Actually, Kent, we would probably agree about four or five things.
The more I remember / learn about Lind, though, the more skeptical I
am. This is the guy, as you note, who wrote a book a couple of years
back defending the US involvement in Viet Nam on the grounds that we
would have looked bad to the rest of the world had we not decided to
decimate that particular SE Asian country & kill more than 60,000 of
our own young men. The book, though, titled _Vietnam: The Necessary
War_, is symptomatic--driven entirely by a specious ideology, it
seems utterly unconcerned with history. Anyone who would like to
read some actual scholarship on this subject might want to take a
look at Jeffrey Record's _The Wrong War_, published bu the US Navel
Academy Press(!). I suspect that if Lind does show up here on the
list, I'll take a pass. I'm having a pretty nice summer & see no
need to get worked up over a little punk like Lind. (Okay, okay, I'm
already worked up.) And thanks, Candice, for that link.
jd
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