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Before quag met mire.(books, arts & manners)(Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965)(Book review)
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, by Mark Moyar (Cambridge, 542 pp., $32)
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COMPARING the Iraq War to Vietnam is a staple of Bush-administration critics. The purpose of the analogy is to arouse a sense of defeat by degrees. This is possible because of the dominant analytical paradigm about Vietnam, which casts the conflict as an unjust war undertaken for questionable if not fraudulent reasons, poorly and immorally executed. It was a lost cause that never should have been found to begin with.
Mark Moyar, in his new book Triumph Forsaken, refers to this interpretation of Vietnam as the "orthodox" school of ...
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