On Vietnam War Revisionism- must read

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Below is a link ot a priceless view of the Swift Boat revisionism of a diastrous war. This scholarly critique describes in some detail the politically motivated attempts to rehabilitate policies of the lost war with unsupported mythology. It brings to mind the dynamic of the lost war humiliation and associated blame game which led to the destruction of the left in Germany and the emergence of Nazism after WWI.


Fear and (Self) Loathing in Lubbock
How I Learned to Quit Worrying and Love Vietnam and Iraq
By ROBERT BUZZANCO

http://www.counterpunch.org/buzzanco04162005.html

<The U.S. lost the Vietnam War because "the American people came to hate the war" and, hence, "they hated themselves." Normally, one might think that such an observation would come from a talk-show host or new age guru, but those words were uttered not by Dr. Phil of TV fame, but Dr. Keith Taylor of Cornell University, one of our more esteemed historians of Vietnam studies.1 Dr. Taylor's belief (I'm reluctant to call it an analysis) reflects an increasing trend in studies of the Vietnam War­namely the rehabilitation of southern Vietnam2 and its leaders, a renewed justification of the American war on Vietnam, and increasingly stronger alibis for the failure to defeat the Vietnamese communists and retain a state below the seventeenth parallel.>

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