Thursday, January 25, 2007

End of Vietnam War

I was talking today in class about the end of the Vietnam war, the lessons learned (or not), and the mythologies that permeate our popular memory of the war (e.g. we lost because of the media, the liberals, the congress, -- we didn't have the "stomach" to fight, as Cheney says now.

Digby, who I think is the smartest analyst of the impact of what we think of when we think of "the sixties," has a great post today commenting on two Rick Perlstein articles:

Can We Win this Time?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good words.