[Peace-discuss] Tonkin Gulfitis

[Stuart Levy]

Two especially sharp comments from among those:

  "George Orwell would have appreciated Prof. Lawrence's thesis that the
Vietnam war was some sort of aberration in the US's otherwise benign
foreign policy."

and

  "The only positive result of the unjustified US war on the Vietnamese
people was that the resources it required prevented the US from
murdering other people around the globe, supposedly for their own good."

(that's a pretty low bar.)

Thanks for pointing this out.

On 3/7/17 9:21 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Another horrible article by a history professor, this time in the NYT.
> But it's interesting that the majority of the commenters do a decent
> job of deconstructing his nonsense, especially when they are able to
> move beyond raging against Trump.
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> America’s Case of ‘Tonkin Gulfitis’
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> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/americas-case-of-tonkin-gulfitis.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0>
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> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/americas-case-of-tonkin-gulfitis.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0>
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>     America’s Case of ‘Tonkin Gulfitis’
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> By Mark Atwood Lawrence
> The Vietnam War had drastic, negative consequences for the country’s
> foreign policy.
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> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/americas-case-of-tonkin-gulfitis.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0>
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