[Peace-discuss] Cockburn on Vietnam POWs

[C. G. Estabrook]

My memory is that Franklin (an acute, leftist literary critic) analyzed the 
motives, during the Reagan years, for believing in POWs-MIAs left behind: he saw 
at as part of the attempt to reverse the pervasive "Vietnam Syndrome."

But it's always important to distinguish the motives for holding a belief from 
the evidence for that belief. It's better to see what evidence Schanberg has 
than to ignore it. --CGE


On 5/29/10 10:46 AM, David Green wrote:
> For the record, AC is right about the USS Liberty, very very very likely
> wrong about Vietnam POWs. A pretty shocking support for the POW
> conspiracy theory. H. Bruce Franklin has been all over this for years.
> http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05282010.html
> http://www.thenation.com/article/powmias-amp-john-mccain
> DG

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