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Old 10-14-11, 06:17 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve View Post
About that particular battle? Nothing. In fact we won most of the major battles (maybe all).

But the politics? Ho was the bad guy, Diem was the good guy? Weasels in the US government? Our whole purpose for being there was bad from the start. Diem was a slug, and Ky wasn't much better. We supported them for all the wrong reasons, and that article makes it look like we were there for good moral purposes, and only lost because of the evil people back home who undermined our noble operation.

You can't get much more revisionist than that.
Well you may call it revisionism Steve but there are a whole lot of people who feel that war was indeed lost at home.
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