VL-IV: Chap 9- Close-ups

[Michael Bailey]

yeah, when people run that by me, I've been trying out responses:
"We could've won in Vietnam"
"That's like saying, we could have gotten away with robbing that
liquor store, if only we'd brought more guns"

so far I haven't won any converts with that one...I'm open to suggestions...

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:
> rich wrote:
>
>> there is a current of
>> revisionist thinking about the Vietnam War by conservatives in the US
>> that is pretty deranged, including blaming the media for loss of
>> morale and losing the stomach to see it through (I believe Bush Jr.
>> said as much at a speech at West Point or somesuch)
>>
>>
>
> Deranged?  Yes, but hardly revisionist -- this view was widely held at the
> time.
>
> Ray
> /
> /
>



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