 1963 was a seminal event not merely because of Washington's involvement in the betrayal and elimination of an anti-Communist ally but because it heralded the twining of American hubris and cynicism that would cost so many American and Vietnamese ...

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