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Through The Quiet American, Greene has shown that sometimes it is not possible to support capitalism and democracy at the same time. Because the Vietnamese democratically decided to not use capitalism, it made it impossible to have both. The most important thing for a government to have is democracy, because it is supposed to aid the needs of it’s people. Nixon was right about the war being misunderstood, but Fowler is one of the few who understood it before it even