Bitter Embargoes -- Related Articles in The Atlantic Shut Out, by James Fallows (1991) "The U.S. attempt to starve Vietnam out, through a political and economic embargo, is senseless. . . The embargo has succeeded in stunting and distorting the Vietnamese economy, and in keeping American businesses out of Indochina; but it is more and more obviously failing to keep out businesses from other countries, or to bring the Vietnamese government to its knees. . ." Return to "Foreign Affairs: Cuba's Entrepreneurial Socialism" Copyright © 1997 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.