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"To the authors' credit, they do attempt to deconstruct the myths of both the left and the right. On the one hand, they support the conservative view that the My Lai massacre was an aberration; on the other, they agree with the anti-war activists that the conflict between the Vietnamese was not 'A war of communist aggression but rather a civil war.' I would agree with the latter and dispute the former, but that underlines the problem: These and many other subjects the authors mention are areas of dispute and events that have cost many lives and much pain; therefore they should not be simply addressed noisily but, discussed reasonably based on credible sources."Dunnigan, James F. is the author of 'Dirty Little Secrets Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know' with ISBN 9780688112707 and ISBN 0688112706.
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