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Home Front: WoT
The War We Could Have Won
2005-05-01
NYT Op Ed piece by Stephen Morris, on how we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in 1975 South Vietnam. Familiar to most Rantburgers, but worth a read since it's in the NYT of all places. Another hat tip to Just One Minute.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Steve, I agree with the article, but it constitutes revisionist history given the received wisdom of the left. The cutoff was engineered by J. Wiliam Fulbright, Bill Clinton's mentor, in 1973. The left has ignored its culpability for the defeat of South Vietnam and the creation of the boat people through the cutoff of funds for decades. That is why I am surprised to see it in the NYT.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-05-01 7:18:17 PM  

#3  I dunno, Mrs. D., the article blames Congress for cutting off the aid in 1974, and points out that the South Vietnamese successfully repelled the Northern offensive in 1972. Seems right to me.
Posted by: Steve White   2005-05-01 6:57:54 PM  

#2  This article nust have "slipped" by mistake into the NYT.
Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929   2005-05-01 6:39:46 PM  

#1  It's hard to believe this kind of revisionist history is making it to the pages of the NYT during the lifetime of the boomers. Letters to the editor should be seething this week.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-05-01 5:31:36 PM  

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