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2005-05-01 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2005-05-01 4:46:48 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's hard to believe this kind of revisionist history is making it to the pages of the NYT during the lifetime of the boomers. Letters to the editor should be seething this week.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-05-01 5:31:36 PM|| 2005-05-01 5:31:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This article nust have "slipped" by mistake into the NYT.

Posted by Glereper Craviter7929 2005-05-01 6:39:46 PM|| 2005-05-01 6:39:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I dunno, Mrs. D., the article blames Congress for cutting off the aid in 1974, and points out that the South Vietnamese successfully repelled the Northern offensive in 1972. Seems right to me.

Posted by Steve White 2005-05-01 6:57:54 PM|| 2005-05-01 6:57:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve, I agree with the article, but it constitutes revisionist history given the received wisdom of the left. The cutoff was engineered by J. Wiliam Fulbright, Bill Clinton's mentor, in 1973. The left has ignored its culpability for the defeat of South Vietnam and the creation of the boat people through the cutoff of funds for decades. That is why I am surprised to see it in the NYT.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-05-01 7:18:17 PM|| 2005-05-01 7:18:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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