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This 5 page paper discusses two very different books about Vietnam: “The Sorrow of War” by Bao Ninh and “The Necessary War” by Michael Lind. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Michael Lind calls his book Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of Americas Most Disastrous Military Conflict. The word "reinterpretation" in the title ought to make any reader stop and
wonder just what is going on here. Vietnam is a matter of history now, and although records are incomplete as they are in any war, it have been over for
more than 30 years. There is (or should be) nothing to interpret or reinterpret, because Vietnam is a matter of historical record. In other words, Lind should be dealing mostly
with facts not opinion; there is little or nothing to interpret, although there is much to study and learn. Lind makes some interesting arguments, but his underlying premise is
one that has largely been discredited: he uses a variation on the "domino theory." This was the belief that if one nation turned to Communism, the one next to it
would do so as well, forming a chain that toppled like dominoes. He argues that Vietnam was fought for reasons "having very little to do with the fate of Vietnam
and everything to do with the superpower conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union (with China playing an important secondary role)" (Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two
countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the international system ... at stake" (Tanenhaus, 1999). However, both sides had nuclear weapons, so they wanted to avoid
a direct confrontation; instead, they met "in a sequence of proxy wars" (Tanenhaus, 1999). It was precisely because Indochina was of "no strategic value" to either side that it was
"a good place to make a stand" (Tanenhaus, 1999). In other words, in Linds view, the U.S. fought the Vietnam war in order to impress upon the Soviet Union that
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