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An 8 page paper which examines the differences between public perceptions (including misinformation) and the reality of the Vietnam War. Specifically considered is the information that was unavailable to the American people at the time, and what the Soviet archives have since revealed, and also discusses the most effective strategy in garnering home support for the war. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: TG15_TGnecwar.rtf
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garnering home support for the war. Bibliography lists 4 sources. TGnecwar.rtf Michael Linds Vietnam: The Necessary War: Making the War Necessary to the People Back Home by
Tracy Gregory, August 2001 -- properly! It has been over a quarter of a century since
the United States ended its involvement in greatest military debacle - the Vietnam War. The war that began with a bang and ended with a whimper cost American taxpayers
money and cost over 50,000 men their lives. According to Harpers editor and history professor Michael Lind, author of the controversial 1999 book Vietnam, The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation
of Americas Most Disastrous Military Conflict, the memories of Vietnam remained like an open wound in Americas collective psyche that, for years, refused to heal. There were too many
liberal propagandists, he asserted, to allow the public to, once and for all, see and evaluate the war for what it actually was, "A JUST, CONSTITUTIONAL and necessary proxy war
that was waged by methods that were often counterproductive and sometimes arguably immoral. The war had to be fought in order to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of
the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the war had to be forfeited in order to preserve the political consensus within the United States
in favor of the Cold War. The Vietnam War was neither a mistake nor a betrayal nor a crime. It was a military defeat" (288). Lind contends that
much of the information about the Vietnam War has been tainted by bleeding-heart liberals, who have turned opposition to the war into a money-making proposition that sells lots of books.
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