Article in recent New York Times – “Was Vietnam Winnable Article in recent New York Times – “Was Vietnam Winnable?” - Mark Moyar - MAY 19, 2017

AW, New York City 1 day ago (5/20/2017): “It's slightly bizarre that the author of this piece does not so much as mention the question whether the US had the right to intervene in a civil war on the other side of the earth. We killed three million Vietnamese, lost 58,000 of our own people, dropped a greater tonnage of bombs on Vietnam than were dropped in all of World War II, dropped colossal amounts of Agent Orange, which killed thousands and is still making people sick, dropped an immense tonnage of bombs on Laos and Cambodia, killing hundreds of thousands of people and leading in the latter case directly to the genocide of Pol Pot, and the murder of 1.7 million people, and this author is sorry we didn't go further. This is a pretty good definition of moral idiocy.”

Thomas McIntire, Nashville, TN 1 day ago (5/20/2017): “Mr. Moyar takes the position that he is challenging the orthodoxy concerning the Viet Nam war. He is mistaken. He is restating the orthodoxy of the domino theory and the notion that the war was some how winnable. As a veteran of this era I am acutely aware that this was the accepted wisdom of the times. In a larger sense, however, the question didn't then or doesn't now revolve around whether the war could be won but rather at what cost. The lives of hundreds of thousands of young Americans were being squandered in this effort.”

Thomas McIntire, Nashville, TN 1 day ago (5/20/2017): (Continued …) “That includes not only the deaths on the battlefields but the lives of those whose service was involuntary and whose futures were ruined by interruption of their ambitions and the mental scars that were inflicted upon them. I would stop short of calling this article revisionist history but as one who lived through those times and wore a uniform and received the disdain, insults and saliva of my fellow Americans I cannot call this anything more than an academic attempt at misdirection.”

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