HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM — There’s an exchange in “The Quiet American,” Graham Greene’s novel about the damage American good intentions can cause, that I’ve thought about a lot. It involves Thomas Fowler, the world-weary journalist-narrator of the book, confronting Alden Pyle, an American aid worker with a blinding zeal to stop Communism.
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